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October updates
Oct 31, 2023
Pinned release

October updates

Project
Cloud

A few little updates have been made in October in response to your requests and suggestions!

All changes are available on the cloud service now.

Added

You can now cancel multiple bookings in one go, just as easy as you can create them. Click 'Enable multiple selection, tick the bookings you want to cancel (they will turn a lighter colour), then click 'Cancel bookings...' to confirm.

Changed

The Date Selection calendar now has better highlighting of the selected date as well as today's date.

Changed

The bookings page's printable design has been updated to improve design, clarity and show full bookings notes.

Sep 19, 2023
Pinned release

Self-Hosted v2.8.6

Version
2.8.6
Project
Self-Hosted

This release includes all changes from 2.7 as well!

Added

Schedules: multiple sets of periods.

Added

Room Groups feature - organise your rooms.

Added

Ability to change order of rooms and groups.

Changed

Room and Date filter widgets on the Bookings page.

Project
Cloud

You can now create multiple sets of periods for your rooms!

Each set called a Schedule, and each room group can operate on its own different schedule.

This highly-requested feature lets your separate your different types of bookable resources from each other and let users book them at different times from the rest of them.

For example, your IT rooms can run on the school’s timetabled periods, and your community facilities or meeting rooms can run on an hourly schedule.

The new Schedules page replaces the previous Periods page, and it is now quicker and easier to manage periods.

Once you’ve set up your schedules and their periods, you can specify a schedule for each room group using the Schedules tab within the Session.

You can read more about it in the new documentation area, linked below.

Added

Schedules functionality for multiple sets of periods.

Changed

Room Groups are now a permanent feature for everyone.

Jul 22, 2022

Self-Hosted v2.6.4

Version
2.6.4
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Issue where a user with no department creating multiple single bookings would result in no bookings being created.

Jun 29, 2022

Self-Hosted v2.6.3

Version
2.6.3
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Issue where Session calendar might not display the last month, depending on start/end date of Session.

Jun 29, 2022

Self-Hosted v2.6.2

Version
2.6.2
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Bookings Grid display issues in Firefox - cells should now all be the same size.

Jun 29, 2022

Self-Hosted v2.6.1

Version
2.6.1
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Issue when creating a recurring booking with no user selected.

Jan 31, 2022

Self-Hosted v2.6.0

Version
2.6.0
Project
Self-Hosted

Version 2.6 has been a long time in the making, and includes a complete overhaul of the Bookings section, along with changes to Academic Years and Timetable Weeks.

This has been necessary to provide some much-requested features, such as:

  • Making more than one booking at a time.

  • Creating bookings only for a set number of times.

  • Ability to create bookings before the new school year.

  • Edit or cancel individual bookings in a recurring series.

  • ... and much more.

Please read the updated documentation for version 2.6 to get to know the new features and changes.

Added

Sessions feature, to replace Academic Years. Create as many as you need and switch between them.

Added

Settings: Option to set timezone.

Added

Users page: Search filter.

Added

Dashboard: improved interface for teacher users.

Added

Bookings: Multiple selection mode.

Added

Bookings: Preview recurring bookings.

Added

Bookings: View detailed information for bookings.

Added

Bookings: View reasons when rooms/periods are unavailable.

Added

Bookings: Edit or Cancel individual instances of recurring bookings.

Added

Bookings: Ability for users to switch between Sessions.

Changed

Bookings section overhauled with many new features.

Changed

Timetable Weeks: these are now configured within each Session.

Changed

Holidays: These are now configured within each Session.

Changed

Timetable Weeks: improved colour picker widget.

Fixed

Timetable weeks: now have a default colour, instead of none at all.

Feb 17, 2023

Room Groups

Project
Cloud

You can now organise your rooms into groups! This makes them easier to manage and improves the Bookings experience.

You can also change the order that rooms groups are displayed in.

This is currently an opt-in feature. To turn it on, head over to Setup > Settings, scroll down to 'Experimental features', tick 'Room Groups', then Save.


Rooms Management

In Setup > Rooms, a new 'Groups' item on the menu lets you manage your groups.

You can drag-and-drop the green arrows icon to change the order of rooms and groups.


Bookings

The Bookings page has also been updated to accommodate Groups, and the date picker has been improved to better convey multi-week timetables.

Added

Room Groups feature.

Added

Ability to set a custom order for Rooms and Groups.

Added

New Room and Date filters on Bookings page.

Apr 28, 2021

Self-Hosted v2.5.0

Version
2.5.0
Project
Self-Hosted

Check out the documentation to read more about the Room Access Control feature.

Added

Room Access Control feature: set visibility of each room to specific Departments.

Changed

Updated sizing for Date Picker widget.

