Revision as of 17:07, 9 October 2009

Notes

This is the in-progress changelog for the future 1.9 release.

For a more detailed, raw log of changes, see the source ChangeLog

Major new features and updates since 1.7/1.8

• New billing event system replaces invoice events
• Request Tracker ticketing system updated to version 3.6.
• More complete agent-virtualization, especially self-configuration. Company name, logo, address, package definitions, etc.

Billing

• Invoice typesetting overhaul with invoice sections ability
• Ability to use USPS address standardization
• Ability to use CCH taxation data
• Wholesale billing for VoIP termination
• Add base_rate price plan.
• Per-customer "Invoice terms" override
• Quick payment entry running total
• Scaling enhancements for large customer bases

Employees

• Reorganized ACL edit page into sections

Resellers (Agents)

• More complete agent virtualization, especially self-configuration. Company name, logo, address, package definitions, etc.
• Access groups from agent edit
• Associate a master customer with an agent

Packages

• Rewrote package definition edit.
• Added pricing and service add-ons to bundle packages together.
• Package categories to group package classes

Services

Accounts

• Password encoding overhaul (see Password encoding in 1.9)

Domains

• Add TLD checking.

Broadband

• Agent-virtualized address blocks and routers
• coordinates can be negative

VoIP

• Better prepaid support: "pickup and bill" daemon, roll-up statements, API hooks.
• Better matching for toll-free prefixes
• Better display of CDRs on invoices, and additional formatting options
• More CDR search options
• Many new options in VoIP price plan
• GlobalPOPs integration including DID availability
• Per-destination usage classes for reporting and taxation purposes
• CDR retrieval by FTP/SFTP/TFTP
• Internal DID inventory and availability checking
• Revived RADIUS VoIP support, added export, usage retrieval, rlm_perl hook for prepaid

Exports

• Freeside-to-Freeside provisioning export to offer services to other Freeside instances.
• Fixed bugs in Prizm export and updated for new Prizm version.

Self-service

• Phone number + PIN login option
• Call detail viewing
• Usage viewing
• Address changes
• Ability to skin self-service from backend config options
• Pass IP address in from signup page to payment gateways which accept it.
• Include Asterisk-aware self-service page based on ARI.
• Include example java glue to talk to XML-RPC self-service.

Misc

• New config editor, config stored in database
• Per-employee vonage integration
• Initial implementation of usage tracking for consulting using RT TimeWorked
• More? check CVS logs
  • 2007 DONE
  • 2008 TODO
  • 2009 TODO