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 R&D drops new sneak peeks
The Odoo R&D team has been busy sharing glimpses of what's to come. Here is everything we learned about Odoo 20 this week.
Unified access control coming to Odoo 20
Odoo is merging ACLs and Record Rules into a single permission model. The new design guarantees that adding a user role can only extend access, never reduce it, and installing a new module will not override existing security configurations. For organisations with complex hierarchies, this eliminates the risk of conflicting security policies breaking existing workflows or causing accidental data lockouts during system updates. Migration scripts are included in the release.
Sales commissions on paid amounts arriving in Odoo 19.4
A new commission mode will calculate earnings based on the amount paid on invoices, independent of due dates. Confirmed by Fabrice Henrion from the Odoo R&D team for version 19.4, the feature is also compatible with POS when configured to generate invoices with the corresponding salesperson assigned.
Native video and audio player embedded in Odoo views
The Odoo R&D team has previewed a media player widget that renders directly inside Odoo views. Video and audio files will play inline on a record, with a transcript displayed alongside playback.
New column element for Odoo list views
A new XML element is being introduced to the list view architecture, allowing developers to group multiple fields into a single stacked cell. It supports a label, a width setting, and a Python expression to control column visibility.
Calendar scheduling and activity updates coming to Odoo 20
The Odoo Calendar module is receiving several improvements:
A conflict warning will appear when creating an event at a time when an attendee is already booked
The mini calendar will display a pending activity count on days with scheduled items
Activity popups will also include clickable links to related documents.
Odoo introduces a new affiliate program for user referrals
Odoo launched an affiliate program that allows non-Odoo Partners to refer new users in exchange for a commission.
The setup is simple:Â
- Users share a referral link and earn 10% of the new customer's subscription revenue for their first 12 months
- Referred leads have 31 days to click the signup linkÂ
- Â Payouts are held for 90 days after payment clears to account for fraud and refunds.
The program is open for three groups: existing Odoo users, content creators with business-focused audiences, and industry associations.Â
Currently, Odoo has set no upper limit on earnings. The new program also provides a commission calculator that estimates potential income based on audience size and conversion rates.
All announcements from Odoo Partner Day DACH 2026
Every year, regional partners gather to preview Odoo's upcoming plans and business strategies. If you missed this year's event, here are the biggest announcements from Odoo Partner Day DACH 2026.
Hello, Munich!
DACH Director Johannes Kreuzen is leading the expansion, initially building out the commercial and service teams at the new location. It is the first major step in a "one company, two offices" strategy. By positioning Munich as a strategic hub alongside the capital, Odoo is getting ready to fully take over the DACH market.
Speaking of Berlin, the office is booming. The team is currently nearing 200 employees - about half of whom have joined since January alone. To make room for the rapid growth, they are already expanding onto an additional floor.
DACH overtakes France to claim the #2 spot in the EMEA marketÂ
All this hiring makes perfect sense when you look at the numbers. The DACH region is growing at an incredible pace, doubling its monthly new customer additions compared to last year. They have just hit a new annual recurring revenue (ARR) milestone and are quickly closing in on 10,000 total customers.
Because of this surge, Odoo DACH has officially overtaken France to become the company's second-largest market in the EMEA region. Germany alone saw a massive 133% year-on-year revenue bump between January and May. Naturally, the local partner network is scaling right alongside this demand, with the German partner count jumping 70% over the last year.
Big upgrades for regional accounting and compliance
Odoo announced major regional compliance updates for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ahead of the Odoo 20 release:
- Germany: Direct VAT submissions via a new ELSTER integration. Odoo 19 is also fully GoBD-compliant, with Odoo 20 certification already underway.
- Austria: Direct FinanzOnline connectivity and audit-proof XML exports.
- Bank feeds: A permanent solution for automated bank data synchronisation is in the works, with a temporary workaround keeping things running in the meantime.
Core apps are going fully offline
Spotty internet will not be an issue in Odoo 20. The upcoming release introduces full offline support for core applications like Finance, Inventory, and Manufacturing. You will be able to create, edit, and archive records entirely offline, with everything syncing once you are back in range.
Claude AI joins Odoo Chat
To top things off, Anthropic's Claude AI is being baked directly into Odoo Chat, natively integrating the popular assistant into your daily workflow as part of the Odoo 20 release.
Native lines-of-code counter added to Odoo 20
A native tool to track lines of code (LoC) is coming to Odoo. A recent sneak peek from the R&D team revealed a new utility built to help developers and administrators quantify custom modifications within their databases.
The update introduces a structured backend framework to isolate custom code from the standard core ecosystem systematically.
