Hello,

I am happy to announce that jBilling 1.1.3 is available for public download. This has been the most ambitious release we have done, and the one that took the longest. Don't let the number deceive you, 1.1.3 has a lot of improvements from the 1.1.2 release. These are some highlights:

- New provisioning module: A really flexible module to ease the integration with external provisioning systems (like a telephony network). You can even use it stand alone, without the rest of jBilling.
- Add bar codes to paper invoices.
- Highly improved notifications template engine: We are using velocity to render the templates, and added support for HTML emails. You can do very fancy notifications by emails now.
- More internal events: The internal event plug-ins are very popular indeed. I see companies using this extension technique a lot (and I use it a lot myself). We are adding more internal events in the core so you can hook your own plug-ins more easily.
- CDR detail storage: The mediation process stores a detail account of every event that affected the customer's orders. Now you can send an invoice with all the call detail records.
- New database mediation readers: A new JDBC plug-in that let's you do your mediation from CDRs stored in a database.
- Migration from Entity beans to Hibernate completed. Entity beans were a major obstacle to scalability and they are now gone. And even more, we added flexible configuration to choose from local transactions (excluding the application server from any interaction with the database) and JTA transactions.

As usual, the release comes before the documentation is ready. Please be patient, there is a lot to write.

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Emiliano Conde
Lead Developer
jBilling.com