What will the huge update be?

[bandtank]

The email announcement said a huge update is coming soon. Does anyone have any ideas? I already poked around in the repo, but there are no visible commits for 9.0.0. Sneaky. I can’t take the anticipation.

[item]

Yes, received mail .. waiting with 2 big eyes
No idea .. but as always suprised with

[Kharg]

Uhm I suppose something about AI integration? A new extension?

One of the vacancies in the website is for an AI Engineer so I bet it’s something related to that:

https://www.espocrm.com/vacancies/artificial-intelligence-software-engineer/

[bandtank]

I'm not sure if the open positions are updated, or maybe they just aren't interested in me. I applied to the PHP developer position because I love working with Espo, but I have not received a response. I guess we'll see if that is the next big thing soon enough.

[Kharg]

bandtank I guess they are looking for someone based in Ukraine as the offer doesn’t talk about remote work

[bandtank]

That is a good point. I assumed because the $ was used that it was USD, but clearly that is not a good assumption. Thanks for the reality check.

[yuri]

No big updates in EspoCRM is planned except v8.4 the next week. We plan to release a new extension soon though.

[Kharg]

So is this email referring to v8.4 or to the new extension? 👀

[shalmaxb]

you guys are more curious than my kids at an age of three. Can`t await for Santa Claus to come.....

[Kharg]

After thinking about it I think I’ve found what’s the huge update: The Project Management extension, as it was planned to be released this year

[bandtank]

Oh man, I hope that is it. I really need something like that.

[esforim]

Hmm we not big enough to do PM so I guess this will be a missed feature for us.

[rabii]

Yeah i think this is the new extension, as i remember yuri mentioned in one post that they will work on this extension this year. At first i thought it will be an extension to add some intelligence to espocrm using their own learning algorithm. Anyway this is September we will find out soon

[esforim]

What email? Can you share.

One Pull Request I see was a v2 PHPSpreadsheet, so that might be coming for Spreadsheet support.

[Kharg]

esforim this is the email that was sent:

[bandtank]

Project Management (espocrm.com)