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Release announcements, version previews, security advisories, and the occasional detour — written by the team building Blesta.
Blesta 3.0 replaces FTP backups with secure SFTP and adds Amazon S3, plus On Demand options to force an offsite backup or download one before an upgrade.
Blesta 3.0 manual invoicing adds auto-save with draft recovery after a crash, plus fractional quantities so line items like 55/60 of an hourly rate are calculated for you.
Blesta 3.0 client groups let you invoice, charge, and send reminders on different schedules per group, with settings inherited from a higher level unless overridden.
Blesta 3.0 system requirements: PHP 5.1.3+, PDO, MySQL 4.1+, Apache/IIS/LiteSpeed, and the ionCube loader, with recommended extensions and a question on dropping Source Guardian builds.
Blesta 3.0 payments in the staff interface: make and record credit card, ACH, and manual check payments, and void or refund transactions in real-time when the gateway supports it.
Blesta 3.0 Payment Accounts replace per-card contacts with independent, unlimited payment details and add ACH and offsite ACH and credit card transactions.
Designing Blesta 3.0 for maintainability: low coupling and high cohesion on the minPHP MVC framework, shown through its four-interface payment gateway system.
Blesta 3.0 access control lists give refined permission control with 87-plus resources, plugin-registered resources, automatic navigation ties, and direct ACL calls.
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