Merry Christmas - Horde 3.0 and IMP 4.0 released
Here is this year's Christmas present from the Horde Project: the final versions of Horde 3.0, IMP 4.0, Turba 2.0, Ingo 1.0, Chora 2.0, Kronolith 2.0, Nag 2.0, and Mnemo 2.0 have been released.
See the major changes compared to the last major version branch and read the German press release.
A German press release is available as HTML and PDF.
Horde Version 3 differs from the 2.x releases in many ways, including the following:
- Full support for groups and arbitrary permissions.
- Completely rewritten, fully RFC-compliant MIME system with many new MIME viewers.
- Many i18n improvements, including full charset support for the whole framework.
- User customizable portal page.
- Theme support.
- Global personal categories and category colors.
- Access (shortcut) keys.
- Dynamically updating tree menu for applications, including Mozilla sidebar support.
- XML-based application configuration through a graphical user interface.
- Forms creation and validation API.
- Template engine.
- Crypt API with support for PGP/GPG and S/MIME.
- XML-RPC and SOAP server and client, experimental SyncML support.
- Improved notification system.
- Many new APIs like Compress, Image, PDF, History, iCalendar, SyncML, CLI, Version control, NLS, Timer, and SVG.
- and many more...
The major changes compared to the IMP 3.x versions are:
- Much improved message format support through Horde's rewritten MIME system.
- Many, many additional and improved mime viewers for attachments.
- Encrypting, signing, decrypting and verifying of signed and encrypted messages (PGP/GPG and S/MIME).
- Message filters moved to a separate application (Ingo) to support more filter backends and a more robust/comprehensive/easy-to-use UI.
- Full charset support in folders, mailbox, message and compose views.
- Mail folders in the left menu.
- Experimental support for virtual folders.
- Preview of attachments in compose view.
- Send attachments as links.
- Option to not save attachments with sent mail.
- Navigation through message and mailbox views with arrow keys.
- View all messages of a thread.
- HTML message composition with a cross-browser WYSIWIG editor.
- Fetching mails from other email accounts to view with IMP.
- Message previews in mailbox view.
- Prevent message loss during compositon due to session timeouts.
- Management of shared IMAP folders.
- Priority settings for composed messages.
- User management for supported IMAP servers.
- Integrated quota support.
- Support for mailing list headers.
- Ability to forward multiple messages at once.
- Downloading of all attachments from a message as a single ZIP file.
- Stripping individual attachments from messages.
- Alias and "tied to" addresses in user identities.
- Authentication with Horde credentials.
- Graphical emoticons and country flags in message view.
- Various caching improvements to drastically minimize duplicate IMAP server->web server traffic.
The major changes compared to the Turba 1.x versions are:
- Copying and moving of contacts between different address books.
- IMSP and Kolab server support.
- Access keys.
- Allow replacing address books with imports.
- Mark certain fields as required.
- Allow to group fields into tabs.
- Optional delete confirmation.
- Composite fields.
- Allow search result limits for LDAP backends.
Ingo is an email-filter management application. It is fully internationalized, integrated with Horde and the IMP Webmail client, and supports both server-side (Sieve, procmail) and client-side (IMAP) rule creation.
The major changes compared to the Chora 1.x versions are:
- Subversion support
- Patchset information
- Cvsgraph integration
- Simple commit statistics
- Access keys.
- mod_rewrite support for prettier URLs.
The major changes compared to the Kronolith 1.x versions are:
- Shared calendars.
- Meeting management through iCalendar and iTip messages.
- Event reminders through email.
- iCalendar import and export.
- Generation of free/busy information.
- Remote calendars.
- Kolab server support.
- Search capability.
- Access keys.
The major changes compared to the Nag 1.x versions are:
- Shared task lists.
- Task alarms.
- vTodo support.
- Tabbed view of all, complete and incomplete tasks.
- Kolab server support.
- Access keys.
The major changes compared to the Mnemo 1.x versions are:
- Shared notepads.
- vNote support.
- Kolab server support.
- Access keys.
