What’s new

What changed in the hosted SQL-Ledger and on this site, month by month. Everything here is live on every dataset; there is nothing to install.

August 2026

• User manual. All 36 feature pages now carry step-by-step walkthroughs with 121 screenshots from a live dataset, plus an introduction to how SQL-Ledger works with diagrams of the data flow.
• Usability pass across the application. Every error page has a way out; the primary action on each screen is ranked first; labels focus their fields; the menu shows which section is open and can be searched; unsaved work is guarded; empty postings are refused; the home screen lists recent and overdue transactions.
• Reports. Only the heading row is pinned while scrolling; zebra striping replaced by hairline dividers, hover and proper rules above totals, including the financial statements.
• Documents. The HTML templates for all 25 documents rebuilt as real pages on Bootstrap: grouped blocks, clear hierarchy, real headings. Batch printing works without LaTeX.
• Correctness. Dates the user’s format cannot read are rejected instead of silently mis-parsed; the invoice grid no longer overflows; the Add Vendor Invoice crash and several template mismatches fixed; a security, correctness and UTF-8 sweep over the whole code base, now under use strict.
• Accounts. Logins and sessions moved into the registry database: one record per login, several sessions per login, revocation and expiry in SQL, HttpOnly/Secure cookies, mailed TANs.
• Storefront. A multi-tenant web shop against the parts catalogue, with themes and item-based sales tax; its orders arrive as ordinary sales orders.
• Interchange admin. Tutorial panels on every admin screen.
• Site. Website and control panel merged into one application; blog moved off WordPress with a block editor; self-service dataset provisioning; the enhancement book; legacy accounts and datasets migrated from the old server.

Earlier

• SQL-Ledger 3.2.12 is the base: the last release from the original author, with Bootstrap 5 styling, a single stylesheet, and the six colour themes retired in favour of one consistent look.

Something you need that is not here? Tell us — most of what is listed above started as a customer request.