The Roundcube project news

We proudly announce the first service release for the 0.9 series of Roundcube. As usual, it contains
some bug fixes and improvements which didn't make it into the first stable version as well as some translation updates. After getting reports that some skin images weren't reloaded due to progressive cache settings, the packaged version now comes with unique urls of skin images referenced by templates and CSS files.

It's considered stable and we recommend to update all productive installations of Roundcube with this version. Download it from http://roundcube.net/download, see the full changelog here.

We proudly announce the next stable release of Roundcube. This version enhances the webmail experience with these new features:

* Improved rendering of forwarded and attached messages
* Optionally display and compose email messages a new windows
* Unified UI for message view and composition
* Show sender photos from contacts in email view
* Render thumbnails for image attachments
* Download all attachments as zip archive (using the zipdownload plugin)
* Forward multiple emails as attachments
* CSV import for contacts

The major change of this version isn't really visible to the users but even more important for the developers: the Roundcube framework. We decoupled the core functions for IMAP access, SMTP email sending, database abstraction, caching, etc. from the webmail application in order to make them usable for other free software products.

Another major change since the 0.8 series is the new database abstraction layer. In order to add support for SQLite3, the PEAR:MDB2 dependency was dropped and Roundcube now uses the native PHP Data Objects (PDO). It's enabled by default since PHP 5.1 and is considered stable and well-developed. One drawback, however, is a small lack in the MySQL PDO driver which makes PHP 5.3 a requirement for this version of Roundcube when using the MySQL database.

After lots of testing and collecting your feedback, this version is considered stable and it also includes the recently discovered vulnerability that allows an attacker to modify its users preferences in a way that he can then read arbitrary files from the server. We therefore recommend to update all productive installations of Roundcube.

Download both the webmail and the framework packages from http://roundcube.net/download
Read the full list of changes here: http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog

P.S. Starting with version 0.9.0, there's now professional service and support available for Roundcube. See https://kolabsys.com/news/roundcube-services-and-support-roundcubes-lead-developers

We just published new releases which fix a recently reported vulnerability that allows an attacker to access files on the server. Please update your installations with the new versions or patch them with the fix which is also published in the downloads section or our sourceforge.net page.

Download the latest version from http://roundcube.net/download

Patch for 0.9.x: http://ow.ly/jtQD0
Patch for 0.8.x: http://ow.ly/jtQHM
Patch for 0.7.x: http://ow.ly/jtQK0
Patch for 0.6: http://ow.ly/jtQNd

In order to find out whether one of your users has vulnerable preferences, you can run the following query on the Roundcube user database:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE preferences LIKE '%generic_message_footer%'

If this returns any results, you should block that user because he or she most likely tried to exploit your system.

And here's some background about the vulnerability: http://lists.roundcube.net/pipermail/dev/2013-March/022328.html

We just published the feature-complete release candidate for the upcoming version 0.9. After adding some neat new features in 0.9-beta we now stabilized the code for the final release.

Download it from http://roundcube.net/download and please report remaining bugs to our bug tracker.

Today we can announce another release of the Roundcube webmail package. This is a service update to the stable 0.8 version. It contains small bug fixes and improvements as well as fixes for a recently reported XSS vulnerability. See the CHANGELOG file for details.

We consider it stable and we recommend to update all existing Roundcube installation with this release. Download it from http://roundcube.net/download

We're proud to announce this beta release of the next major version 0.9. With this milestone we introduce some important changes under the hood as well as some nice and long-awaited features:

* First of all, the Roundcube Framework. The core classes providing the strong base of Roundcube's functionality have been extracted and decoupled into a Framework package. They can be used individually in other open source projects looking for solid functionality around IMAP, SMTP, MIME-handling and more.

* Another major change is the new database abstraction. In order to add support for SQLite3 the PEAR:MDB2 dependency was dropped and Roundcube now uses the native PHP Data Objects (PDO). ATTENTION: due a small lack in the MySQL PDO driver this version of Roundcube requires PHP 5.3 when using the MySQL database.

* Then we also added some new features:
- Download all attachments as zip archive (zip module required)
- Render thumbnails for image attachments (imagemagick is recommended)
- Compose and mail view in new windows (configurable in user settings)
- Upload attachment files and contact photos with drag & drop
- Forward multiple emails as attachments
- Show contact photos in mail view
- CSV import for contacts

And of course plenty of small improvements and bug fixes.

See the complete Changelog at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog and download the new packages from http://roundcube.net/download. Please note that this is a beta release and we recommend to test it on a separate environment.

I'd like to inform you that we now decided to switch from launchpad to Transifex to maintain the translations for Roundcube. You can find Roundcube on Transifex.com at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/roundcube-webmail.

For quality reasons it is set to limited access which means that translators have to apply to become a member of a translation team before they can actually start translating. So if you're interested in becoming a member for a certain language team, choose the language from the list and then click on "Join team" on the upper right part of the overview page.

We kindly invite everybody to help us to keeping the Roundcube localizations up-to-date.