OFBiz Monthly Digest — September 2026

[Aditi Patel <ad...@hotwax.co>]

Hello Everyone,

September was a cleanup month. There was no release, but one long review
pass through the Groovy services converted from minilang turned up and
fixed more than a hundred regressions. Most of those fixes are queued for
*24.09.08*.

135 issues touched · 116 opened · 116 resolved · 42 list messages · 0
releases
Shipped

   - *Minilang→Groovy regression sweep.* About 112 fixes went in this
   month, 7 of them Critical or Blocker. Some examples: OFBIZ-13548
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13548&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>
   (Blocker) got category related-URLs, SEO updates and download replacement
   working again. OFBIZ-13596
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13596&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>
   fixed six bugs in PaymentServices.groovy, including createPayment
   writing to the wrong field. OFBIZ-13592
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13592&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>
   stopped updateContentPermission from granting UPDATE through ancestor
   ownership. OFBIZ-13621
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13621&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>
   repaired product group-order handling, and OFBIZ-13561
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13561&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>
   fixed payroll invoice items crashing on deduction and tax amounts. Most of
   these are set to land in 24.09.08.
   - OFBIZ-13567
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13567&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>:
   there's now real .xlsx export through a new screenxlsx view handler
   built on Apache POI. See the framework PR
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/1899&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>,
   the plugins PR
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-plugins/pull/395&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>
   and the dev@ thread
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.apache.org/thread/2gty0qdzvv9xfv37l31xz8n5bm9h76ss&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>,
   which also proposes retiring screenxls later. Trunk only.
   - OFBIZ-13507
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13507&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>:
   commons-imaging, which had been stuck on an alpha since 2019, is replaced
   by metadata-extractor and the TwelveMonkeys ImageIO TIFF plugin (
   discussion
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.apache.org/thread/nxthcdxwo81glj9p5p0yh27ytxqn418h&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>
   ).
   - OFBIZ-13499
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13499&source=gmail&ust=1791265255132000&sa=E>:
   HttpClient no longer changes the request URL each time it retries.
   - OFBIZ-13505
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13505&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   (Critical): Find Orders → Print (PDF) works again, and OFBIZ-13598
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13598&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   opens the combined PDF in the browser.

In progress

   - OFBIZ-13462
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13462&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>:
   MRP with finite capacity, so production is planned against the machine
   hours actually available. Two new parts were added: planning rules
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13628&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   and MRP runs across a whole facility group
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13630&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   .
   - OFBIZ-13573
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13573&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>:
   system-guided inventory cycle counting. The requirements doc (OFBIZ-13574
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13574&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>)
   is being written, and the feature was discussed on dev@
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.apache.org/thread/2h4t44sq8rxxhccg6359s6j7jwngy763&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   and user@
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.apache.org/thread/495m1ptct6g8pxdt2wh6w0g74dg3tw6x&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   .
   - OFBIZ-13440
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13440&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>:
   support for several independent REST APIs in one webapp, each with its own
   credentials and security groups (PR #1790
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/1790&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>,
   thread
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.apache.org/thread/3bphg86nmxrwt02198ohxtbsb4gctoq6&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   ).
   - OFBIZ-13455
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-13455&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>:
   a headless commerce core plugin, starting with MVP order APIs.

Also worth knowing

   - There's a new contributor guide and PR template
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/2000&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   up for review, from the contribution workflow discussion
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.apache.org/thread/ndr1jyyz05bv2m54fs1gjs3z5mw2752b&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   .
   - The RAT license report on trunk is being cleaned up (thread
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.apache.org/thread/zwddn8whx9pfnxsxbmtzjk32b5t3y42x&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   ).
   - E-invoicing
   <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.apache.org/thread/0r0psln58nrn9v3kf4ld51jrx7m92yrx&source=gmail&ust=1791265255133000&sa=E>
   was the most active topic on user@.

*Thanks to everyone who pitched in:* Mridul Pathak, Jacopo Cappellato,
Jacques Le Roux, Lukas Finster, Arun Patidar, Ratnesh Upadhyay, Nicolas
Malin, Ashish Vijaywargiya, Mohammad Kathawala, Carsten Heinrigs, Pierre
Gaudin, Divesh Dutta and Chandan Khandelwal.

Aditi Patel
HotWax Commerce
aditi.patel@hotwax.co