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On 17th October 2023, Unit4 announced to its customers that it has taken a strategic decision to provide only Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions going forward. With Cloud being industry standard, we are transitioning on-premises Unit4 ERP, Unit4Financials by Coda, and Unit4 FP&A to being fully cloud based solutions.

With that, these solutions will no longer be supported or maintained by Unit4 with effect from 31st December 2024. Millennium and Unit4 are offering all on-premise customers a clear and attractive opportunity to migrate to the Unit4 Cloud.

This news article provides information on the current support and maintenance policy of Unit4 Financials by Coda software.

On 17th October 2023, Unit4 announced to its customers that it had taken a strategic decision to provide only Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions going forward, and as such on-premise Unit4 ERP, Unit4 Financials by Coda, and Unit4 FP&A will be transitioned to the cloud-based versions of these solutions.

Effective from 31st December 2024, Unit4 will no longer provide support and maintenance for the on-premise versions of these solutions and with support and maintenance for V14 having ended in December 2022, Unit4 Financials by Coda Continuous Release is now the default release supported.

The following maintenance support applies with effect from 17th October 2023:

Unit4 Financials by Coda 2023 Q3 was made available on 12^th September 2023.

The new release contains all the previous Unit4 Financials functionality and new features. Plus, many additional customer requested fixes, highlighting the importance of logging enhancements via Unit4’s Community 4U.

Highlights of the 2023 Q3 release include:

Administration

• Webservice Index Page
• Generic Browse
• Internet Printing Security

Assets

• Year/Period Master

Finance

• Account Summary
• Company Master

Deprecated features

• 32-bit XL is deprecated. We recommend the use of 64-bit XL.
• The Message Board feature in Administration is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release.

General Fixes/Updates

• It is now possible to change a user’s password, when the user code contains a space.
• Attachments can now be viewed from the Generic Browse Content Provider.
• The private web service ‘clientauthenticate’ is no longer included in the public web service documentation.
• An issue has been resolved where the Generic Browse Master code could not be selected when configuring a new or modifying an existing Generic Browse on a menu content provider.
• An issue has been resolved where a session would sometimes consume licences for products which were not used.
• A serious error no longer occurs when maintaining Asset category masters with no ‘Category element value’ or ‘Cost centre value’.
• Forced Prompt(s) in the selector master for Link Table Maintenance now work correctly. This has been corrected for both Finance and Billing.
• It is now possible to include the ‘@’ character in External references in documents within Finance. This means an error will no longer be generated when posting documents from Billing or Invoice Matching that contain an ‘@’ character in a reference field.
• A warning message in Matching now appears if the capability setting of matching date outside the period range is set to warning.
• Documents posted using APIs, where the document currency values have more decimal places than the currency master are now posted correctly and can now be edited on the intray.
• Emails sent as part of the Pay/Collect process, where an email template master is not used, now includes the subject and text entered at run time by the user on all emails sent and not just the first email.
• On the IBM i platform the issue which restricted the ability to write to or retrieve data from the database repository has now been resolved, the repository objects (as used by attachments) are no longer corrupted.
• A rounding issue has been resolved when calculating the Home/Dual values, this issue occurred when using reversing tax and workflow to post books on approval.
• You can now enter configuration options in the Console without the com.coda prefix. This now enables IBAN verification to work correctly in the Dutch Local product NL Common.
• The WebSphere installation scripts have been updated to accurately implement the installation requirements. The previous WebSphere scripts could result in unpredictable behaviour and failures due to the configuration not satisfying Session Management requirements.
• A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web user interface has been fixed.
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been resolved when viewing attachments. HTML attachments are now downloaded rather than being displayed in a new browser tab.
• XML External Entity Injection (XXE) has been resolved. XML interpreter now cannot leak sensitive server side data back to the attacker from Request Body on /coda/finance/elementauthorisationrules/uploadrules page.

Further details on the new features, security updates and reported issues can be found in the release documentation on Unit4’s Community 4U.

• Unit4 Financials by Coda 2023 Q2 was made available on 13 June 2023, find here.
• Unit4 Financials by Coda 2023 Q1 was made available on 14 March 2023, find here.

