LibrePlan 1.4 has been released!

LibrePlan 1.4 version is published with the features contributed in the project since Christmas.

First of all, we want to thank all the people and organizations that have made this new version possible.
Among them, we want to mention specially to the St. Antonius Zienkenhuis Hospital (in The Netherlands) which has been
the main contributor on this occasion.

Here the report of the main developments in LibrePlan 1.4 that we hope you enjoy:

• JIRA connector. Atlassian JIRA [1] is one of the most used commercial issue trackers nowadays and LibrePlan will be integrated with it. It will be possible to import the JIRA issues which a specific label assigned into a LibrePlan project. The user will be able to launch this operation on demand or automatically with a configurable periodicity.
• TimEnterprise connector. TimEnterprise [2] is a time tracker tool that is widely used in The Netherlands. LibrePlan 1.4 comes with a TimEnterprise connector which will let the project managers import the Tim timesheets into LibrePlan and bind them to project tasks. In this way organizations using TimEnterprise can keep using it for time tracking and, at the same time, will be able to view the LibrePlan projects with the cost information available without any additional effort.
• Microsoft project and Planner files import. A first version of a module to import both Microsoft Project [3] and GNOME Planner [4] files will be available. The information uploaded will be the WBS, the Gantt chart and the calendars. The open source MPXJ library [5] is used for this purpose and, thanks to it, new data formats will be easily supported in future.
• Personalized company filters. The user preferences screen has been expanded with two filtering settings: the projects view filtering options and the resource load filtering options. With the project view filtering settings the user will be able to choose a default label and time period to fill the filters in both the projects planning and the projects list perspectives. With the resource load filtering settings the user will be able to choose a default criterion and a time period to be applied by default on visiting the resource load global perspective. These screens will also remember the last filtering values configured during the user session and will apply them every time.
• Project filters memory. The values filled by the user in the different project filters will be remembered by the application while the user is navigating. On coming back to a project, LibrePlan will fill the filters with the last values used by the user in the project. This will saves time many times to the user.
• Resource load status displayed in the allocation configuration pop-up. If the user visits the advanced search screen to choose the resources to allocate in a task, he will see two resource ratios calculated: the availability and the overtime. The availability informs about the percentage of a resource timetable in which he is free between two dates. The overtime informs about the percentage of hours allocated as overtime in a period.
• Chinese as new language. With the Chinese LibrePlan will be translated into 13 languages.

Besides these main topics many fixes have been included for the issues reported and, as usual, it is possible to test the new version on-line [6], to download it [7] and to read more information in the release notes [8]. We hope you enjoy it!

[1] http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview
[2] http://www.aenova.nl/software-en-oplossingen/producten/timenterprise/#.UX6R8JBBV34
[3] http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project/
[4] https://live.gnome.org/Planner
[5] http://mpxj.sourceforge.net/
[6] http://demo.libreplan.org
[7] http://www.libreplan.com/download
[8] http://libreplan.org/NEWS.html#version-1-4-0-29-apr-2013