Time for a minor release, LibrePlan 1.3.1 is

LibrePlan 1.3.1 has been launched with the latest enhancements and some new features

After summertime is over in Europe, where the main LibrePlan developers live, we think that it is a good time to provide our users with the new things incorporated into the stable branch since the release of the LibrePlan 1.3.0 version, on July the 27th.

The major developments included in the 1.3.1 version are the next ones:
* Catalan as new language, thanks to the work of translation done by Daniel Díaz Sañudo. With Catalan LibrePlan is already fully avaliable in seven languages - English, Catalan, Dutch, French, Galician, Italian and Spanish - and, besides, German and Polish are very close to this 100% percentage of completion. But we do not want to stop here, we want to keep growing. Therefore, if you live in a country with a non-supported language and you want to enjoy LibrePlan in your mother tongue, we will be glad to accept your translation.
* Web service API extension. A new DELETE operation has been incorporated to the LibrePlan web service for importing timesheets into the program. Many LibrePlan users have their company timesheets stored in other applications and they include them into LibrePlan automatically using our planner web service API. For this scenario, sometimes it is necessary to be able to delete some already imported timesheet data to correct possible mistakes. Having the capacity to fix these errors has been the rationale behind the addition of this new DELETE operation.
* New twice-weekly and weekly personal timesheets. In LibrePlan 1.3.0 we included a special type of timesheets called monthly timesheets. The monthly timesheets were designed having employees in mind (bound workers) so that, by using them, they could track the work done by themselves in a whole month. The idea was that the monthly timesheets could be used to meet the payrolls according to the time devoted by the employees each month. However, there are companies that pay the salaries per week or twice-weekly and this has been the reason to add the option of having personal timesheets with three periodicities: monthly, twice-weekly and weekly. From now on, there is a global configuration option to select the type of personal timesheets you want to use in your LibrePlan deployment.
* Reporting the project status. LibrePlan has a wide set of reports that can be extracted in PDF, ODT or HTML. This set of reports can be extended to satisfy all the imaginable reporting needs. In this occasion, we have included a new printout with the project WBS. The WBS is the description of the work to be planned in a project and the report has a row per activity with the next columns: the task name, the budgeted estimated number of hours to do, the total planned hours and the total tracked worked time. We hope you find it useful!
* Dates internationalization. There were some places where the date format was not respecting the convention defined by the locale. This has been fixed and, from now on, you can see all the dates provided by LibrePlan in a format coherent with the language in which the user is navigating.

Besides these main topics many fixes have been included for the issues filed by the LibrePlan users and, as usual, you can test the new version on-line (http://demo.libreplan.org), download it (http://www.libreplan.com/download/) and read more information in the release notes (http://libreplan.org/NEWS.html#version-1-3-1-15-oct-2012). We hope you enjoy it and upgrade to LibrePlan 1.3.1 sooner than later ;)