On 2013-04-16 06:05, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
Hello folks
We
can proudly announce the next stable release of Roundcube. This
version enhances the webmail experience with these new features:
Improved rendering of forwarded and attached messages
- Optionally
display and compose email messages a new windows
- Unified UI for
message view and composition
- Show sender photos from contacts in
email view
- Render thumbnails for image attachments
- Download all
attachments as zip archive (using the zipdownload plugin)
- Forward
multiple emails as attachments
- CSV import for contacts
The
major change of this version isn't really visible to the users but
even more important for the developers: the Roundcube framework. We
decoupled the core functions for IMAP access, SMTP email sending,
database abstraction, caching, etc. from the webmail application in
order to make them usable for other free software products.
Another
major change since the 0.8 series is the new database
abstraction
layer. In order to add support for SQLite3, the PEAR:MDB2
dependency
was dropped and Roundcube now uses the native PHP Data
Objects (PDO).
It's enabled by default since PHP 5.1 and is considered
stable and
well-developed. One drawback, however, is a small lack in
the MySQL
PDO driver which makes PHP 5.3 a requirement for this
version of
Roundcube when using the MySQL database.
A minor but rather handy
improvement is a complete new database update
mechanism that makes
schema changes much easier to be deployed. After
the upgrade, simply
run bin/updatedb.sh to apply the necessary changes
to the database
Roundcube connects to. In case you used
bin/installto.sh to perform
the update, the schema upgrades are done
applied and no further
actions are required.
After lots of testing and collecting your
feedback, this version is
considered stable and it also includes the
recently discovered
vulnerability that allows an attacker to modify
its users preferences
in a way that he can then read arbitrary files
from the server. We
therefore recommend to update all productive
installations of
Roundcube.
Download both the webmail and the
framework packages from
http://roundcube.net/download [1] Read the
full list of changes here: http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog [2]
IMPORTANT: We're still 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 once more to enter an URL to
the
option named 'support_url' in the Roundcube config. This will be
display a link on all screens including the login page that should
guide your users to instructions how to get help for your specific
email service that uses Roundcube.
Thanks a lot for using Roundcube
and for your support!
Best, Thomas
Roundcube Development
discussion mailing list
dev@lists.roundcube.net
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TQ for the great work. Keep it up.
Links:
[1] http://roundcube.net/download [2] http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog [3] http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/dev