Good evening, The OpenChange project team is proud to announce the release of OpenChange 2.1 QUADRANT.
This maintenance release provides all latest fixes and builds against Samba 4.1.7: 1. Drop-in Compatibility for Microsoft Exchange ==================================== The OpenChange team has created the first and only compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft's Exchange protocols used by Microsoft Outlook and compatible clients. OpenChange runs as a service on top of Samba 4.0 Active Directory compatible server and provides Exchange connectivity to all MAPI compatible clients. The immediate benefit of OpenChange server is: **No plugin required for Microsoft Outlook** Another key feature of OpenChange lies in its capability to plug into existing infrastructure and makes use of existing reliable services. OpenChange makes use of your existing messaging server to transmit (Postfix, Exim4) and deliver (Cyrus SASL or Dovecot) emails. Regarding common groupware objects such as tasks, appointments and notes, they are stored in your database server (PostgreSQL, MySQL). OpenChange server also provides support for Outlook Anywhere, formely known as RPC over HTTP. This service allows clients using Microsoft Outlook to connect to their Exchange servers from outside the corporate network. 2. Perfect software combination ========================= The best of OpenChange server and its SOGo backend can be obtained using the following set of softwares. * OpenChange 2.1 QUADRANT * Samba 4.1.7 * SOGo 2.2.3 3. Improvements ============= - update to Samba 4.1.7 - several stability fixes on openchange server - fix building on CentOS 6.5 - remove boost dependency and C++ 11 std instead - rename pymapi to pyopenchange - debugging made easier 4. Bug Fixes ========== * http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/428: additional memory allocation checks in libmapi * http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/427: Add Archived-At in exchange2mbox * http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/426: Solve symbol conflicts with libsmbclient on Debian * http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/425: Fix Freebusy message opening in Exchange 2010 * http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/422: Fix SEGV in OpenUserMailbox * http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/421: Fix potential problems uncovered with gcc -Wextra * http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/420: Check for ndr_pull_mapi2k7_response failing 5. Contributors ============ The team would like to thank everyone who helped in making this release, including (in alphabetical order): - Javier Amor - Olly Betts - Milan Crha - Jesus Garcia - Kamen Mazdrashki - Jean Raby We'd also like to acknowledge the continued support of the Microsoft "Dochelp" team - much appreciated. Julien, for the OpenChange team. -- Julien Kerihuel [email protected] OpenChange Project Founder Twitter: http://twitter.com/jkerihuel GPG Fingerprint: 0B55 783D A781 6329 108A B609 7EF6 FE11 A35F 1F79
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