Hi all,

June's headline: Apache OFBiz 24.09.07 is out
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and it closes CVE-2026-47342
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a privilege escalation via an updateOrRemove authorization bypass. If you
run OFBiz in production, upgrade first and read the rest of this later.

107 issues touched · 19 opened · 68 resolved · 1 release · 1 CVE · 156 dev@
messages from 31 participants
Shipped

   - OFBiz 24.09.07
   
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   — security release fixing CVE-2026-47342 (privilege escalation). Upgrade.
   - OFBIZ-7935
   
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   / OFBIZ-13447
   
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   — the deprecated SOAP-era UPS/USPS/FedEx/DHL shipping integrations and
   their leftover gateway configs are gone (Upcoming Branch). Less dead code
   pretending to be a feature.
   - OFBIZ-13446
   
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   / OFBIZ-7936
   
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   — defunct third-party payment gateways and the Taxware/ZIPsales tax
   integrations were removed for the same reason: the upstream APIs no longer
   exist.
   - OFBIZ-13445
   
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   — the WebPOS plugin has been retired to the attic, following a dev@
   proposal
   
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   .
   - OFBIZ-13436
   
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   — copyQuote with copyQuoteRoles='Y' crashed the transaction on a duplicate
   QuoteRole primary key; fixed, lands in 24.09.08 and trunk.
   - OFBIZ-13366
   
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   — entity find logic refactored to use limit/offset so large result sets no
   longer get pulled into memory whole. Quiet change, real scalability win.

In progress

   - Pluggable Secret Manager / Vault support
   
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   — proposal on dev@ to stop keeping secrets in plain config, with six
   provider plugins (Vault et al.). One of the month's liveliest threads.
   - Moving the REST-API plugin into the framework
   
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   — proposal to make REST a first-class framework citizen; OFBIZ-13440
   
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   adds support for multiple independent REST APIs with separate credentials
   in one instance.
   - OFBIZ-13441
   
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   — new fulfillment-api plugin: a merchant-facing fulfillment REST API so
   3PLs running OFBiz as a WMS can hand customers an API (discussion
   
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   ).
   - AI plugin — database-backed agent definitions landed (OFBIZ-13430
   
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   a native Anthropic/Claude adapter (OFBIZ-13431
   
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   and typed structured output (OFBIZ-13432
   
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   are underway.
   - OFBIZ-13438
   
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   — a manufacturing-demo plugin: loadable Manufacturing + MRP reference
   dataset so you can evaluate MRP without building demo data yourself.

Also worth knowing

   - A VOTE to create a new release branch and set an end-of-life date for
   release24.09
   
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   — the month's biggest governance thread. Plan your upgrade path accordingly.

Thanks to everyone who pitched in:

Mridul Pathak, Anil K Patel, Lukas Finster, Jacopo Cappellato, Ashish
Vijaywargiya, Ratnesh Upadhyay, Nicolas Malin, Arun Patidar, Divesh Dutta,
Jacques Le Roux, Gil Portenseigne, Michael Brohl, Devanshu Vyas — and
everyone else who filed, reviewed, and replied.

Aditi Patel
HotWax Commerce
[email protected]

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