What to expect:
Customisation tracking: Instantly scan your database to locate and count the exact lines of code added through custom developments
Simpler migration scoping: Partners and clients can easily estimate version upgrade workloads by accurately measuring the volume of non-standard code
Technical debt management: Provides clear visibility into database modifications, making it much easier to keep codebases clean and aligned with Odoo standards.
Community talk
All the hot topics and discussions Odoo users are buzzing about this month.Â
News from the ERP worldÂ
Headlines from the ERP world you shouldn’t miss.
New AI study predicts the end of the billable hour
The study predicts that traditional flat licences and hourly billing will quickly become obsolete as AI transforms from a basic assistant to a system that takes over processes end-to-end. If an AI agent completes a task in seconds that used to take a whole team, an hourly rate makes very little sense.
This new billing model will likely also change the skills needed in the tech sector. Basic coding and manual testing will lose importance. Instead, companies will look for people who can design system architectures, manage AI, and use their industry knowledge to translate business needs into automated processes.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 launches agentic AI in CRM
Salesforce and SAP might have dominated the headlines recently, making Microsoft look a little quiet by comparison. But they certainly haven't been sitting still, and are now rolling out fully autonomous agents into Dynamics 365.
The focus here is on a CRM that essentially manages itself. We are moving past basic chatbots that summarise text. The new systems autonomously log customer calls, update sales pipelines, and handle shift scheduling for support teams. The first batch of these contact centre tools will roll out by the end of June.
Of course, letting an AI update your database on its own is a compliance risk. To address that, Microsoft is launching a management framework called Agent 365, alongside a dedicated observability tool. This gives IT admins a central dashboard to monitor which data a bot touches and to shut down any orphaned agents.
Still, the market reality is a bit different. Very few companies are actually running autonomous agents in live production environments right now. The next real challenge for Microsoft isn't building the software, but relying on its partner network to convince clients that it's actually safe to turn it on.
Mistral launches OCR 4 for structured document recognition
Mistral has released OCR 4, a document recognition model that classifies content by type and maps the position of each recognised element on the page.
It stands out from standard OCR tools in how it splits documents. OCR 4 chunks by structure rather than page length, so a table or paragraph stays intact as a unit rather than being cut across.
The model covers 170 languages and has shown strength in less common idioms and alphabets, where other OCRs typically fall short.Â
Self-hosting in a container is available for organisations with data sovereignty or compliance requirements.
Mistral also positions OCR 4 for agentic workflows, where the model goes beyond reading to trigger actions like form filling or invoice processing directly from a document.
Salesforce goes on a $3.6 billion AI acquisition spree
Salesforce has acquired Fin, an AI customer service platform, for $3.6 billion. This valued Fin at roughly 9x its current ARR.Â
Built primarily for small and medium-sized businesses, Fin runs on a proprietary LLM, deploys quickly, and charges per outcome rather than per seat, making it a natural fit for Agentforce.
But deploying AI agents was only half of Salesforce's problem. The other half is billing for them.Â
To close that gap, Salesforce also agreed to buy m3ter, a consumption-based billing platform that ingests real-time usage data and automates billing flows across CRM, ERP, and quote-to-cash systems. The deal is expected to close by Q2 2027.
The combined strategy is straightforward: get customers running AI agents through Fin, then charge per interaction through m3ter without leaving the ecosystem.
These deals mark Salesforce's 15th acquisition since May 2025, and the spending shows no signs of slowing. But this aggressive pace is hard to ignore, given that the company recently announced a fresh wave of layoffs that cut Agentforce, Mulesoft, and Marketing Cloud staff.Â
Despite claiming $1 billion in annualised revenue, Agentforce has struggled to win customers since launch, with stocks down by 30% on the year. Still, it seems that for Salesforce, buying its way to growth is faster than building AI internally.
Anthropic pulls Fable 5 and Mythos a week after releaseÂ
Anthropic took Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline globally just days after release.
The suspension was enforced by the US government, citing national security concerns. The ban applies globally, including to Anthropic's own employees working abroad.
The trigger was a jailbreak that allowed users to bypass safety restrictions by framing requests as code reviews. Anthropic disputes the severity of the finding, noting the same capability is already widely available in other models and standard industry tools.
All other Anthropic models remain unaffected. The company is complying with the ban but disagrees with the decision. Anthropic warns that applying this standard consistently would effectively halt new model deployments across the entire AI industry, not just their company,
Anthropic releases "safe" version of the Mythos model
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a commercial version of its ultra-powerful and restricted Mythos model.Â
The AI giant had previously announced that Mythos was too risky for public release due to severe safety concerns about its advanced autonomous capabilities.
