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2. RC for EGroupware 14.2 released

2. RC for EGroupware 14.2 released

by | Jan 22, 2015 | News

We decided to have an other final release candidate, because of many noteworthy improvements since first release candidate:

  • FileManager: click on image opens expose view incl. gallery and slide-show
  • FileManager: enhance sharing to keep session of already logged in user, when he clicks on a share
  • Mail/SMTP: fixed not working sending of mails, if secure connection setting was different from IMAP server “could not connect to SMTP server”
  • Mail/Sieve: fixed not running/set async vacation notice
  • Mail/Sieve: remove prefix (of mail account) for sieve save into folder
  • All applications: Fix unintentional dragging happens while user try to do scrolling over a dragging item in FF (e.g. scrolling over an scrollable InfoLog entry)
  • Backup: fixed broken backup of tables without an auto index
  • WebDAV: fixed not working range requests causing e.g. direct playing of video files to fail
  • Calendar: speed improvements for huge calendar databases
  • Calendar/CalDAV/eSync: fixed not synced events constructed from exceptions
  • ProjectManager: fix SQL error “unknown column pe_ in order clause”
  • Setup: allow to use Composer (https://getcomposer.org/) to manager requirements (instead of PEAR)
  • no longer requiring php(5)-pear, but new egroupware-epl-vendor package containing all dependencies

Last one is an important change, if you choose to install from archives: there is no longer a need to install PEAR and Horde packages we depend on!

Installation packages are available via OpenBuildService server: eGroupWare:trunk project, see our download page:

/download

Please help testing the release candidate and give us feedback via our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/EGroupware

Release date has been moved by one week to January 29th 2015.
Happy testing 🙂
Ralf

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Ralf Becker
Director Software Development, Stylite AG

EGroupware 14.2 RC available

EGroupware 14.2 RC available

by | Jan 13, 2015 | News

I’m happy to announce immediate availability of a new feature complete release candidate for next EGroupware version 14.2

Installation packages are available via OpenBuildService server:eGroupWare:trunk project, see our download page:

/download

Release candidate contains following changes / fixes:

* Filemanager: Tile view for filemanager incl. new bigger Mine icons and thumbnails for OpenOffice documents
* Home: portlets (widgets on home screen) can be set as default for all users or groups by admins
* Home: default home screen containing video tutorials, egroupware.org new and calendar week-view
* Mail: customizable toolbar in compose dialog
* Mail: fix for Horde_Imap_Client-2.26.0 requiring Horde_Mail-2.5.1 requiring Horde_Idna-1.0.1 which stalls our autoloader by calling spl_autoload_register
* Mail: fix problem sent or copied mail ending up with in folder of wrong mail account
* Univention: allow installation on backup DC too (master was working before)
* News: fixed SQL error when deleting huge number of news items
* All apps: improved German translations, other languages are lacking

Please help testing the release candidate and give us feedback via our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EGroupware

Planned release date is January 22nd 2015.

We also released 14.1 maintenance packages which mainly fix a problem with current Horde_Imap_Client 2.26.0.

Happy testing
Ralf

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Ralf Becker
Director Software Development, Stylite AG

EGroupware 14.2 Beta released

EGroupware 14.2 Beta released

by | Dec 10, 2014 | News

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of new 14.2 beta.

14.2 adds three – in our opinion – most wanted features:

1. Dropbox like sharing of files

EGroupware users often have the need to exchange files with people outside there own EGroupware.

With file sharing we have now a simple solution exactly for that problem.

Select one or more files or directories in Filemanager, right-click and choose Mail files as:

Attachment (old way, works reliably only for a couple of MB total file-size)
Download link: creates a copy of current version of files and mails a link allowing to download them
Readable share: mails a link allowing to download at that time current version of files
Writable share: mails a link allowing to download or update current version of files
Last option is only available in EPL subscription together with an optional expiration date or password.

The links require no further authentication, sharing your EGroupware credentials or create recipients as EGroupware users.

That new facility can also be used from Mail compose to work around attachment size limitation imposed by mail servers.

A list of shared files in Filemanager menu allows to delete a share and therefore renders a sharing link immediately unusable.

2. Home app is back in form of a customizable dashboard

Dashboard was designed as a new form to organize your work:

have a couple of key customers to need to contact daily, just drag them to dashboard to always have them available
that calendar favorite showing the week of you and your co-worker, just add it to dashboard to have it always in view
same is true for all favorites they can be added by right click on dashboard: Add >> app-name >> Favorite >> select one
select a couple of entries from any app and drag them to dashboard
of course you can also add a simple note / post-it to your dashboard
EGroupware news have been ported to eTemplate2 and are therefore available too

3. Tablet support for EGroupware

EGroupware detects now tablets and other mobile devices and switched automatically to our new “mobile” theme.

