[horde] New releases coming today - Read before update

[Mike]

Thanks so much for doing this!

It is great to see that changes are starting and the software that I  
use and love will continue on.

Mike

Quoting Ralf Lang <ralf.lang at gmail.com>:

> Dear Horde community,
>
> I am pleased to announce an upcoming round of releases later today.
>
> JWT Authentication - Basic support
>
> Horde/Core and Horde/Base now contain infrastructure for JWT based
> authentication. You don't strictly need to update your configuration right
> now. In principle JWT authentication works without sessions but most of
> horde currently needs sessions even for unauthenticated guest screens.
> Little by little we are going to change that. As a rule of thumb, anything
> which needs your username (as you type on login, not as you see after
> login) and password will continue to require a session. This is especially
> true for mail and LDAP. Anything which just needs to know who you are and
> if horde thinks you properly logged in does NOT require a session and can
> gradually migrate to using the JWT solution. This will reduce database
> traffic quite a bit on busy sites, but we mostly developed it as a way to
> open Horde to modern APIs and enterprise authentication flows.
>
> New Login Page
>
> If your Horde installation supports "pretty" urls in its conf.php, the
> Horde Login and Horde Mobile Portal will look somewhat different than you
> are used to. I hope you like the new look. It has been optimized to work
> across all screen sizes and device types (mobile/tablet/tiled desktop/full
> desktop). Please give feedback if you see any accessibility issues with the
> new Login (visually impaired, hard to read on certain scenarios, does not
> support what you did previously...  Also react if coupling this to the
> pretty URL breaks something for you or if you integrate with some external
> login site and the new behaviour causes you any trouble.
>
> New Mobile Portal
>
> This is in fact a bold lie. Horde Base never really had a mobile portal but
> it had a simple list of apps in mobile mode and called that its equivalent
> to the desktop Portal page /horde/services/portal.php - The new page is
> currently a functional equivalent but in a modern style. I hope you like
> the style and it works on your mobile. Please give feedback if this causes
> any issues for you. We actually want to convert all mobile view to the new
> style and technical basis. The current "smartmobile" view is based on an
> outdated technology Jquery Mobile which is no longer actively maintained.
> We need to get off that and at the same time renovate the whole thing so it
> was time for a hard break.
>
>
> This is part of a larger strategy: The mobile technical basis will
> gradually enhanced for tablets and ultimately for desktop screens with
> feature parity to our existing desktop apps. We cannot convert the existing
> desktop views in one go so instead we will gradually build something which
> is as good or better. Some day you will see a switch if you like old mode
> or new mode for each app's desktop.
>
> Improved test.php debugging screen
>
> Under horde/test.php you always had a small debug helper screen which would
> tell you what is wrong with your horde setup if you don't get it to run. We
> have slightly updated its look & feel but more importantly we have added
> new insights to this screen. This will probably see more probes in the next
> iterations. We have only just begun.
>
> New color schemes
>
> For the first time in a while we are shipping a "red" and a "dark" theme
> along with the horde default theme. These are simple colour swaps as proof
> of concept for the new mobile screens. Nothing spectacular and maybe not
> even beautiful. We also have a "material ui" inspired theme which needs
> installation as a composer package but it is somewhat lacking and would
> benefit from half an hour from somebody who actually does frontend
> professionally. ;) Help welcome
>
> Bug Fixes
>
> Torben and Dmitry have worked with the community to provide some bug fixes
> in ActiveSync, postgresql support and Forms generation. I hope the tool kit
> changes will help me give you more regular and more specific status updates
> soon.
>
> Should I update now?
>
> If you run a test/staging setup then by all means yes, try it as soon as we
> release the packages this afternoon/evening and report all issues. Your
> production site should probably wait a week or two.
>
> Regards
>
> Ralf & Team
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