On 2013-04-16 06:05, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
> Hello folks > > We can proudly announce the next stable release of Roundcube. This > version enhances the webmail experience with these new features: > > * Improved rendering of forwarded and attached messages > * Optionally display and compose email messages a new windows > * Unified UI for message view and composition > * Show sender photos from contacts in email view > * Render thumbnails for image attachments > * Download all attachments as zip archive (using the zipdownload plugin) > * Forward multiple emails as attachments > * CSV import for contacts > > The major change of this version isn't really visible to the users but > even more important for the developers: the Roundcube framework. We > decoupled the core functions for IMAP access, SMTP email sending, > database abstraction, caching, etc. from the webmail application in > order to make them usable for other free software products. > > Another major change since the 0.8 series is the new database > abstraction layer. In order to add support for SQLite3, the PEAR:MDB2 > dependency was dropped and Roundcube now uses the native PHP Data > Objects (PDO). It's enabled by default since PHP 5.1 and is considered > stable and well-developed. One drawback, however, is a small lack in > the MySQL PDO driver which makes PHP 5.3 a requirement for this > version of Roundcube when using the MySQL database. > > A minor but rather handy improvement is a complete new database update > mechanism that makes schema changes much easier to be deployed. After > the upgrade, simply run bin/updatedb.sh to apply the necessary changes > to the database Roundcube connects to. In case you used > bin/installto.sh to perform the update, the schema upgrades are done > applied and no further actions are required. > > After lots of testing and collecting your feedback, this version is > considered stable and it also includes the recently discovered > vulnerability that allows an attacker to modify its users preferences > in a way that he can then read arbitrary files from the server. We > therefore recommend to update all productive installations of > Roundcube. > > Download both the webmail and the framework packages from > http://roundcube.net/download [1] > Read the full list of changes here: http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog [2] > > IMPORTANT: We're still getting a lot of support requests from users > who are under the impression that Roundcube is a public service such > as Gmail or Hotmail. Unfortunately we cannot help these people and > thus we'd like to encourage everybody once more to enter an URL to the > option named 'support_url' in the Roundcube config. This will be > display a link on all screens including the login page that should > guide your users to instructions how to get help for your specific > email service that uses Roundcube. > > Thanks a lot for using Roundcube and for your support! > > Best, > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Roundcube Development discussion mailing list > dev@lists.roundcube.net > http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/dev [3] TQ for the great work. Keep it up. Links: ------ [1] http://roundcube.net/download [2] http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog [3] http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/dev
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