Horde4 News: An early Horde4 release for Kolab-Server-2.2.4

[Gunnar Wrobel]

A while back p at rdus promised an early alpha of Horde4 for the Kolab  
Server for today (see the roadmap at  
http://log.pardus.de/2010/11/horde4kolab-road-map.html). Which would  
have been followed by the release of the Horde4 mail client and the  
new mobile mail view in the following weeks. But as the Horde  
developer team has been quick to provide the new mobile view there is  
no need to delay the delivery of the mail client and the mobile portal  
any further. So you get a little bit more than promised today but as  
it is St Nicholas' Day that seems to be just fair.

Of course all the usual warnings apply. This is an extremely early  
packaging attempt. It is not well prepared and the installation  
procedure is flawed. There will be no upgrade path. Doing the  
following on your server has a high chance of damaging the system. Do  
not even think about installing the packages on a productive machine.  
In addition the packages just install the mail part of Horde and won't  
provide a lot of new functionality. And since there are tons of issues  
the stuff that is new is likely to be broken.

But those of you who have a spare machine with a throw-away Kolab  
Server 2.2.4 can try to install the packages using the following steps  
(this assumes your server is up and running):

wget http://files.pardus.de/horde4-20101206.sh
chmod u+x horde4-20101206.sh
/horde4-20101206.sh

You should be able to access the Horde4 installation at  
http://your-domain.com/client4.

Any kind of feedback is of course appreciated and will be used to  
improve the packages during the months to come. p at rdus will also  
continue testing and bug fixing of the packages while the final phases  
of the Horde4 development continue.

Now there are no December items of the roadmap left. So p at rdus will  
continue the next weeks with highlighting the new elements you can  
expect to find in Horde4. This should be accompanied with a few bug  
fix releases. In addition it is planned to provide you with a demo  
server in case you do not have a spare machine to test the new  
packages. So stay tuned!

P.S.: This is of course my very first e-mail sent with the Horde4 mail  
client. Feels good ;)

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