Here are all the essential ERP and Odoo news of June you should not miss.
News from Odoo HQ
Official updates and posts from Odoo’s headquarters, Odoo employees, and Odoo founder Fabien Pinckaers.
Odoo 20 introduces a native MCP server
Odoo 20 is making AI even more agentic. The R&D team revealed that users in the Enterprise edition will have access to a native MCP server.
The native MCP server will connect AI assistants directly to an /mcp endpoint, eliminating the need for an external Python gateway. This out-of-the-box solution means that Odoo becomes the MCP server itself, without any added layers.
Users responded positively, claiming that they’d “been eagerly awaiting this” and called it “an excellent feature that’s likely to make the competition tremble once again”.
And while this is a clean way to give an assistant read access to Odoo, the native MCP server still has a few limitations
We dug into all the details about Odoo’s new MCP server: exciting features, security layers, and current limitations.
Odoo reaches 2 million paying users milestone
According to Odooer Ray Carnes, the milestone arrived ahead of schedule.
As of today, Odoo counts 2,113,916 paying users. Out of those, 1,422,084 (67% of users) are supported by the Odoo Partner network. The growth shared in the Odoo Partner Day suggests the pace will only keep on accelerating.
Community talk
All the hot topics and discussions Odoo users are buzzing about this month.
An Odoo.sh commit is reportedly breaking JS for some users
A LinkedIn post is making the rounds in the Odoo community, flagging an issue that recently appeared on Odoo.sh instances.
According to the post, a commit pushed by Odoo may be causing a SecurityError for some users.
This is happening specifically to those using third-party modules that embed iFrames (like Ringover), or running the Knowledge app in v19 and clicking the three-dot menu:
SecurityError: Failed to read a named property 'addEventListener' from 'Window': Blocked a frame with origin
The suggested workaround is to roll back to the previous week's commit on Odoo.sh, and the GitHub pull request appears to be tracking the fix on Odoo's side.
Reactions suggest a few people have hit this on customer instances, though the scope is not entirely clear yet. Worth keeping an eye on if you are running iFrame-based integrations on Odoo.sh.
News from the ERP world
Headlines from the ERP world you shouldn’t miss.
SAP tightens budget for hiring and travel to fund AI push
SAP is cutting costs to free up investment capacity for AI.
The ERP giant announced stricter rules on new recruitment and business travel, following reports from Bloomberg that an outright hiring freeze was being considered.
This is part of a broader restructuring programme SAP launched 18 months ago to reposition itself for the AI era, with CEO Christian Klein making it its central strategic bet.
The programme involves reviewing thousands of roles: cutting positions in slow-growth areas while building out teams in higher-potential ones. CEO
However, this pressure is not unique to SAP. Software providers across the board are facing investor concerns that AI models will allow companies to build their own business tools cheaply and bypass vendors.
Klein has pushed back on this narrative consistently: "We're not losing contracts because of AI. We're winning contracts because of AI."
Whether that holds as AI capabilities continue to expand remains the real question - and SAP is betting its cost structure on the answer.
Portugal launches its first open-source AI for EU tech sovereignty
Portugal has joined the growing European push for AI sovereignty with the launch of Amalia, its first open-source LLM.
The model was developed by a consortium of Portuguese universities and research institutions, backed by €5.5 million in EU recovery funds.
It is designed for public institutions, companies, and researchers to build their own AI-powered applications on top of it, tailored to their specific needs. The model, its training data, and source code are all released under an open-source licence.
Early applications already announced include a virtual guide for Portuguese museums, decision-support tools for the navy, an AI teaching assistant, and a digital assistant for public services.
The move follows similar efforts in France with Mistral and in Germany with Aleph Alpha, and echoes the European Parliament's recent switch to Qwant over Google.
The message from European governments is becoming consistent: to be strategically autonomous, the EU has to own the AI stack, not rent it.
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