Release Notes
Target audience: Mifos specialists.
These release notes contain important information about Mifos version 2.0 (code name: Leila E) and higher. Mifos version 2.0 is a release that includes new Question Group feature for data collection, ability to waive interest when repaying a loan, updated support for PPI, and architectural improvements. In addition to an overview of the major changes since the previous major release, known issues and other information are addressed here. Please read this document before you begin using Mifos.
Requirements
Hardware
See Mifos System Recommendations v2.0 for hardware requirements.
Software
Software requirements are described in the INSTALL file included in the release package.
Configuration
See Configuring Mifos for details on how to set up Mifos
Browser
Mifos recommends using Firefox with this release. Mifos supports the following browsers:
Firefox
- Firefox 3.0 and above.
Internet Explorer
- IE 7.0
- IE 8.0
New Features and Enhancements
- Question Groups
- PPI
- Ability to waive interest when repaying loan early
- Quartz Batch Job management
- Updated MPESA plugin for loan repayments and savings deposits
- Improvements to Savings calculations
Upgrade and Important Notes
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Mifos, please see Mifos 2.0 Upgrade Instructions for important information that might impact your upgrade.
Other Known Issues
Deployment Isolation
There have been unconfirmed reports that deploying multiple instances of Mifos inside the same Tomcat installation may cause problems. We advise isolating deployments by only deploying a single instance of Mifos inside a single installation of Tomcat until further notice.
Loans
- Minimum/Maximum days between disbursal and first repayment: These settings are not optional. Use the default values (1 for Minimum and 365 for Maximum) as a workaround. MIFOS-2005
- Repaying complete loan and then applying adjustment on the transaction repeatedly on loans with misc fees and misc penalties causes erroneous behavior. MIFOS-4126.
Memory and Performance
- Additional permanent generation space may be needed: The Mifos web application may require more permanent generation space than the default. See PermGen Out of Memory for details.
Reports
- Our standard reports assume a generic default database connection for the MySQL mifos database of user "mifos" and password "mifos". If your database is different than the default, you need to change your standard Mifos reports for them to connect to the right database. See MIFOS-2840 for more information.
Other
- Holidays are not changeable: Once you add a new holiday to Mifos, it cannot be edited or deleted. Use caution with this feature. MIFOS-1398
- Some translations are incomplete and will include some English. MIFOS-4264
Fixed Issues
Use the following links to see which issues were fixed:
Acknowledgements
The project owners would like to thank those who have been actively involved in the Mifos community. Your many contributions for this release help make Mifos a stronger solution for our users and their clients.
A big thank you to the Mifos community!