[announce] Horde 3.1.4-RC1

[Jan Schneider]

The Horde Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the Horde
Application Framework version 3.1.4.

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

Barring any problems, this code will be released as Horde 3.1.4.
Testing is requested and comments are encouraged.
Updated translations would also be great.

Major changes compared to Horde 3.1.3 are:
    * Rewritten Oracle session handler.
    * Added vTimezone support to iCalendar API and ORG support to vCard API.
    * Improved virtual domain support for Cyrus SQL authentication driver.
    * Improved Samba authentication driver.
    * Improved automatic webroot detection.
    * Improved signature dimming.
    * Improved compatibility of generated ZIP files.
    * Fixed validation of some email distribution lists.
    * Several Kolab related fixes.
    * Lots of small fixes and improvements.
    * Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese
      and Traditional Chinese translations.

The full list of changes (from version 3.1.3) can be viewed here:

http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/horde/docs/CHANGES?r1=1.515.2.261&r2=1.515.2.291&ty=h

The Horde 3.1.4-RC1 distribution is available from the following locations:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/horde-3.1.4-rc1.tar.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/horde-3.1.4-rc1.tar.gz

Patches against version 3.1.3 are available at:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/patches/patch-horde-3.1.3-3.1.4-rc1.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/patches/patch-horde-3.1.3-3.1.4-rc1.gz

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

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

MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:

    5a494f618568c4682a2483240a1f4a1a  horde-3.1.4-rc1.tar.gz
    9db065142a6b6a9b7eb86b0ce78668bc  patch-horde-3.1.3-3.1.4-rc1.gz

Have fun!

The Horde Team.