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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.

Unit4 Financials 2022 Q3 was made available on 13 September 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 Q3 release include:

Finance

• Unique index columns updated to not-nullable
• New task: table link element housekeeping
• New task: table link document housekeeping
• Clients can request access tokens from OpenID Connect providers
• Microsoft SQL Server specifiable ODBC Connection String

Addons

• Clients running on FIPS-enabled Windows systems

Deprecated features

• .NET router – The .NET router has been deprecated. The final release has not been determined.
• COM router – The COM router has been deprecated. This release, 2022 Q3, is the last to include the COM router.

 General Fixes/Updates

• Workflow attachments can now be removed and added without error during the workflow process.
• The Configuration guide has been updated to remove redundant session management timeout settings.
• New metadata presenter field URL Prefix is now optional making the import compatible with exports from an earlier release.
• Merging two assets together does not now create a superfluous extra manual transaction.
• Billing Table Link no longer creates a document header without detail lines.
• Weekly interval scheduled tasks now continue to run after a year has elapsed since they were created.
• Periods (full stops) are no longer removed from external reference fields when uploading a statement via the statement load master.
• Pay can now display external reference URL and user reference URL.
• Export from Browse Details was not displaying external reference URL correctly.
• When a reversing document is posted and subsequently a partial match is performed on one of its lines, Financials no longer creates spurious document lines with no document headers.
• A primary key issue on the oas_himint table has been resolved so that, for example, it is now possible to update two or more financial years via hierarchies correctly.
• Certain vocabulary items on a Selector Master were incorrectly defaulting to always being mandatory.
• For input templates, prevent the repositioning of the remove line checkbox from corrupting existing input template customisations.
• Export to Excel from Browse Details no longer fails due to invalid characters.
• Reconciliation no longer displays a serious error when selecting the ‘From hard copy’ source.
• The punchout supplier configuration has been enhanced to allow user literals.
• Customising the Tax number field off the supplier search results form, now results in the field correctly disappearing.
• XL Journal Loader has been corrected to allow posting to multiple companies.

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

Read here to find out when Financials updates are scheduled for 2022, along with important information for legacy V13 and V14 users.

Unit4 Financials 2022Q2 was made available on 7th June 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 release include:

Finance

• Browse Transactions
• Statement Processing

Billing

• Billing Browse

Console

• Client Secret

Administration

• Customiser
• Print Formatter
• Workflow Designer
• XL for Finance and Procurement
• Removed feature – XL Scheduler

General Fixes/Updates

• The AppParams WebService no longer fails with the error “Invalid document version”.
• Customiser now allows the height to be changed for the comment object on an account summary.
• In Generic Browse ‘Select all lines’ is no longer limited to the current page.
• Customiser can now open customisations when container managed authentication is used.
• Webservices licence is no longer required for Print Formatter and Workflow Designer.
• Metadata upgrade now sets the object definition key type correctly.
• Performance has been improved in Billing Browse when opening sales invoices with a large number lines.
• Billing can now issue/reissue invoices without attachments, when ‘Send related attachments’ is set on the output device master.
• Authorising an element with an attachment no longer fails with a database deadlock.
• Budget Check and Commitments are now calculated correctly for companies with Financial Periods not matching calendar months.
• WebServices/XMLi has been has been changed to disallow an unbalanced match when matching and using commit.
• Element Template number ranges are now set correctly when using copy company and using the target save function across companies.
• Element authorisation now can handle more than 10 left or right list entries.
• Bank reconciliation no longer loses the selected status on rows when ‘Include selected’ is used.
• Pay write now handles values with more than 2 decimal places correctly.
• Pay write now handles very high values correctly.
• Drill down to commitments from Browse Balance now returns data correctly.
• Element Table Link has been changed to handle larger volumes of updates without having an ‘out of memory’ error.
• ITK can now handle extracting and transforming larger volumes of data.
• Punchout no longer fails when an invalid lead time is received.

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

Read here to find out when Financials updates are scheduled for 2022, along with important information for legacy V13 and V14 users.

Unit4 Financials 2022 Q1 was made available on 8th March 2022.

The new release contains all the previous Unit4 Financials functionality, new features plus additional customer requested fixes. This release also replaces the temporary solution in place to protect against the Apache Log4j vulnerability identified in December 2021 with a permanent fix.

Highlights of the release include:

Finance:

• Print Invoices – attachment filename
• Copy Company

Billing:

• Use Structured Output in scheduled task for type Billing Issue

Console:

• OpenID configuration restructure

Administration:

• QR Codes on Print Formats
• Print Formatter and Workflow Designer Authentication
• OpenID Connect Authorization Code Flow with PKCE

Procurement:

• Requisitions and Purchase Orders

General Fixes/Updates

• Using a presenter with totals lines on matching from input lost a selected line because the software thought it was a total
• ITK process ending time was being recorded even when a process component failed early on in the process run
• Billing Flexifield dates on entry would always save on a different date if a Browser used a different timezone from the server
• Export to Excel Spreadsheet did not handle divide by zero cells properly
• Assets part disposal depreciation calculated incorrectly when cancel depreciation used
• Assets full disposal calculating depreciation in disposal period incorrectly when cancel depreciation used
• Assets Cost Centre Transfer – when transfer fails, the depreciation lock was incorrectly left in place
• Transformation Parameters XML validation field label was not being translated
• Running Table-Link Helper would left-justify document numbers, so then DTL would fail
• Browse details export did not pass though the URL of hyperlinked user refs to a relevant recipient e.g. Excel
• Bulk Load incorrectly creating log files for unrelated user and company code

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

Read here to find out when Financials updates are scheduled for 2022, along with important information for legacy V13 and V14 users.

These dates can sometimes be subject to alteration.

To read a summary of what has been added since October 2020, along with a closer look at some of the most noteworthy enhancements, read What’s new in Unit4 Financials Continuous Release?

Post release, an .iso for each release is available from the Software Distribution Server.