OrangeHRM has been continuously receiving lots of support from its community members around the world. Students from PUCIT & SERC, Age De Gong from Netherlands with the Dutch language pack, Titus Permadi from Indonesia with various training material and our latest contributors are Alexander Blaine from Brazil who has developed a Brazilian – Portuguese language pack while Rashid from Azerbajan with developed the Azeri language pack.

We have decided to reward these contributors for the interest and commitment towards open source products and OrangeHRM. We will reward them with selected OrangeHRM add-ons for their contributions.

Alexander Blaine
Formosa, Brazil

In our endeavor to make OrangeHRM a highly secure enterprise application, we’ll soon be releasing a patch (2.5.0.5) for the latest stable version of OrangeHRM, with a few security improvements. We’re thankful to our community and various organizations that continue to test OrangeHRM and bring existing issues to our attention. We’re committed to fix these issues as soon as possible, and continue to improve the level of security in OrangeHRM.

The following bugs have been reported, and our development team is now fixing them:

• 3003346     Potential SQL injection vulnerability with ess login
• 3001611     Ess module is vulenerable to xss
• 3003358     Possible CSRF and PHP code injection
• 3003361     Not sanitized ajax reponses leads to XSS vulnerability
• 3000555     Sanitize the input data in jobs.php

We will soon make the fixes available with OrangeHRM 2.5.0.5.

In addition to security testing performed by external organizations, we’ve internally formed a security testing team, who will continue to test each new version of OrangeHRM thoroughly for possible security flaws.

We’ll be posting updates about our progress on this blog.

2010 for OrangeHRM took off with the release of 2.6 and the performance module. Adding icing to the cake MySQL Co-Founder David Axmark and one of MySQL’s former EVP’s Larry Stefonic have shown their confidence in OrangeHRM by empowering OrangeHRM.

We are proud and immensely joyful, we welcome the two pioneers in the open source industry who can show us and guide OrangeHRM in its quest of becoming “The World’s Most Popular HR System”.

We hope to build market focus while continuously developing and enhancing OrangeHRM allowing us and the users to reach greater heights.

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A performance evaluation is a stressful time for a manager. With the OrangeHRM performance module we make performance evaluation a walk through the park. While ensuring accurate reviews this new module will save a great deal of money and time.

Although this module was not introduced to OrangeHRM earlier many organizations around the world like DUKE NUS - Singapore, The ORS Group - Australia and CIM Technologies - USA use performance modules designed by OrangeHRM to suit each of these companies requirements.

This module will be released with the next stable version OrangeHRM 2.6. Development teams at OrangeHRM are working hard to release 2.6 by the end of March 2010.

A beta version will be released during the first week of March 2010.

PUCIT Lahore is a set of Pakistani contributors. They have proposed a Meeting Module for OrangeHRM. Requirements spec and UI spec are already posted in OrangeHRM Community Contributions forum for community feedback.

This will initially be developed as a third party module (means you have to separately download it and integrate) but if more users demand it, we would think about adding it to core product. Please take some time to review the specs and give the feedback to make their attempt a success.

We’re considering some enhancements to the OrangeHRM Leave Module to make it more user-friendly and more useful for large organizations. Please have a look and share your thoughts with us.

Leave Accrual

We have received many requests to have automatic leave accrual based on rules, in addition to the manual allocation of leave OrangeHRM has now. The challenge is to define the requirements in a way that can accommodate different types of rules in different organizations.

See details and share your thoughts.

Carrying Forward Leave

Another popular request has been to introduce ability to carry forward leave to the next leave period according to rules.

See details and share your thoughts.

Improved Usability of Leave Summary

See proposed new screens.

We received a few requests from users suggesting that OrangeHRM should implement employee scheduling with shifts and rosters. We would like to get more feedback from users about this.

Here is an extract from an email we received:

“Here in CA the pay rate is very good for nurses.  So good, in fact that there are many nurses who’s homes are out of state, as far away as Florida, and they commute to work.  The get an apartment or hotel room and make two or three times what they would make back home.  However scheduling is a problem for them.  Arranging all their shifts together, interacting with the scheduling manager is time consuming.  Having access to the ‘open’ shifts from home would allow them to do their scheduling more efficiently.

There is another aspect of scheduling for hospitals that is unique.  There are different classes of employees.  Full time employees can make up to twice their pay when they are called in less than 4 hours before their shift.  Simply creating a system that allows part time employees to see the shifts first can make a big difference in the bottom line of a department.

Allowing employees to manipulate their schedule more efficiently, trading shifts, scheduling time off for doctors appointments, making last minute changes, will mean less (expensive to fill) sick calls.

There are a couple of other features that are specific to hospitals and other mission critical staffing applications that I have been working on.  These are for anyone who can’t have sick calls.  Police, fire, etc.  They will need a robust staffing program capable of actively filling missing employee time slots.  Such a system would qualify for homeland defense funding programs, essentially making the cost of the subscription to the system free for the customer who has access to these funds.”

We appreciate if you take a minute or two to take following survey and share your thoughts on what features OrangeHRM should implement in future.

Click here to take the survey.

Based on user feedback, we have decided to improve the look and usability of OrangeHRM user interface. The initial prototypes are now available. We invite you to access the new UI from: Link.

User Id: Admin
Password: orangebm

These changes are not final, and we’re open to any suggestions from you. We appreciate if you could take a few minutes to provide us feedback about the proposed user interface changes.

Provide feedback

OrangeHRM is a product that matures fast with the help of the collective intelligence of its large community of users all over the world. We have received a lot of requests to further improve the leave module.

Now we have made the process easier by creating a survey that users can take to communicate their preferences for changes in the Leave Module.

We appreciate if you could take a few minutes to take the survey and help us improve OrangeHRM leave module.

Click here to take survey.