Dear Community, dear EGroupware developers and users,

we are pleased that EGroupware EGroupware 19.1 is now available. Here are some links for more information:

https://www.egroupware.org/de/version-19-1/46
https://www.egroupware.org/en/version-19-1/22
https://www.egroupware.org/de/2019/08/press-release-egroupware-19-1/5
https://www.egroupware.org/en/2019/08/press-release-egroupware-19-1/3
https://www.egroupware.org/de/2019/08/release-announcement-egroupware-19-1/3
https://www.egroupware.org/en/2019/08/release-announcement-egroupware-19-1/2
Docker (in EGroupware 19.1)?
Docker (in EGroupware 19.1)?
SSL-Verschlüsselung mit Let’s Encrypt
SSL Encryption with Let’s Encrypt
Docker-Werkzeuge
Docker Tools
Meine Installation EGroupware 19.1 auf Debian 10
My installation of EGroupware 19.1 on Debian 10

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Attention!
Please read the installation instructions carefully!:

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We have prepared a template for your own documentation or to document the relevant changes for your users:
Work in progress… coming soon.

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The extended Release Notes of the Maintanance Releases are collected in this topics:

Part one to version 19.1.20200318:

Part two from version 19.1.20200409:

in chronological order.

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If you have any questions or suggestions about this post, please post them in the forum.

Kind regards
Your EGroupware Team​

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Content:

New features, preferences or other important things in EGroupware 19.1

• Release notes /Installation requirements
• Docker
• New look
• Rocket.Chat
• Two-Factor-Authentication
• Policies
• Status App
• Admin
• Common
• HTML-Editor
• Collabora
• Mail
• File Manager
• Tracking System

More Information

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Release notes /Installation requirements

We have collected

• General information
• Release notes and distribution specific instructions
• Update recommendations and troubleshooting

in the GitHub-Wiki:

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Docker

For the integration of Rocket.Chat / Collabora Online and the possibility of installation together, we use Docker:

Read more in:

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New look

• Optimized colors and a (carefully) more modern look (more angular, less round):

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• Use of svg graphics also in the web interface (work in progress). This provides (also with HiDPI monitors) a better/sharper look.

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• Colored app icons like in the mobile view:

Can also be switched back to monochrome:

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• User avatar

Not new, but current through the status bar:
It is possible for a user to change his avatar. So it’s possible for a user to add his photo to the avatar.

Requirements:

The user needs the permission to change his avatar in his user account:

Here is a bug in EGroupware. Bhe bug is fixed and will be include with the next Maintanace release.
Fixed in 19.1.20191031

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• The user menu is now on the right side (after a click on the avatar):

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Rocket.Chat

The Rocket.Chat-App in EGroupware is an app to integrate the Rocket.Chat-web-client and to connect with the EGroupware-status-app. You can use your own Rocket.Chat-server installed with the egroupware-docker - package or any other Rocket.Chat-server.

If you run your own Rocket.Chat-server installed by the egroupware-docker - package, you must configure the server!:

More information about Rocket.Chat will follow later in a separate post.

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Two-Factor-Authentication

We have integrated 2-factor authentication. More detailed information will follow in a separate post.

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• Remember me

The funktion Remember me is now more secure. The access data are no longer stored unencrypted in a cookie.

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Policies

• Address Book (EPL Only2): Introduction of policies per address book to support GDPR regulations including option to print as pdf for work instructions and process directories. For example

  • Manual policy e.g. for the documentation of work instructions

  • Mail policy for verification of contact information with option to confirm further storage or deletion of data. - Hide policy: with this you can make birthday or other standard fields of the address book visible only for certain groups and hide the fields for all others.

  • Mandatory fields policy: this allows you to mark standard fields or user-defined fields in a certain address book as mandatory fields, while the fields in other address books can be optional. E.g. customer number

  • Write protection policy: this can be used to make individual fields readable for the majority, while write permission is reserved for certain groups.

  • Deletion policy: this allows you to define rules for deleting entries, e.g. depending on when something was last changed in the contact itself or a linked Infolog entry, the contact is due for deletion after x months.

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Status App

A new app for displaying the status of users.

• The status display appears as a vertical bar on the right edge of the window.

• During a mouse-over, the name of the user is displayed.

• Right-clicking on a user displays a context menu. This can be used to start a private chat or to write an e-mail. In addition, a user can be marked as a favorite or removed as such. Favorites slide up over the black hyphen.

