Cloud Updates - January 2022

At the end of January 2022 all clouds will be updated to the latest Kimai version.

Your clouds might be in maintenance mode for around 1 minute during the update. In case of any question or problem, please contact our support.

Changes at a glance

This update focused on detail improvements and bug fixes and two new features for paying customers: Custom content & Invoice extensions

Custom content

This feature is only available for paying customers.

The new menu “Custom content” replaces the recently introduced function “Custom CSS” and extends it with further options.

• CSS / Stylesheets
• Javascript
• Global alert
• Custom content for news/instructions etc. with markdown support

More documentation is available at https://www.kimai.org/documentation/plugin-custom-content.html.

Invoice extensions

This feature is only available for paying customers.

• Set a language for formatting money and time values in invoices. The invoice language is then only used for translations. Applies to PDF and HTML templates.
• Automatic generation of another PDF file for involved timesheets. Possibility to configure the export template yourself.

Each of these functions is only active if the corresponding configuration is not empty:

More documentation is available at https://www.kimai.org/documentation/plugin-invoice.html.

Further changes

Besides many small adjustments the most important changes are:

• Added comment field to invoices #3045
• Added invoice custom-fields #3077
• New export template #3082
• Translation updates #3048, #3032, #3093
• Improve permission handling for weekly-hours controller #3081
• Weekly-hours: configure amount of recent activity rows for empty weeks #3026
• Improve export permission checks #3027
• Fix timesheet export-state validator #3078
• Fix working time widget (dashboard) with “first day of week” = sunday #3047
• Fix admin access for customer in invoice module #3095
• Improve team member handling #3097
• Can’t add user to existing team #2921
• API: PATCH team members removes existing ones #2975