OpenBoxes v0.9.8 - Release Notes (June 2026)

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Dear OpenBoxes Community,

:tada: We are happy to announce the release of OpenBoxes v0.9.8 :tada:

:warning: Notable Changes

Product import will now throw an error if a category assigned to a product does not exist. Going forward, you will need to create any categories before creating products.

If want to preserve the old product import behaviour of creating any non-existing categories, set the following application property:

openboxes:
    import:
        product:
            createMissingCategories: true

:warning: Security Patches

The following security advisory vulnerabilities were fixed as a part of this release:

:spiral_notepad: You can read more about v0.9.8 here:

Release Notes 0.9.8.docx (1.0 MB) (en)

Notes de Version 0.9.8.docx (1.0 MB) (fr)

Notas de la versión 0.9.8.docx (1.0 MB) (es)

:floppy_disk: Download the latest version of the release from here: Release Release v0.9.8 · openboxes/openboxes · GitHub

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Hello,

I downloaded the war file of version 0.9.4 from github and tried to run it on windows 10. I couldn’t login with the default (admin/password) credentials. What should I do?

Thanks

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If you can’t login with the default credentials does that mean you at least can get to the login page? If not what are you actually seeing in the browser (screenshot would be helpful)

Knowing the answer to that will give us a better sense of whether the problem is a deployment issue or possibly a database migration issue.

The best way for us to diagnose the issue is to see the log files. So how did you deploy the war file? Tomcat? If so which version?

I always forget exactly which log files are generated by windows tomcat so check for a stack trace in the one where stderr is written.

Justin