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Included in Newton 6.1 Release Notes are versions 6.1.0-6.1.3. Some releases are private Betas.

New Features

• NEWTON-11881 - PaxS300 Credit Card Terminal Integration support added
• NEWTON-12313 - Low Particiaption report
• NEWTON-12441 - Allow Menu Cycles
• NEWTON-12517/13313/13326 - Cash Kiosk

Enhancements

• NEWTON-11716 - Plugin & Custom Table Schema Support - Added the ability to disable individual custom table schemas, as well as command line switches to disable all custom table schemas or disable all external plugins.
• NEWTON-12081 - Added “balance” column to the Student Search screen. (The balance is the sum of unallocated balance and reimbursable only balance.) Added “account statement” button that will print the account statement for the highlighted student.
• NEWTON-12084 - Update to Student Deletion - Added a setting to prevent automatic deletion of students with balances.
• NEWTON-12259 - Updated Cafeteria Maintenance & School Maintenance screens to sort their grids according to the System Setting for school sort field.
• NEWTON-12312 - At Cost Adult Meal Key
• NEWTON-12336 - Serving Line Key Update - Updated the Serving Line function screen to include “Key”, i.e. CTRL, ALT, SHIFT etc.
• NEWTON-12343 -Permissions List grouping
• NEWTON-12429 - Added the ability to reorder the columns on database & cafeteria permission screens and Save Layout and an option under My Profile to Reset Local Settings.
• NEWTON-12438 - Changed the behavior of the POS button for Payment Only to deselect the Giving Change button allowing the user to apply funds without making a sale or giving change.
• NEWTON-12971 - Increased Max Quantity Sale to 1000
• NEWTON-12914 - Ability to clear principal account - Added an option to clear a selected principal account for a site.
• NEWTON-12991 - Second Meal Restriction - This setting will prevent all customers from buying a second meal, unless it’s a special customer marked Multi-Reimbursable.
• NEWTON-13020 - Automatic touchscreen image selection when editing menus.  Most commonly used image will be added to the item button when adding new touchscreen buttons.
• NEWTON-13027 - Clear Touchscreen Buttons - Dragging a touchscreen button away from the menu will clear the button.
• NEWTON-13134 - Added the ability to save Report Layout Customizations as a .repx file that can be shared with other users.
• NEWTON-13138 - Added a new cafeteria permission for “Double Card Usage: Fix All” that allows districts to disable the Fix All button.
• NEWTON-13193 - Added the ability to include User Defined Reports in the Checklist setup options. ^{_{(Expand Add Item)}}
• NEWTON-13157/13158 - Sales Screen Update - Added Item Count to the sales screen.  When selling multiples of the same item, the items will be grouped into a single row.  Updated the amount due field to shrink the font when the balance goes above $100.00.
• NEWTON-13205 - User Action Logging - Added User Action Logging for packing and recovering the local database for support & development incident research.
• NEWTON-13206 - Scheduled Job Log
• NEWTON-13523 - Added Supper data to the Daily Recap report
• NEWTON-13528 - Account Statement update - Moved the principal account subreport on the account statement to the top of the report. Added POS ID to the Account Statement – if a student has multiple POS IDs, all will be listed.

Fixes

• NEWTON-9005 -Fixed a bug in the Account Statement report and the Principal Account Transfer report that was causing incorrect values to be calculated for the amount owed to the principal.
• NEWTON-9271 - Fixed a bug that caused an error when building POS Customers for a cafeteria whose Principal account POS customer had been deleted.
• NEWTON-9524 - Fixed a bug in the double card utility fix-all that made it possible in certain situations to convert all reimbursable to at-cost.
• NEWTON-9616 - Fixed a defect that was requiring selecting a customer when adding a report menu configuration for the account statement report, or any report with a single select customer criteria filter.

Enhancements

• NEWTON-12819 - Ability to Itemize Adult meals and second-meals (Student and Adult meals) - ^{_{Expand "Settings" to view.}}

Fixes

• NEWTON-9205 - POS Dallas Cash Drawer Communication Error

New Features

• NEWTON-12737 - Availability Group Support - Added support for Districts using Availability Groups. Part of that support includes the ability to end all active user sessions and SQL Server Connections when attempting to establish Single-User Mode or Database Upgrades.