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Roundcube Licensing Update
by Thomas Bruederli 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

Hello folks As of January 2012 Roundcube will be licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3 or later (with exceptions for skins & plugins) while it was licensed under GPL (v2) before that change. Actually the license situation wasn't absolutely clear before because some parts of the Roundcube code didn't specify a version number of the GPL while others did. Those parts not specifying a version number could, according to the GPL license text, be considered as either version 2 or any later version. *Clarification and Preparation for the Future* Because of the incorporated numerous other components, the only options for licenses are in the GNU GPL family, namely GNU GPLv2, GNU GPLv3, GNU AGPLv3. In order to become license compatible with some of the newer technologies we would like to be able to use and to be well prepared for future development and integration we decided to officially change to GNU GPL "version 3 or any later version". Together with the change to GPLv3+ we also added the following exception to the Roundcube license agreement which explicitly excludes skins & plugins from the terms of the GPL: " This file forms part of the Roundcube Webmail Software for which the following exception is added: Plug-ins and Skins which merely make function calls to the Roundcube Webmail Software, and for that purpose include it by reference shall not be considered modifications of the software. If you wish to use this file in another project or create a modified version that will not be part of the Roundcube Webmail Software, you may remove the exception above and use this source code under the original version of the license. " This shall give a maximum flexibility to skin designers and plugin developers to choose any other license for their work or even to create commercial or proprietary components without being forced to publish them according to the strong copy-left requirements of the GPL. The original proposal and the following discussion about this license clarification can be read in our mailing list archive: http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2011-11/0000040.html *Request for Agreement* Because the copyright in Roundcube is not consolidated, making these updates requires the agreement of all contributors to Roundcube. So if you have in the past contributed to Roundcube, we would very much like to ask for your explicit agreement with this path forward. We believe this primarily represents a clarification and an adjustment to what we practiced over the past years. But of course we cannot force anyone to agree, so for those who do not agree to this license update we still offer the choice to have their code removed from Roundcube. Please contact us in case you have serious objections against the GPLv3+ with exceptions for skins & plugins and you want your contributed code to be removed. Thanks for all your support, we're looking into an exciting future of Roundcube in the year 2012. Best, Thomas _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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Version 0.7 (stable) released
by Thomas Bruederli 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Hello Roundcube lovers and list lurkers After another round of bugfixing we're happy to announce the stable release of Roundcube webmail version 0.7. Beside fixing the generously reported bugs we also added some security improvements which will protect the Roundcube users from XSS and clickjacking attacks. While most of the modern browser already provide good production for such, we addressed the security of older browsers by doing some more content filtering and environment analysis. With this release Roundcube also passes the email standards project's acid test. See http://www.email-standards.org/acid-test for details and help spread the word about it. We recommend to update all existing Roundcube installations with this version. Get it now from http://roundcube.net/download and give it a try. After completing that milestone we're now focusing on the implementation of your new skin which should become part of the next release. Also we're observing with great pleasure that Roundcube becomes more and more popular and meanwhile ships with sophisticated server software such as the Kolab Groupware or Mac OS X Lion Server. Thanks for your confidence and your support! Have fun! Thomas _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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New translation system for Roundcube
by Thomas Bruederli 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Hello folks After building and maintaining our own translation tool for some time we now moved to the translation service at launchpad.net. This makes it a lot easier for many people to contribute side by side and the launchpad system even makes suggestions from translations of other open source projects. So from now on, we'd like you to go directly to https://translations.launchpad.net/roundcubemail/trunk for any translation work. If you visit that page now you can see the (partially very poor) completeness status of our 75 languages. I'd like to encourage everybody once again to participate and to help us complete all the translations we currently have on the list. Many thanks for you help! Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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Version 0.7-beta ready for download
by Thomas Bruederli 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hello folks The development team is proud to announce the next beta release with new features, fixes and improvements under the hood: we re-implemented the entire message caching to make mail reading even faster than before, the message list now supports priority headers and the integrated spell checker has gained some options and personal dictionaries. Last but not least one can now save searches in the address book. And of course lots of bug fixes and small improvements are included to increase the fun working with Roundcube. For a complete list of changes see http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog We recommend to install and test this beta version on a separate environment until we have polished the stable release. Cheers, Thomas _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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Version 0.6 (stable) released
