Latest News from OrangeHRM Inc

orangehrm-2.5-upgrader-alpha.3 Released

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:44:05 EST

Just after releasing alpha.2 version of the upgrader, a failure to upgrade was identified when a customer defined in OrangeHRM has more than one projects. This was again found by few community users who tried alpha.2 version soon after releasing it. We decided to fix this issue immediately and release alpha.3 version since no other [...]

orangehrm-2.5-upgrader-alpha.2 Released

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:55:30 EST

You can download orangehrm-2.5-upgrader-alpha.2 at Source Forge now. Following issues were fixed in this release. Failure of importing data from `hs_hr_time_event` table (Issue occurred when time event comments have single quotes). Failure to run the upgrader on non-standard MySQL port. Both these issues were pointed out by our community users who tried alpha.1 version out. We thank you [...]

orangehrm-2.5-upgrader-alpha.1 Released

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:08:48 EDT

We are pleased to announce that orangehrm-2.5-upgrader-alpha.1 was released and available for download at Source Forge. This is an alpha release and hasn’t been gone through QA testing. Make sure you read and understand upgrade instructions properly before proceeding. Upgrader has facilitated troubleshooting and has been designed in a way that it doesn’t make any [...]

Upgrading from 2.4.2 to 2.5

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:01:21 EDT

We released much awaited OrangeHRM 2.5 on October 6th. The urgency to release 2.5 left out explaining our plans on providing upgraders to 2.5. Since released, there has been much discussion on this and we thought to address the issue in this post. First of all we need to say that we haven’t stopped providing automated [...]

Upgrade Scripts

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:31:24 EDT

Dear Community Members, First of all, thank you for being a part of our OrangeHRM community and for your interest in OrangeHRM version 2.5. Our main goal was to get version 2.5 out to the community soon as possible because there were many new users who wanted to get on board starting with version 2.5. As you all [...]

OrangeHRM 2.5 is Released

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:38:33 EDT

The much awaited OrangeHRM version 2.5 was released today. OrangeHRM 2.5 was designed to meet the needs of the community. Making OrangeHRM more user friendly for administrators, supervisors and employee self-service users, 2.5 has greater administrative control over managing the information flow across the organization. With a comprehensive user guide developed targeting non IT personnel we [...]

OrangeHRM Celebrates Quarter Million Downloads

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:45:56 EDT

Your dedication and respect for OrangeHRM is unprecedented. OrangeHRM would like to thank you for your incredible support. Your stunning outpouring has given OrangeHRM the impetus to blossom. Your contributions have invigorated us and we are working harder than ever to deliver the comprehensive HRM solution that has been our hallmark. Your invaluable help has made our future [...]

Contributors for OrangeHRM from SERC, Lahore-Pakistan

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:09:53 EDT

A group of students from the Software Engineering Research Center, National University of Computers and Emerging Sciences, Lahore Campus, Lahore Pakistan opted to help OrangeHRM in its quest and have been working with us since January 2009. Being ranked as one of the top Pakistani Universities OrangeHRM is happy to share the knowledge with fellow [...]

OrangeHRM Reaches 250,000 Downloads!

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:14:32 EDT

We are proud to announce that OrangeHRM has reached yet another major goal on its successful path. Reaching 250,000 downloads since its first release in February 2006 on SourceForge.net is a great achieve and we hope to keep the same speed for the coming semester. The commitment of our community and developers in fix bugs [...]

We are almost there!!! Vote for OrangeHRM

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:10:02 EDT

Thank you all for nominating us to compete as “Best Project for Enterprise” in the SourceForge Community Choice Award 2009. Now, it is time to elect OrangeHRM the Best Project for Enterprise. Please vote for OrangeHRM in the election at http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/vote/ and: Click on the category Best Project for Enterprises Choose OrangeHRM by clicking the box “This is the [...]

OrangeHRM Releases Version 2.4.2 of Open Source HRM

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:00:00 EDT

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, announce the lauch of the new stable version of its product: OrangeHRM 2.4.2.

2.4.2 Is Out with Support to Shared Web Hosting

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:29:06 EDT

For the ease of users, when installing OrangeHRM, its installer creates the required MySQL database. For this OrangeHRM requires MySQL root details. But you don’t get MySQL root details from shared web hosts. So, if you wanted to install OrangeHRM in your shared web hosting account, you have to install it manually which can be [...]

Proposed Leave Module Enhancements

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:57:30 EDT

We’re considering some enhancements to the OrangeHRM Leave Module to make it more user-friendly and more useful for large organizations. Please have a look and share your thoughts with us. Leave Accrual We have received many requests to have automatic leave accrual based on rules, in addition to the manual allocation of leave OrangeHRM has now. The [...]

New Menu Icons of OrangeHRM

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:40:05 EDT

We are in the process of introducing a new and more meaningful set of menu icons to OrangeHRM. As an initiative, we included 22 new icons in 2.5-beta.3. Take a look and let us know your thoughts.

Get involved with OrangeHRM QA and help us make a better product

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:20:29 EDT

Now you have a valuable opportunity to get involved in QA Testing OrangeHRM. We are planning to share the process, tasks, tools and techniques we use to test OrangeHRM. Following are some benefits you can get: Be recognized in the community as a valuable contributor to OrangeHRM. Learn about [...]

Timegrid - A New Implementation of Timesheets

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:24:14 EDT

Many of you had asked a grid view of timesheets where ESS users can enter time for whole week in a single view rather than entering event by event. Considering your requests we introduced Timegrid in 2.5-beta.1. Give it a try and let us know your thoughts. Note that 2.5-beta.1 may not be suitable for production [...]

Upgrading from 2.4.0.1 to 2.4.1

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:53:08 EDT

OrangeHRM version 2.4.1 contained automated upgraders for version 2.2.2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. But it didn’t support version 2.4.0.1. OrangeHRM 2.4.0.1 is almost similar to version 2.4 except for few minor file changes. Therefore you might have noticed that 2.4.0.1 has been generally called as version 2.4. Since we observed that some users have used version 2.4.0.1 and [...]

Attendance Tracking is now available in OrangeHRM 2.5-alpha.8

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:54:18 EST

OrangeHRM 2.5-alpha.8 development release is now available. The punch in/out feature which was combined with timesheets, is now separately available as “Attendance Tracking” with a new attendance report. Take a peek at this new behavior. Download OrangeHRM 2.5-alpha.8 from here.

New user interface in Admin and Leave modules further stabilized

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:38:07 EST

OrangeHRM 2.5-alpha.5 development release is now available with more user interface bug fixes in Admin and Leave modules. Click here to download OrangeHRM 2.5-alpha.5

What do you like to see in the new “Performance Review” module?

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:22:47 EST

Of all requests for new features in OrangeHRM, 46.4% have been for an Employee Performance Review module. Now we have started the requirements phase of this long awaited module. You can also help us define this module by telling us what you would like to see in OrangeHRM Performance Review module by spending a few [...]

OrangeHRM introduces “Basic Support” for $49 per year

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:12:46 EST

The new OrangeHRM support plan: “Basic Support” is now avaiable for $49.00 per year. The objective of introducing this low price support option is to a make available an affordable support plan for a large number of small organizations. Basic Support subscribers are entitled to support over emails within 5 business days.