[announce] Horde 5.1.0beta1

[Jan Schneider]

The Horde Team is pleased to announce the first beta release of the Horde
Application Framework version 5.1.0.

The Horde Application Framework is a flexible, modular, general-purpose web
application framework written in PHP. It provides an extensive array of
components that are targeted at the common problems and tasks involved in
developing modern web applications. It is the basis for a large number of
production-level web applications, notably the Horde Groupware suites.  
For more
information on Horde or the Horde Groupware suites, visit  
http://www.horde.org.

For upgrading instructions, please see
http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/UPGRADING

For detailed installation and configuration instructions, please see
http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/INSTALL

Testing is requested and comments are encouraged.
Updated translations would also be great.

The major changes compared to the Horde 5.0 versions are:
     * Support for NoSQL backends.
     * Checking all installed packages for updates.
     * Further improvements.

The full list of changes can be viewed here:

https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/68ee88b41a191813761f2267e9f1e74138d7d886/horde/docs/CHANGES

Have fun!

The Horde Team.