[Kolab-devel] Kolab releases - Debian 8 is going LTS

[Christoph Erhardt]

Hi Jochen,

I have good news for you! :-)

Official support for Debian Stretch was introduced in Kolab 16 a few weeks 
ago. The upgrade from Jessie to Stretch involves a bit of manual labour due to 
the migration from PHP 5 to 7: one may have to make sure that all PHP 5 
packages are replaced with their PHP 7 counterparts. Fortunately, that's an 
O(1) thing. I did the upgrade two months ago and everything is working as 
smoothly as before.

There is one slightly ugly issue with the repository's SHA-1 signature, but it 
can be worked around - see https://git.kolab.org/T3820#56836 for details.

I maintain my recommendation against using Winterfell in production because it 
doesn't provide any stability guarantees. Things may break at any time.

By the way: actually, the diff between Kolab 16 and Winterfell isn't that big. 
Changes from Winterfell are routinely flowing into 16 - which makes Kolab 16 a 
kind of rolling release, I guess.

The one major difference I can name off the top of my head is that Winterfell 
ships an alpha version of the new Elastic theme. Lacking inside knowledge, I 
presume that's supposed to be the defining feature of Kolab 18.

Best regards,
Christoph

On Monday, 2 July 2018 21:44:04 CEST Jochen Hein wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm still running Kolab 16 on Debian Jessie - it's working fine.  But I
> think it's time for me to move forward to the next (supported) Debian
> release Stretch.  Right now I only see Kolab Winterfell as a viable
> option - or perhaps moving to CentOS.  What do other Debian users do?
> 
> I'm happy with Kolab and don't like to fall back to a handcrafted
> installation (I really only need mail and webmail), but there should be
> a plan where we are heading.  What could be a useful plan for Kolab from
> upstream and other community members?
> 
> What's missing from Winterfell to call it Kolab 18 as planned?
> 
> Jochen
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