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 ====== Release Notes ======
-**Version 1.9.6.1h (October 2025)**
+==== Version 2.0.0.4 (November 2025) ====
+  * New Database Architecture: COBI.time now stores time data in its own PostgreSQL database instead of directly in SAP. \\ This significantly improves performance, stability, and independence from the SAP database server.
+  * New Time Report Layout:
+    * Redesigned time report view with a clear structure and new color logic (green = completed weeks / yellow = current weeks / blue = absences).
+    * Fully revised column headers for better readability.
+    * Integrated summary section at the end of the table, showing total vacation, used vacation (previous and current month), and remaining vacation.
+    * New export options: separate EXPORT (single report) and EXPORT ALL (complete report) buttons.
+    * Improved calculation logic for target times and time differences.
+  * UI & Design:
+    * Modernized interface for time reports with improved visual separation between calendar weeks.
+    * Unified color and font styling.
+    * New logic for color-based highlighting of absences and holidays.
+    * Adjusted to the overall COBI.design guideline.
+  * Performance Improvements:
+    * Faster loading times for monthly reports through asynchronous data processing via PostgreSQL.
+    * More stable handling of large datasets in time and absence modules.
+  * Enhancements & New Features:
+    * Extended calculation and storage of break times and target time corrections.
+    * Improved table filtering and sorting options (preparation for dynamic column filters).
+    * Extended permissions for reporting and management functionalities.
+  * Technical Changes:
+    * Adjusted API interfaces for the new database structure.
+    * Revised Service Layer calls for synchronizing employees, time models, and absence types.
+    * New logging mechanisms for database actions (PostgreSQL logging).
+  * Bugfixes & Stability:
+    * Fixed rounding errors in time difference calculations.
+    * Improved display of absence times in reports.
+    * Minor UI fixes (tooltips, column widths, translations).
+==== Version 1.9.6.1h (October 2025) ====
   * New wiki entry for [[en:cobi.time:service_layer_configuration|Service Layer configuration]]: instructions for a performant and stable installation
-  * New option "Pin unlock": the start screen can be secured by a PIN (defined in the .env file on the server)
+  * New option "[[cobi.time:installation_guide#pin_activation_optional|Pin unlock]]": the start screen can be secured by a PIN (defined in the .env file on the server)
   * Terminal mode: configurable seconds until automatic logout in the startup screen
   * New language added: French
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-**Version 1.9.4.1 (May 2024)**
+==== Version 1.9.4.1 (May 2024) ====
   * Possibility to post to cost centres
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-**Version 1.9.4. (March 2024)**
+==== Version 1.9.4. (March 2024) ====
   * Display of the business partner for selection in the case of manual time entry
   * Requests for time correction possible, automatic adjustment of the time account
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-**Version 1.9.3.1f (February 2024)**
+==== Version 1.9.3.1f (February 2024) ====
   * Optimisation of performance when working with multiple project levels
   * Bugfix: Posting business trip times
-**Version 1.9.3.1e (February 2024)**
+==== Version 1.9.3.1e (February 2024) ====
   *  New function: Time accounts for all employees can be recalculated in the event of discrepancies
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-**Version 1.9.3.1d (January 2024)**
+==== Version 1.9.3.1d (January 2024) ====
   * Bugfix: Correct carryover of remaining holiday days to the new year (holiday account)
-**Version 1.9.3.1c (January 2024)**
+==== Version 1.9.3.1c (January 2024) ====
   * Optimisation of the terminal mode
   * Bugfix: Approval of absence requests
-**Version 1.9.3.1b (Janauary 2024)**
+==== Version 1.9.3.1b (Janauary 2024) ====
   * Deauthorised users are no longer displayed for selection in the time report
   * Optimisation of the absence overview
-**Version 1.9.3.1a (December 2023 Hotfix)**
+==== Version 1.9.3.1a (December 2023 Hotfix) ====
   * Deactivated users are no longer displayed for selection in the time report
   * Bugfix: Absence requests submitted in version lower than 1.9.3 can now be authorised
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   * In the time reports exported to Excel, the working and break times are shown separately.
-**Version 1.9.3.1 (December 2023)**
+==== Version 1.9.3.1 (December 2023) ====
   * New setting: Business trip button should only appear on the day when there is an approved business trip
   * Bugfix: Display business trips in the absence overview
-**Version 1.9.3 (November 2023)**
+==== Version 1.9.3 (November 2023) ====
   * Users can book business trips
   * Managers and deputies can be assigned in the user administration to receive absence requests
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   * Version for mobile phones is available
-**Version 1.9.2.1 (August 2023)**
+==== Version 1.9.2.1 (August 2023) ====
   * Optimisation of user and daily model management
   * Redesign of the manual time recording
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   * The public holiday calendar for the next year can be imported at any time.
-**Version 1.9.2 (August 2023)**
+==== Version 1.9.2 (August 2023) ====
   * Possibility to request half a day of leave
   * Optimisation of the absence overview
   * New setting: You can choose in which language notifications should be generated
-**Version 1.9.1 (July 2023)**
+==== Version 1.9.1 (July 2023) ====
   * Unordered List ItemExtension of the public holiday management: it is possible to import public holidays for different federal states (currently only Germany).
   * Federal states can be assigned to individual users. The federal states are now taken into account when working time is calculated.
   * Adaption of the dark mode to manual time recording, user group administration, user administration and time correction.
-**Version 1.9.0.5 (June 2023)**
+==== Version 1.9.0.5 (June 2023) ====
   * Optimisation of the time recording
   * Optimasation of the attandance list
-**Version 1.9.0 (May 2023)**
+==== Version 1.9.0 (May 2023) ====
   * Implementation of a new User Interface (UI)
-**Version 1.0.5.4** (March 2023)
+==== Version 1.0.5.4 (March 2023) ====
   * New setting option : When selecting projects in project management, the name of the finance project is displayed.
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   * Bugfix regarding the creation of time sheets in older SAP versions
-**Version 1.0.5.3** (February 2023)
+==== Version 1.0.5.3 (February 2023) ====
   * New setting option: A comment field for posting on projects can be shown or hidden.
   * New setting option: Automatic break correction
-**Version 1.0.5.2** (January 2023)
+==== Version 1.0.5.2 (January 2023) ====
   * New colour options for creating reasons for absence
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   * Bugfix, when leaving the attendance list, it is no longer displayed afterwards.
-**Version 1.0.4.5** (September 2022)
+==== Version 1.0.4.5 (September 2022) ====
   * RFID-Login, ability to log into COBI.Time with a RFID chip.
   * Automatically working time capping, it is now possible to set a check mark for weekly time models, then the working time outside of the start and end time will be capped.