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New release of GMF, with the following changes since 1.4.1:

CHANGELOG 1.4.2

• support for ordering in contents returned by containers
• add more fields to the indexing: individual components, resdefid, resdescription. We can do searches like "title:Something".
• servlet for compressing output (deactivated by default)
• Redo from scratch select parameters, to allow cached parameters and asynchronously reloaded selects.
• Reports cleanups and fixes.
• Two new reports: histograms of response and resolution times.
• other minor changes and bug fixes... read more

This is a new realease of GMF, a project oriented towards the development of tools for it departments. It provides incident management, change management, sla control, basic inventory, and other resources to build a knowledge repository.

After 9 months of development, GMF 1.1 is out, with all the improvements, bug fixes and new features you wanted (or we wanted).
Check the new itil resources (change management, sla, reports), and the new integrations (Active Directory, Winventory, Liferay).
Hope you like it!

We're proud to announce the release of GMF 1.0. We finally decided to name it 1.0.0 because of the big changes and improvements since the last published version and because we're confident this code is stable enough to be used in production systems.
In fact, we've been using it in a few busy sites without any noticeable problems.
As usual, the Incident Management module has received our biggest attention and work, and now it's ready to do all desirable work without being touched much in the future.
Time reporting is the more important addition and it's done using a great new feature, subforms or subresources.... read more

Yesterday, GMF 0.9.1 was released with several new/interesting features and bugfixes.

Long planned online demo is finally available from the project homepage.

Hi everybody! A new release of GMF is available.
It's been almost two long months of testing, and although the only major feature added to this version is the basic search subsystem, there are many improvements in here to make it an important release.

This is the better and the fastest GMF to the day. So have a nice install!

GMF 0.8.4 is available for download.

This release contains several bug fixes and improvements, specially in the sales and trouble ticketing modules, making them ready for production.

GMF is a business management framework, easy to extend and customize to fit the particular needs of every organization.

Many changes since 0.7. The most important addition is the workflow
module and a trouble ticketing system with two support levels (call
center and system administrators).
The workflow module is thought to keep track of state changes within
a resource, it's not designed to work between resources. It's quite
simple and the workflow is defined using an external XML file which is
parsed using a Xmlbean.
The trouble ticketing system is a demonstration of how to use the
workflow, but it's a working TTS right now and with little improvement
it will be really useful.
Also there's a whole bunch of other changes, see the complete
changelog for further details.

Here it goes release 0.7. The biggest work has been done in the sales module. We have a pretty useful sales management with accounts, contacts, opportunities and activities.

There are also improvements in other areas, like the parameter grouping functionality in forms or resource selects with multiple conditions.

For performance, an ACLs cache using Jcache has been added, and there's also the code to have a published data cache, but it's not functional yet. I suppose it will make it for 0.8.... read more

Some interesting things are added to this version.
The biggest addition is the sales module. More work is needed to have a full sales management, but basic features are in place. You can use it to track opportunities, planned activities, contacts, etc. This is also a good example of what modules should be.
Work has been done in the Toolbar, making it easy to add new options to it from the resources, and the new Html package makes it easy to build html output without having to write html code.
And a bunch of other changes to make it easy to develop new resources and to control parameters types. You can see the detailed changelog for details!

Current source code for GMF has been uploaded to Sourceforge's CVS. This is the latest development code, and it may be unstable because it's not been released yet.
This is intended for developers and not for final users. Users should use latest released version.

This release has all basic parameter types in place and they are available to resources, so the creation of new resources can be made quite easily now.
Also, JCache and Jasper Reports libraries have been added to the project to be able to cache objects and build reports easily and using a well-tested libraries.

A public developers forum is now available for the GMF project. The forum will be the main channel for developers to exchange information and make patches public.

All developers are encouraged to participate in this project!

New GMF release, with significant improvements in the data exchange interface between resources, and the time tracker added, allowing time reporting for projects and tasks.

This is a young project, just 2 weeks old, but we're working hard to have all major features in place and have everything necessary to be able to use GMF in our day-by-day work.
This release includes the basis for project management that uses new feature data communication between resources.