The OTRS Team is pleased to announce the first beta release of the
Trouble-Ticket-System OTRS 2.0.0 beta1.

The Codename of the new OTRS 2.0 release is "Klong Jark Beach".
Klong Jark Beach is a heavenly beach in the north of the small island Koh Lanta (Thailand).


OTRS 2.0 is a trouble ticket system with many new features to manage both customer and employee enquiries. OTRS 2.0 helps you to manage your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. departments to react quickly to inbound inquiries via a userfriendly webinterface.


New OTRS 2.0 Key Features: ==========================

  Ticket:
  -------
  o WorkingTime feature for ticket time calculations support
  o PGP feature for email support
  o SMIME feature for email support
  o Role feature for large setups
  o Ticket ACL support
  o TicketHookDivider - the divider between TicketHook# and number
  o Ticket Merge support
  o No escalation group feature

  and many other new features

  General:
  --------
  o database xml interface (driver based to support different databases)
  o Link support for objects link tickets, FAQs, ...
  o OTRS web package manager (to install applications like calendar or
    filemanager)
  o improved stats framework to send stats and to write stats in the
    filesystem
  o fcgi support

  and many other new features

Major Changes:
==============

  o highly improved framework with module registration
  o navigation bar will be generated based on the module registration
  o consistent use of the dtl/html block feature
  o improved design of the webinterface
  o new implemented css support
  o split of the default Kernel/Config/Defaults.pm into
    Kernel/Config/Files/*.pm (Kernel/Config.pm is still the private
    config file)
  o foreign-keys for database schema

Detail Changes:
===============
Please have a look at the complete list of changes:

  http://cvs.otrs.org/viewcvs.cgi/otrs/CHANGES

Download:
=========

The OTRS 2.0 is available from the following locations:

  ftp://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/ (Germany/Hamburg)
  ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/otrs/ (Germany/G�ttingen)
  ftp://ftp.samurai.com/pub/otrs/ (Canada/Toronto)

  (a full list of all download mirrors (ftp/http/rsync) is available at

  http://otrs.org/download/)

Keep in mind that this OTRS release is a _beta_ version! You should _not_ use it on productive systems. Please report bugs or problems on our mailing list or via our bugzilla bug tracking system:

  o Subscribtion page for the otrs mailing list:

    http://lists.otrs.org

  o Bugzilla login page:

    http://bugs.otrs.org

MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:

o RPMS/suse/7.3/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.i386.rpm
  c13e5c9472dab2ea0bb0f4a03d8b844a
o RPMS/suse/8.x/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.i386.rpm
  78de77e960d6a49f2eefce401e1f5e28
o RPMS/suse/9.0/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.i386.rpm
  f0afcbe0ee004294435ae17c594294e0
o RPMS/suse/9.1/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.i386.rpm
  e87451a9599efd033c0bf0e6fa4c8b91
o RPMS/redhat/7.x/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.i386.rpm
  4d38952256c34d3038e38c1a2fcb3929
o RPMS/redhat/8.0/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.i386.rpm
  ce3fabc16e11ab18d2cd759a29aaa6ee
o SRPMS/suse/7.3/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.src.rpm
  c31c8fb7b7cd6107b66d3ef2f5048d66
o SRPMS/suse/8.x/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.src.rpm
  8c53728544a485182d9ccdf4f3df9826
o SRPMS/suse/9.0/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.src.rpm
  f0e7c959a6bd62023cf7aff19ff6505e
o SRPMS/suse/9.1/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.src.rpm
  1bae55c465c85b2664abac848aaa53b2
o SRPMS/redhat/7.x/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.src.rpm
  726df095e5eb54ad97e5f2b8959bf1e1
o SRPMS/redhat/8.0/otrs-2.0.0-beta1.src.rpm
  565a593d02f0496acee736d21757d04a
o otrs-2.0.0-beta1.tar.gz
  ca4a12b9581d8ce0f57890a1b0820c23
o otrs-2.0.0-beta1.tar.bz2
  55a66ff1924d645bf05794d3552bc37a


Thanks for testing and making OTRS the world leading open source trouble ticket system!

Have a lot of Fun!

Stefan Rother

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