Changed

Use cache-busting query strings to JS/CSS asset URLs.

Fixed

Issue with loading language overrides from the database.

Version
2.4.1
Project
Self-Hosted
Security

Fixed potential SQL security issue (un-escaped values) when importing users from CSV file.

Version
2.4.0
Project
Self-Hosted
Added

Set a custom message to appear on the login page.

Added

Set visibility of booking user details to other users.

Changed

Improved back/next navigation between days in Bookings (it will skip days that don't have any periods).

Aug 26, 2020

Self-Hosted v2.3.0

Version
2.3.0
Project
Self-Hosted
Added

Support for LDAP authentication.

Added

Support for selected language overrides in the database.

Changed

General Javascript tidy-up and library updates.

Changed

Room information popup style.

Fixed

Erroneous debugging output from Weeks model.

Version
2.2.0
Project
Self-Hosted
Added

Dedicated Settings page for new (and old) settings.

Added

New setting for 'maximum active bookings': specify how many active bookings a user can have at one time.

Added

New setting for Date and Time display formats on Bookings page.

Added

Included license details (AGPLv3).

Changed

Updated icons to better quality PNG format.

Fixed

Issue where bookings on Sundays were not being displayed.

Mar 11, 2020

Self-Hosted v2.1.3

Version
2.1.3
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Identified another scenario where existing bookings were being detected incorrectly during checks.

Version
2.1.2
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Updated previous fix (2.1.1) for database detection during installation which affected post-install.

Version
2.1.1
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Issue where Install page wouldn't load, or would display errors when trying to load database.

Nov 14, 2019

Self-Hosted v2.1.0

Version
2.1.0
Project
Self-Hosted

Added: Maintenance Mode

When enabled, Maintenance Mode will prevent Teacher user accounts from viewing and making changes to bookings. A customisable message will be displayed at the top of all pages.

Added

Maintenance mode.

Fixed

Issue with a database migration that might occur when updating from a pervious version.

Version
2.0.5
Project
Self-Hosted
Changed

"Existing Bookings" check to make sure the Weekday was properly included (again).

Changed

'Recurring' section of the 'Make a booking' page to default the weekday value to the weekday of the chosen date.

Changed

Updated 'Add week' page to have a default contrasting background colour.

Aug 30, 2019

Self-Hosted v2.0.3

Version
2.0.3
Project
Self-Hosted
Changed

Bookings will now display Holiday details, when applicable, instead of an existing static or recurring booking.

Jan 27, 2019

Self-Hosted v2.0.1

Version
2.0.1
Project
Self-Hosted

 The latest minor release includes a bugfix for issues that some people may have when upgrading from version 1, in that the days that periods are configured on are shifted by one day.

This update should address this problem on existing installations, and should also work for new upgrades from v1. After updating to this version, please check your period configuration have the correct days assigned.

Added

Favicon for browser windows/tabs.

Fixed

Issue with period days being shifted by one if upgraded from v1 to v2.

Version
2.0.0
Project
Self-Hosted

 It has been a long time in the works, but version 2 is now available!

The first release of version 2 is a major update to the core, with new minimum PHP version requirements but also support for 7.x. The internal code framework has been upgraded, a number of things have been improved, bugs have been fixed, and security has been increased.

It also comes with a new installer and web-based upgrader for those moving from version 1.

Added

New PHP version requirement: minimum 5.5, and support for 7.x.

Added

Use Composer for dependencies.

Added

Database migrations

Added

New installer.

Added

New upgrader for v1 -> v2.

Changed

Updated CodeIgniter framework to version 3.

Changed

Updated folder structure and configuration file methods.

Changed

Bitmask library for period/lesson time days.

Security

Updates for HTML escaping.

Removed

Header image colour generation.

Fixed

Various bugs.

Apr 10, 2015

Self-Hosted v1.0.7

Version
1.0.7
Project
Self-Hosted

Thanks to all users who have reported these issues, provided detailed information on reproducing them, and testing fixes.

Fixed

Room info popup errors when no fields defined.

Fixed

Handle case when Room view mode and no week configured.

Fixed

Handle case when saving rooms and no fields are defined.

Fixed

Issue where a holiday during a week (in Week/Room view mode) would prevent the whole week from loading.

Fixed

Issue in One Day view mode to handle single holidays better.

Mar 14, 2015

Self-Hosted v1.0.6

Version
1.0.6
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Issue where a holiday during the week would stop the whole week from being viewed. The page will now display the booking view as expected, but the periods that land on holiday days will be marked as such, and can not be booked.

Version
1.0.5
Project
Self-Hosted
Fixed

Error when using one room at a time display mode and no week configured.