Changelog

23.09.2023

Working-Contract:

• Show absences in calendar
• Show public-holidays in calendar
• Export absences to excel

Improvement:

• Keep "settings" menu in sticky position at top of screen
• Revenue widgets in Dashboard included billable hours
• Remove translucent scroll-border in duration dropdown
• Added missing colors in user-chooser in calendar
• Support more than 5 items if 5 favorites are defined in last activities
• Translation updates
• Simplified listing view for "custom fields"
• Support any integer value as pageSize in /tasks/ API
• Fixed a problem using SSO with Google and missing/empty attribute-mappings
• Fixed further possible "out of range" errors when using pagination
• Fixed API pagination compatibility for Expenses and Tasks
• Fixed a possible 500 error on "Date and Time" custom-field

12.09.2023

Improvement:

• Hide un-defined meta-fields in details view
• Fixes possible "out of range" errors when using pagination

Working-Contract:

• Redirect to correct screen after creating and deleting absences
• Fixed: first day of absence ranges is created twice

09.09.2023

This update took quite a while, because one of the biggest new features "Working-Contract" ever was added 🎉

Working-Contract: (available for Trial & Premium)

• Nominal and actual work time comparison
• Overtime view
• Monthly approvals with PDF
• Public holidays management
• Booking of vacations, sickness, time-off and other absences
• many more features are planned already…

New feature:

• Added "expected hour" settings for each weekday
• Use "expected hour" instead of "weekend" highlighting
• Added supervisor setting for user (will be used for notifications in the future)
• Collapse "extended settings" on edit screen when clicking anywhere in the title (Expenses & Tasks)
• Invoice: Use {{invoice}}-timesheet.pdf instead of {{invoice}}.pdf as filename for timesheet exports during invoice creation (avoid automatic renaming from "{{invoice}}.pdf" to "{{invoice}} (1).pdf")

Improvement:

• Use to Saturday/Sunday to highlight the weekend (if "expected hours" are not configured)
• Time-tracking: Fix timesheet allows to use deactivated activities
• Importer: Skip certain validations during timesheet import, as they are contra-productive on historical data
• Time-tracking: Deactivate rule to check "maximum duration of entries" by default (caused way too many questions)
• Calendar: Show line breaks (in timesheet description) in calendar popover
• Invoice: Fix invoice due date depends on invoice date
• Fixed weekly-times form does not show global form errors like CSRF token
• Fix invalid user preference (outdated route for homepage) automatically
• Translation updates
• Remove text from tag choice after selection
• Removed "plugin" from permission header (roles screen)
• Removed empty footer on detail pages (Task management)
• Make sure that the account-number has a maximum length of 30 chars (SAML log-ins)
• Allow 64 characters for username (SAML log-ins)

01.07.2023

New feature:

• Improve UX for invoice template management
• Hide projects in "inactive projects" report, if they did not yet start
• Added more budget stats to customer/project/activity detail screen
• Allow zero duration input (set end-time automatically)

Improvement:

• Allow to open edit screen (customer, project, activity) without requirement for the view_X permissions
• Restyled "work contract" form
• Added background color for weekend in calendar
• Translation updates
• Removed unused API TaskQuery definition

Custom content:

• New permissions js_custom_content, css_custom_content, alert_custom_content, news_custom_content for separate content sections
• Added explicit ID and class to target markdown news content via Javascript
• Better tabs

Importer:

• Support for meta-fields via column "meta.XXX" for customers
• Support for meta-fields via column "meta.XXX" for projects
• Support for column "name" for customer
• Support for column "name" for project
• Highlight invalid column mapping

Beta test (Working contract):

• Improved public holiday management
• First support for sickness
• First support for holiday
• First support for personal time-off

10.06.2023

New feature:

• Support visibility for tags
• Modernized flat form styles
• Allow to collapse entire cards by clicking the complete header
• Display TOTP secret after clicking the QR code image
• Date-Range-Picker: show this and last two years to pick in quick-select

In hidden work-contract feature (paid clouds only):

• Added: Public holiday management and group assignment
• Added: Summary for public holidays
• Added: Include public holiday times in monthly times
• Added: Link to user-preferences from warning message

Improvement:

• Make setting "rounding days" optional
• Invoice document upload: fix validation for filenames with uppercase character

27.05.2023

New feature:

• Dynamic favicon shows if record is running
• Calendar: update popover content when shown
• Added Javascript API to access current user (for custom JS)
• Added CSS classes to menu, to be able to apply custom styles

Improvement:

• Disable search in order and order_by
• Reduce divider spacing for context menu and select with optgroup
• Translation updates
• Allow to remove date from non-required date field (like project start and end)
• Fix single dropdown became two lines
• Fix "complete month" in hidden work-contract feature (paid clouds only)

17.05.2023

New feature:

• Added new invoice variable ${entry.duration_format}
• Show billable vs total rate for user and activity tabs
• Show summary and header for user and activity tabs
• Added first draft of working contract features (turned off by default)
• Added "create task" to project detail page

Improvement:

• Clickable area was too small in empty rows in the weekly-hours dropdown
• Improved dynamic PDF export columns (simplify creating custom PDF export templates)
• Be more flexible parsing time formats, e.g. accept 4:15 as start time, not only 04:15
• Activities were shown twice in Project Details
• Change default max duration for one record from 8 to 10 hours due to too many support requests
• Prevent invoices with exceeding filename (max. 150 chars)
• Fix calendar context menu opens english modals
• Fix design switcher in wizard
• Improved avatar list spacing
• Improved dark mode and clearer colors
• Translation updates across all languages
• Importer: added hint for Clockify imports, that rate configurations are not imported
• Importer: System-Menu is not highlighted on tabs

09.05.2023

New feature:

• Allow 2 factor-authentication for SAML users
• Make user preferences available in custom invoice templates

Improvement:

• Expenses: Teamleads could not filter entries by selected teams
• Timesheets: Teamleads could not filter entries by selected teams
• Always display the zero line in project details budget chart (add chart value 0 to y-axis if last value > 0)
• Audit logs: prevent error for deleted users in timesheet listing
• Prevent too long values for user preferences

02.05.2023

New feature:

• Show all possible links in "my user" dropdown

Improvement:

• Prevent empty title for select options (use name as fallback)
• Reset timesheet rates on "create copy"
• Wrap long names in multi-selects
• Rename user-profile menus

30.04.2023

New feature:

• 2FA Two-factor authentication for www.kimai.cloud

25.04.2023

New feature:

• New API users parameter to filter timesheets for multiple users
• Allow to call "timesheet restart" with GET to prevent errors

Improvement:

• Adjusted error messages for missing invoice sum calculator/renderer/number generator
• Compare tags case insensitive to prevent unique key constraint exception
• Divide by zero for project stats with total duration less than 20 seconds
• ModifiedAt is not set if timesheets are cloned via "create copy"
• Invoice templates: Use invoice and entries only, remove model access, support for new classes text-begin and text-end

05.04.2023

New feature:

• Show customer totals in single-user reports
• Support custom fonts in export / invoice templates

Improvement:

• Expenses export did not respect selected teams
• Require date-range for export and invoice searches, to prevent error
• Clarify help label for user locale and show decimal formats in help controller

30.03.2023

Improvement:

• added required attribute to username and password field in login
• fix pagination back to page 1
• re-add missing user preferences link
• prevent error if tag name exceeds 100 character
• escape input to prevent HTML injection in tag and team member form

24.03.2023

New feature:

• support submenus in action dropdowns
• show all user-edit-screens in action dropdown

Improvement:

• added responsive classes for "internal rate" column for mobile
• clarify error message if invoice number generator or calculator is missing
• deleting customer could cause unwanted data removal through teams and vice versa

21.03.2023

New feature:

• negative invoice sums are possible (e.g. for credit notes)
• "today" as selector in date-range dropdown
• added hint that "no changes were detected" in batch update
• project and customer lists are collapsed in team forms

Improvement:

• improved column width and label for duration-only mode
• empty internal rate is now shown as - (dash)
• invalid dates in URL of weekly-times causes 500
• prevent auto-select of activity in export and invoice form
• team assignments for customer and project are not saved
• required meta-fields were forced to have a value in batch update
• one minute rounding problem in duration-only mode with "now" being default time
• legend styling for form fieldset (e.g. team project assignment)
• updated translations

15.03.2023

New feature:

• include customer number in validation message
• show name of items to delete
• improved stop button: allow to stop timesheet via GET (failed before when clicking too fast after page reload)

Improvement:

• wrong api definition in nested objects
• make sure that 2FA is not required for session based API calls
• fix permission issue for recent activity items

08.03.2023

New feature:

• support invoice archive "order" by number and status
• Duration as calendar title replacer

Improvement:

• form validation for invoice template (mandatory fields)
• HTML injection in Calendar
• empty customer/project fields shown in detail page
• tag creation for installations with less than 500 tags
• updated translations

02.03.2023

New feature:

• support invoice archive "order" by number and status
• calculate internal rate from user as fallback if empty in dedicated setting
• adjusted size of report start page icons for smaller screens
• permission caching to improve performance

Improvement:

• column data truncated when using SSO login
• show internal rate in timesheet listing
• name display in dropdowns (if containing HTML special character)
• fail-safe customer name handling
• translate "reload invoice template" button
• invoice date might be in the past
• translate invoice_date and invoice_date help
• prevent API requests with URLs like start=null
• prevent to reload select twice
• updated translations

22.02.2023

New feature:

• download custom invoice templates
• reload twig/pdf templates from UI
• move recent activities to modal
• added help page for all registered locales
• improved responsiveness in XS

Improvement:

• removed unused duration_only mode
• hide duration stat if duration = 0 (timesheet, invoice, export)
• remove deleted timesheets from bookmarks
• configurable homepage redirect with invalid name
• format duration without leading zero in hours (unify javascript with php behavior)
• active records in all screen sizes
• invoice number for customer null fields
• javascript respects multiple recent-activity dropdowns
• search filter is always marked as active
• only stop entries if new one is running
• validator was tampering with timesheet duration
• updated translations