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 2023 Cloud 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.

Unit4 Financials by Coda 2023 Q2 was made available on 13 June 2023.

The new release contains all the previous Unit4 Financials functionality and new features. Plus, many additional customer requested fixes, highlighting the importance of logging enhancements via Unit4’s Community 4U.

Highlights of the 2023 Q2 release include:

Administration

• Output Device Master
• Logon Event Housekeeping
• Scheduled Tasks

Technical

• New WildFly scripts
• Added HTTP security headers in WildFly
• ODBC Driver for SQL Server

Deprecated features

• 32-bit XL is deprecated. We recommend the use of 64-bit XL.
• The Message Board feature in Administration is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release.

General Fixes/Updates

An error is no longer shown when creating an Element Authorisation Rule Master that references Entity Masters which have disabled Element Statuses.

• Allowed user to save a message transport master when the password contains an asterisk.
• It is now possible to add a new field to a Flexi-Field Master without removing the associated Metadata Object Definition join from all affected Dataviews. The new vocabulary will have to be added to any required Dataviews manually.
• It is now possible to remove a generated matching line without getting an error when using a Tabular Input Template Master or when resolving the document before posting.
• ITK is not disabled by database connection problems during server start.
• All repository objects, including attachments, are now written to the disk, which allows for virus scanning before they are saved.
• The response returned by the ComSelectorMaster.List service now matches the schema.
• The response returned by the GenericBrowse.SelectForTransaction service now matches the schema.
• The response returned by the PresenterMaster.Get service now matches the schema.
• Element Long Name will also be updated when the Element Name is edited in Assisted Element. Reloading the Element will now reload the Long Name correctly if it exists.
• ‘Negative rate calculated’ errors in matching have been fixed.
• Account Summary now allows changes to be saved when it is accessed from a homepage/content provider.
• When running a scheduled task manually, the confirmation message has been enhanced.
• Degrading performance during matching and other applications has been addressed.
• When the Credit Limit required checkbox is ticked in Assisted Element, the user is no longer returned to the template code selection screen. Unticking the Credit Limit required checkbox will reset the Credit Limit to 0.
• ITK Data Editor now saves changes to monetary and other big numerical values correctly.
• Documents posted to intray with invalid data no longer introduce a checksum error.
• The ITK INPF process step will now handle UTF-8 with BOM encoded input files.
• When performing a quick print of a pay proposal, document lines are no longer duplicated when an External Reference URL field is populated and specified on the Selected Details presenter on the Pay/Collect master.
• When retrieving large amount of data using Generic Browse, the amount of memory used is reduced.
• The Tablelink transfer client (API) no longer causes the system to hang.
• An error is now given if you try to use assisted element with an umbrella element.
• Returning from viewing a log no longer writes an error stack trace to the container log.
• A serious error is no longer displayed in workflow when non-unicode characters are included in the document comments.
• Changing the document date in Billing will cause the currency exchange rates to be recalculated if the Company Master exchange rate date setting is ‘Document’.
• The diagram in the installation requirements has been updated to make it clearer that a clustered deployment requires a shared JMS environment
• Fixed Path Traversal Vulnerability in the Customiser. More information on the vulnerability on the OWASP website.
• Fixed XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability in XMLi. More information on the vulnerability is available on the OWASP website.
• The source transactions are preserved when capitalising assets with temporary numbers.

Further details on the new features, security updates and reported issues can be found in the release documentation on Unit4’s Community 4U. 

Unit4 Financials by Coda 2023 Q1 was made available on 14 March 2023, find here.

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 2023 Cloud 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.

Unit4 Financials by Coda 2023 Q1 was made available on 14 March 2023.

The new release contains all the previous Unit4 Financials functionality and new features. Plus, many additional customer requested fixes, highlighting the importance of logging enhancements via Unit4’s Community 4U.

