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SolidInvoice

FINANCE
Velocity0.0

Open source invoicing and quoting application

SolidInvoice finally shipped the 3.0 it spent a year staging in alphas and betas.

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Current state
After more than twelve months of alpha and beta releases, SolidInvoice 3.0 landed in June with the accumulated work of that cycle: email verification, Google OAuth, two-factor authentication, real user profiles, flat-rate tax support and a Meilisearch-backed search layer. Underneath it, the project moved onto a shared platform config and pulled trial and SaaS logic into an external bundle. The 2.3 line ran in parallel the whole time, absorbing security backports.
Where it's heading
Two threads run through this changelog. The visible one is identity and account management catching up to what users expect from a billing app — signup verification, OAuth, 2FA, self-serve company deletion. The less visible one is the codebase being restructured around reusable solidworx platform components with Sentry and Prometheus instrumentation, which is the shape of a project preparing to run itself as a hosted service rather than only as a download.
Prediction
With 3.0 out and 3.0.1 already repairing the upgrade migration path, the near-term work is likely more 3.0.x stabilization for people coming off 2.3 rather than new features.

Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Release 3.0.1

    The first patch on 3.0 fixes the things people hit on the way in: migrations failing during upgrade, email headers not picking up config, a dead Add Credit button. Upgrade-path repair is the expected first move after a release this large.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Release 3.0.0

    ⚡ SPARK

    3.0 is the release the entire alpha and beta run was building toward, collapsing a year of identity, tax and platform work into one version. It marks the point where the 2.3 line stops being the active branch.

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  3. 2mo ago

    3.0.0-beta1

    The beta was mostly structural: a unified platform.yaml config, trial functionality migrated to an external SaaS bundle, Sentry instrumentation and opt-in Prometheus metrics for Caddy and FrankenPHP. This is the operability groundwork that made the 3.0 release viable to run.

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  4. 2mo ago

    Release 2.3.17

    A security release on the maintenance line closing two reported issues: stored XSS through SVG logo uploads and unhashed API tokens in the database. Both were externally reported, and both landed on 2.3 while 3.0 was still in beta.

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  5. 4mo ago

    3.0.0-alpha2

    The second alpha added Meilisearch integration for cross-company search, plus fixes to SMTP failure handling and HTML sanitization in line items. Search was the last user-facing feature to enter the 3.0 pile.

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  6. 5mo ago

    Release 2.3.16

    Two fixes backported to the maintenance line: sanitizer over-encoding in line item descriptions and graceful SMTP transport errors. Routine upkeep on 2.3 while attention sat on 3.0.

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