ViewTouch v25.03.1

ViewTouch v25.03.1 Release Notes

Release Date: December 26, 2025

🎯 Major Highlights

Complete Spanish Language Support

• 4,000+ Spanish translations covering ~95% of user-facing text
• Persistent language selection across restarts
• Language toggle via SoftSwitch button (English ⟷ Español)
• All system messages, error dialogs, reports, and UI elements fully translated

Enhanced Report Visual Design

• Sales Report Redesign: Professional formatting with bold headers, color-coded sections, and improved readability
• Closed Checks Report: Optimized for 80mm receipt printers with better column alignment and server name display
• Deposit/Book Balance Report: Enhanced with Executive Summary section showing key financial metrics at a glance

✨ New Features

Editor Settings Reorganization

• Split "Editor Settings" into two distinct buttons:
  • Editor Settings: Developer authentication only
  • Calculation Settings: Price multipliers and adjustments
• Better organization and clearer purpose for each setting

Language System Improvements

• Removed F8 key language dialog (streamlined UX)
• Added Language/Locale SoftSwitch button for easy language toggling
• Language preference saved to settings file and persists across restarts
• Hardcoded translation arrays for maximum performance and reliability

🔧 Fixed Issues

Build System

• Fixed critical compilation errors from overly strict compiler warnings (12-13-2025)
• Resolved "undeclared 'term' variable" errors in multiple functions
• All 40/40 tests now passing successfully
• Disabled -Werror to prevent false-positive build failures

CI/CD Improvements

• Fixed GitHub Actions CI build memory issues (12-12-2025)
• Optimized compilation flags for memory-constrained environments
• Split large translation arrays into manageable chunks
• Applied -O1 optimization with GC tuning for lower memory footprint

Translation & Localization

• Fixed language settings not persisting across restarts (12-12-2025)
• Fixed drawer error messages that weren't translatable
• All error messages now properly display in selected language

Memory Safety

• Replaced unsafe strcat/strncpy with bounded safe string functions
• Fixed socket string overflow vulnerabilities in network code
• Added null pointer safety checks to terminal data reading functions
• Prevented buffer overruns in email, socket, and terminal operations

Performance Optimizations

• String operation caching in dialog rendering
• Texture cache optimization (reduced from 50 to 45 base textures)
• Code deduplication in OpenTabDialog rendering
• Better LRU cache management

🚀 Performance & Optimization

Build Optimizations

• Changed Release builds from -Os to -O2 for better speed
• Added aggressive binary stripping for smaller executables
• Enabled -ffast-math, -ftree-vectorize, and loop optimizations
• Expected 5-15% runtime performance improvement

Real-World Metrics (Ubuntu 24.04, 64GB RAM, Intel x86_64):

• vt_main: <1% CPU, 230MB memory (0.4% of system)
• vt_term: <1% CPU, 104MB memory (0.2% of system)
• Combined: <1% total CPU, excellent resource efficiency
• No memory leaks during extended monitoring

📝 Changed Behavior

Order Entry Comment Dialog

• Width increased from 950 to 1800 pixels (near full-screen on 1080p)
• Button height increased from 90 to 110 pixels
• Dialog height increased from 780 to 850 pixels
• Much improved usability for adding order comments

Socket & Network Improvements

• Better EINTR/EAGAIN handling with automatic retries
• Proper EPIPE error handling
• Fixed terminal socket cloning to preserve peer identity
• Remote printer sockets now correctly handle fd 0

🗑️ Removed

• F8 key language selection dialog
• F2 translate term mode
• Non-English PO files (German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese)
• Complex multilingual support infrastructure (simplified to English + Spanish)

📦 Files Modified (Key Changes)

• CMakeLists.txt - Build system optimizations and warning fixes
• terminal.cc - Language system, socket fixes, safety improvements
• check.cc - Translation fixes
• credit.cc - Translation fixes
• system_report.cc - Report redesigns (Deposit/Balance, Closed Checks)
• system_salesmix.cc - Sales report redesign
• settings_zone.cc - Editor Settings split
• button_zone.cc - Language button zone
• socket.cc - Socket safety improvements
• version.cmake - Version bump to 25.03.1

🔄 Upgrade Notes

• Language selection now via SoftSwitch button instead of F8 key
• Spanish translations automatically available for all users
• No database migrations required
• Settings file automatically updated with language preference
• All existing functionality preserved with improved safety and performance

Installation:

chmod +x ViewTouch-Universal-Installer.run
sudo ./ViewTouch-Universal-Installer.run

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Full Changelog: View on GitHub

ViewTouch v25.03.0

📋 GitHub Release: ViewTouch v25.03.0

📊 Release Summary

Release Date: October 25, 2025
Previous Version: v25.02.0
New Version: v25.03.0

Statistics:

• Total commits: 16
• New features: 3
• Bug fixes: 1
• Documentation: 1
• Code changes: +1,010 / -184 lines

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📝 What's New

🔥 Major Features

1. DataPersistenceManager System

• Comprehensive data integrity management system
• Singleton-based manager with thread-safe operations
• Intelligent auto-save (only saves dirty data, respects user workflow)
• Critical data monitoring for checks, settings, archives, terminals, CUPS
• Error recovery with automatic CUPS restart and failure tracking
• Performance metrics and data integrity verification
• Training check filtering from persistence operations
• Enhanced logging with component-based categorization
• New files: src/core/data_persistence_manager.{hh,cc}

