grocy v2.4.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-05-10 // almost 5 years ago
    • ๐Ÿ†• New feature: Userfields
      • Attach any custom field to any entity (Products, Locations, Euqipment, etc.)
      • Userfields can have types (Text, Number, Date, etc.)
      • Will be shown / can be filled on the edit page of the corresponding entity and will also optionally show in the corresponding tables (inclcudes overview pages)
      • => Can be configured under Master data / Userfields
    • ๐Ÿ†• New feature: Meal planning
      • Simple approach for the beginning (more to come): A week view where you can add recipes for each day (new menu entry in the sidebar, below calendar)
      • Of course it's also possible to put missing things directly on the shopping list from there, also for a complete week at once
    • General improvements
      • The "expires soon" or "due soon" days (yelllow bar at the top of each overview page) can now be configured
      • => New settings page for each area under the settings icon at the top right
    • Stock improvements
      • It's now possible to have multiple / named shopping lists
      • Automations still use the default shopping list and also the default shopping list cannot be deleted
      • More information on the product card like "Spoil rate" or "Average shelf life"
      • It's now possible to set a price for added products during inventory
      • It's now possible to customize the default amount for purchase/consume (see stock settings under the settings icon on the top right)
    • Chores improvements
      • New recurrence patterns - chores can now also be "scheduled" to repat daily/weekly/monthly
      • It's now possible to track the day of a chore execution only (without the time, option per chore)
    • Recipe improvements
      • It's now possible to enter a "variable amount" (e. g. if a recipe needs "1 - 2 cups"), the original amount is still used for stock fulfillment checking (if enabled for that recipe ingredient)
    • ๐Ÿ†• New translations: (thanks all the translators)
    • Internal improvement: Localizations are now handled via gettext, both on server and client side
      • Mainly to properly handle languages with more than 2 plural forms
      • This involved some string changes which results in a needed (re)translation of about 20 strings (excluding demo data)
      • Also applies to quantity units, n-plural forms can be entered on the quantity unit edit page
      • It's not required to install the PHP gettext extension, on both, server and client, managed implementations of gettext are used (oscarotero/Gettext & oscarotero/gettext-translator)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Some other small fixes and improvements
      • The "Add as barcode to existing product" productpicker workflow failed to add the barcode to the given product
      • Recipes can now be filter by stock availability
      • Added a feature flag (config.php setting) to also be able to hide all stock related UI elements and routes