The much awaited OrangeHRM version 2.5 was released today. OrangeHRM 2.5 was designed to meet the needs of the community. Making OrangeHRM more user friendly for administrators, supervisors and employee self-service users, 2.5 has greater administrative control over managing the information flow across the organization.
With a comprehensive user guide developed targeting non IT personnel we assist you to understand OrangeHRM better.
New features in Version 2.5 include:
- New look and feel: With community collaboration we have created a new look and feel for version 2.5. We have taken into consideration key usability issues from the previous version. For an example in the PIM module you can display up to 100 users (up from 10 in the previous version). Software ergonomics, human factors science and design considerations were used to ensure usability and consistency throughout the application.
- Separation of the project time tracking and attendance: With the new release, administrators can track employees’ attendance (Punch In/Out) and create reports separately. Project time tracking can be done with the new grid view that allows users to enter time spent on project activities for the week.
- The Recruitment engine is better equipped with new features including the ability to attach resumes and expand or collapse the Job description.
- Over 150 issues were fixed and the system is much more stable than the previous version.
- Implementation of Advanced security measures: Cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities that were discovered by our global community members have been fixed.
- The performance of the application has been increased by optimization of the database and re-factoring of the code base.
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Your dedication and respect for OrangeHRM is unprecedented.
OrangeHRM would like to thank you for your incredible support. Your stunning outpouring has given OrangeHRM the impetus to blossom.
Your contributions have invigorated us and we are working harder than ever to deliver the comprehensive HRM solution that has been our hallmark.
Your invaluable help has made our future work possible and we will do our best to serve you well.
As an appreciation we decided to give our community with amazing discounts on our support plans.
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A group of students from the Software Engineering Research Center, National University of Computers and Emerging Sciences, Lahore Campus, Lahore Pakistan opted to help OrangeHRM in its quest and have been working with us since January 2009. Being ranked as one of the top Pakistani Universities OrangeHRM is happy to share the knowledge with fellow students and enhance their capabilities working on real time projects.
“It is a great opportunity to communicate, coordinate and learn from people with a socio-cultural background different from ours. Plus the concept of world becoming a global village thanks to the advancement in communication brought about by the use of internet, with people sitting in different parts of the world with different time zones, working together, is an awesome experience. Working on assignments and projects would not have given us the level of maturity that comes along contributing in industrial strength software like OrangeHRM. We have had immense learning and understanding of php and MVC architecture, plus the software engineering practices being used by OrangeHRM especially the concept of Test Driven Development. The simplicity of the application architecture of OrangeHRM made it easy for us to understand the flow of events and other technicalities. Support and help from the community is simply great. The feedback on the code submitted has been very useful”, said Burhan Rasool, their Senior Research Officer.
SERC Team
Top Row (left to right): Salman Hamdullah (Standing), Zain-ul-Hassan
Second Row (left to right): Adeel Khan, Burhan Rasool, Tooba Aslam, Fariha Ijaz, Tariq Naeem
Bottom Row (Sitting left to right): Usman Arham, Nauman Ahmad, Ibtisam-ul-Haq, Afraz Ali, Kamran Lodhi
We are proud to announce that OrangeHRM has reached yet another major goal on its successful path. Reaching 250,000 downloads since its first release in February 2006 on SourceForge.net is a great achieve and we hope to keep the same speed for the coming semester. The commitment of our community and developers in fix bugs and release better versions is one of the reasons which helped OrangeHRM to achieve this level. We hope the support and contribution of our community will keep bringing OrangeHRM forward.
If you have not downloaded OrangeHRM yet please click here. Enjoy!
Thank you all for nominating us to compete as “Best Project for Enterprise” in the SourceForge Community Choice Award 2009.
Now, it is time to elect OrangeHRM the Best Project for Enterprise.
Please vote for OrangeHRM in the election at http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/vote/ and:
- Click on the category Best Project for Enterprises
- Choose OrangeHRM by clicking the box “This is the Best”
- Enter your email address at the bottom of the page, click on “Send My Vote Now!”
- Confirm your vote by clicking the link the SourceForge team will send to your email account
Thank you all again for your continuous encouragement and support!!
For the ease of users, when installing OrangeHRM, its installer creates the required MySQL database. For this OrangeHRM requires MySQL root details. But you don’t get MySQL root details from shared web hosts. So, if you wanted to install OrangeHRM in your shared web hosting account, you have to install it manually which can be a tedious task if you are not tech savvy.
We had got many requests regarding this issue and we addressed it in version 2.4.2. Now you can use an already created empty MySQL database at OrangeHRM installer. If you have MySQL root access, you can still let OrangeHRM create the database for you. We have provided a method to switch between these two methods where OrangeHRM installer asks database details.
In addition to this, we have made some security enhancements in 2.4.2. We have also added automated upgraders for version 2.2.2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.0.1 and 2.4.1. You can download OrangeHRM 2.4.2 here and update instructions are available here. We hope OrangeHRM stable version 2.4.2 will bring you a stable and enhanced experience till we release much awaited version 2.5.
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 are in the process of introducing a new and more meaningful set of menu icons to OrangeHRM. As an initiative, we included 22 new icons in 2.5-beta.3. Take a look and let us know your thoughts.
Now you have a valuable opportunity to get involved in QA Testing OrangeHRM. We are planning to share the process, tasks, tools and techniques we use to test OrangeHRM.
Following are some benefits you can get:
- Be recognized in the community as a valuable contributor to OrangeHRM.
- Learn about OrangeHRM QA process, and get exposed to industrial standards.
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Many of you had asked a grid view of timesheets where ESS users can enter time for whole week in a single view rather than entering event by event. Considering your requests we introduced Timegrid in 2.5-beta.1.
Give it a try and let us know your thoughts. Note that 2.5-beta.1 may not be suitable for production use. We are in the process of fine tuning the product and releasing 2.5 stable release within about another three months.
Meanwhile we are going to make beta releases regularly with fixes and improvements and expect your feedback to make 2.5 more stable and usable.
