[ANN] SOGo-0.9-20070824 released

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

Inverse team is happy to announce the pre-release 0.9-20070824 of Scalable 
OpenGroupware.org (alias "SOGo").

[ Release 1.0 ]

SOGo has evolved a lot during this past year and we will soon be able to make a 
release 1.0 of our project. Inverse groupe conseil invites you to test is 
extensively and report bugs. Also, we would be glad to hear about your 
experience, in particular if you are using it in a work environment. This way, 
we will be able to provide a free groupware suite with enough functionalities 
and ease of use that proprietary equivalents will be made obsolete.

[ What is SOGo ? ]

SOGo is a flavour of OGo that was redesigned for scalability while keeping the 
fundamental functionalities of a groupware server. It can be used both as a Web 
application with a user interface that integrates well with the Mozilla 
application suite, or as a GroupDAV and CalDAV server which you can then access 
from your native client application of choice such as Mozilla Thunderbird and 
Lightning.

Inverse has contributed to SOGo many enhancements and features, such as :

- Fresh AJAX-based user interface which mimics the Thunderbird / Lighthing / 
Sunbird look and feel while reducing resource usage
- Calendar, address book and IMAP folder sharing
- Exchange and Oracle Calendar-compatible ACLs
- Tasks support and vCard storage support for contacts
- Multiple address books per user and LDAP-based address books
- CalDAV support
- Auto-creation of database tables for an easier setup
- IMAP-based draft handling (compose, reply, forward and save)
- Email printing

[ SOGo on the Web ]

Screenshots of the Web interface for the calendar, address book and email 
modules are available from :

http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-calendar.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-contacts.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-mail.jpg
and of the native interface provided by Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning :

http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-calendar.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-contacts.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-mail.jpg

We now have a demo website where you can experience SOGo from the web or with 
your preferred CalDAV client:

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

Finally, you can also visit Inverse's website (http://inverse.ca) which 
contains more information and videos about SOGo 
(http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo.html), our Thunderbird GroupDAV 
plugin (http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/thunderbird_groupdav_plugin.html) 
and our Lightning Enhancer plugin 
(http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/lightning_enhancer_plugin.html).

Helge Hess has kindly updated his SOGo webpage by mentionning and linking to 
the Inverse Edition:
http://sogo.opengroupware.org/

[ Changes since the last release ]
- added the ability to choose the default module from the
  application settings: "Calendars", "Contacts" or "Mail";
- added the ability to show or hide the password change dialog from the
  application settings;
- put a work-around in the LDAP directory code to avoid fetching all the
  entries whenever a specific one is being requested;
- added support for limiting LDAP queries with the SOGoLDAPQueryLimit and
  the SOGoLDAPSizeLimit settings;
- fixed a bug where folders starting with digits would not be displayed;
- improved IE7 and Safari support: priority menus, attendees selector,
  search fields, textarea sizes;
- added the ability to print messages from the mailer toolbar;
- added the ability to use and configure SMTP as the email transport instead
  of sendmail;
- rewrote the handling of draft objects to comply better with the behaviour of
  Thunderbird;
- added a German translation based on Thunderbird;
- the online documentation was updated;

Existing installations should update their database by running the sql update 
scripts under the Script/ directory.

[ 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/uploads/SOGo/SOGo-20070824.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

Please note that this release relies on the latest version of SOPE available in 
SVN.
Also, there might be fixes for bugs in SOPE which we already addressed but that 
were not yet commited.

[ Getting support ]

For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing an email to : 
address@hidden

We are continuously working on the project and a full-featured release 1.0 is 
to come very soon!