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June 26, 2026

Odoo Recruitment's 'Generate Offer' Button Won't Appear Without This One Module Installed

Odoo's Recruitment module hides its Generate Offer button entirely if the Salary Configurator module isn't installed, with no error message or indication that a dependency is missing — a silent gotcha that trips up HR teams who expect the feature to just work.

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June 25, 2026

Odoo Abandons Per-App Pricing and Bets Everything on Subscription Plans

Odoo Enterprise drops the per-app billing model that defined its pricing for years, replacing it with flat-rate subscription plans that bundle every module into a single per-user fee — a fundamental shift in how the platform is sold and licensed.

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June 25, 2026

Odoo Rebuilds Its Documentation Interface With MDN-Style Sliding Navigation and CSS Grid Layouts

Odoo redesigns its documentation site with a left-sliding mobile navigation inspired by MDN Web Docs, eliminates horizontal scroll on Windows with CSS grid, restyles all special terms for better legibility, and overhauls reference pages with visual parent-child relationship indicators.

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June 25, 2026

Odoo Expands Into UAE Payroll With Localized Salary Structures, WPS Compliance, and End-of-Service Calculations

Odoo adds comprehensive UAE payroll localization covering salary structures aligned with UAE Labor Law, Wage Protection System file generation, automatic end-of-service benefit calculations, overtime at statutory rates, and GCC nationality-based pension exemption rules.

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June 25, 2026

Odoo Adds Context-Aware Email Routing That Picks the Right SMTP Server for Each Company Automatically

Odoo introduces intelligent outgoing email server selection that matches the sender's From address to the correct SMTP server in multi-company environments, eliminating manual server switching and preventing cross-company email deliverability issues.

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June 25, 2026

Odoo Manufacturing Patches a Silent Trap Where Scrap Locations Could Block Entire Production Runs

Odoo adds a configuration warning to its Manufacturing module that prevents users from setting a scrap location as the destination on manufacturing orders — a mistake that silently blocks order completion with no error message, stalling production lines until someone figures out the cause.

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June 24, 2026

Odoo Now Lets You Edit, Create, and Delete Records While Completely Offline

Odoo expands its offline mode from read-only browsing to full record manipulation — with a local change queue that syncs automatically when connectivity returns, search replay from cached queries, and per-view caching controls for administrators.

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June 24, 2026

Odoo Finally Documents How to Build a Custom Tax Report From Scratch

Odoo adds a complete step-by-step guide for creating custom tax reports, covering root reports versus variants, expression engines, line hierarchies, and the custom tax engine that pulls directly from tax grid tags.

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June 24, 2026

Odoo Point of Sale Gets Real-Time Stock Visibility, Combo Auto-Detection, and Serial Number Creation at the Register

Odoo overhauls its Point of Sale product management with live inventory counts at the register, automatic combo meal detection, serial number assignment during checkout, product tags in self-ordering kiosks, and granular image visibility controls across POS, customer display, and self-service modes.

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June 24, 2026

Odoo Cleans Up Its Subcontracting Language — 'Contractor' and 'Company' Finally Mean What You Think

Odoo rewrites its manufacturing subcontracting documentation for version 19 with consistent terminology, updated UI labels, a new workflow diagram, and clearer cross-references between purchase orders, bills of materials, and inventory locations.

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June 23, 2026

Odoo Rewrites Its Developer Onboarding From Scratch — ‘Your First Module’ Becomes ‘Create a Module’

Odoo.sh replaces its original developer tutorial with a streamlined, tabbed walkthrough that drops fourteen screenshots down to four, swaps ‘master’ for ‘main,’ and uses a glossary-first approach so new developers stop guessing at placeholder values.

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June 23, 2026

Odoo Ditches Its Monolithic Gantt Popover for a Three-Part Template Aligned With the Card View

Odoo reworks the Gantt chart popover API from a single QWeb template with a GanttRow widget context into a structured header-body-footer system that shares its rendering model with Card views — making popover customization composable and consistent across view types.

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