[announce] Kronolith H3 (2.2-ALPHA)

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

The Horde Team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the Kronolith
Calendar Application version H3 (2.2).

Kronolith is the Horde calendar application.  It provides web-based calendars
backed by a SQL database or a Kolab server.  Supported features include shared
calendars, remote calendars, meeting management, alarms, recurring events, and
a sophisticated day/week view which handles arbitrary numbers of overlapping
events.

This is a preview version that should not be used on production systems.  This
version is considered feature complete but there might still be a few bugs.
You should not use this preview version over existing production data.

We encourage widespread testing and feedback via the mailing lists or our bug
tracking system.  Updated translations are very welcome, though some strings
might still change before the final release.

Kronolith version H3 (2.2) is a major upgrade in the 2.x release series,
including these enhancements:
    * Support for the Horde_Alarm system (requires Horde 3.2) for email or
      inline alarms on any event.
    * Improved iCalendar and vCalendar support, including support for
      alarms, timezones, better integration with remote calendars, and
      better support for remote clients.
    * Improved event recurrence, including events that recur a specific
      number of times, recurrence by day of the year and by weekday of the
      year, the choice of editing or deleting a recurring event as either
      the full series or an individual exception, and the ability to remove
      recurrence exceptions.
    * WCAG 1.0 Priority 2/Section 508 accessibility guidelines compliance.
    * Users can get a daily agenda email.
    * Holidays can be displayed using the Date_Holiday package.
    * Event delegation - users can have permissions to creat events on behalf
      of other users.
    * Events can be marked private.
    * More dynamic user interface, including dynamic page refreshes to update
      the main calendar view when switching between dates or month/day/week/
      work week/year views, a collapsible panel that provides quick access
      to all calendars and allows searching of calendars, a dynamic event
      edit interface that puts less commonly used options out of site by
      default, quick switching between the view, edit, and delete interfaces,
      and autocompletion of attendees from the user's address book.
    * Full Kolab webclient support
    * Database access can be split between read and write databases.
    * More graceful operation if the calendar backend is not available.
    * and much, much more.

The full list of changes (from version H3 (2.1.5)) can be viewed here:

http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/kronolith/docs/CHANGES?r1=1.165.2.149&r2=1.380&ty=h

The Kronolith H3 (2.2-ALPHA) distribution is available from the following locations:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/kronolith/kronolith-h3-2.2-alpha.tar.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/kronolith/kronolith-h3-2.2-alpha.tar.gz

Patches against version H3 (2.1.5) are available at:

    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/kronolith/patches/patch-kronolith-h3-2.1.5-h3-2.2-alpha.gz
    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/kronolith/patches/patch-kronolith-h3-2.1.5-h3-2.2-alpha.gz

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

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

MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:

    8ad421ffeb4eda2aff20bd94d5ecbac9  kronolith-h3-2.2-alpha.tar.gz
    43eb9380f5c32e14d3656896b222bb3b  patch-kronolith-h3-2.1.5-h3-2.2-alpha.gz

Have fun!

The Horde Team.