ANN: SOGo 1.0 RC8

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the release candidate 8 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-1.0rc8.tar.gz

or by getting the sources from the official SVN server :

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

You can also download and install RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux 5 / CentOS 5 from :

http://inverse.ca/downloads/SOGo/RHEL5/i386/

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

http://inverse.ca/uploads/docs/SOGo_Installation_Guide_Draft.pdf

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 ===

* fixed a bug that would prevent deleted event and tasks from being 
removed from the events and tasks list
* fixed a bug where the search of contacts would be done in 
authentication-only LDAP repositories
* added the ability to transfer an event from one calendar to another
* fixed a bug where deleting a contact would leave it listed in the 
contact list until the next refresh
* fixed a bug where events shared among different attendees would no 
longer be updated automatically
* changed the look of the Calendar module to match the look of 
Lightning 0.9
* the event details appear when the user clicks on it
* enable module constraints to be specified as patterns
* inhibit internal links and css/javascript content from html files 
embedded as attachments to mails
* updated all icons to use those from Thunderbird 2 and Lightning 0.9
* fixed a bug where the cached credentials wouldn't be expired using 
SOGoLDAPUserManagerCleanupInterval
* fixed a bug where mail headers wouldn't be decoded correctly
* the copy/move menu items are correctly updated when IMAP folders are 
added, removed or renamed

=== 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 :

* Documentation review and improvements
* Translations updates or new ones
* Testing and bug reports. You can use http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca/ for 
testing.
* 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