[horde] New releases coming today - Read before update

[Brent]

  Yep, that seems to have fixed the "Language" dropdown stuff and the  
Turba contact viewing and adding issue. I have horde/browser alpha9  
and horde/horde beta 4. I didn't get a newer horde/core...still on  
beta 3. I don't seem to have a horde/base composer component?

Looks great! I've not moved any users onto this platform just yet, but  
I might do that in a few days. I checked out the new test.php and  
hopefully that helps people figure out what might be amiss in their  
setup.

brent

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

> Hi brent, updating horde/core, horde/base and horde/browser to the  
> latest dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 should fix both issues.      The morning's  
> releases should also cover it but I haven't had time to test this  
> much.
>     
>
>      On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com> wrote:
>
>>   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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