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.
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
Dear Roundcube lovers,
We just published new packages for Roundcube webmail. This service
update mainly fixes the nasty bug which sneaked into the last 0.8.3
release. In addition to that, we also packed some more fixes into this
release, one of them a recently reported XSS vulnerability.
The buggy previous version makes the compose screen to randomly reload
itself which may result in a loss of the unsent message. So if you
already installed 0.8.3, please immediately update your installation
with this new version.
Download it from http://roundcube.net/download
We apologize for the inconvenience with the previous release!
Best,
Thomas
Hello folks,
We kind of made it a tradition in Roundcube to add some nasty bugs with
every second release we publish :-)
This time a pull request accidentally was merged into the release branch
instead of git-master where we usually do the testing. The effect of this
bug is the compose screen randomly reloading and likely loosing the
contents you're writing. There's a patch you can download [1] and apply to
any 0.8.3 installation. And a new release will follow later this week.
We'd like to apologize for this inconvenience!
Best,
Thomas
[1]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundcubemail/files/roundcubemail/0.8.3/rou…
Dear subscribers
Today we can announce another service release of the Roundcube webmail
package. This update adds small bug fixes and improvements to the 0.8
stable series. It also fixes a possible, although unintended, DoS to the
webserver running Roundcube. See
http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelogfor details.
We consider it stable and we recommend to update all existing Roundcube
installation with this release. Download it from
http://roundcube.net/download
Have a nice weekend!
Thomas
Dear Roundcube lovers
With some delay, I'm happy to announce another release of the
Roundcube webmail package. This service update adds some bug fixes and
small improvements to the 0.8 stable series. See the
trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog page for details.
We consider it stable and we recommend to update all existing
Roundcube installation with this release.
Download it from http://roundcube.net/download
Best regards,
Thomas
Hello again
What an embarrassing mistake not updating the version number when
publishing a new release. Sigh! Please sorry for that!
But now the packages are updated and the version definitely is 0.8.1.
When re-downloading the files, please verify the md5 checksum is the
same as stated on http://roundcube.net/download
Now it's definitely time for the weekend :-)
Best,
Thomas
---------- Original message ----------
From: Thomas Bruederli <thomas(a)roundcube.net>
Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:41 PM
Subject: Updates 0.8.1 and 0.7.3 released
Aloha!
As usual when a new stable release arrives, there are a few things
that didn't make it into that. Therefore we just published an update
release adding bug fixes, some minor feature improvements and, most
important, two fixes for a recently reported XSS vulnerability in
Roundcube's HTML message handling.
At the same same time, we also pushed out a small update for the 0.7
series with some of the important fixes back-ported. That's for all of
you who didn't dare to switch to the new and shiny 0.8 release series.
See the complete Changelog at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog
and download the new packages from http://roundcube.net/download.
All the best,
Thomas
Sorry y'all, that release definitely came out too easy. It's right, we
forgot to update the version number inside the package.
A fixed package will follow soon.
Sorry for the noise!
~Thomas
Jan-Philipp Litza wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> thanks for the update! I may be too stupid, but I am under the
> impression that the version number in the current 0.8.1 release tarballs
> downloadable from Sourceforge wasn't updated.
> ./bin/installto.sh tells me
>
> Installation at target location is up-to-date!
>
> and ./program/include/iniset.php reads
>
> define('RCMAIL_VERSION', '0.8.0');
>
> Greetings,
> Jan-Philipp Litza
>
>
> At 17.08.2012 18:41, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
>> Aloha!
>>
>> As usual when a new stable release arrives, there are a few things
>> that didn't make it into that. Therefore we just published an update
>> release adding bug fixes, some minor feature improvements and, most
>> important, two fixes for a recently reported XSS vulnerability in
>> Roundcube's HTML message handling.
>>
>> At the same same time, we also pushed out a small update for the 0.7
>> series with some of the important fixes back-ported. That's for all of
>> you who didn't dare to switch to the new and shiny 0.8 release series.
>>
>> See the complete Changelog at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog
>> and download the new packages from http://roundcube.net/download.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Thomas
Aloha!
As usual when a new stable release arrives, there are a few things
that didn't make it into that. Therefore we just published an update
release adding bug fixes, some minor feature improvements and, most
important, two fixes for a recently reported XSS vulnerability in
Roundcube's HTML message handling.
At the same same time, we also pushed out a small update for the 0.7
series with some of the important fixes back-ported. That's for all of
you who didn't dare to switch to the new and shiny 0.8 release series.
See the complete Changelog at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog
and download the new packages from http://roundcube.net/download.
All the best,
Thomas
Hello folks,
We're proud to finally announce the release of version 0.8 with the
brand new skin, codename "Larry", becoming the new default UI for
Roundcube. After two preview releases and a lot of fine-tuning, the
new design by http://bueroflint.com has now grown up. But to all the
nostalgics out there: don't worry! The old skin still remains part of
the package and will be maintained for at least one more major
release.
Beside the new UI, this version also contains more bugfixes and
mprovements (see ) as well as some code refactorings. Another major
change since the last stable release is the updated license which is
now GPL v3+ with exceptions for skin & plugins. Read more about that
on http://roundcube.net/license
After lots of testing and collecting your feedback, this version is
considered stable and we recommend to update all productive
installations of Roundcube. Get the new version from
http://roundcube.net/download
Finally, some important notes for sysadmins to deploy the new Roundcube:
* The new skin brings an entirely new look to the webmail application.
Please carefully plan a roll-out of the new version and prepare your
users accordingly.
* We're getting a lot of support requests from users who are under the
impression that Roundcube is a public service such as Gmail or
Hotmail. Unfortunately we cannot help these people and thus we'd like
to encourage everybody to do some branding on your Roundcube
installation. You can replace the logo by config (option 'skin_logo')
and even more important: the new release now has an option named
'support_url' where everyone should fill in an URL to instructions how
to get help for that specific installation of Roundcube.
And last but not least: our recent partnership with the Kolab
Groupware project is finally showing some results. The Kolab team just
published a preview release of their all-new Kolab 3.0 groupware suite
including Roundcube as the new web client. Enriched with nice new
plugins, Roundcube gives easy access to all relevant groupware
functions. Read more about Kolab at
http://kolab.org/blog/grote/2012/08/07/alpha-kolab-3.0-and-roundcube-0.8-re…
That's definitely worth celebrating, cheers!
Thomas