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.

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.

 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

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

HowTo Install OpenChange From Source

HowTo Setup OpenChange Server

HowTo Setup OpenChange Client

The documentation framework index can also be accessed from Documentation > Wiki and Guides menu link.

http://tracker.openchange.org/projects/openchange/wiki/HowTo_install_an_Exchange_test_lab

The appliance is an Ubuntu server 10.04 Lucid LTS set with minimum requirements. The appliance has a size of 1.7Gb. We have written a guide which explains everything you need to know about this appliance (how to download it, import and configure it) at the following URL:

• http://tracker.openchange.org/projects/openchange/wiki/OpenChange_Appliance

In our effort to provide developers and OpenChange followers the best quality of services, we have finally decided to change our bug tracking system and move from trac to redmine. This new system provides a wiki (which may potentially replace existing wiki.openchange.org on long-term) and has forums enabled (which replaces the existing and buggy openchange website one).

All the tickets and milestones from trac have been migrated to the new service, however we have removed existing accounts for security reasons and kindly ask you to create new accounts on the new tracker.

Please also note that OpenChange forums have been recreated on the tracker and both links to the tracker and forums are available from openchange.org website menu. Depending on DNS propagation, tracker access may be a bit hazardous for the next 48 hours. You can access the tracker at the following address:

• tracker.openchange.org or from the menu (Developer > Bug Tracker and Developer > Community Forum)

• http://abharath.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/mapi-public-folders/
• http://abharath.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/mapi-freebusy/