2. Editor Settings Separation

• Split "Editor Settings" into two distinct buttons
• Editor Settings: Developer authentication and calculation settings
• Revenue Groups: Food category revenue group settings
• New zone type: ZONE_REVENUE_GROUPS with RevenueGroupsZone class
• Updated all translation files with "Revenue Groups" localizations

3. Video Display Timing System Improvements

• Enhanced flashing readability for kitchen displays
• Changed flashing from hiding text to alternating colors
• Orders flash between alert color and white instead of disappearing
• Maintains visual urgency while keeping text readable

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

4. Jekyll Build Error Fix

• Fixed Jekyll build error by wrapping C++ JSON code with raw tags
• Improved documentation rendering

5. Documentation Update

• Added XServer XSDL configuration guide
• Enhanced setup documentation for mobile displays

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📋 Commits Included

363dcaf Release v25.03.0
242e5ce Merge pull request #239 from No0ne558/master
27bf9c2 docs: add XServer XSDL configuration guide
c67102c Merge pull request #238 from No0ne558/master
fdb480a Merge branch 'ViewTouch:master' into master
169f4fc feat: Add comprehensive DataPersistenceManager system
e1586ef Merge pull request #237 from No0ne558/master
04c5481 feat: Separate Editor Settings into Editor Settings and Revenue Groups buttons
042f674 feat: Improve flashing readability in Video Display Timing System
f963926 Merge pull request #236 from No0ne558/master
97a7cd8 Fix Jekyll build error: wrap C++ JSON code with raw tags
1580f32 Merge pull request #235 from No0ne558/master
f303d4d Update documentation version references to 25.02.0
f0bdf98 Update universal installer version to 25.02.0
08ad36b Update changelog for v25.02.0 release
ae1ca78 Bump version to 25.02.0

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📁 Files Changed

Core Files:

• config/version.cmake
• docs/changelog.md
• src/core/data_persistence_manager.{hh,cc}

UI Components:

• zone/pos_zone.{hh,cc}
• zone/settings_zone.{hh,cc}
• main/ui/labels.cc

Business Logic:

• main/business/check.cc

Translations:

• assets/data/po_file/*.po (all language files)

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🎯 Technical Details

• Release Type: Minor (new features)
• Compatibility: Fully backward compatible
• Architecture: x86_64 and ARM64
• Package Size: ~15MB universal installer

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📦 Download

Universal Linux Installer: ViewTouch-Universal-Installer.run

Supported Distributions:

• Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE
• Debian, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Elementary OS
• Red Hat-based, SUSE-based, and other Linux distributions

Installation:

chmod +x ViewTouch-Universal-Installer.run
sudo ./ViewTouch-Universal-Installer.run

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🚀 Impact

This release introduces significant improvements to ViewTouch's data integrity, user interface organization, and kitchen display functionality while maintaining full backward compatibility.

Key Benefits:

• Better Data Safety: DataPersistenceManager prevents data loss
• Improved UX: Separated settings for better organization
• Enhanced Kitchen Workflow: Better visual alerts for order management

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For support, visit: https://github.com/ViewTouch/viewtouch
Documentation: https://github.com/ViewTouch/viewtouch/wiki

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Made with ❤️ by the ViewTouch community

🚀 ViewTouch v21.05.2 Release

This release introduces significant improvements to rendering quality, a new universal installer for broader Linux support, and important bug fixes in Accounting.

✨ New Features & Improvements

• Embossed Text Option
  Added a new option under System Variables to enable embossed text.

• Improved Shadows & Anti-Aliasing Control
  Fine-grained control over text shadows and anti-aliasing for sharper, more customizable visuals.

• Scalable Fonts
  We are no longer using Bitfonts. ViewTouch now uses scalable fonts for improved readability and flexibility across all display sizes.

• Universal Installer

  • Installs all required dependencies automatically.
  • Works across nearly all Linux distributions.
  • Tested successfully on:
    • Fedora
    • Raspberry Pi 4 & 5

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Accounting
  • Fixed issue where Suppress Zero Values was not working as intended.
  • Fixed issue where users could not settle checks under certain conditions.

🛠 Notes

• Existing installations can update normally, but new users are encouraged to try the universal installer for a seamless setup experience.
• Feedback and testing on additional Linux distributions are highly encouraged.

v21.05.1

Added

• download bootstrap files if missing #119
  • viewouch/bin/vt_data from http://www.viewtouch.com/vt_data
  • viewouch/dat/tables.dat from http://www.viewtouch.com/tables.dat
  • viewouch/dat/menu.dat from http://www.viewtouch.com/menu.dat
  • viewouch/dat/zone_db.dat from http://www.viewtouch.com/zone_db.dat
  • download functionality require a package providing libcurl-dev, for example libcurl4-gntuls-dev on Debian/Ubuntu
• create viewtouch/dat/conf directory if missing #119
• create viewtouch/dat/screensaver directory if missing #119
• require at least gcc-8 and C++17 for std::filesystem support #119

Changed

• update external copy of Catch2 to v2.13.4

Fixed

• fix double line after header in some report tables #115
• fix Segfault in Page 13 of 16 in "Customize Job Title, Families, Phrases" #117