Newton 7.0 Release Notes

Fixes

• MSB Certificate – updated the Newton/MSB Sync agent to support the current MSB Certificate

Fixes

• Posting Day Error - Fixed a bug that was not ignoring voided transactions when checking invalid special milk at posting
• Serving Line Error - Fixed a bug that was causing serving lines to error when students were subscribed on a serving line before all lines had started up causing duplicate information and deadlock issues.

Fixes

• EOY Failing on Housekeeping - Added a fix that ignores the sp_updatestats failure and continues moving forward with the EOY process.

Fixes

MSB Sync Job Aborting - Newton will retry failed network operations several times before aborting the job.Batch Data Downloads - Batch Data downloads have been updated to handle transactions that will never have batch numbers, this will alleviate network load on MSB.

New Features

• NEWTON-11712 - Upgrade Databases Utility
• NEWTON-14650 - Claim Update for CEP support - Added a system setting to “Use Lunch Area Eligibility Rules to Calculate Eligibility Enrollment”.  This will allow Districts to claim their enrollment figures based on area eligibility.
• NEWTON-15713 - Credit Card Transaction report

Improvements

• NEWTON-14996 - Nicknames and alternate names now appear in quotes on the serving line.
• NEWTON-15148 - End of Year
• NEWTON-15397 - Update to Security Permissions
• NEWTON-15523 - Abnormal Shutdown Resiliency - If Newton is attached to a cafeteria and Newton/Newton POS has been shutdown improperly, a notification will appear upon next login informing the user that an abnormal shutdown occurred and the database needs to be repaired. Clicking Ok will result in database repair. This may take a few minutes to complete. Clicking Cancel will result in cancelling the login procedure completely.
  

Fixes

• NEWTON-10590 - Fixed a bug that was causing the grand totals on the Generic Claim Report to be hidden.
• NEWTON-10671 - Fixed a bug that was causing the Start Meal checklist item to error when changing cafeteria attachments.
• NEWTON-10715 - Fixed a bug that was causing the DataCenter Sync to error on Customer Tracking Detail.