Newton 5.5 Release Notes

Included in Newton 5.5 Release Notes are versions 5.5.0 - 5.5.6. Some releases are private Betas.

New Features

• NEWTON-11418 - Log File Shrinking - Added support for shrinking database & log files and a default value of 2048 MB (2GB); however, user may enter any size in MB. Added a new alert selected to notify user if the log file is larger than the target size. Added a utility to shrink the database with permission restrictions.

Improvements

• NEWTON-11488 - Update Remote Assistance Link
• NEWTON-11557 - Updates to Account Statement Report

Fixes

• NEWTON-8535 - At Cost (Forced Meals) Update - Fixed a bug that was causing At Cost (Forced) Meals to be included in the double card usage window

New Features

• NEWTON-520 - Bank Deposit Comments during Posting
• NEWTON-530 - Language Maintenance for Letters
• NEWTON-533 - Permission Override Notifier
• NEWTON-536 - Alert Check for Unloaded External Plugins
• NEWTON-544 - External Enrollment Count Import - Added subsystem for importing and applying external enrollment and attendance data

Improvements

• NEWTON-496 - Missing Date/Date Range in Report headers
• NEWTON-504 - More functions in Formula Language
• NEWTON-516 - Enhancements to Daily Summary Dataset
• NEWTON-521 - "Change Given" Tracking
• NEWTON-522 - Customer and Principal Account POS Transfers Split
• NEWTON-523 - Automatic Receipt Printing
• NEWTON-524 - Allergen Sorting
• NEWTON-525 - School Sort Order Option on Reports
• NEWTON-526 - See Manager Comments Cleared on EOY
• NEWTON-527 - Non-Reimbursable Meals Split on Generic Claim
• NEWTON-528 - Cash Reconciliation Report Modified - Modified the Cash Reconciliation report to show only one cafeteria per page
• NEWTON-529 - Serving Line Config by Meal
  
• NEWTON-531 - Exclude Inactives on Outstanding Charges Report
• NEWTON-532 - Allergies Included in Student Roster Report
• NEWTON-538 - Remove Xceed Grid Dependencies - Replaced all remaining instances of the old grid component with a standardized grid component
• NEWTON-539 - Custom School Fields Included in All Relevant Data Sets - Added support for displaying custom school fields in every data set that already displays school information
• NEWTON-540 - Update to DevExpress 14.2
• NEWTON-545 - Newton POS updated to Target .NET 4.0 - Updated serving line software to use .Net 4.0
• NEWTON-547 - Totals and Improved Grouping/Pagebreaks Options for Outstanding Charges Report
• NEWTON-548 - POS ID Sort Option for See Manager Report