by Thomas Bruederli 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Dear subscribers The next major release has finally reached stable state and is now available for download. The most important improvement since the 0.5 line is certainly the full-featured address book which now provides a smart interface to manage rich contact information including photos. Those who skipped the beta release 0f 0.6 and are still running 0.5 can find a brief description of all new features here: http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/announce/2011-08/0000002.html We recommend to update all existing Roundcube installations with this release. Get it now from http://roundcube.net/download and have fun! Cheers! Thomas _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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Release candidate for 0.6
by Thomas Bruederli 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hello again The stable release 0.6 is getting really close! We just published the release candidate version 0.6 which fixes some bugs from the last beta release and which is now feature complete. Everybody is kindly invited to do some more tests with this release and report bugs to our tracker. Download it as usual from http://roundcube.net/download Have fun and stay tuned! Thomas _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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Version 0.6-beta released
by Thomas Bruederli 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Dear Roundcube lovers We're proud to announce the next major release of the Roundcube webmail package: 0.6 is out now as beta. And it's packed with new features, some of them have been awaited for long time. So what's new? * A full-featured address book with rich contact information The address book UI was finally extended to store rich contact data including photos. We worked hard to create a flexible and intuitive UI to enter and manage the contact data. Along with that, import and export of vcards was improved to support all the new fields. If you have LDAP directories configured as address sources, you might review the configuration and map the new contact fields to the according LDAP attributes using the 'fieldmap' property. * Group support for LDAP address books While speaking of LDAP, the LDAP wrapper of Roundcube now also supports address groups thanks to the contribution of Andreas Dick. This requires some additional configuration which is described in the comments of config/main.inc.php.dist * ACL rights/namespace management plugin The new package includes a plugin which extends the folder manager to manage Access Control Lists according to RFC4314 and RFC2086. This allows one to share folders with other users if the IMAP server supports ACL. If there's a LDAP directory configured, the ACL manager even does auto-completion when adding a new user. * memcache support for session storage As an alternative to the SQL-based storage of user sessions, Roundcube 0.6 is now capable of using memcache for fast and redundant storage of session data. Set 'session_storage' and 'memcache_hosts' config options to enable it. * File uploads with progress display Using the features of the APC module, Roundcube can now display the progress of file uploads. This has to be enabled in config using the 'upload_progress' option. Make sure APC is available in PHP and that apc.rfc1867 is set in php.ini * Automated update process with database schema check Upgrading Roundcube installations has become an easy task with the new update shell script. Unpack the new package in some directory and then run bin/installto.sh <TARGETDIR> from there. TARGETDIR is the location of the Roundcube installation which you want to upgrade. The script then copies all files to the target directory and does all modifications necessary to get the database and config files up-to-date. * Exchange logo by config And last but not least, one can now set a customized logo by config without the necessity to create a new skin. We'd like to encourage all hosting providers to set the 'skin_logo' config option with an URL to their logo. This will hopefully clarify to your users, what service they're actually using. We registered an increased amount of support requests from users who don't understand that Roundcube is not a public service but that they have to contact their ISP for help. Of course there are also many improvements under the hood to make Roundcube faster, more stable and more secure. So go forth and install Roundcube 0.6 beta on your servers [1]. We recommend to test it on a separate environment and report bugs to our bug tracking system [2]. An improved and stabilized version will follow soon. A little note for skin developers: the new address book also brings the following new template objects which need to be placed in the HTML templates: contactphoto, contacthead, contactedithead, photouploadform. Have a look at the default skin templates to get inspiration for the placement and styling. Many thanks to all who use and improve Roundcube every day! Best regards, Thomas [1] http://roundcube.net/download [2] http://trac.roundcube.net/ _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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Security update 0.5.4 is out
by Thomas Bruederli 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Hello Roundcube users We just published a new release which fixes a recently reported XSS vulnerability as an update to the stable 0.5 branch. Please update your installations with this new version or patch them with the fix which is also published in the downloads section or our sourceforge.net page [1]. And stay tuned, 0.6-beta is on the way with lots of new features ;-) ~Thomas [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundcubemail/files/roundcubemail/0.5.4/ _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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Bugfix update 0.5.3 released
by Thomas Bruederli 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hello folks, We just published a new bugfix release that fixes two important issues in the IMAP communication which prevented sent messages from being saved in version 0.5.2. It's recommended to update all productive installations of Roundcube with this new release. See http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog for details. Best regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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Update 0.5.2 is out
by Thomas Bruederli 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

Dear Roundcube users and lovers, We're happy to announce another release of the Roundcube webmail suite. This service update brings some more bug fixes and stability improvements and it includes an updated version of the TinyMCE editor which is now supposed to work correctly in IE9. It is considered stable and we recommend to update all existing Roundcube installation with this release. For a complete list of changes see http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog. Packages can be downloaded from the usual place: http://roundcube.net/download Have fun and happy easter, Thomas _______________________________________________ RoundCube Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/announce BT/c67b6c8b

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