• The status of the user is displayed as a colored circle in the avatar. When a user is logged into EGroupware, his avatar is displayed clearly.

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Admin

• Admin (EPL Only2): Documentation of changes in the admin area including “Reason and on behalf of …”.

In order to fulfil the requirements of the EU-GDPDU and to facilitate the internal documentation in an organisation, it is now possible to document changes to data records:

The possibility exists in:

• User accounts
• User groups
• Application administration
• Categories
• Custom fields
• Site configuration

The documented information can be called and printed in Admin queue and history:

The change in detail:

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• Ability to set the visible buttons for all users (Mail, Calendar):

It is now possible to set the visible action-icons (all others in More...) for all Users together:

This function is only visible to administrators.

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• delete account allows to choose per app what happens with the data

It is now possible to select the entries (Calendar|Addressbook|Infolog) which should be transferred to a user:

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Common

• Remove jPicker
  We have removed the jPicker-library. This reduces the dependency on external libarys.
  Now EGroupware use the native one from the system. For example:

Windows 7:

Linux (Mint):

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• Flags in the country-indicators

We have implement a database to display the flags in the country selections:

Adress book:

or in the Common preferences:

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• Letter avatar

We have implement letter avatare for users/adressbook entrys without picture as avatar:

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• Link file dialog

We have made several improvements to the link file dialog:

1. Calling the Favorites
2. Search in folder
3. Clickable and editable path

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HTML-Editor

We have changes the Text/HTML-Editor from CKEditor to TinyMCE

• Reason:

Security: The TinyMCE fully supports "Content Security Policy (CSP) , with the CKEditor this was only possible to a limited extent in the HTML Editor until now.

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• With the TinyMCE we also updated the look and feel. The editor now looks much more modern:

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• Insert text as text: Changed handling

To insert text without formatting, the function has changed a bit. The button is now activated by a click and you can insert the text. By a click on the button one deactivates the function again.

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• More list-styles

Several styles are now available for listings:

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• Configure the editor

The HTML-Editor in mail compose has a fix set of functions/icons:

In/for other places (e.g. Project Manager) the set of functions/icons can be edited and switch the menu bar on/off.
These settings can be set in
Settings/Common preferences/Text editor setting

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• Browser spell check

The browser spell check now works also in HTML-Modus inclusive “Add to user dictionary”. Example in German:

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• Edit picture

With TinyMCE it is now possible to edit the inserted picture:

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Collabora

• Send as mail
  It is now possible to send the in Collabora Online opened document directly as email, (or share the file…)

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• Insert picture from EGw File Manager

It is now possible to insert a picture from the EGroupware File Manager directly via menue/dialog:

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• Support-key for supportet version

It is now possible to insert a licence-key for a local installed Collabora online directly in EGroupware:

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Mail

• changing the subject of an email:

It is now possible to change the subject of an email.

There are two ways to call this function:

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File Manager

• Clickable and editable path in filemanager:

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• edit share-link

It is now possible to view an existing share-link and to edit a share:

View link (to copy the link in a webbrowser or email):

Edit a share:

• Expiration
• Password
• Writable
• Delete the share

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• Writing Collabora link (EPL Only2), with which one can give external direct access to a single file, which is opened with Collabora in the instance.

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Tracking System

• add attachments to comments

It is now possible to add files to a comment:

The files will be included both in the commentary:

as well as in the list of links and can be opened accordingly.

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• edit ticket comments

It is now possible to edit an existing comment:

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Other

• Outlook CalDAV Synchronizer

We have entered into a partnership with Generalize-IT Solutions OG, the manufacturers of Outlook CalDAV Synchronizer.
The partnership enables us to provide a well working sync client for Outlook. This Sync-Client is free, but can also be purchased with professional support directly from EGroupware GmbH.

More information:

https://caldavsynchronizer.org/

If you don’t want to buy a supported version, you can and should still support the developers:
https://caldavsynchronizer.org/donate/

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• Old templates/themes

With the package installation (Docker container) we no longer deliver old templates/themes (e.g. jdots).

The default template is available as :

• Default
• Compact
• Monochrome
• (Mobile)

With these templates you can set some things up for yourself: colors, logos, names, login screen, …

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More Information

You can find more Informations in this topics:

Docker (in EGroupware 19.1)?
SSL Encryption with Let’s Encrypt

As always, we offer commercial support for the update or migration: