ANN: SOGo v1.0 RC7

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the release candidate 7 of 
Scalable OpenGroupware.org (SOGo). This is the final release candidate 
of SOGo, which is considered in feature freeze as of now.

=== What is SOGo ===

SOGo is a free and modern scalable groupware server. It offers shared 
calendars, address books and emails through your favorite Web browser or 
by using a native client such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning.

SOGo is standard-compliant and supports CalDAV, CardDAV, GroupDAV and 
reuses existing IMAP, SMTP and database servers - making the solution 
easy to deploy and interoperable with many applications.

SOGo features :

* Scalable architecture suitable for deployments from dozen to many 
thousand users
* Rich Web-based interface that shares the look and feel, the features 
and the data of Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning
* Improved integration with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lighthing by using 
the SOGo Connector and the SOGo Integrator
* Two-way synchronization support with any SyncML-capable devices 
(BlackBerry, Palm, Windows CE, etc.) by using the Funambol SOGo Connector

and many more! SOGo and our connectors are completely free.

=== Getting SOGo ===

SOGo is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such, you 
are free to download and try it by either getting the newly released 
snapshot from :

http://www.inverse.ca/downloads/SOGo/Sources/SOGo-1.0rc7.tar.gz

or by getting the sources from the official SVN server :

http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOGo/inverse/trunk/

Documentation about the installation and configuration of SOGo is 
available from :

http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo/documentation.html

You can also try our online SOGo demo at :

http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca/

Finally, you can also download our SOGo Connector for Mozilla 
Thunderbird / Lighthing and our SOGo Connector for Funambol at :

http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo_connector.html
http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/funambol.html

These connectors allow a good integration with Mozilla Thunderbird, 
Lightning and your favorite mobile devices.

=== Changes from the previous release ===

* work around the situation where Courier IMAP would refuse to rename 
the current mailbox or move it into the trash
* fixed tab index in mail composition window
* fixed default privacy selection for new events
* fixed a bug where concurrent versions of SOGo would create the user's 
personal folders table twice
* added address completion in the web mail editor
* implemented support for CalDAV methods which were missing for 
supporting iCal 3
* added support to write to multiple contacts from the Address Book module
* added support to move and copy one or many contacts to another 
address book in the Address Book module
* added icons to folders in Address Book module
* fixed various bugs occuring with Safari 3.1
* fixed various bugs occuring with Firefox 3
* fixed bug where selecting the current day cell would not select the 
header day cell and vice-versa in the daily and weekly views
* the events are now computed in the server code again, in order to 
speedup the drawing of events as well as to fix the bug where events 
would be shifted back or forth of one day, depending on how their start 
time would be compared to UTC time
* implemented the handling of exceptional occurences of recurrent events
* all the calendar preferences are now taken into account
* the user defaults variable "SOGoAuthentificationMethod" has been 
renamed to "SOGoAuthenticationMethod"
* fixed a bug where the search of users would be done in 
addressbook-only LDAP repositories

=== How can I help ? ===

The product is in constant evolution. You can provide your help to make 
SOGo better by contributing on various areas such as :

* Translations
* Testing and bug reports! (you can use http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca/)
* CSS and JavaScript adjustments to the Web UI

Feel free to send us your questions. You can also post them to the SOGo 
mailing list:

http://mail.opengroupware.org/mailman/listinfo/sogo/

=== Getting Support ===

For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing an email to 
: support@inverse.ca

Inverse offers professional services around SOGo to help organizations 
deploy the solution and migrate from their legacy systems.

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Wolfgang Sourdeau   ::   +1 (514) 755-3520   ::   wsourdeau@inverse.ca