In a workshop on 2023-04-20./21 it was briefly mentioned, that Germany had requested permission to introduce mandatory domestic B2B-e-invoicing already in November 2022 and a “discussion proposal” mentions 2025-01-01 as possible date. One of the main purposes of the workshop was to kick off the development of Deliver-X, a hybrid delivery advice briding the gap between Order-X and Factur-X.
In todays (2023-04-17) release of version 2.7.0, Mustang has learned from our invoice viewer Quba and can now
– convert Factur-X/XRechnung CII XML to HTML with different output languages (english and french is now possible, previously its was only german)
– this now also works with UBL XML input (invoice, credit memo)
– it also revolves codelists, instead of e.g. type “380” you will see “380 (commercial invoice)”
In todays (2023-04-06) “Happy Easter” release of Mustang 2.6.2 it is now also possible to build the software on Linux: it was always running and embeddable in Linux (as it is on Windows and Mac) but it now also builds there, if required. Which also fixes it’s Github action, which performs automatic tests on pull requests.
The B2G (read: EN16931) validation was improved by upgrading the CEN schematron to v1.3.9 and Mustang can now read, write and validate XRechnung 2.3 (mandatory in Germany as of August). Additionally there was also a small correction for B2G in France by being able to define when VAT collection becomes applicable (issue #309).
As always, the command line version of Mustang can be downloaded from this website.
On Saturday, February 26 we performed the scheduled February maintenance on our Mustangserver REST API which included the following:
We now use the host system firewall, which should give us more security
additionally, in the past weeks
We will most likely do some un-down-timish updates in the meantime, e.g. Mustangserver 0.8.1 will be released in the near future and support to convert from plain PDF to PDF/A-3. It will be an additional parameter which will be backward compatible. PDF/A-3 files can be surprisingly smaller than PDF/A-1 ones.
If all goes well there will be no scheduled maintenance neccessary for March or April. Unless otherwise communicated the next scheduled maintenance with a small downtime will take place on Saturday, May 6th, 2023, again from 15:00-16:00 CET. The reason is yet another SSL certificate update which requires us to restart the API management process.
Today, February 13th, 2023 we released Mustang 2.6.1 with the following
Today, Monday, February 6th 2023, we published version 0.8.0 of our e-invoicing REST API service Mustangserver.
It adds support for reading and writing orders in Order-X using the format code “ox” in the operations invoice2xml, parse and extract. invoice2xml writes and parse reads JSON data for which the same structure like for invoices is used.
The validation of Order-X files using Mustangserver was already previously available.
Order-X is the sister format to Factur-X, while in Factur-X, invoices, corrections and credit memos can be expressed in a both human and machine readable way, Order-X does the same for orders. Currently the most recent version 1 of Order-X supports the profiles Basic, Comfort and Extended.
Today, 23rd of January 2023, we published the first manual for Mustangserver 0.7.0, including “How can I register”, a PHP sample client and chapters e.g. on Postman and JMeter.
Mustang 2.6.0 “Joyeux Noël”, released December 23rd, 2022, supports trade parties without neccesarily providing a postal address, as allowed e.g. in France. It also improves the “Minimum” profile (also popular in France) by e.g. automatically hiding invoice lines, applicabletradetax, linetotalamount, paymentreference etc. if active. Due date and delivery dates are also no longer mandatory for credit notes. An issue in the deployment has been fixed (#297), Svante provided the hope of server based tests and weclapp-dev thankfully contributed the fix to another null pointer exception. Together with the fact that attempts to use the minimum profile would previously usually also be accompanied by nullpointers, one could almost say that this version comes with 20% less nullpointer exceptions 🙂
Merry Christmas, or better Joyeux Noël to all of you and your families.
On Montag, November 28th the oAuth-functionality in Mustangserver, announced for November, was published.
Affected are Docker and Inhouse installations only, ordinary access already previously
used oAuth on the API management.
New beta users, however, benefit from the self-registration introduced on November 19th.
Previously new users subscribed to the mailing list and subsequently received username and initial password, now they can sign up directly (by following this link and clicking “Create Account” on the bottom left) at the Mustangserver API Management, receive a confirmation link by E-Mail, can immediately login and are added to the mailing list later.
Mustangproject version 2.5.7, released November 7th, 2022, works again in Java 1.8 and improves the validator (EN16931 checks are now also run on “Basic” profile) as well as the importer: ZF1 invoices can now be imported in the invoiceimporter and some getters were added to the ordinary importer.