Dear subscribers
Today we proudly announce the stable version 1.2.0 of Roundcube Webmail which is now available for download. It introduces new features since version 1.1 covering security and PGP encryption topics:
- PHP7 compatibility
- PGP encryption
- Drag-n-drop attachments from mail preview to compose window
- Mail messages searching with pre-defined date interval
- Improved security measures to protect from brute-force attacks
And of course plenty of small improvements and bug fixes.
There wasn't much feedback on the 1.2-beta version and the release candidate which we consider a good sign. Some cleanup and stabilization of the Enigma plugin just happened for the now stable version.
As already announced with the 1.2-beta release [1], PGP encryption comes in two flavors: client-side using the Mailvelope browser extension and server-side with the Enigma plugin using GnuPG on the server.
Support with the Mailvelope browser plugin comes out of the box and is automatically enabled if the Mailvelope API is detected in a user’s browser. The Mailvelope documentation [2] explains how to enable it for your site.
The features of the Enigma plugin, which comes with the release package and simply needs to be activated for your Roundcube installation are explained in Alec's blog post [3].
With the release of Roundcube 1.2.0, the previous stable release branches 1.0.x and 1.1.x will switch in to LTS low maintenance mode which means they will only receive important security updates but no longer any regular improvements from upstream.
See the complete Changelog in our wiki [4] and download the new packages from https://roundcube.net/download.
Roundcube 1.2.0 is considered stable and we recommend to update all productive installations of Roundcube. As usual, don’t forget to backup your data before updating ;-)
Best, Thomas
[1] https://roundcube.net/news/2015/11/23/roundcube-webmail-1.2-beta-out-now [2] https://www.mailvelope.com/en/help#watchlist [3] https://kolabian.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/enigma-plugin-pgp-encryption/ [4] https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/wiki/Changelog