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Kill Bill

FINANCE
Velocity5.0

Open-source subscription billing and payments platform.

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Kill Bill's 0.25 line ships tags with no notes while 0.24 does the actual work

billinginvoicingopen-sourcejavamulti-tenancyrelease-hygiene
◆Current state
Kill Bill is publishing two lines that behave nothing alike. The 0.25 releases — 0.25.1 through 0.25.4 across July and August — carry a single line of body text apiece, the maven-release-plugin's tag-copy message, with no changelog at all. The 0.24 line carries structured notes with issue references, and it is where the recent user-facing work sits: shared tenant branding for HTML invoices in 0.24.20, then a revert of part of it in 0.24.21 five days later.
◆Where it's heading
Reading the 0.24 line alone, the theme is invoice-generation robustness continuing from 0.24.18's error handling, retries and account parking, into 0.24.20's branding refactor. The August 12 revert of the template branding key suggests that refactor is not settled. What the 0.25 line contains is genuinely unknown from this feed — the tags exist, the notes do not.
◆Prediction
Expect the tenant-branding work to return in a corrected form on the 0.24 line, since the revert removed the key rather than the surrounding refactor. Whether 0.25 is a development line or a release line is not something these entries answer.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    0.24.21 reverts the branding template key

    Reverts the new template key for branding information introduced five days earlier, leaving the surrounding invoice-generator refactor in place. A correction to in-flight work rather than a change users asked for.

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  2. 12d ago

    Shared tenant branding for HTML invoices

    Refactors the HTML invoice generator to support shared tenant branding — logo, company information and brand colors — the only user-facing change in this window. Its partial revert in the next release marks it as still in progress.

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  3. 13d ago

    killbill-0.25.4

    A maven-release-plugin tag copy with no release notes. The 0.25 line publishes these without accompanying changelogs, so the contents are not visible from the feed.

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  4. 20d ago

    killbill-0.25.3

    Another 0.25-line tag carrying only the maven-release-plugin message. No user-visible information published.

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  5. 20d ago

    killbill-0.25.2

    Published a day after 0.25.3 with the same empty tag-copy body. The rapid succession suggests build or packaging iteration rather than shipped changes.

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  6. 28d ago

    killbill-0.25.1

    The first 0.25 tag in this window, and like the rest it carries no notes. The 0.24 line remained the one publishing readable changelogs throughout.

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