The OpenChange project team is happy to announce a new release (1.0 "Borg") is now available for download.

This release is designed to work with the "alpha 18" release of Samba4.  

OpenChange 1.0 provides a working server implementation with support among other numerous features for cached mode and notifications (MAPI but also from external services such as Dovecot). It is working with all Outlook versions and is using SOGo backend for OpenChange as primary storage backend for this release.

OpenChange client libraries have also been greatly improved with the help of developers using it within their development (e.g. evolution-mapi). See the CHANGELOG file in the tarball for full details.

The team would like to thank everyone who helped in making this release, including:

• Olly Betts
• Milan Crha
• Shaheed Haque
• Mathieu Patou
• Aaron Small
• Wolfgang Sourdeau 

We'd also like to acknowledge the continued support of the Microsoft "Dochelp" team - much appreciated.

The OpenChange project team is happy to announce a new release (0.11 "Transporter") is now available for download.

This release is designed to work with the "alpha 16" release of Samba4.  

OpenChange 0.11 provides improved Unicode handling, Kerberos authentication,   Fast Transfer, improved threading support and many, many bug fixes.  See the  CHANGELOG file in the tarball for full details. This version does not provideserver support (which is being refactored, and will be a key part of the 0.12 development).

The team would like to thank everyone who helped in making this release, including:

• Anatoliy Atanasov
• Reiner Bezuidenhout
• Milan Crha
• Sean Finney
• Kamen Mazdrashki
• David McCullough
• Wolfgang Sourdeau
• Philip Spencer
• Andrew Tridgell

We'd also like to acknowledge the continued support of the Microsoft "Dochelp" team - much appreciated.

We are proud to share with you the first preview of the successful OpenChange-SOGo partnership.

 For the last 2 months, the SOGo and OpenChange development teams have been working together on a proof of concept server code designed to change for real the way people use groupware solutions.

SOGo and OpenChange are converging. We are using the best of our technology to provide the first real Open Source and Microsoft Exchange interoperable groupware solution users have been waiting for:

• OpenChange Server is a transparent and native Exchange replacement for Microsoft Outlook users working on top of Samba 4. With OpenChange, you don't need costly MAPI connectors anymore.

• SOGo is a reliable groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards. Let your Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning, Apple iCal/iPhone, BlackBerry and now Microsoft Outlook users collaborate using a modern platform.

The following video shows the growing power of OpenChange and SOGo model:

1. E-Mails are stored on an IMAP server
2. Calendar and Contacts are stored in SOGo backend and edited through SOGo Ajax-based Web interface
3. Messages, events, tasks and contacts are directly exposed to Microsoft Outlook through OpenChange server and its mapistore storage component

References:

• SOGo website: http://www.sogo.nu

The OpenChange project team is happy to announce a new release (0.10) is now available for download.

This release is designed to work with the "alpha 13" release of Samba4.  OpenChange 0.10 code name is NOMAD.  Nomad is a mechanical explorer sent from Earth in 2002.  It was melded with an alien device named Tan Ru and the resulting robotic hybrid began destroying anything that was imperfect including, in 2267, itself.

OpenChange 0.10 provides support for EcDoConnectEx and EcDoRpcExt2, improves UNICODE support in libmapi stack, fix numerous bugs and provides among other things better MAPI properties support. A new snapshot of OpenChange server is included with folder semantics and preliminary message support.

Download openchange-0.10 NOMAD package