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Kraft Changelog

What's new in Kraft 0.59

Oct 2, 2015
  • Version 0.59 is another bugfix release for the 0.5x line of Kraft which still depends on KDE 4 libraries. It fixes some bugs in the calculation of the overall sums of documents with moved and deleted items, which are severe under certain circumstances.
  • Furthermore, the setup wizard got visible fixes in the database migration and also document copying was enhanced to take more from the original document. Also, if the doctype of an existing document is changed, Kraft now asks the user if the document ID should be changed as well.
  • More on the system level, some memory leaks were fixed. Also some template variables were changed from German to English for consistency.
  • Special thanks go to Andreas Wuest who helped with feedback and patches to push Kraft on.
  • It is recommended to update from previous versions.

New in Kraft 0.58 (Apr 6, 2015)

  • It is another bugfix release for the 0.5x line of Kraft. It fixes a severe bug in calculation of the VAT in printed documents. Apart from that, the character slash ('/') now can be used in numbercycle templates which did not work before.
  • In addition to that, I cleared the build process a bit and removed the libkraftcat from the build. The files are now all directly compiled into Kraft. The lib was never publically announced nor stable, or used at all, so there was no reason to keep it. Packaging is easier and more distribution conform now.

New in Kraft 0.57 (Nov 10, 2014)

  • This is the last bugfixing release for the 0.5x series. This releases fixes serious bugs of previous versions.
  • The send-by-email function now queries the recipient (prefered email) of the documents contact data, and also works properly again with the thunderbird mail client. Special item types in a document (on-demand or alternative items) can now be removed again from an item. Also the Ok/Cancel handling of the document editor window was fixed. If the document type of an existing document is changed, the doc ID is now reset from the document type specific number cycle. Apart from that, a couple of memory management hickups were repaired which lead even to crashes here and there.
  • It is recommended to update from previous versions.

New in Kraft 0.53 (Oct 12, 2013)

  • This is a bugfix release for 0.50. It fixes some annoying bugs in catalog handling and other parts of Kraft. The update is recommended.

New in Kraft 0.50 (Dec 28, 2012)

  • The most important change is that now multiple tax rates are supported within one document. That means that within e.g. one invoice items without tax, with reduced or full tax rate are supported. The sum calculation takes that in consideration properly. That makes Kraft an even more multi purpose software.
  • Addressees can be added to a document even if the document already exists, not only if the doc is created.
  • Documents display a page number on page two to end.
  • On insertion of a new item to a document, the new item is focussed automatically.
  • Manually added items can be added to the catalogue on entering again.
  • The document type configuration dialog was reworked.
  • The amount of processed SQL commands on setup is correct.
  • Document saving is more performant.
  • Improved error handling if Akonadi or the report generation fails to ease debugging.
  • Import of CSV-lists into the document was fixed.
  • MySQL database setup is fixed.

New in Kraft 0.45 (Nov 9, 2011)

  • This version brings a fully Akonadi based address book integration with many bug fixes and improvements in usage: Multiple address books are handled correctly now and can be chosen from within Kraft. The whole address selection widget was improved with search fields, a detail view of the selected addresses and direct access buttons to edit and add contacts. Furthermore the loading speed was improved tremendously.
  • The text template widget from which the user picks template texts for header- and footer texts were also completely reworked. A lot of bugs were fixed, the guy was made more obvious and context sensitive help texts guide the user in his actions.
  • The third big news is that Kraft now supports localized document templates by default. Kraft is installed now with a german and english template for offers and invoices. Other localizations are welcome.
  • As usual a lot of other bugfixes and minor improvements went into this release. It is recommended for production environments.
  • A couple of days after the 0.44 release, which brought the improvements initially, a bugfix release 0.45 was made because of a severe bug in 0.44.

New in Kraft 0.44 (Nov 8, 2011)

  • This release brings fully Akonadi-based address book integration with many bugfixes and improvements in usage.
  • Multiple address books are now handled correctly.
  • The whole address selection widget has been improved with search fields, a detail view of the selected addresses, and direct access buttons to edit and add contacts.
  • Loading speed has been improved tremendously.
  • The text template widget (from which the user picks template texts for header and footer texts) has been completely reworked.
  • A lot of bugs have been fixed. Kraft now supports localized document templates.

