Announce January 2013

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Release 0.9-beta ready for download
by Thomas Bruederli 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Dear friends of Roundcube We're proud to announce the beta release of the next major version 0.9. With this milestone we introduce some important changes under the hood as well as some nice and long-awaited features: * First of all, the Roundcube Framework. The core classes providing the strong base of Roundcube's functionality have been extracted and decoupled into a Framework package. They can be used individually in other open source projects looking for solid functionality around IMAP, SMTP, MIME-handling and more. * Another major change is the new database abstraction. In order to add support for SQLite3 the PEAR:MDB2 dependency was dropped and Roundcube now uses the native PHP Data Objects (PDO). ATTENTION: due a small lack in the MySQL PDO driver, this version of Roundcube requires PHP 5.3 when using the MySQL database. * Finally we also added some new features: - Download all attachments as zip archive (zip module required) - Render thumbnails for image attachments (imagemagick is recommended) - Compose and mail view in new windows (configurable in user settings) - Upload attachment files and contact photos with drag & drop - Forward multiple emails as attachments - Show contact photos in mail view - CSV import for contacts And of course plenty of small improvements and bug fixes. See the complete Changelog at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog and download the new packages from http://roundcube.net/download. Please note that this is still a beta release and we recommend to test it on a separate environment. And don't forget to backup your data before installing. Have fun and let us know how the new Roundcube performs in your environment. Cheers, Thomas P.S. We're still looking for volunteers helping us to keep the translations of the Roundcube UI up-to-date. To make it even easier for you, we recently moved to Transifex. Visit our project at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/roundcube-webmail/ and join our translation teams.

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Moving translations from launchpad to Transifex
by Thomas Bruederli 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hello folks! First of all, happy new year and best wishes for 2013! I'd like to inform you that we now decided to switch from launchpad to Transifex to maintain the translations for Roundcube. The Transifex platform seems to be very solid and well-developed whereas launchpad had some serious issues which you also might have experienced. Transifex offers native support for our translation files as well as a very handy API and command line tools. That'll make it easier for us to seamlessly synchronize precious work from your translators back into the Roundcube source repository and finally publishing it. For this and many other reasons we now decided to make Transifex our new and official translation system. I know, this isn't very nice for those, who we made registering accounts on launchpad not so long ago and now we're asking you to register at yet another platform just to follow us. I admit, launchpad was a mistake and we'd like to correct this mistake rather soon. You can find Roundcube on Transifex.com at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/roundcube-webmail. For quality reasons it is set to limited access which means that translators have to apply to become part of a translation team before they can actually start translating. So if you're interested in becoming a member for a certain language team, choose the language from the list and then click on "Join team" on the upper right part of the overview page. We promise to process your requests as fast as possible. Many thanks for all your support and we hope you'll help us to keep the Roundcube localizations up-to-date. Best regards, Thomas

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