Unit4 Financials 2024 Q1 Release

Unit4 Financials by Coda 2024Q1 was made available on 12th March 2024.

The new release contains all the previous Unit4 Financials by Coda functionality, new features, security updates plus customer identified fixes to extend the best-in-class software solution. Unit4 have addressed many customer reported issues, and hence why we always encourage customers to upgrade to the latest release.

Please note: 2024Q1 R2 was made available on 12th April 2024.

Release 2 has removed the fix for Bug 810008  – Daylight savings time is taken into account when setting the ‘Next run‘ time for Scheduled tasks.  The changes made to the software to resolve this issue had the potential to cause intermittent issues when running scheduled tasks.

Highlights of the 2024Q1 release include:

Administration:

• OpenID Connect User Claims
  • It is now possible to include and exclude inactive users on the OpenID Connect User Claims in Administration and in the Coda Console.
• Regional Settings
  • It is now possible to configure Regional settings at a user level. If you previously required a Regional settings pack to override certain language pack settings, for example to specify a US date format when using English, you can now do this via the Regional Settings tab on User Master or My Profile. If the default option is selected, it will follow the installed language pack and browser language settings.

Finance:

• Tax Master
  • You are now able to map the Finance Analysis line tax codes for use in Electronic Invoicing. These parameters will be used in the future by the new Electronic Invoicing functionality.
• Element Master
  • You are now able to map the Finance Summary line and Analysis line accounts for use in Electronic Invoicing. These parameters will be used in the future by the new Electronic Invoicing functionality.
• Table Link Transfer Client
  • The Table Link Transfer Client has two new parameters which enable the user to select the data to transfer by company and/or link code. Both values can be wildcarded. Please refer to the Technical Guide for more information.
• Browse Limits
  • The areas below currently limit the transactions lines returned to the browse limit set on the user capability setting. These areas now also take into account the browse limit set in the Financials console.
  • The configuration setting is com.coda.common.core.browseLimit.
  • The transaction limit applied is the lower of the two settings.
  • The browse limits apply to the following areas:
    • Browse Details
    • Bank Reconciliation
    • Print Customer Statements
    • Undo Reconciliation
    • Browse Transaction
    • Browse Transaction, Show Related Document
    • Browse Intray
    • Cancel Document, View Document
    • Matching
    • Browse Statements

Technical:

• Database install and upgrade scripts
  • Details of the database install and upgrades are now displayed in the container log at INFO level.
• WildFly scripts
  • The installation scripts for WildFly have been updated to include support for validating data sources.
• PowerShell scripts
  • The PowerShell variants of the WildFly installation scripts are now digitally signed, making their execution easier.

Deprecated features:

• The .NET router has been deprecated. The final release has not been determined.
• 32-bit XL is deprecated. We recommend the use of 64-bit XL.
• The Integration Toolkit Command Centre module (ITK) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The final release has not been determined.

General Fixes/Updates:

• Data in table com_sessiondata is now deleted when a user changes company.
• Daylight savings time is taken into account when setting the ‘Next run‘ time for Scheduled tasks.
• The regdate column on oas_dochead is now populated when a document is posted to the intray.
• Authorising Users in the dropdown list in Invoice Matching are now sorted in alphabetical order.
• The name of a generic item cannot be changed on an order line if that order has been partially or fully received.
• SFTP support in Structured Output no longer generates corrupted files when ‘Overwrite existing files’ is enabled.
• An error in the Installation Requirements documentation (installation-requirements.html), for the preferred ODBC driver, has been corrected.
• The WildFly setup script JDBC Driver Path now refers to a supported JDBC driver version.
• An error in installation-requirements.html documentation, for broken ODBC Driver Download URL, has been corrected.
• A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Finance input has been removed.
• When an action is performed on the help page of the application, it is no longer logged in the HTML source code.
• Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the frameset, history, and favourites resources have been fixed.

Release dates for Cloud users

Unit4 Cloud customers are notified by Unit4 Cloud support when their pre-production and production systems will be updated. This information can also be found within the Cloud Services – Release Schedules area.

View the 2024 Release Schedule here

The Release Notes detailing the fixes and features within this release can be found in the Documentation area on Unit4’s Community 4U.