FRED-2.38

Hi, after some time we are announcing a new version of FRED. As usually release notes are published here: https://fred.nic.cz/documentation/html/ReleaseNotes/ We have intentionally not announced version 2.37 since this version was changing hardcoded default for WHOIS disclose flags from "everything is by default public" to "everything is by default hidden" of course because of GDPR. New default was again hardcoded and immediate upgrade could cause issue to registrars that relies on default policy. With version 2.38 this default policy is configuration option so registry has control when this policy change based on discussion with registrars. All the information should be seen from documentation. I'd like to pick one change from release notes to write about little bit more and this is handling incoming payments. We are trying to make FRED even more modular and move all about payments and invoices into separated module. There is background idea that at some point in time, this module could be replaced with generic accounting software that will take care of issuing invoices which should not be responsibility of registry. For now, the only visible change is that tab payments disappears from web administration interface (Daphne) and also associated database tables bank_payment and bank_statement are not required. My assumption is that this change doesn't have effect for any instance but in case it has, there is a new component called Pain (from "payments and invoices") that provides the same functionality but needs to be installed as additional thing. Feel free to ask more about this if you'd like to try it. Regards, Jaromir -- Jaromir Talir Technicky partner / Technical Fellow ------------------------------------------- CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. -- .cz domain registry Milesovska 5, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic mailto:jaromir.talir@nic.cz http://nic.cz/ sip:jaromir.talir@nic.cz tel:+420.222745107 mob:+420.739632712 fax:+420.222745112 -------------------------------------------