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Release notes 16.1

Ralf Becker edited this page Jun 30, 2016 · 12 revisions

What's new in EGroupware 16.1

It contains many improvements AND lot's of bugfixes over the 14.3 release. To name a few:

  • Calendar: complete rewrite of user interface for improved functionality, drag&drop, context menu
  • Mobile: new mobile phone and tablet user interface offering compact display for mobile phones
  • Desktop: new brighter desktop template, lots of work on usebility and look & feel
  • Mail/InfoLog: PGP end-to-end encryption using Mailvelope plugin (InfoLog EPL only)
  • eSync: update to Z-Push 2.3 fixing several Android problems and syncs Outlook 2013/6

Installation requirements

  • PHP 5.4 required, PHP 7.0 or 5.6 recommended
  • MariaDB 5.1+ incl. Galera Cluster, 10.1 recommended or
  • MySQL 5.1+, 5.7 recommended or
  • PostgreSQL 9.1+

Installation instructions

Please note / Erata

  • when updating from previous version eSync (Active Sync) profiles have to be deleted on device and recreated (CalDAV/CardDAV is NOT affected)!
  • to speed up PHP you should install an opcode cache like OpCache (or APC for PHP 5.4)
  • EGroupware relies havily on caching: it does this by default in filesystem, to improve speed you should install APC or APCu PHP extension with at least 128MB memory (apc.shm_size * apc.shm_segments >= 128MB)
  • for updates from versions before 14.3 also refer to release notes of version 14.2
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