[horde] New releases coming today - Read before update

[Ralf Lang]

Hi Brent,

thank you for giving this useful feedback. I think I can roll a new version
tomorrow to track this error.

Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com> schrieb am So., 8. März 2026, 19:40:

>   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:
> &#x202d;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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