Newsletter #2 - A good journey

December 2016

Welcome to the second newsletter for opencats.

Playing Catch Up

Let’s take a look at some of the milestones of the previous six months;

General News

• A re-energised and active Developer team actively working to improve base code and functionality.
• several new features introduced including candidate address completion by zipcode, customisable job-codes, and configurable levels for users.
• Installation and User documentation is now standardised into a readthedocs site , viewable online and easily printed to PDF.

Development News

• Several deprecated errors corrected,
• license is clarified
• code deployment is now far more robust - Travis CI runs test-cases for each PR, and codacy automatically reviews the code quality

At 20,000 Feet

You may be wondering, “just how much has changed since it forked from CATS?” Well, let’s look at the overall changelog

Changelog

Unreleased

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• datagrid.php has strict errors (solved) and Deprecated errors on some tabs #155
• Composer needs to be manually run even on a normal install #154
• Including Candidates name while sending emails from ATS #133
• Missing packages and modules #102
• Update License #98
• Canadian Postal Codes #38
• TODO: add in Wordpress front-end from Ultrasimplified #12

Merged pull requests:

• Update LICENSE.md #170 (RussH)
• Zipcode address completion via google #167 (RussH)
• Fixes error with globalStyle not being defined #166 (Bloafer)
• Strict standards: Non-static method #165 (Bloafer)
• Pass by Ref error on Strict Standards #164 (Bloafer)
• Configurable Job Types #159 (skrchnavy)

0.9.3-3 (2016-11-22)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• Powered by CATS pic on Careers Page does not appear correctly #139
• While sending email to candidates the body field does not appear #131
• Notice: Undefined variable: commandResult #105

Merged pull requests:

• Generate packages with full dependencies on Travis #162 (mlespiau)
• Extended xml export #158 (skrchnavy)
• Logging into DB fix #157 (skrchnavy)
• Remove references to pro version and links to downloads page #151 (cptr13)
• Fix of attachments processing #149 (skrchnavy)
• Fixes in db shcema #148 (skrchnavy)
• Fixed Favicon.ico now showing #143 (amaisonneuve)
• Powered By broken link #142 (amaisonneuve)
• Upgraded ckeditor to current (version 4.5.11) to address #131 #132 (RussH)
• Access level tests #125 (skrchnavy)
• Update InstallationTests.php #124 (theSlyest)
• Replace deprecated simpletest with phpunit and behat #123 (mlespiau)
• Tests using behat isolated in test directory #100 (skrchnavy)

0.9.3-2 (2016-11-22)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• Feature Request - add a ‘is Hot?’ column to cold call list #161
• 500 error while creating a company or job order #160
• How can I access to my opencats web in the vps from another pc #146
• Forgot Password link in the login screen missing #141
• Content area turns blue when something is added #140
• 500 Error after install #138
• Error while creating http://localhost/opencats #129
• Resume Upload error #126

0.9.1a (2016-08-26)

Full Changelog

0.9.3-1 (2016-08-26)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• No actions work against list members in 0.9.3 #121

Merged pull requests:

• fixed send email and add candidates #122 (skrchnavy)

opencats-0.9.3(alpha) (2016-08-22)

Full Changelog

opencats-0.9.3(final) (2016-08-22)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• Troubleshoot MySQL #111
• Non editable “paste the resume contents” field #104
• Issue with vagrant #103
• Windows installation #99
• From Forums - Manuel’s attachment issue #95
• asp File in module #69
• ElementITMultiPowUpload1.7.swf #68
• Unable to login #64
• i need to change menu names #63
• Sync from Uservoice #24
• TODO: add in fixes from Debian packaging #10

0.9.3 (2016-03-09)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• Add JobOrder available for ReadOnly user on Job Orders page #109
• Add Candidate available for ReadOnly user on Candidates page #107
• Add Contact available for ReadOnly user on Contacts page #101
• Cannot import any data. New Unit test? #86
• Initial sign-in, cookie error #85
• Tests do not run #70
• Use fluid width pages #58
• Update installation procedure #57
• Initial password displayed in installer page is wrong #53
• Plain Text Password #45
• Decoding of UTF-8 characters mangles Calendar entries #42
• update phpmailer to more recent version #37
• disable the catsone.com version check #35
• update exceptions table with two additional fields or it’ll throw errors #28
• Include updated SVG artwork #21
• Default username wrong #19
• TODO: add in LDAP integration from LIBREGEEK #11
• Incompatibility with Explorer 11 in the editor #2
• datepicker returns the wrong default date when adding activities #1

Merged pull requests:

• update version no / name to 0.9.3 Inferno #119 (RussH)
• updated styling for login screen #117 (RussH)
• Checks for access level #114 (skrchnavy)
• Fix of permission in Job Orders for readOnly user #110 (skrchnavy)
• Fix of permission in candidates for readOnly user #108 (skrchnavy)
• Fix of permission in contacts for readOnly user #106 (skrchnavy)
• Waffle badges in README #96 (skrchnavy)
• fixes some typo errors #92 (skrchnavy)
• docker - added execute permission for installing composr #90 (skrchnavy)
• Wait for mysql and apache before running tests in travis #89 (mlespiau)
• Issue 86 cannot import data after initial setup #88 (mlespiau)
• Datagrid filters ui refactor and bugfixes #87 (mlespiau)
• Fixed issues with UTF8 #84 (skrchnavy)
• Mysql utf8 character set #81 (mlespiau)
• Add cucumber like functional tests #80 (mlespiau)
• Docker for development #78 (mlespiau)
• Flexible layout #74 (mlespiau)
• Ldap module improvements #73 (skrchnavy)
• Fix unit tests #72 (mlespiau)
• Replace GroupTest class with TestSuite as it was removed from Simplet… #71 (mlespiau)
• Added grave accents, backticks, to database schema name #66 (aaam)
• Update lib.js #62 (theSlyest)
• Update suggest.js #61 (theSlyest)
• Fixed #57 - Updated documentation. Fixed #45 - Added md5 encryption to passwords. #59 (libregeek)
• Updated phpmailer library refer #37 #56 (vinay-athiyil)
• LDAP authentication support and default password display #54 (libregeek)

opencats-0.9.3 (2016-03-09)

Closed issues:

• OpenCATS vs CandidATS #46
• Strict standards: Only variables should be passed by reference in D:\wamp\www\cats\lib\DataGrid.php on line 1714 #39
• Error in config.php for email settings #34
• Cannot generate report on CATS 0.9.2 #33
• Error while trying to generate report from Jobs view #31
• Cats freezes/stops working when creating candidate #30
• Sync from Uservoice #27
• Disable Modules #26
• issues on UI application #22
• CATS references in Install Wizard #16
• Sync from Uservoice #15
• Add in latest PHP fixes from crossgate9 #14
• Add in updated and enhanced Sphinx Search from Allan Jones #13
• When editing a company the fields at the right side isn’t lined up well #8
• Missing Icon in calandar #7
• Deprecated error in Opencats #5

Merged pull requests:

• Update from RussH fork #49 (RussH)
• Make CSV exports in UTF-8 readable for Excel #41 #48 (wjcheers)
• Fix bug and add duplicated phone number check. #47 (wjcheers)
• removing the old superseded simpletest library #20 (RussH)
• Updated SQL to ensure tag db is created. #18 (RussH)
• Please merge Opencats fixes as below #17 (RussH)