next release announcement

docs/posts/07-next-releases.md

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+date: 2024-10-10
+categories:
+  - news
+tags:
+  - announcement
+  - release
+  - roadmap
+  - features
+---
+
+# Updates
+
+After long and fun development, release 3.3 is almost ready to go out.
+Version 3.3 will be officially released in mid November 2024.
+It will feature custom fields per document type.
+Besides view of the custom fields inside document viewer, user
+will be able to list ALL documents of specific document type along with
+their custom fields (thus user will be able to sort/filter by custom fields).
+
+The plan for subsequent releases is following:
+
+- Demo page will come back in November 2024
+- papermerge.com web page will be fully updated in November 2024 as well
+- Version 3.4 will be out in December 2024 and it will include documents/folder sharing
+  between users and user groups
+
+
+of course documentation for version 3.3 with setup guides will be updated.
+Here is a quick preview of how 3.3 will look like.
+
+![quick preview](07-next-releases/preview.gif)
+
+
+In case you are wondering what was happening since April 2024 (when 3.2 was out) until today (October 2024):
+I've re-written frontend almost from scratch!
+
+If you are not interested in very technical jargon, you can stop reading now, because what will
+follow is intended only for tech nerds. Thank you for reading this blog post so far. Bye.
+
+So, dear nerd, as I said above - I was re-writing whole frontend. To be exact: now papermerge
+frontend is Vite + React + TypeScript + Redux Toolkit + Mantine stack application.
+
+Everybody knows what first four entities are.
+
+But what is Mantine?
+
+[Mantine is this](https://mantine.dev/), awesome, fantastic - reactive UI library.
+
+Now, that I have plenty of time - Papermerge development is full speed again. Last time
+when it was full time developing it was back in 2020.