Mobile theme rearranges user interface for the small screen on your device. It also adds touch support to:

select or deselect rows via right or left swipe
tab (long click) opens context menu with all available options
menu can be hidden to maximize space available for your content (state is remembers on a per app basis)
rotating the device moves menu from left side for landscape to top for portrait orientation to make most of available space
Edit dialogs and the like open full screen as you expect it from a mobile app. They always return to list they are opened from.

Mobile theme keeps all client side data available when changing view, to minimize traffic with server, like Pixelegg or Stylite template does already. You can also select it explicit as theme for small screens.

14.2 beta is immediate available from our download page, or as package for most Linux distributions:

http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=server%3AeGroupWare%3Atrunk&package=egroupware-epl

Have fun trying it out and tell us what you think about it through our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/EGroupware

Ralf

EGroupware 14.1 veröffentlicht

EGroupware 14.1 veröffentlicht

by | Jul 10, 2014 | News

Team Management with Open Source

EGroupware 14.1 Release published on 10th July 2014

How efficient processes can be merged with best possible security shows EGroupware with its latest release of version 14.1, which was made public today, 10th July 2014.

With users worldwide, which number in the hundred thousands and a marked presence of more than 11 years, EGroupware is one of the most successful browser based Open Source team management applications. The developers have positioned the software as an alternative to products like Microsoft Office 365, business server solutions like Exchange or Google.

For community as well as enterprise users, the completely new developed user interface in particular as well as e.g. the new email client, the admin module and hundreds of new functions are milestones, which set apart (distinguish) the new release from its former versions.

Up to date technologies allow smooth working helped by clever functions, which leads to comfortable working by browser known formerly only to fat clients.

Software development based on jQuery, Javascript and PHP provide most modern features like auto-complete, drag & drop of files and entries, hiding of not needed controls, context menus and easier data upload with nearly unlimited data size as well as a wealth of new security functions like a restrictive content security policy and strong password encryption.

Furthermore, the synchronization with mobile devices was immensely simplified by including ActiveSync, CalDAV/Card/DAV and WebDAV into the installation packages.

According to Stylite’s statement, the international developer team has invested about 6 man years development time into the new release. ”We believe in a free internet and are very confident about the future importance of online collaboration” Ralf Becker, one of the driving forces behind EGroupware and Managing Director Stylite AG, emphasizes.

Hence, EGroupware will offer highest security standards and up to date technology for its users in the future. For example, collaborative editing of documents via web browser and encrypted real time communication are already in development.

14.1 release, new website and group administration for 1.8 users

14.1 release, new website and group administration for 1.8 users

by | Jul 4, 2014 | News

14.1 is a huge step for EGroupware and beside all usability improvements and features, we also changed what we define as community edition (CE):

1.8 was a copy of our 2009 subscription version EPL 9.2, that ensured there were many reasons to buy our subscription, which in turn is how whole EGroupware development is financed.

But it also had a couple of drawbacks:

  • bugfixes and necessary additions like support for new iPhone versions took a lot effort to backport and were therefore either delayed or sometimes not possible at all
  • EGroupware popularity was decreasing as old community version looked quite old-fashioned and lacked features in comparison to alternatives

With 14.1 we are going to change that and community edition will be same software version as our subscription version EPL.

This does not mean all EPL features will become available in the community editions, many have, some have not. We still need to found constant development of EGroupware. Therefore we introduce an other differentiation between CE and EPL version:

The new administration app in 14.1 will no longer include managing of groups!

To elaborate a bit on that: all existing groups stay, but new installations come with only two groups, one for all users (Default) and one for administrations (Admins). Users can be added or remove from groups via user management and ACL or app run-rights can be changed via new ACL management.

This is necessary to ensure a sustainable development of EGroupware, which is in everyones interest.
We will make EPL’s group management available to our longtime community users, as they are important for us! When you submit your next usage statistic, you will receive credentials to install it. *)

Website

We just finished EGroupware’s new website for 14.1 release:

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Please check it out, share it with friends, like it on Facebook and let us know what you think 🙂

Developing our beautiful new website took a little longer and we need to send release announcement to press in advance. Therefore final release date is move one last time to Thursday 10th July next week.

Keep on testing and translating 14.1 🙂

Ralf

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Ralf Becker
Director Software Development, Stylite AG

*) EGroupware Community Edition transition period for group management has ended October 2014. Installation credentials are not any more issued according to wiki.egroupware.org/wiki

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