[horde] New releases coming today - Read before update

[Brent]

  I tried it out today on a test environment. I see one "weird"  
display on the new login page (looks snazzy!) where the Language is  
being shown in a non-pretty way:

Language:
‭English (American)

A few of the languages int the dropdown seem to have some encoding  
stuff leaking out.

A more pressing note is that the left-hand sidebar in Turba when  
selecting an address is gone and there's an error when I try to add a  
new contact. Upon testing, this happens when horde/browser is updated  
to 3.0.0alpha8. If I stay on alpha4, then the issue does not exist. 

Error seen after clickong on "New Contact" is:

A fatal error has occurred
finfo_file(): Argument #2 ($filename) must not be empty
in /var/www/horde/vendor/horde/mime/lib/Horde/Mime/Magic.php:171

Does not occur on 3.0.0alpha4 of horde/browser.

brent

Quoting Mike <barjunk at attglobal.net>:

> 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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