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Frappe HR

HR
Velocity5.0

Open-source HR and payroll management system for the full employee lifecycle.

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Frappe HR grinds through payroll and leave fixes across parallel v15 and v16 lines.

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◆Current state
Frappe HR is maintaining two active release trains — a stable v15 line and the newer v16 line — shipping small batches every few days. The work centers on payroll accuracy (CTC breakdowns, employer contributions, income-tax computation) and leave management (carried-forward balances, half-day conflicts), with recruitment features like a hiring pipeline board layered in.
◆Where it's heading
This is steady, unglamorous ERP-adjacent maintenance: most releases are bug fixes with occasional feature additions that deepen payroll and compliance coverage. The dual-track cadence suggests a careful migration, backporting fixes to v15 while v16 accrues the new capability. Employer-contribution accounting and employee-facing CTC visibility are the clearest directional thread.
◆Prediction
Expect continued alternating v15/v16 point releases, with v16 accumulating the payroll and recruitment features while v15 receives fixes only.

◆Recent moves

  1. 14h ago

    Payroll load fix; leave-balance report counts carried-forward days

    Bug-fix point release on the v15 line: fixes a Payroll Entry form that stalled on load and corrects carried-forward days in the leave-balance report. Routine maintenance.

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  2. 14h ago

    Leave-balance report now counts carried-forward days

    v16 bug fix mirroring the v15 leave-balance report change — carried-forward days now factor into the balance calculation. A backported correctness fix.

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  3. 5d ago

    Employer-contribution salary component + employee CTC report

    The most substantive recent release: adds an employer-contribution component type to salary structures and an employee-accessible CTC break-up report, plus assorted payroll fixes. This advances the payroll-accuracy and employee-transparency thread central to v16.

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  4. 7d ago

    Expense-claim currency fix; income-tax report dedupes earnings

    v15 bug fixes around expense-claim currency handling and income-tax computation deduplication. Correctness maintenance, no new capability.

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  5. 8d ago

    Hiring pipeline board, regional payroll rules, advance-summary filters

    Feature-carrying v16 release: adds regional payroll rules to salary slips, a Kanban hiring-pipeline board for job applicants, and expanded advance-summary filtering, alongside permission and leave fixes. Broadens both payroll localization and recruitment workflow.

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  6. 16d ago

    Bug fixes: incentive components, leave-balance PWA, income-tax filter

    A v16 point release of bug fixes — incentive salary-component filtering, PWA leave-balance retention, and an income-tax report filter. Incremental cleanup.

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