Release Notes IceHrm Open Source
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SAML support
Ability to control who can see employee documents
New custom field module. With this module users can manage all the custom fields via a single module.
Adding custom field support for company structure.
UI improvements for client module.
Introducing encrypted settings.
Adding additional fields such as total time to employee time tracking report.
Improvements to icehrm custom extension development
More restrictive criteria for user passwords.
Removing support for legacy API tokens. (if you are using the mobile app your users will need to re authorize)
Removing unused custom field values.
Only relevant settings are displayed, under the Other tab on settings module
Fixing inability to filter employee documents
Fixed the issue with selecting projects when adding timesheets details
Fix issues occurred due to incorrectly configured API
Custom user role permissions
Employee edit form updated
Employee daily task list
Attendance and employee distribution charts on dashboard
Improvements to company structure module
Improved tables for displaying data in several modules
Faster data loading (specially for employee module)
Initials based profile pictures
Re-designed login page
Re-designed user profile page
Improvements to filtering
New REST endpoints for employee qualifications
Fixed, issue with managers being able to create performance reviews for employees who are not their direct reports
Fixed, issues related to using full profile image instead of using smaller version of profile image
Changing third gender to other
Improvements and fixes for internal frontend data caching
This fixes some major issues found in v27.0.1.OS
Filtering across whole application was broken and now it's fixed
Fixed the issue related to photo not being shown to the admin when photo attendance is enabled
We have added support for vagrant development environment based on Debian 10 / PHP 7.3 (with Xdebug) / Nginx / MySQL
Employee document management is now available for open-source version
UI/UX improvements (new fonts / better spacing)
Payroll module improvements
Security improvements to password policy
Albanian language is now available
Ability to deploy using docker
Fully supports all php versions >= 5.6 upto v7.3 (php 5.6 support is deprecated and not recommended)
Fixed the travel request approval for managers
Fixed the issue with attendance source IP display
Fixing Api issues in PHP 7.3
Some Improvements to UI such as updating Icons and upgrading font-awesome to its latest version
Tracking IP and location of the employee when marking attendance, this is done when updating attendance via mobile
Ability to control location tracking via mobile using server side settings
Improvements to translations
Order projects by name on Timesheet project listing (This is to make it easier to edit timesheets with many projects)
Link home page user profile to employee profile update page
Fix issues related to configuring Api with mobile app
Upgrade npm missing dependencies
Add staff directory module
Update client-side js to ES6
Compatible with IceHrm Mobile App
Use npm libraries when possible
Add gulp build for frontend assets
Updated readme for development setup with vagrant
Add missing employee details report
Fix: Work week for all counties can not be edited
Allow passing additional parameters to payroll predefined methods
Pass leave type name in function field to get leave count for a given type
Add employee name to payroll report
Show supervisor name on employee profile
Add custom fields to employee report
Add filter by status feature to subordinate time sheets
Fix missing login form CSRF token
Fix risky usage of hashed password in request
Fixing permission issues on module access for each user level
Prevent manager from accessing sensitive user records
Hide employee salary from managers
Prevent manager from accessing audit, cron and notifications
Prevent managers from deleting employees
Validate overtime start and end times
Fix issue: employee can download draft payroll
This release include some very critical security fixes. We recommend upgrading your installation to latest release.
