Unit4 Financials by Coda 2024Q4 was made available on 3rd December 2024.

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

 

Highlights of the 2024Q4 release include:

Administration:

Hyperlink on Print Formats

It is now possible to have a hyperlink on a print format.

Finance:

Element Master

The Credit note document and Mapping master can now be specified on a Supplier element for use in Electronic Invoicing.

Company Master

The Credit note document and Mapping master can now be specified on the Company for use in Electronic Invoicing.

Electronic Invoicing:

API

The Electronic Invoicing REST resource is now available to allow authorized users to submit a UBL Invoice or Credit Note to Unit4 Financials by Coda.

Invoice Maintenance

The document type is now displayed in the Invoice Maintenance grid.

It is now possible to delete rows from within Invoice Maintenance.

Public API:

REST API

A new suite of REST API functions is now available.

The REST API follows the same business structure as the XMLi and SOAP API options, so each functional operation available in those integration methods is also available in the REST API.

Technical:

Security Updates

A vulnerability in the ExtJS user interface library has been resolved.

HTTP security headers (Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy and Permissions-Policy) have been added to the WildFly setup scripts as default.

A third-party library, Apache XML Graphics FOP, used in the printing functionality has been updated to improve security.

Deprecated features:
The .NET router has been deprecated. The final release has not been determined.

32-bit XL is deprecated and will be removed in the 2025Q1 Release. 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:

  • It is no longer possible to delete the user master which is registered as the system user in Application Parameters.
  • Table Link Document Housekeeping now deletes the flexi field data when the table naming does not match the flexi field master code.
  • Print Formatter Print functionality has been corrected.
  • The Document approver field is now populated in Browse Details when this field is set on the presenter.
  • Microsoft SQL Server Hint Masters now work correctly when selecting data for the Pay/Collect process.
  • Where Intray modification is prevented, the user can now auto-post from Intray to Books for manual tax and Intercompany documents.
  • In Finance Input the ‘Resolve‘ button will also be triggered on leaving the field if the value in the field has not been modified.
  • Shared master audit no longer shows errors for Electronic Invoicing account mappings on recently created element masters.
  • When confirming reminder letters using webservices the GetProgress service now returns the appropriate response
  • Reporting Codes and Element Status are now correctly displayed in Browse Balances when the description is more than 20 characters. A serious error no longer occurs.
  • The selector operator ‘Is blank‘ is now available in XL when using Generic Browse.
  • Property com.coda.common.app.attachment.http.checkRemote is now documented in the Configuration Settings Guide.
  • The Strict-Transport-Security HTTP header is now correctly set. This fix particularly affects users of WebSphere where later fix packs now perform validation of HTTP header names.
  • Memory usage when exporting data to Microsoft Excel has been reduce, e.g., exporting data from Browse Details.

Further details on the new features, security updates and reported issues can be found in the release documentation.

The release documentation for this release (and previous releases) can be found in the documentation area on the community.

The software can be downloaded from the “Software” tab on Community4U.

 

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.

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