The new architecture provides highly advanced coding and logic performance. However, fears over potential cybersecurity exploits mean the fully unrestricted version remains locked down and restricted exclusively to government partners.
To manage the public rollout safely, Anthropic has integrated an automated fallback system. If a user prompt triggers real-time safety classifiers, the platform silently reroutes the task to a standard Claude Opus model to block any dangerous capabilities.
However, early developer reports indicate that this safety layer is overly aggressive. Fable 5 currently triggers these guardrails on standard queries like code reviews and secure code, or just by reading a blog post on a security topic.
This raises a fundamental issue: Is a safety measure even effective if it can't distinguish between safe and harmful content?
New layoff wave at Salesforce
Salesforce has launched a fresh round of job cuts, notably hitting staff working on its flagship Agentforce AI product. The layoffs also target its Mulesoft IT tool and Marketing Cloud software, with cuts spanning from California to international offices.
The decision to cut AI staff is striking. Salesforce has been betting heavily on Agentforce to counter market fears that AI could replace its traditional software. However, reports emerged late last year that actual use of Agentforce was low, and its capabilities were not living up to initial company demonstrations.
While Salesforce recently claimed Agentforce passed $1 billion in annualised revenue, the company's stock has still tumbled 30% this year. These latest redundancies follow an earlier round of layoffs in January, proving the tech giant is still under intense pressure to tighten its belt.
EU Parliament drops Google for French search engine Qwant
The European Parliament is replacing Google with Qwant as the default search engine on all internal computers. The change will automatically route searches made through Firefox and Edge address bars to the French provider.
While staff can still manually switch back to Google, this reflects a wider push for European tech independence. It follows recent demands from MEPs to also move away from major US-based cloud providers and software suites.
How the infrastructure is changing:Â
Sovereign search index: Qwant has partnered with Berlin-based startup Ecosia under a joint venture called European Search Perspective (EUSP). The goal is to build a completely independent, privacy-focused European search index
Public infrastructure push: EUSP is currently calling on European governments to develop national search indexes. The group argues that local indexes are essential to protect public digital infrastructure from foreign tracking.
Parliament stressed that this is not an anti-American campaign, but a necessary pro-European sovereignty measure to secure local data.
Microsoft announces seven new in-house MAI models
Microsoft has launched a new family of seven in-house AI models designed to handle complex corporate workloads.Â
Dubbed a "hill-climbing machine" by the development team, MAI was built to reduce Microsoft’s reliance on external partners like OpenAI.
The new multimodal ecosystem covers reasoning, coding, image generation, transcription, and voice. The seven MAI models integrate natively with Microsoft's enterprise software stack:
MAI-Thinking-1: A mid-sized reasoning model with a 256K context window built for complex, multi-step instructions
MAI-Code-1-Flash: An inference-efficient coding model fine-tuned for GitHub Copilot and VS Code to lower token costs
MAI-Image-2.5: An advanced text-to-image and image-editing model built for creative corporate workflows
MAI-Image-2.5 Flash: An ultra-efficient variation of the image model optimised for high-speed, high-volume design tasks
MAI-Voice-2: A speech generation tool capable of natural-sounding text-to-speech across 15 languages from a short audio sample
MAI-Voice-2 Flash: A lower-cost, ultra-efficient version of the speech engine built for rapid audio deployment
MAI-Transcribe-1.5: A high-speed transcription model supporting domain-specific terminology across 43 languages.
Microsoft also introduced Frontier Tuning, a system made to give companies full control over their data. It lets companies train the models directly on their own internal workflows and private databases.
As everything stays within a secure compliance boundary, businesses retain full ownership of the final model. Early tests show a custom-tuned version for Excel is 10x more efficient, which could also drastically cut cloud computing costs.
Salesforce buys Contentful to feed structured content to AI agents
Salesforce acquired Contentful, a headless content management system, to expand its Headless 360 ecosystem.
It aims to solve an existing bottleneck for enterprise AI: easy, structured access to official company text and media.
In traditional CMS, text and images exist inside specific webpage layouts, making them difficult for AI to extract. Contentful strips away the design layer and stores text, product details, and marketing material as reusable data.
By integrating the tool into its Agentforce platform, Salesforce is giving its AI agents a direct line to approved company information. This means that AI can instantly grab an exact product description or return policy to compose a tailored customer email, without making things up on the fly.
But the deal immediately sparked pushback from developers online. Critics argued that true platform integration could take years. Moreover, they warned that it primarily increases vendor lock-in and adds operational complexity to an already expansive ecosystem.
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