[Dolibarr-dev] Doliarr 5.0.3, 4.0.6 and 6.0

[Laurent Destailleur (aka Eldy)]

Hi Dolibarr developers.

A maintenance release has been published for branch 5 (v5.0.3) and 4 (v4.0.6).

Also, the beta of Dolibarr version 6 is officialy started.

No new features will be added from PR.

As usual, "started development" can be continued to be finished and stable for final release. Work on not stable modules are also still opened because such modules won't be visible by end users.  Among works already started and that are qualified to continue to push non bug fix PR, we may find:

- work on advanced accountancy (double party) module to finish/make stable changes done during development period,  

- new variant module

- work on look and feel standardization

- code to make online payment process standardized (this include work on module "stripe").

- translation changes

- changes required to allow package generations

Please do not send new feature PR during this beta period, but take time to test and debug the version 6.0 beta (currently into branch develop. Dedicated branch for v6 will be created when version will be more stabilized)

Also, architecture, re-engineering, or best practice code enhancements will be discarded during this period. Instead any help is welcome to fix all opened bug: See https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/issues

More information on what a "freeze" mean: https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Category:RoadMap

Version 6.0 beta period should be shorter as usual. It has a very good compatibility behavior with external modules, so you can already check your external modules are still working with this version, even if freeze is done in few days only.

The Changelog into develop branch does not contains for the moment list of new features, but you can read it to get information on what was changed and may need attention of external developers or upgraders.

More information on what a "maintenance version" mean: https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Category:RoadMap

Laurent Destailleur, aka Eldy

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