Release Notes 17.1

What's new in EGroupware 17.1

It contains many improvements and lot's of bugfixes over the 16.1 release. To name a few:

Collabora: integration of Collabora Libre Office Online allowing to edit office document in browser
Collabora: free of charge trial via EGroupware GmbH Collabora server farm
All apps: merge print now also opens merged documents in Collabora app
All apps: new notification system showing notifications in, by default hidden, sidebar
Mail: server-side S/Mime support (does not require browser plugins)
Mail: SpamTitian integration: white- and black-listing of addresses, ham/spam marking of mails
Mail: improved privacy allowing to not automatic load external images
ProjectManager: role-based notifications
Admin: new group-list and export of all ACL rights
Nginx: support for Debian and Ubuntu packages: apt install nginx php-fpm egroupware-epl

Installation requirements

PHP 5.6 required, PHP 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 recommended
MariaDB 5.1+ incl. Galera Cluster, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 recommended or
MySQL 5.1+, 5.7 recommended or
PostgreSQL 9.1+

Installation instructions

Community version English, Deutsch/German, EPL Version English, Deutsch/German
Open Build Service repository via package management of your Linux distribution is our prefered installation method, because of easy of permanent updates
Installation with Git & myrepos via Github
Archives not recommended, because difficult to update!
for RHEL and CentOS 7 (or 6) we recommend PHP 7.0 from IUS Community repo, which need to be installed before EGroupware
EGroupware GmbH offers special prices assisting you with the update, Deutsch

Please note / Errata

To speed up PHP you should install an opcode cache like OpCache
EGroupware relies heavily on caching: it does this by default in filesystem, to improve speed you should install APCu PHP extension with at least 128MB memory (apc.shm_size * apc.shm_segments >= 128MB)
Collabora trial (or any other external) Collabora Server requires access to you EGroupware installation! A local installation not accessible from the internet will NOT work with a public Collabora server.
Initial 17.1.20171115 package creates pictures migrate from addressbook with owner root and therefore inaccessible by webserver. To fix that run:

chown -R <webserver-user> /var/lib/egroupware # Debian/Ubuntu: www-data, RHEL/CentOS: apache, SUSE: wwwrun

New installs no longer contain the following (deprecated) modules by default, thought you can still install them separately via your package manager (or all together via egroupware-epl-compat archive). In-place-updates update them as expected.

SiteMgr

KnowledgeBase

Wiki

SambaAdmin (Samba 3 LDAP integration, use ActiveDirectory for Samba4)

phpFreeChat (not available with PHP 7.0+)

jDots (aka Stylite) template (11.1 default template with iDots look and tabs)

old eTemplate 1 app and phpgwapi (new eTemplate2 and current API are in api directory / egroupware-epl-core package)

Groups app for long time community users is available in a 16.1 compatible version through the same repo.
For updates from versions before 16.1 also refer to release notes of version 16.1

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