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Odoo 20: the code is already on GitHub (the keynote is next week)

Branch 20.0 is public. OX 2026 (24–26 Sep) is the official unveil. What is already in 19.4, what the agenda announces, and the Contaldia filter.
​ September 18, 2026 by
Odoo 20: the code is already on GitHub (the keynote is next week)

The branch 20.0 is now public on GitHub. The Community code can be cloned. The official launch, including a keynote, is next week: Odoo Experience, Brussels, September 24–26. It is not “Odoo 20 in production in Spain.” It is open source and, in parallel, Odoo Online has been running the latest pre-release for weeks (19.4).

In partner blogs, the figure of “about 49 AI features” is circulating. It does not appear in the official Odoo notes. What is indeed written, by name, is another matter: a whole block of AI on the OX agenda, plus what 19.4 has already released in SaaS. Below is what can be stated today, and what is still a talk title.

September 24–26

· OX 2026
keynote Unveiling Odoo 20

20.0

public branch on GitHub
(Community; the product AI is Enterprise)

October 1

4:00 PM · Contaldia course
live updates

Workstation with AI flows and reconciliation

What Odoo calls agentic AI: not a chat beside, but agents that read, create records, and connect to external tools.

What is already there (19.4, Odoo Online)

The official notes of Odoo 19.4 do not wait for OX. Odoo summary: AI agents that connect to external tools, a smarter site builder, and changes in sales/eCommerce. In day-to-day operations, the following have also been released, among others:

  • Multiple identifiers in the contact (DUNS and equivalents by country).
  • Improvements in activities, CC in the chatter, and bulk downloads of attachments.
  • The website builder that 19.4 presents as “smarter” — the same thread that OX develops as a new web experience in 20.

If your base is in Odoo Online, part of this may already be there. If you are on 19.0 on-premise, no: that comes with 20 or a major update.

What the OX agenda announces (it is not yet a product note)

Odoo has not yet published the release notes for 20. What exists are session titles from Odoo Experience 2026 and the roadmap that came out on Partner Days (April 2). With that caution, the AI and accounting block looks like this:

Agent AI

Agents that are not limited to drafting: they audit, create records, and act on processes. Title from OX, not our public demo yet.

Native MCP server

Model Context Protocol: connect Claude, Gemini, or another client to the ERP without a third-party connector in between. It appears in the Partner Days roadmap and in OX titles.

Ask AI

Natural language search on the base: tickets, stock movements, entries. Roadmap, not release notes.

Accounting on autopilot

The title from OX is explicit: “accounting on autopilot”. Accounting assistant with AI. We will break it down on October 1.

Banks, e-invoice, and payments

Bank sync, electronic invoicing, and payment initiation (and EBICS) appear as dedicated sessions of Accounting in OX. We do not claim SEPA “with one click” until we see it.

Rest of the ERP

What’s new by module: Quality / maintenance / outsourcing, POS, marketing, payroll, Sign, Phone. Agenda, not a closed list of 49 items.

Laptop with graphics and accounting book

In Contaldia the filter is this: what from the 20 changes the closing, the 303 and the bank. The rest, later.

How we are going to look at it

Contaldia has been using Odoo since 2009. We are not going to recite the keynote. On October 1st, at 4:00 PM, we will hold the online course on news: what affects Spanish accounting, the AI that touches entries, and what to expect before updating a production database.

On October 29th, from 12:00 to 2:00 PM, the complete course on Spanish accounting on Odoo 20.

Sources: branch odoo/odoo 20.0 (verified September 18, 2026; 642 Community addons, without module ai — the product AI is in Enterprise); Odoo 19.4 Release Notes; agenda OX 2026 (track Opening Keynote — Unveiling Odoo 20); roadmap Partner Days April 2, 2026. What only appears in partner blogs we leave as rumor.

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