Just a quick note to let everyone know about a patch release for all three Editions of xTuple ERP - version 3.3.1, available now. We aren't updating the installers, so if you're currently running 3.3.0, we highly recommend you upgrade. This release fixes a handful of obscure, but potentially unpleasant bugs.
All users can download the updated 3.3.1 client here.
Commercial customers, here are the 3.3.0 to 3.3.1 upgrade scripts for the Standard and Manufacturing Editions.
PostBooks users, here is the 3.3.0 to 3.3.1 PostBooks upgrade script.
And of course, if you're an XTN subscriber, please contact us to upgrade you automatically at your convenience.
Finally, a word on the roadmap, and version numbers. We have been working on what was originally slated to be 3.3.1 for many weeks; this release contains many more fixes and minor enhancements, as well as a significant effort to convert the Manufacturing Edition functionality into a loadable Extension Package. That release, which will be available in beta form shortly, will now be known as 3.4.0.
Version 3.5.0 will include a substantial number of new features, both contributed and sponsored by customers. Please see the xTuple Roadmap for the whole run-down.
Ned Lilly
In October 2001, Ned co-founded xTuple, originally called OpenMFG, with the aim of bringing the worlds of open platform software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) together to solve the unmet needs of small- to mid-sized manufacturers. In 1999, he was a co-founder of Great Bridge, an early business built around the PostgreSQL database which is also the core technology for xTuple today. Great Bridge was incubated inside Landmark Communications, a mid-sized media company where Ned directed corporate venture investments, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and startup activity. Prior to Landmark, Ned worked for a regional technology group in Washington D.C. and had a brief first career in political media — television, radio and a non-partisan news wire. He holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. from George Washington University.