The new major version of GLPI has been released few days ago : the version 9.4.0.

This is the list of new features / modifications

Search engine

• modification of the search engine, add groups in the search to use better AND and OR
• add search engine in the menu Setup > plugins
• add a new action: not contains

Asset

• add a change, a problem from a device (a dedicated tab for each)
• automatic unit for display hard disk size
• add a new field (search / column) for number of processors

Assistance

• remove old tabs management (followup, task, solution) to keep only timeline in the tickets
• add search field last solution status (accepted, refused, waiting for approval)
• redirect on satisfaction page after approved the solution
• add field observer in the group configuration
• in template, hide SLA now works too when a SLA is defined in the ticket
• add the timeline in changes and problems

Rules

• add devices rules
• add possibility to select major priority in criteria of ticket rules
• add a criterium to search on the complete name of a multi-level category in ticket rules

Knowledge

• add border of the table in contrasted mode
• new article navigation view
• counter
• javascript vies (jstree)
• distinction between non published articles and FAQ articles
• new icons in articles list

Projects

• now can link ITIL items to a project in a tab (ticket, change, problem)
• add a field total cost in the search

Users

• add field default group in user form
• add field responsible

Receivers

• add possibility to get folders of a boxmail and propose to choose which we want to archive accepted / refused mails
• can specify if the requester is in Reply-To if available, else get in From

General

• add an option display authentication sources in login page (local, LDAP xxx, LDAP yyy)
• delete configuration field use rich text because it's activated by default
• paste an image in web editor at the cursor position + add loading bar
• display user in reservation items
• in the profil add possibility to lock user preferences
• add datacenter items in fields unicity
• for LDAP connections, try find login+auth_id before find with dn
• the planned task close ticket use now the opened hours of the calendar

Optimization

• delete test of database crashed tables because lock tables in central.php page and in status.php page
• get the mime type directly in the file when add a new document (need PHP module fileinfo)
• enhance page displayed speed
• update cache usage
• cache is managed in file system or memory
• usage of the cache for plugin list instead in sessions
• usage of cache for glpi_table_of
• usage of cache for glpi_foreign_key_field_of
• usage of cache for glpi_foreign_key_field_of
• usage of cache for glpi_all_possible_rights
• usage of cache for glpi_item_device_affinities

Notifications

• new tab list the notifications that use this model

Installation

• update the database prerequisites, so MariaDB >= 10.0 or MySQL >= 5.6

New CLI

centralization of CLI commands in unique command bin/console with the arguments:

• glpi:build:compile_scss : compile scss files
• glpi:database:check : check database structure based in installation files
• glpi:database:install : install GLPI
• glpi:database:update : update GLPI
• glpi:ldap:synchronize_users : synchronization of users on LDAP
• glpi:migration:myisam_to_innodb : migration of databases tables from MyISAM to InnoDB
• glpi:task:unlock : unlock automatic tasks

Code / developer modifications

• delete all function tagged deprecated in GLPI 9.2
• delete all function tagged deprecated in GLPI 9.3
• enhance iterator (databases queries)
• add transactions support in the database
• usage of Font Awesome version 5.4.1 (instead of 4.7.0), so many more icons availables
• many API enhancements
• delete usage of variable SESSION['glpi_plugins']
• usage of PSR-16 instead specific Zen (PSR-16: Common Interface for Caching Libraries)
• display cache entries in debug panel
• add new hook add_recipient_to_target. Can be used when add a new receipient to a notification