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Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with existing infrastructure and applications.

We've released ZCS 5.0 RC1 and it's now available for download at: http://www.zimbra.com

Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with exising infrastructure and applications.

We've released ZCS 4.5.6.
ZCS 4.5.7 contains 160 fixed issues. A full list of fixes and changes can be found at:

http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_patch.php?patch=4_5_7&status=Released%20\(09/18/07)&rel=4.5&relName=Frank

We are pleased to announce that Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 Beta 3
(FRANKLIN) has been released!

This is beta software, and under no circumstances should this be installed
on a production system.

You can view more information on pmweb:
http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_release.php?rel=5.0

This is not the next release in the bug fix cycle for 4.5.6. 4.5.7 is the
next scheduled production release. ... read more

We've released ZCS 4.5.6 for RHEL5 32 & 64. Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with exising infrastructure and applications

ZCS 4.5.6 contains 121 fixes. A full list of fixes and changes can be found at:

http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_patch.php?patch=4_5_6&status=Released%20\(06/28/07)&rel=4.5&relName=Frank... read more

We are pleased to announce that Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 Beta 2
(FRANKLIN) has been released!

This is beta software, and under no circumstances should this be installed
on a production system.

You can view more information on pmweb:
http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_release.php?rel=5.0

This is not the next release in the bug fix cycle for 4.5.6. 4.5.7 is the
next scheduled production release.

New platforms introduced with the 5.0.0 Beta are:
RHEL5 32-bit
RHEL5 64-bit
OpenSUSE 10.2 32-bit
SLES 10 32-bit

We've released ZCS 4.5.6
ZCS 4.5.6 contains 121 fixes. A full list of fixes and changes can be found at:

http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_patch.php?patch=4_5_6&status=Released%20\(06/28/07)&rel=4.5&relName=Frank

We are pleased to announce that Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 Beta 1 (FRANKLIN) has been released!

This is beta software, and under no circumstances should this be installed on a production system.

You can view more information on pmweb:
http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_release.php?rel=5.0

This is not the next release in the bug fix cycle for 4.5.5. 4.5.6 is the next scheduled production release.

New platforms introduced with the 5.0.0 Beta are:
RHEL5 32-bit
RHEL5 64-bit
OpenSUSE 10.2 32-bit
SLES 10 32-bit... read more

We've released ZCS 4.5.5
ZCS 4.5.5 contains 79 fixes. A full list of fixes and changes can be found at:

http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_patch.php?patch=4_5_5&status=Released%20\(05/02/07)&rel=4.5&relName=Frank

The 4.5.3 release fixes a number of bugs in 4.5.2. The impact of bug 14984 was that incoming 8 bit messages could be permanently corrupted when they enter the ZCS. This has impacted several customers outside the
United States, and customers anywhere receiving mail from people outside the United States. This major bug existed only in 4.5.2 and is fixed in 4.5.3. We also believe that the periodic issues with the web client
failing to load in IE7 have been fixed. Please provide feedback on this via support or bug 12318. Please see the release notes for full details.

4.5.2 adds beta support for Ubuntu Network Edition as well as addressing many issues found in previous releases.

For a full list of items fixed please see the release notes and/or bugzilla.

The 4.5.1 release contains a substantial number of bug fixes. For a full list of items fixed please see the release notes and/or bugzilla.

Always pleased to announce a new release of ZCS. 4.5.0 GA has 90+ new features as well as 1000+ bug fixes.

A few of the new features include
- Mail Identities
- Personal Distribution Lists
- Complex password enforcement
- Zimlet management via administration console
- Zimbra basic html client

Full release notes will be posted soon.

This release contains about 25 bug fixes.

We are pleased to announce the release of developer build 4.5.0 Beta 1.

This release of ZCS includes numerous bug fixes as well as several new features.
- Complex Password Enforcement
- Email Identities
- Personal distribution lists
- Server performance improvements
- Backup/Restore in Admin Console
- Admin Console Search Builder
- User-set default fonts
- HTML compose
- Server upgrade to MySQL 5.0
- Domino migration wizard

ZCS 4.0.3 includes fixes for 55 bugs and enhancements. It has significant improvements in calendar behavior and fixes a bug in Trash folder viewing that was troubling many folks. It also includes upgrade speed improvements. This allows the upgrade to take much better advantage of installs that have multiple disks available to MySQL.

Release 4.0.2 includes beta support for the Ubuntu 6 linux distribution as well as several other fixes. A detailed list of the fixes are included in the release notes.

The majority of fixes made were in the upgrade process. However, there were a few fixes in the core product that for some customers may warrant an
upgrade.

The significant new features in this release include Zimbra Documents, shared address books, sharing with distribution lists, theme support, keyboard navigation, Zimbra Assistant, auto-completion from the global address book, and virtual hosting. Calendar migration from PST files and Exchange servers is now supported. Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat EL4 64-bit are now also supported.

3.1 introduces MacOSX as a supported OS for the Network Edition.

We've also added the following new features:

- Resource scheduling (including search by resource
location/attributes, resource-specific
auto-complete, resource auto-respond)
- Calendar alerts (web-based)
- User-controlled forwarding, enabled by COS (+ keep copy option)
- Outlook archiving
- Postfix queue visibility and management in Admin UI
- Nightly postfix summary report
- Admin UI view of users by storage/quota consumed
- Automated spam training via Junk / Not Junk buttons
- DSPAM filter for SpamAssassin
- BETA: Safari browser support
- BETA: Treo 650 calendar sync
- BETA: Treo 700w (and other Windows Mobile 5 devices) calendar/contacts sync
- Many additional smaller features and bug fixes... read more

Bug fixes:
- Mailbox move
- Firefox 1.0.x HTML message view
- i18n date parsing

Zimbra[1] is now out of beta. We've made a lot of progress since our initial release in August of 2005. Over 1500 members have joined our forums[2] and thousands have downloaded[3] our collaboration suite.

Current supported platforms:
- Fedora Core 3 and 4
- Red Hat EL4
- SuSE ES9 and 10
- Mac OS X
- Debian
** CVS access[4] for those who want to roll their own.

New features including:
- Full group calendar with sharing and delegation
- Spell Check
- Zimlets
- Outlook Support (Network Edition)
- Rich REST API's
- PST import tool
- Exchange 5.5/2000/2003 migration tools
- AJAX UI performance improvements
- Many additional features and bug fixes... read more

Bug fix to the calendar where event with attendees are moved/lost if they are edited.

This Beta3 Update release addresses some known issues with the original Beta3 release. If you have already installed Beta3, you should upgrade to Beta3 Update. If you have not installed Beta3, you should bypass it and go directly to Beta3 Update. For more details on the Beta3 Update, please refer to the Release Notes.

Also added a Debian developer preview build for the first time.

ZCS 3.0 Beta 3 (aka Milestone 3) has been released. You can get the Open Source Edition from the downloads page(http://www.zimbra.com/community/downloads.php). The Network Edition is available for a 60 day free trial(http://www.zimbra.com/products/download_network.html). Current Network customers or trial participants can get the latest release from the support portal (http://www.zimbra.com/support/).... read more

Something we've wanted to do for some time now is make our very latest code available. Today we've released the first of many devloper builds. These builds are the same builds we are running internally for our @zimbra.com mail. We plan to update these about once a week but don't hold us to it.

Notes:
Developer builds are not designed for production use. They've had little or no-testing. Use these at your own risk. They may cause your computer to stop working and burst into flames. They will not work or install over a Network build. That said they are great for checking out the latest features or validating a bug that has now been fixed. If you choose to install these please give us your feedback and post any bugs you find on the forums.... read more