We are proud to announce that after hard dedicated work we have released GLPI 9.5 version. Please, consult the blog below to know what is new.
Available for download : here
The discovery and installation of GLPI plugins becomes simpler.
You will now have a new dedicated interface to automatically download and control your plugins.
The old interface is still available for those who prefers it.
A new file ../glpi/marketplace now exists in the root of the GLPI tree to accommodate plugins downloaded in this way, this folder must be placed to your WEB server.
In exchange for access to this new “marketplace”, it will be necessary to register on the dedicated site GLPI-Network; no payment or subscription to a paid offer is necessary, simply your registration in order to retrieve a registration key to enter in the dedicated tab of your general configuration.
For plugin developers, contact us to obtain the information to have your plugins published on all GLPI instances.
From most of the objects in the fleet, you will now have access to a new “Impact” tab allowing you to create the relations between your assets and visualize the impact of a breakdown towards critical element.
You will find this view from a ticket for the associated elements.
When building a graph for a property, you will have access to a toolbar allowing you to:
A new default tab appears on the main page to display customizable dashboards.
These dashboards can be:
In addition to the central page, there is also a dashboard for the 1st level menus:
and in addition, from the general configuration, you can also activate “mini” dashboards for tickets
Just like with tasks, you can now use saved responses for your follow-up on tickets/requests/problems.
The fields description, source and private information will be filled in when you pick an answer.
Ticket templates have been extended to problems and changes.
They also contain fields:
Just like the ticket templates, you can assign these new templates for:
These cases are applied in increasing priority order.
Contribution of Curtis Conard
Projects now welcome a new “kanban” view in order to quickly organize tasks and sub-projects by their status.
Project contributors can change a column map to change the status of the corresponding object and the project supervisor can rearrange them vertically.
A text field is available at the top of the view in order to filter the cards displayed in the columns.
A global view has also been added (accessible from the breadcrumb thread) in order to view all the cards and all projects combined.
Hooks have been added to allow plugins to add information to “maps”. The Tag plugin already uses this possibility.
The planning welcomes many new features, e.g. the latest version of the fullcalendar library (version 4.x).
A new type of event appears: “external events”, - it allows materializing appointments outside GLPI and you can decide if the planning of ticket task is suitable for time slot of technician.
These external events can be defined as “background” in order to be displayed in a fade out manner in the schedule. This can be used to visualize working hours, for example.
Via an additional plugin (for licensing reasons, see the plugin’s “readme”), a new view is added to display users and groups vertically and not overlay their events.
A full caldav server has been added to have bi-directional synchronization with your applications (thunderbird lighting, evolution, etc.). We still kep ical exports.
In addition, an export of events in csv format has been added.
It is now possible to import read-only, an external calendar in ical format.
And finally, unchecked by default, it is now possible to display unplanned tasks (tickets / problems, etc.) in order to facilitate their planning.
They are displayed since their creation dates (minus their durations). .
GLPI now supports the rule of one time zone per user.
The dates are recorded in UTC in the database and the various displays and notifications containing dates and times will be converted into the zone of the corresponding user.
The storage format of the MySQL database is now by default TIMESTAMP for new installations.
For existing ones a separate migration apart from the main update process is required in order to take the advantage of the functionality.
You must use the following command to do it:
php bin/console glpi:migration:timestamps
Note that GLPI continues to work correctly with the MySQL DATETIME format (but without the support of time zones).
For debugging or administrative purposes, it is now possible for “super-admin” (or any profile with the configuration rights) to temporarily take the ownership of another user’s account without knowing the password.
An icon is available at the top in the user´s file to perform this action:
To note:
“Security” tab appears in the general configuration in order to define the security policy related to local passwords (external accounts are not affected).
The previously existing options (length, special characters, etc.) are moved to this new tab.
New fonts have been added to manage password expiration.
Alerts and corresponding notifications are triggered when expirations (or their notices) expire.
Some improvements for this new version of GLPI concerning the user experience:
Certain actions such as “Add to transfer list” were inaccessible when viewing the objects one by one.
The general menu now supports icons from the Font Awesome library for each of the entries.
They are also included in the breadcrumbs
From the same library, the generic buttons of the forms are also decorated with contextual icons.
In order to facilitate the management of components, it is now possible to highlight all or partly these assets in the Fleet menu.
Previously to access the list of instances (and not the models) of SIM cards, for example, it was necessary to follow the following steps:
or to visualize them in the goods welcoming them.
Now, after configuration, they are accessible in 1 click:
It is now possible to send and respond to validation requests directly from the timeline.
It is now possible to customize the CSS of GLPI entity by entity.
Adding a “Darker” theme
If you are interested in professional support for GLPI, please visit this page: Subscriptions.
A new default tab appears on the main page to display customizable dashboards.
These dashboards can be:
In addition to the central page, there is also a dashboard for the 1st level menus:
and in addition, from the general configuration, you can also activate “mini” dashboards for tickets
Download the Release Candidate 2 here: link.
