Hello folks
With the just published version 0.8-beta we proudly release the all new user interface design of Roundcube, codename "Larry" out into the wild. It isn't enabled by default but you can easily enable and test the new look by setting $rcmail_config['skin'] = 'larry'; in your local config/main.inc.php file. Many thanks again to our volunteer designer at http://bueroflint.com for the great work!
Some plugins may not yet provide templates and styles for the new skin, so expect certain things to appear broken. We hereby kindly invite all plugin developers to adapt their plugins to the new skin. The idea is to run the new skin under the name "larry" until all the plugins with UI components are ready and then rename it to "default" just before releasing 0.8-stable. The current default skin will then be renamed to "legacy" and shall remain in the package for at least one more major release.
We'd also like to mention that Internet Explorer 6 is no longer supported from this version on. Roundcube itself still works with IE6 but the new skin doesn't and we'll officially drop IE6 support anytime soon. It has just been around for too long...
Beside the new UI, this version also contains some bugfixes and improvements (see http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog) as well as some code refactorings. These can potentially break some plugins if they use calls to renamed or refactored functions. Please watch your logs and in case you should notice any errors, please report them to the according plugin developers. We'll come up with a complete list of renamed functions soon but for now you can get it from the following thread on this list: http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2012-01/0000002.html and http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2012-01/0000029.html
In addition to the technical and visual changes, starting with this release, Roundcube is now licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3 or later (with exceptions for skins & plugins) as we recently announced on our website: http://roundcube.net/license.
Please note that this is a beta release and we recommend to test it in a separate environment. The new skin most likely requires some more CSS hacking until we're ready for the 0.8 stable release. As usual, you are kindly requested to report all problems to our bug tracking system at http://trac.roundcube.net
Have fun!
Thomas _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/aba52c80