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👧Happy International Women Day 8/3 🎊

Ok, it's a bit late but I do wish all the #womenintech happiness, health, success and prosperity in the years ahead. Keep shining and smiling always!

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This release (Build 05 - v1.1.3) brings a number of improvement and bug fixes.

Improvement

• Simpler auto-update implementation. Now the users don't even need to think about this (PR #262).
• New screenshots on README (PR #258).
• Added GitHub contribution guidelines (PR #226).
• Updated Wiki

Also, many thanks to @jens-t 👍 for these contributions (and other work in progress):

• Added German date format (PR #247).
• Added the ability to debug production app (PR #235).
• Integrated DevTron to the devTools window (PR #238).
• Added Linux launcher to electron-builder config (PR #240).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the notification is overlayed by the exportDir input (PR #251).
• Added missing translation of validation message for invalid custom invoiceID (PR #249).
• Display TaxID in the invoice templates (PR #255).
• Fixed an issue where the item quantity is rounded to the nearest whole number (PR #260).
• Changes in profile now will reflect immediately in the templates (PR #245).

Enjoy & until next time!

Happy New Year 2018 - Year of the Dog 🐶

My apologies for taking a bit (too) long get this release out. We're a bit busy celebrating Lunar New Year (or Chinese New Year) here in Southeast Aisa with our families. For those of you that also have this holiday, hope you had a great time with family and wish you a great year ahead that’s full of joy, happiness, love and laughter 👍.

This release (Build 05 - v1.1.3) brings a number of exciting improvement and bug fixes.

✨ Improvement:

• Big thanks to our contributors/translators for translating Manta to new languages (#229).This release supports 5 more languages including:
  • 🇩🇪German
  • 🇫🇷French
  • 🇮🇩Indonesian
  • 🇨🇳Simplified Chinese
  • 🇻🇳Vietnamese

This feature not only allows users to use Manta in their native language but also create invoices in any supported languages. For example, if your native language is Chinese, you can use Manta in Chinese to create invoices in different languages such as French or German. Pretty cool, huh? :)

• Now you can set a custom invoiceID for your invoice. #205
• Manta will show a notification when update download is completed. #201
• Better quit behaviour for Windows/Linux users (closing mainWindow will quit the app). #231
• Better dueDate implementation. Now user can use a custom date or choose a payment term as due date. #224
• Better Currency implementation. Users now have more control over how currency is displayed with different settings. #192
• Added portable installer for Windows users. #200
• Improved UX for system messages. #187
• Save template configs to invoice, meaning invoices now remember its appearance :) #217

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug when editing an invoice:
  • Couldn't save if the contacts list is empty #197
  • Selected incorrect contact from the dropdown list. #203
  • Couldn't remove custom field data. See #237
• Fixed some layout issues (#182 and #202) on Linux and Windows. Many thanks to @jens-t 👍

Enjoy & see you next week.

As promised, this is the first release in Manta's upcoming weekly updates. And I think this is a good place for all of us to learn more about this magical creature, one update at a time 😉

💡 Did you know?

Manta ray has a wingspan of 18 to 23 feet and it weighs nearly 3.000 pounds. That's about 5.5-7m in length and ~ 1360kg in weight. To put these numbers in perspective, it's about as tall as an adult giraffe 🦒(which may grow up to 6m tall) or as long as a London bus 🚌 (measures to ~ 8m in length).

Pretty amazing, isn't it?

Some useful links:

• Wikipedia article about the giant oceanic manta ray
• Support Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) Work

Update summary

This update brings some small bug fixes and improvement.

Improvements:

• Now you can edit your invoices 👍. See https://github.com/hql287/Manta/pull/172
• Manta will show a notification when you export an invoice to PDF. Click on the notification to reveal the exported file.
• Also, you can now choose whether to open the default PDF reader or not in the setting area. See https://github.com/hql287/Manta/pull/168.
• Better menu organization. For example, the Quit menu or Check for Update will appear under Manta menu on macOS but in a different location on Windows/Linux. See https://github.com/hql287/Manta/pull/176
• Corrected Zambian Kwacha code. See https://github.com/hql287/Manta/pull/175. Thanks to @twmbx 👍

Bug fixes:

• Fixed #170: Check for updates won't bother you if there's no new update unless you ask for it (check manually). See #180
• Fixed #149: autoUpdater crash when quit to install update. See #180
• Fixed #91: If you have multiple screens setup, thetourWindow and dialog windows will appear correctly in the centre of your primary display. See https://github.com/hql287/Manta/pull/144. Thanks to @AlphaStyle 👍

Enjoy & see you next week.

• Fixed an issue where new users are greeted with a blank screen. https://github.com/hql287/Manta/issues/156
• Make Quit/Check for Update menu available on Windows/Linux version of the app https://github.com/hql287/Manta/issues/156

Happy New Year, guys! 🎉

My apologies for the delay. I really wanted to get this out before Christmas but then I lost almost a week for some unexpected travelling. But here we are, finally reached v1.1.0 after ~ 400 commits. Let's see what we've accomplished with this release:

🐛 Bug fixes

• Can't pass the welcome screen on Windows/Linux. Thanks to @c0b41 👏
• Fonts are now displayed correctly. Thanks to @jiserra 👏
• Fixed VAT & Discount prefix position. Thanks to @c0b41 👏
• Windows are now fit on smaller screens.
• Can't drag to select text inside text inputs.
• Small typos

🎖New features

• Allow using decimal prices for items. Thanks to @mathieudutour 👏
• Better Invoices Layout.Thanks to @mathieudutour 👏
• Custom status for your invoices. Thanks to @mathieudutour 👏
• Better tax handling. Thanks to @mathieudutour 👏
• Currencies are now sorted alphabetically. Thanks to @shime 👏
• More date format to choose from. Thanks to @dawsbot 👏

I'm very happy with the fact that Manta is getting better every day and I'll do my best to release more often in the future. Thank you again for the contribution and I hope 2018 will be a kick-ass year for all of us!

Until next time.

Hello, World! 👋