From: Kevin C. <ke...@lo...> - 2006-05-08 20:56:45
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Hi everyone, It looks like we're going to have to make some cosmetic changes to the 2.2 release. We really need to make an interim release in about 4 weeks time which will add in support for both MS SQL and Oracle backends. This will also add in the use of Xapian as a text search engine, which will help make MailManager more portable to other databases. There won't be any change to the previously noted 2.2 features, or to the release date, only to the numbering, as it will now renamed to 2.3. It's possibly a little unnecessary to do this, but the newly planned 2.2 release will need to be supported through the normal process. It's also too much of a change to be considered as a point release, which are really intended to be used for bugfixes alone. On the plus side, this does mean that we're getting a good amount of money from paying customers in order to support development on MailManager. It also means that you will be getting an updated version which will run on MS SQL or Oracle should you so wish. There won't be much need to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 unless you particularly want this support, so I would suggest upgrading to 2.1 once it is released rather than waiting for the new 2.2. Bugs and support will be dealt with identically for both versions. K |