Up and Coming: Bika LIMS 1.2.4 and Interlab 1.2 release

phew, finally I can announce some movement in the Bika LIMS and Interlab sphere!

Last week-end we migrated our client SAWLA to Bika Interlab 1.2. After weeks of testing and looking at the issue tracker this morning, it seems that 1.2 is a huge improvement over (non-released) Interlab 1.0. Specifically on the performance front I think we made a leap. Of course there's also some added functionality.

Following a quick list of improvements of Bika Interlab 1.2

• Upgraded; Interlab now runs on Bika LIMS 1.2.4 and Plone 2.5.x
• Enhanced;
  
• Top performers portlet - for each sample round a list of 5 top performing laboratories is shown, showing the sample, the position, and the number of participants
• Mean and Standard deviation also displayed on closing sample email
• Removed state change drop down from Analysis request manage results to prevent inadvertent verification of non-submitted results
• Fixed; we also tackled a variety of small bugs which I will fully detail in the release notes.

For Bika LIMS 1.2.4 we have made some small changes, but mainly to accommodate the improvements made for Bika Interlab.

When can you expect to see it?
This week we are compiling both packages, have already started writing up the release notes and project details. This week-end we are planning to migrate the current Bika LIMS 1.2 Demo to 1.2.4, create an Interlab 1.2 Demo. Releases for download should be available from early next week.

Where can you expect to see it?
Bika Lab Systems Project pages:

• Bika LIMS
  
• Bika Interlab

Plone Product pages:

• Bika LIMS
• Bika Interlab

Sourceforge.net download area:

• Bika Downloads (both LIMS & Interlab)
  

Freshmeat.net:

• Bika Projects
  

As soon as the above are ready and the demo's populated with test data, expect an imminent announcement on this Blog, but also as a news item on Bikalabs.com and hopefully in many other places on the web.

So, we're almost there and expect some fireworks to come with it!

Other Notes:
Plone 3.0: at this stage all of our products are compatible with Plone 2.5.x, over the next months we will investigate the migration to Plone 3.0, and thereafter plan it. I expect this to happen sometime in 2008. Unless of course we can find a sponsor and make it a higher priority ;-)
Bika LIMS 2.0: Although we've encountered delays with LIMS 2.0, work has re-started, and hope to make a release end of October/beginning of November. If you are interested, drop me an email, and I can either give you access to our LIMS 2.0 Alpha and even send you a pre-release package of LIMS 2.0.