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Kill Bill

FINANCE
Velocity5.0

Open source subscription billing and payments platform

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Kill Bill keeps two release lines alive with small invoice-template changes.

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◆Current state
Kill Bill ships on two lines: 0.25.x tags with no published notes, and 0.24.x releases that list small changes. Recent 0.24 work is about invoices: shared tenant branding (logo, company info, colours) in the HTML invoice generator, a revert of a branding template key, and partial-locale support for invoice and catalog translations.
◆Where it's heading
The visible feature work is per-tenant invoice presentation, with branding and localisation becoming configurable rather than hard-coded. The 0.25 line ships regularly but its notes are bare Maven tags, so its direction can't be read from the entries.
◆Prediction
More invoice-presentation and localisation changes on 0.24.x are likely; what 0.25.x is building toward isn't visible in the entries.

◆Recent moves

  1. 11d ago

    0.24.22: partial locales for invoice and catalog translations

    Invoice and catalog translations now accept partial locales, so a tenant can localise only the strings it needs. It follows the August branding work in making invoice output configurable per tenant.

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  2. 15d ago

    0.25.5 tagged (no release notes)

    A 0.25.x tag with only the Maven release-plugin message. Nothing user-visible can be read from it.

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  3. 1mo ago

    0.24.21: reverts a branding template key

    Rolls back the new template key for branding information added in 0.24.20. A course correction on the branding work rather than a new feature.

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  4. 2mo ago

    0.24.20: shared tenant branding in HTML invoices

    The HTML invoice generator is refactored to use shared tenant branding: logo, company info and brand colours. This starts the per-tenant invoice-presentation thread that later releases continue.

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  5. 2mo ago

    0.25.4 tagged (no release notes)

    Another 0.25.x tag with no notes beyond the Maven release message. It confirms the line is active but says nothing about what changed.

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  6. 2mo ago

    0.25.3 tagged (no release notes)

    A bare 0.25.x Maven tag. The line ships about monthly, but its content isn't documented in the release feed.

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