Highlights of the 2023 Q1 release include:

Administration

• User Master

Finance

• Element Authorisation
• Pay Format Files
• Deprecated features

General Fixes/Updates

• Information about the version of a Desktop Application has now been updated to refer to the About option on the application menu.
• The Browse Worklist link has been corrected in the workflow alert email, the link now opens Browse Worklist.
• Metadata Dataview – It is now possible to add new attributes when editing dataview joins.
• Resolved an intermittent logon issue in Workflow Designer and Print Formatter.
• Functional errors (with stack trace) generated in webservices are no longer output to the container log.
• Out of memory errors when exporting data have now been fixed as part of general improvements to state handling.
• The Installation Requirements have been updated to explain how to get Java 11 to print the same separators as Java 8 for certain locales (for example Swiss French).
• If a cost centre transfer fails to post (for example – when period access is closed), the asset is no longer kept locked.
• All rows in Billing Browse are selected when using the ‘Select All’ check box.
• Restricted tax lists set on finance document masters are now enforced in Intray Management and Browse Intray.
• Header only documents on the Intray can now be retrieved for modification and deletion in Intray Management and Browse Intray.
• An original user can now modify and post back to the intray (but not to the books) a document whose “Prevent posting to books by original user” flag is set.
• Column recnum on tables ‘oas_elmhistory’, ‘oas_inthist’, ‘oas_lethist’ and ‘oas_prlhist’ has been increased in size from smallint to int to minimise accidental rollover.
• XL will reauthenticate when the current session expires.
• Reduced the memory usage in the CSV Transformation and the Repository Output.
• Security of attachments has been improved

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

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 2023 Cloud 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.

Unit4 Financials by Coda 2022 Q4 was made available on 6th December 2022.

The new release contains all the previous Unit4 Financials functionality and new features. Plus, many additional customer requested fixes, highlighting the importance of logging enhancements via Unit4’s Community 4U.

Highlights of the 2022 Q4 release include:

Administration

• Tasks
• SFTP key authentication

Finance

• Matching
• Deep links to browse transactions can show a period range
• Browse column widths
• Show last comment

Structured Output

• SFTP key authentication
• Removed features

General Fixes/Updates

• Message Transport Log can now be opened; previously an error occurred if data in the ‘com_logline’ was truncated.
• Password is not stored anymore in the database when the password field is cleared in Message Transport Master.
• Further improvements have been made to the metadata upgrade process and the metadata audit now reports invalid vocabularies.
• Recording successful logon and logoff events no longer causes a duplicate key error message.
• Manual depreciation is now included in the depreciation charge adjustment when performing a cost centre transfer.
• When trying to transfer Cost Centre on an asset where account security prevents the transfer, an error will be raised about not having access to the account instead of a serious error.
• Billing Performance has been improved when opening large documents in Billing Browse, the element short names are now only activated when the typeahead is activated.
• Named user licence count is now enforced for Finance users.
• Analyser will now open correctly from Browse Transactions and Aged Analysis.
• Cancel document memory usage has been fixed to handle more than 100 individual documents, without causing a system failure.
• Link table maintenance keeps padding on column ‘oas_linkhead.origdocnum’.
• Addressed some causes of account summary unmarshalling error.
• Table Link Transfer Client pads column ‘oas_linkhead.origdocnum’ correctly.
• Browse details can now show the most recent comment added using multiple edit (the last comment).
• Tablelink maintenance now auto sizes the column widths when presenting the data.
• The Matching request Input Extended/PostToBooks has been corrected and no longer gives an XMLi error.
• When Setting the Element Substitution value to “not used” the element value is now cleared allowing the element to be saved.
• Intray Management – it is now possible to remove a line comment.
• Flexi field caching in Assisted Element has been changed to allow Flexi field master changes to be reflected immediately.
• Pay Status toolbox no longer fails when using an Oracle database.
• Reminder letter proposals now calculates the page count correcting when items are deleted and no longer errors when reviewing the last page of the proposal.
• Copy document no longer errors if the document that is copied references an original document which has been archived.
• ITK Data Editor now allows Statement lines to be updated, and other data rows which contain Financials document numbers as a key. Please refer to the ITK User guide Unit4 Financials Metadata section for information on settings for the object definition.
• Posting an invoice with attachments now submits successfully to Workflow when it is automatically approved.
• A goods received note will now not be created when completing a partially received order line with 0 (zero) quantity.

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