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Jorani

HR
Velocity0.0

Open-source leave and absence management system for HR teams

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A dormant leave-management app returns with an MIT relicense and a hard break from its own API

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◆Current state
Jorani is a self-hosted leave and overtime management app built on legacy CodeIgniter PHP. After a three-year gap, v1.0.4 arrives labelled a maintenance release but is anything but conservative: it relicenses from AGPL to MIT, moves the repository to a new organization, and deletes the Basic Auth REST API, the client-side password encryption layer and MySQL 5.7 support. The database schema is untouched, so the disruption is entirely in licensing, packaging and interfaces rather than data.
◆Where it's heading
The long arc is a small project shedding weight. Releases through 2017 filled in the workflow model — cancellation states, SSO, mandatory rejection comments, a steady stream of translations. Version 1.0.0 in 2020 rebuilt the leave-balance engine and documented an OpenAPI surface, and the two releases since have been almost entirely security and PHP-version compatibility. v1.0.4 continues by removing rather than adding, including the very API 1.0.0 had documented, and folds the old tree under a legacy/ directory — which reads as groundwork for a replacement rather than a destination.
◆Prediction
The legacy/ layout and the withdrawn REST API point to a new API and a non-legacy codebase as the next move; the entries don't indicate on what stack, or when.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3mo ago

    Security and PHP8.5 support

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    Presented as a maintenance release, but it relicenses the project from AGPL to MIT, relocates the repository and removes the REST API, JS password encryption and MySQL 5.7 support. This is the removal-and-repackaging step in the arc, not another compatibility patch.

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  2. 3y ago

    Security and PHP8.2 compat release (No DB Patch)

    Security fixes plus PHP 8.1+ compatibility, with a recommendation to change the log file extension to blunt log-injection attacks. Part of the long compatibility-maintenance stretch that precedes v1.0.4's cleanup.

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  3. 5y ago

    Jorani 1.0 revamps leave balances and documents a Swagger API

    The 1.0 milestone rebuilt the leave-balance engine, removed the one-year cap on overtime entitlements, and gave the HTTP API OpenAPI documentation and a hosted test client. Notable in hindsight precisely because v1.0.4 later removes that API.

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  4. 8y ago

    Jorani 0.6.5 adds Portuguese and Arabic translations

    Two new translations, completed Dutch and German, a parameter to hide the workmates calendar, and five bug fixes. Routine upkeep from the project's active period.

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  5. 8y ago

    Jorani 0.6.4 fixes leave transitions and broken ICS feeds

    A point release repairing a missing requested-to-cancelled transition, a broken HR employee export and ICS feed errors. No new capability, and the calendar memory problem stays open.

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  6. 8y ago

    Jorani 0.6.3 adds Greek and mandatory rejection comments

    Adds Greek, a mandatory_comment_on_reject option and PHP 7.2 beta compatibility, while documenting known gaps in the cancellation workflow. Small but real additions from the era when the leave workflow was still being filled in.

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