Fix missing login form CSRF token
Fix risky usage of hashed password in request
Loading last used module when revisiting application
Finnish language support (Beta)
Improvements to German, Italian and Chinese language translations
Allow quickly switching languages
Improvements to security for preventing possible LFI attacks
Allow manual date inputs
Custom fields for travel requests
Allow importing approved overtime hours into payroll
Add date and time masks
Fix logout cookie issue, by clearing remember me cookie when logging out
Improve privacy for GDPR
Improvements to file upload field
Fix issue: attendance rest end point not working on php 5.6
Improvements to module naming
Fix issue: filter dialog default values are not selected
Fix issue: department head can be an employee outside the department
Fix issue: department head or supervisor (who has manager leave access) can't use switch employee feature
Fix issue: employee name is not visible on report if middle name is empty
UI improvements (help button and error messages)
Allow adding placeholders to text fields
Improvements to German Translations
Fixing notification issues
Fully compatible with php 7.1
Add Net_SMTP via composer (no pear installation needed)
Fixes for web servers not supporting JSON in GET request
Fully compatible with php 7.1
Add Net_SMTP via composer (no pear installation needed)
Fixes for web servers not supporting JSON in GET request
Employee and Attendance REST Api Released
Import/Export for Payroll Configurations
Ability to import employee approved time sheet hours to payroll
Swift Mailer based SMTP support (no need to install Net_SMTP anymore)
Add direct Edit button on employee list
Fix DB connection issues due to special characters in password
Fixes for custom field saving issues in mysql v5.7.x
Fix for resetting modules
Compatible with MySQL 5.7 Strict Mode
PSR-2 compatible code
Employee History Module
Staff Directory
Fix: password reset not working
Fix: limiting selectable countries via Settings
Fix for resetting modules
Payroll Module
Compatible with MySQL 5.7 Strict Mode
Namespaced Classes
LDAP Module
Fix: limiting selectable countries via Settings
Development environment
Overtime module
Department heads who can manage all employees attached to a company structure
Translations (beta) for German, French, Polish, Italian, Sinhala, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Spanish
PDF Reports
Ability to specify department heads
Add advanced custom fields to employees via UI
Allow indirect admins to approve travel requests
Adding more languages to Language meta data table
Improvements to report module
Ability to select sections for placing custom fields on employee detail view screen
Introducing clone button
Unlimited custom fields for employees
PDF report for monitoring time employee spent on projects
Report files module - Allow downloading all previously generated reports
Fix: subordinates are not showing beyond first page issue.
Fix LDAP user login issue
Allow creating users with username having dot and dash
Advanced Employee Management Module is now included in IceHrm Open Source Edition
LDAP Module which was only available in IceHrm Enterprise is now included in open source also
Initial implementation of icehrm REST Api for reading employee details
Improvements to data filtering
Multiple tabs for settings module
Overtime reports - now its possible to calculate overtime for employees.compatible with US overtime rules
Logout the user if tried accessing an unauthorized module
Setting for updating module names
Fix issue: classes should be loaded even the module is disabled
Deleting the only Admin user is not allowed
Fixes for handling non UTF-8
Fix for non-mandatory select boxes are shown as mandatory
Overtime Reports
Overtime calculation for california
Fix issue: uncaught error when placeholder value is empty
Log email sending success status
Fix broken longer company name issue
Make the application accessible when client on an intranet with no internet connection
Fix issue: when a module is disabled other modules depend on it stops working
Clear HTML5 local storage when logging in and switching users
Showing a loading message while getting data from server
Adding a new field to show total time of each time sheet
New report added for listing Employee Time Sheets
Company logo uploaded via settings will be used for all email headers
Fix issue: default module URL is incorrect for Employees
Fix date parsing issue in time sheets
AWS phar is included only when required
Add Quick access menu
Fix issue: salary module not loading
Add travel report
IceHrm is now fully compatible with PHP 7
Improvements to travel management module to change the process of applying for travel requests
New report add for getting travel requests
Improvements to user interface
Bunch of UI improvements including changing menu order and font sizes
Add a setting to use server time for time zone defined on department that a user is attached to create new attendance records
Improvements to admin/manager and user dashboard
Managers allowed to view/add/edit employee documents
New reports added for employee expenses and travel
