Whats new in ZUGFeRD 2.4? And else?
Jochen Stärk
Hello,
Yesterday, Factur-X 1.08 a.k.a. ZUGFeRD 2.4 was
published. The new feature is subitems with subtotals, but
there are also many new examples, and the validation now requires
a machine readable date when
the services were performed or the goods were delivered, plus
empty, a.k.a.
NIL elements, are now deprecated.
Mustang was part of the toolchain (it e.g. generated the XSLT
files for the release) and of course we have a preview but it will
still takes some time to finalize a new Mustang release.
It turns out Mustang already produces ZUGFeRD 2.4 (try to prove
the opposite). It’s unclear if anybody volunteers to add
subinvoice lines, or at least correct the arithmetrical warnings
their validation currently created, but December is usually a good
month for open source projects, so a
service-date-checking nil-deprecating validation is in sight.
In the past two months since I last posted news on this
google group the highlights were:
2025-09-12 I learned about SEMOX
and VEFA , the
first being a open source domain specific language, which overlaps
in functionality with the proprietary Gefeg.fx tool, the latter
being a validator directed at
validating a whole file format specification, rather than
individual files.
2025-10-15 UstAnwendungserlass: The german VAT implementation law
recommending validation has been published in it final
form.
2025-10-27 I learned of a new open source Python factur-x library
2025-10-10 pdplibre.org apparently collect information, may
publish software, and
in the long term potentially even become a accredited platform
(formerly called PDP), i.e.
a service provider in France whom you can use to transmit/receive
messages.
I also learned that the REST API to transmit invoices is already
AFNOR-standardized
AFNOR
XP Z12-013 and that of the 117 APs/PDPs listed
only around 7 actually passed certification, with the rest
being resellers.
2025-11-10 There is a french open source Factur-X app,
called the-gate.fr
2025-12-01 FacturXDocumentationParser
is a open source project which publishes interactive
Factur-X documentation
2025-12-04 Hanno Böck recently held a speech on e-invoice
security, see also his github
kind regards
Jochen
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