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3 October 2009: frePPLe available in Fedora Linux distribution
FrePPLe is now available as a package in the Fedora popular Linux distribution. Users can now easily install and update frePPLe using the Fedora update manager.
Many thanks to the Fedora team for all their good work, and to salimma in particular for the quality review!
31 July 2009: Release 0.7.1 available
- This release brings no functional enhancements, besides improved rpm and debian packaging for Linux
12 July 2009: Release 0.7.0 available
- Modeling support for location calendars: Allows to model unavailability due to shifts, holidays, weekends, etc...
- Added graphs to the user interface: The graphs provide a very efficient and intuitive way of interpreting the planning results
- Added traditional Chinese translation of the user interface
- Implementation of a webservice: Access through a REST webservice to the in-memory frePPLe plan allows for more complex workflows and tight integration with other enterprise systems
- Support for Microsoft Vista
- Plenty of smaller bug fixes and usability enhancements
- Support for upgraded third party tools: xerces-c 3.0 and Python 2.6
8 February 2009: Bug fix release 0.6.1
- Addresses a number of bugs in the 0.6.0 release.
- Improved Python interfaces.
Python is now the only way to run commands, obsoleting the previous XML-interface.
28 December 2008: release 0.6.0 available
- Better user interface: Improved editing, filtering and scrolling.
- Forecast module now includes timeseries analysis algorithms to predict the future demand.
- Big enhancements to the Python interface: Python is not an optional module any more, but part of the core.
- Corrections to the package layout to follow the common practice on Linux distirbutions.
- Various bug fixes.
- Upgrade to new versions of the third-party components: django 1.0.2, xerces-c 2.8, ...
17 May 2008: Security fix in new release 0.5.1
- Security Fix!!!
A security fix was released for the Django framework used in the user interface, resolving a cross-site scripting bug.
More details on the problem can be found here here. - Improved linear programming solver module.
- Bug corrections.
3 May 2008: Release 0.5.0 available
- Modeling enhancements
- Support for date-effective entities
- Improved calendar model
- Solver enhancements:
- Improved resource solver and problem detection logic
- Much more powerfull and sophisticated Python interface
- More consistent and cleaner API, including plenty of backward incompatible changes
- Usability improvements in the user interface
- Same look and feel for input and output reports
- Easy selection of of time bucket
- Improved CSV export and import
- Updated to use the latest Django version, including the refactoring of querysets and paginators
- Cleanup:
- removed Excel-based user interface
- removed support for object level locking
- Beta enhancements:
- more generic linear programming solver
1 January 2008: Release 0.4.0 available
- Improved plan quality: smarter solver...
- Better planning performance: up to x3 for some models
- Plenty of enhancements in the user interface: filtering and sorting, new kpi report, improved demand and forecast report, ...
- Added (experimental) webservice module.
- The release has significant backwards incompatible changes that are required to make the API and data model more consistent and generic.
25 Oktober 2007: Release 0.3.2 available
- Performance improvements and reduced memory consumption.
- Support for internationalization in the engine and the user interface (prototype in Dutch only now).
- Plenty of enhancements in the user interface.
29 August 2007: Release 0.3.1 available
- Improved user interface: sorting, filtering, drilldowns, csv export, ...
- Improved solver logic and much better plan quality.
- Improved installer: now allows selection of the database parameters, possibility to start the server after the installation.
- Forecast module now has logic to handle discreteness during forecast editing and forecast netting.
- Improved logging: Added support to appending rather than overwriting, bug fix on windows.
20 July 2007: Release 0.3.0 available
- Major update in the user interface: All-in-one installation of user interface, python, web server and database!
- Big performance improvements of the user interface.
- Support for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite databases.
- Forecast module greatly improved: allows for forecast distribution and netting of orders against forecast.