New in Kraft 0.41 (Apr 21, 2011)

  • This version contains large changes on the item template catalog handling. Catalogs can now have an arbitrary depth of sub chapters. The sequence of templates within the sub chapters is user editable. Templates can be moved around within the cataloges using drag and drop. Sub chapters can be transfered to documents with one click now. Furthermore, deletion of templates was added.
  • Kraft 0.41 has a newly designed and improved document digest list view. The widgets showing the latest- all and timebased list of documents are now completely based on the model/view implementation of Qt which results in a large speed improvement. The document details of a selected list entry are displayed in a more userfriendly view.
  • PDFs of the documents are created utilizing the ReportLab RML toolkit. The script that converts RML to PDF was completely reworked so that it now depends on python only which simplifies dependencies and the port to other platforms.
  • Furthermore a lot of bug fixes went into Kraft, especially in the area of the KDE addressbook integration, text template handling and more.

New in Kraft 0.40 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • The Kraft team is happy to announce the new stable version 0.40 of the KDE office software Kraft. After eleven month of porting work, Kraft 0.40 is the first version which is based on the KDE 4 software platform. Huge changes on the codebase of Kraft happened to benefit from the new technology of KDE 4.
  • Basically the new version equals the last KDE 3 version feature wise beside
  • some changes which aim to make Kraft even more convenient to explore for unexperienced users.
  • There is a new setup assistant which starts automatically on first start of
  • Kraft. It takes the database details and creates and populates the database
  • layer automatically. Furthermore, Kraft now supports SQLite as a embedded database backend in addition to MySQL. Both makes the setup of Kraft even more
  • easy.
  • We are also happy to annouce a new project homepage available under [1]. It
  • is a new technology base to provide better documentation over the long term.
  • We wish a lot of fun and success with Kraft 0.40 on the KDE 4 platform. We
  • are looking forward to getting your feedback on the Kraft User Mailingliste
  • at [2]. Please find details about download and installation at [3].
  • [1] http://volle-kraft-voraus.de/
  • [2] https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=kraft-user
  • [3] http://volle-kraft-voraus.de/pmwiki.php/Main/Download

New in Kraft 0.32 (May 8, 2009)

  • Tax: Added more flexible tax calculation. Kraft now has the tax in a table for easy changing, supports no, reduced and full tax on document level for this release, on item level later.
  • Numbercycles: All Kraft documents need an unique document number. These are taken from numbercycles now which can be edited and shared between document types.
  • Watermark: Kraft documents can now be merged with an existing pdf file with the company logo. Configuration through the Kraft settings on a per document type basis
  • Templates: Kraft now supports different templates for each document type. Templates can be configured through the Kraft settings.
  • Project-String: There is a project label at the document. It is exported to the document template.
  • System-Tab: Display of some interesting setup information
  • Templates for PDF and HTML output are reloaded if modified
  • other various bugfixes

New in Kraft 0.31 (Jan 20, 2009)

  • added a read only view on documents, customizable with ctemplate as html page
  • added importing items from text files with configurable import filters, to enable usage of special software which is able to export text files
  • added document number cycles: The unique id of a document depends on a unique number. Now there can be multiple number cycles which can be used by document types. Multiple doc types can use the same number cycle, that means that for example all types of invoices count the same number cycle while offers are in another (no gui support yet.)

New in Kraft 0.30 (Oct 6, 2008)

  • I am very happy to announce the availability of the Kraft version 0.30, codename 'Proper Baby'.
  • The new version brings, beside many bugfixes, two new features: Tagging and Discount Document Items.
  • Tagging means that all items of a document can be tagged out of a user
  • defined list of tags. Groups of similar tagged items can get special treatment,
  • such as discounting.
  • The second new feature of Kraft 0.30 is something we called Discount Items. Document items with positive or negative percentage discount can be added, referencing groups of other doc items with similar tags. For example, if fife percent discount should be given on material, that can easily be done by tagging all material items with a tag called 'Material' and create a discount item referencing the group of 'Material'-tagged items.
  • KDE 0.30 was the last KDE 3.5.x based release. The KDE 4 port has started already.
  • We hope that this release again moves Kraft forward into a direction of being a universal tool that enables operators of small business to perform their office tasks quickly and comfortable but always free and independent.
  • Let me know what you think!