Monday, 19 February 2007
Buni Meldware 1.0M7 released
« RANT: Adobe and Flex ant tasks licensing | Main | Making Webmail/Webcalendar that doesn't suck: State of the Meldware pt1 »I think that this new release of our open source groupware package, Buni Meldware Communication Server 1.0M7 is our most significant to date. You can web install it by clicking here or download the signed installation jar here and execute it with the Java 5.0 "java -jar" command.
This release is our first really usable IMAP release (promoted to BETA quality). As mentioned Mike Barker has been making some great performance leaps in our MIME, IMAP and storage areas. Meanwhile Aron Sogor has integrated a new Flex calendar control by Adobe Flex team member Ely Greenfield into our Web Client. If you're a Flex developer BTW you can build it from our repository and use it separately in your own code (ATM it requires checking out way more of our source than you need but we're working on that). I've added a new Graphical Administration tool which makes creating users and mail lists (among other things) a breeze. Hoshi Seigo and I got downloading attachments working in the webmail and Hoshi also got some of the work of translating the installer to Japanese under way! Needless to say, these are just the highlights!
You might notice that the calendar has rolled a few days past our expected release of M7; however, M7 also exceeds its original scope a little bit as well. Mainly this is some extended QA testing on our part and any release of this significance was bound to uncover a few bugs. Thankfully our dogfooding of the release has proven a very effective method for finding the biggest issues. You'll find that the documentation is already available, but will doubtlessly improve in the days to come. I will enjoy chatting with each of you in the forums about Meldware Communication Suite -- more than a pretty face, the first open source groupware that doesn't suck! ;-)
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