Fix unavailable help links
Fix employee leave report leave type field
Recruitment module
Allow managers to edit attendance of direct report employees
Employee switching issue fixed
Fix terminated employee labels
Fix issue with punch-in
Charts module
Code level security improvements
Employee switching issue fixed
Add/Edit or remove employee fields
Employee data archiving
Leave cancellation requests
Adding view employee feature
Improvements to date time pickers
Option for only allow users to add an entry to a timesheet only if they have marked atteandance for the selected period
Restricting availability of leave types to employees using leave groups
Admins and add notes to employees
Add missing S3FileSystem class
Fix issue: passing result of a method call directly into empty method is not supported in php v5.3
New user interface
Decimal leave counts supported
Make a backup of your icehrm db
Run db script "icehrmdb_update_v8.4_to_v9.0.sql" which can be found inside script folder of icehrm_v9.0
remove all folders except app folder in icehrm root folder
copy all folders except app folder from new installation to icehrm root folder
Fix leave carry forward rounding issues
Fix issue: select2 default value not getting set for select2
Fix issue: email not sent when admin changing leave status
Fix user table issue on windows, this will resolve errors such as: (Note that this fix has no effect on unix based installations)
Admin not able to view user uploaded documents
Admin not able to upload documants for users
Admin can not view employee attendance records
Employee projects can not be added
Instance verification added
Fixed bug that caused a fatal error in php v5.4
aws2.7.11 phar file replaced by a aws2.7.11 extracted files
old aws sdk removed
Admin dashbord module
If the employee joined in current leave period, his leave entitlement is calculated proportional to joined date
Improvements to reporting module
Adding new employee time tracking report
Join date for employees made mandatory
Sending welcome email when a user is added
Let users directly reply to admin user from any email sent out from icehrm
All the users who are not admins must have an employee object attached
Upgrade aws sdk to v2.7.11
Allow employees to change password
Use only the email address defined under user for sending mails
Making work_email and private_email fields optional
Upload dialog close button issue fixed
Improved company structure graph
Leave notes implementation � Supervisor can add a note when approving or rejecting leaves
Filtering support
Select boxes with long lists are now searchable
Add/Edit/Delete company structure permissions added for managers
Add ability to disable employee information editing
Make loans editable only by admin
Fix: permissions not getting applied to employee documents
Fix error adding employee documents when no user assigned to the admin
Moving all module related code and data into module folders
Leave carry forwared related isue fixed
Features
Notifications for leaves and timesheets
Leave module accrue and leave carry forward
Employee leave entitlement sub module
Ability to put system on debug mode
Allow admins to see documents of all the employees at one place
Backup data when deleting an employee
Employee attendance report added
Changes to time entry form in timesheet module to make time entry process faster
Admin can make all projects available to employees or just the set of prjects assigned to them using Setting "Projects: Make All Projects Available to Employees"
Employee document, date added field can not be changed by the employee anymore
About dialog added for admins
Fixes
Fix default employee delete issue (when the default employee is deleted the admin user attached to it also get deleted)
Fix user duplicate email issue
Fix manager can not logout from switched employee
Remove admin guide from non admin users
Fixes
Fix missing employee name in employee details report
Fixes
Remove unwanted error logs
Fix attendance module employee permission issue
Resolve warnings
Remove add new button from subordinates module
Adding administrators' guide
Fixes
Fixing for non updating null fields
Features
New user permission implementation
Adding new user level - Manager
Fixes
Fixing remote table loading issue
Better email format for notifications
Convert upload dialog to a bootstrp model
Fixes
Fix error sending emails with amazon SES
Fix errors related to XAMPP and WAMPP servers
Fix php warnings and notifications
Fix company structure graph issues
Allow icehrm client to work without an internet connection
Fix installer incorrect base url issue
Fix empty user creation issue
🦠 💉 Custom extensions
Developer environment based on docker
Fixes to newly found vulnerabilities (): credits to:
This release is coupled with mobile application release on AppStore () and Google Play ()
Allow generating QR code with rest api key ()
Fix: Labels of 'Employee Custom Fields' not displayed ()
Fix: Custom fields are not shown under employee profile ()
Fix: Additional buttons shown below timesheet list ()
Updates to Italian translations () by
Integration with ice-framework ()
Some critical vulnerabilities are fixed as recommend by