[announce] Horde 3.1 (final)

[Jan Schneider]

The Horde Team is pleased to announce the final release of the Horde
Application Framework version 3.1.

The Horde Application Framework is a modular, general-purpose web application
framework written in PHP.  It provides an extensive array of classes that are
targeted at the common problems and tasks involved in developing modern web
applications.

Major changes compared to the Horde 3.1-RC3 version are:
    * Small bugfixes and improvements.

Major changes compared to the Horde 3.0 versions are:
    * User changes:
      - Support for expiring and resetting of passwords.
      - Detection of "phishing" attempts in HTML MIME viewer.
      - Improved synchronization support.
      - "My Account Information" portal block.
      - Link to options of all applications from the sidebar menu.
      - Audio notifications.
      - Improved accessibility.
      - Improved support for right-to-left languages.
      - New themes: Idea and High Contrast.
      - New languages: Hebrew, Icelandic, Khmer.
      - Improved import of CSV data.
      - Dynamic table resorting.
    * Administrator changes:
      - Compatible with PHP 5.1.
      - Support for alternate login screens and redirection on logout.
      - Separate DB table for much improved performance of History library.
      - Improved caching.
      - Improved MS-SQL support.
      - Improved Kolab support.
      - Support for counting and listing of active sessions.
      - More flexible permissions for application features.
      - Support for fixed portal blocks.
      - Support for sending problem reports to ticket systems.
    * Developer changes:
      - Library additions: imtest driver for IMSP, REST driver for RPC, Samba
        driver for VFS, LDAP driver for Group, and Generic SMTP driver for SMS
        library.
      - Several new field types for Form library.

The full list of changes (from version 3.0.9) can be viewed here:

http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/horde/docs/CHANGES?r1=1.515.2.167.2.16&r2=1.515.2.222&ty=h

The Horde 3.1 distribution is available from the following locations:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/horde-3.1.tar.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/horde-3.1.tar.gz

Patches against version 3.0.9 are available at:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/patches/patch-horde-3.0.9-3.1.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/patches/patch-horde-3.0.9-3.1.gz

Or, for quicker access, download from your nearest mirror:

    http://www.horde.org/mirrors.php

MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:

    4761fc976e72ece7e8257cfb5c5f86b9  horde-3.1.tar.gz
    30b324a594370c140918f7d69bd2650f  patch-horde-3.0.9-3.1.gz

Have fun!

The Horde Team.