Moving forward in tiny but secure steps

Let’s take a moment to discuss releases, versions and feature-planning here at the development team at Silverunit. As many of you already know almost all new features are based on feedback from our customers. Every time we get feedback we classify it and take action depending if the feedbacks nature. Is it a new feature request or a bug? Will the new feature fit in with the grand plan and vision of the system or is the request specific for one customer? Depending if we can make the changes to fit and benefit the majority of users, we commit to the changes and put it in our road-map with a priority and deadline. New features do always have a lower priority than bugs.

When it comes to release the new version we consolidate all changes committed and lock the new version. We decide if this is a maintenance release (increasing the minor version number by one), a major release (increasing the major version number by one) or a new grand version. We have decided that our version format for TRAC is X.Y.Z where X is the grand version, Y the major version and X the minor version. So, as we stand today, we have version 1.8.0 as the latest, stable release. Next major will be 1.9.0, next minor version will be 1.8.1, depending on what happens till the next release.

Silverunit TRAC 1.8.0 released!

As summer slowly leaving behind us, Silverunit Systems is proud to announce TRAC 1.8.0! As seen in our previous postthere are many changes in this new release. Highlights includes

• New visual calendar to keep track of reminders
• Customers can now have contacts
• Customizable menu item favorites for the users

In total we have 70 changes from previous version. Counted in SLOC‘s it is a total of 1502 SLOC added.

As usual all development of this version is driven by feedback from our customers. We wish to thank all of them, without you this would not have been possible!

TRAC 1.8.0 soon to be released

We at Silverunit are now working hard at the last bits of TRAC 1.8.0 and will hopefully release this new version during Q4 2011. As you can see in the version number, this release is more than a maintenance release and will include more changes than the minor releases. So what is is new in TRAC 1.8.0?

• Rewrite of security
• New visual calendar to keep track of reminders
• Customers can now have contacts
• Customizable menu item favorites for the users
• Filter options on the log, making it even more easy to find correct products and actions
• Page loading speed-ups on low-bandwidth configurations
• Many small improvements on usability through out the whole system
• Small bug fixes on minor issues

The last bit we now are working on is replacing the graph generating subsystem. The plan is to remove flash-based charts and replacing them with a JavaScript-based engine. There are many advantages of doing so, the most obvious is making the whole system independent on third-party plug ins. Second is speed and third is scalability.

Stay tuned at this blog for more information!

Good news for progress in the world of browsers

We at Silverunit does keep an close eye on the development in the browser market. Even though our flagship system TRAC is compatible with almost every browser out there, we are always pleased to see that progress is being made in adoption of newer browsers. There are no secret that old browsers like Internet Explorer 6 has been a wet blanket on the development of new and exciting web-application. With a new market share of only 9.24% we can now finally start to let go of the legacy and set our eyes on new horizons.

This will not, in any way, mean we are dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 or other low-end browsers, but it shows a positive trend as development times can be lowered in the near future so that more new and innovative features can be implemented based on the new HTML 5 standard once the draft has been approved.

TRAC 1.7.7 released

It is summer and we at Silverunit would like to celebrate that with a new release of TRAC! The new version is 1.7.7 and contains even more improvements in all the reports making it even more easy to have total control of all your processes and to identify deviations. We have also made small improvements in the interface to speed it up and to make it even more user friendly.

Now we start work on the next big version (1.8.0) that will contain huge improvements in the customer database. Stay tuned for more updates!