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May 15, 2026
Odoo Corrects a Backwards Explanation That Had HR Teams Misconfiguring Public Holiday Leave Deductions
Odoo fixes its Time Off documentation where the 'Public Holiday Included' setting was explained with the exact opposite meaning — the old guide told users the feature excluded holidays from leave balances when it actually includes them, causing HR teams to unknowingly short-change or over-credit employee vacation days.
Read articleMay 14, 2026
Odoo Payroll Introduces Instant Pay for UAE Businesses With Automatic Salary Advance Recovery
Odoo adds an Instant Pay salary structure to its UAE payroll localization that handles off-cycle payslips for bonuses, penalties, and salary advances, with automatic recovery built into subsequent pay cycles and a new Master Report for cross-employee auditing.
Read articleMay 14, 2026
Odoo 19.3 Lets You Build an Entire Business Website by Describing It in a Chat Window
Odoo 19.3 ships an AI website configurator that transforms text prompts into fully designed web pages with layout, content, imagery, and SEO metadata, turning vibe coding from a developer concept into a practical site-building tool for business users.
Read articleMay 14, 2026
Odoo 19.3 Finally Lets You Tag Write-Offs With Analytic Accounts During Bank Reconciliation
Odoo 19.3 adds analytic distribution to write-off entries created during bank reconciliation, closing a gap that forced accountants to manually reclassify journal entries after the fact. Parent accounts also arrive to structure the chart of accounts for cleaner reporting.
Read articleMay 13, 2026
Odoo Rental Module Consolidates Order Creation Into a Single Workflow With Shift Scheduling and Time Tracking
Odoo restructures its Rental module by pulling scattered order creation steps from individual product pages into one dedicated workflow that covers quotes, employee shift scheduling, project task management, timesheet tracking, and service delivery verification.
Read articleMay 13, 2026
Odoo Manufacturing Adds a BOM Overview Report and Custom Work Order Properties in 19.3
Odoo 19.3 ships a BOM Overview report that visualizes multi-level bill of materials hierarchies with cost breakdowns and availability forecasting, alongside custom work order properties and a refreshed Shop Floor registration interface.
Read articleMay 13, 2026
Odoo Phone App Gets Mid-Call Device Switching and a Completely Rebuilt Interface
Odoo rebuilds its Phone app widget from the ground up with a cleaner navigation structure, seven active call controls, direct and attended transfer options, and the ability to move live calls between desktop and mobile devices without dropping the connection.
Read articleMay 12, 2026
Odoo Launches a Dedicated Marketing Card Module for Personalized Digital Campaign Mailings
Odoo introduces the Marketing Card application, a standalone module for creating branded, personalized digital cards tied to events, contacts, and promotional campaigns — complete with theme selection, dynamic placeholders, and built-in performance analytics.
Read articleMay 12, 2026
Odoo 19.2 Brings Financial Factoring, Smarter CFDI Validation, and Payroll XML Downloads to Mexico
The Mexico localization in Odoo 19.2 adds four targeted improvements: invoice factoring from the reconciliation menu, descriptive credit notes for returned items, automatic CFDI-to-public validation, and downloadable payroll CFDI XML files alongside standard documents.
Read articleMay 12, 2026
Odoo Drops groups_id From View Records, Ending a Legacy Approach to View-Level Access Control
Odoo removes the groups_id attribute from ir.ui.view records, deprecating a long-standing mechanism for restricting view visibility by user group. Developers who relied on this field for access control need to migrate to alternative approaches.
Read articleMay 11, 2026
Odoo Moves FIFO Tracking Configuration Out of the Inventory Tab and Into General Information
Odoo consolidates its FIFO removal strategy tracking setup by moving lot and serial number configuration from the Inventory tab to the General Information tab on the product form, replacing the old two-step checkbox workflow with a single Tracking dropdown field.
Read articleMay 11, 2026
Odoo 19 Rewrites Its Website Theme Tutorial Around Bootstrap 5.3 and Modern CSS Conventions
Odoo's official website theme development tutorial gets a complete rewrite for version 19, upgrading from Bootstrap 5.1.3 to 5.3, switching from pixel-based sizing to rem units, introducing new manifest patterns, and fixing longstanding naming inconsistencies.
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