SOGo v5.0.0 released

August 10, 2020

The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SOGo v5.0.0. This is a major release of SOGo which focuses on new features, various enhancements and improved stability over previous versions.

Version 5 of SOGo brings many great features such as two-factor authentication to secure your account (sponsored by Gandi), mail identities to easily switch between your signatures, desktop notifications for new messages, events and tasks alarms (sponsored by Servercow), SSL/TLS support for SMTP, and packages for RHEL/CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Features

• core: add BLF-CRYPT scheme (8c612fc), closes #4958
• core: add blowfish implementation from openwall (3040c27)
• core: add groups support to sogo-tool manage-acl (9c49fae)
• core: add lookupFields attribute in LDAP source (2784009), closes #568
• core: add PBKDF2 support (2e0fc3c)
• core: allow disabling tls validation for localhost (#286) (1f98882)
• core: handle groups when setting ACLs (fixes #4171) (05dc51e)
• core: initial Google Authenticator support for 2FA (f78300a)
• core: support ARGON2I/ARGON2ID password hashes (4c27826), closes #4895
• core: support smtps and STARTTLS for SMTP (589cfaa), closes #31
• core(js): improve Google Authenticator on login page, add QR code (cd37e98 c1acce0 e8f0471), closes #5038 #2722
• mail: handle multiple mail identities (f8aa338, b4f76a7 8940651 208ee08 7972257 11bbdee d930821 a8bbaf0), closes #768 #4602 #5083 #5062 #5117 #5087
• preferences: button to reset contacts categories to defaults (76cbe78)
• web: support desktop notifications, add global inbox polling (87cf5b4 8205acc), closes #1234 #3382 #4295

Bug Fixes

• acl(js): toggle rights from the ACL editor (825fb85)
• addressbook: handle vCard with multiple title values (3d25b8b 96c22b6)
• addressbook(js): show copy option when source is remote (72b5db4)
• calendar: ensure valid identity when sending invitations (c2d9377)
• calendar: return SOGoUser instances when expanding LDAP groups (b8595d7), closes #5043
• calendar: uncondtionally adjust all-day events dates (5e1a592), closes #5045
• calendar(css): decrease height of calendars entries in lists (7eac9c3)
• calendar(js): avoid exception when adding invalid email as attendee (4ff0791)
• calendar(js): don’t handle attendees for tasks (ff3e83f)
• calendar(js): fix event blocks width in day view (272fa8f), closes #5017
• calendar(js): improve attendees editor when adding new attendees (3d3b17a), closes #5049
• calendar(js): improve debugging in Component factory (8933fae)
• calendar(js): remove unused injected module in PrintController (5087582)
• calendar(js): show categories colors in task editor (743cca2), closes #5116
• calendar(js): show freebusy timeline with external-only attendees (a5ba99c)
• calendar(js): show real selected list in print preview (7379776)
• common(js): initialize search field with pre-selected option (1432600), closes #5044
• core: added back instance caching for LDAP members (b94175c)
• core: added even better debugging for bogus groups (9f55cdc)
• core: adjust syntax for Python > 2 (798ad15)
• core: allow non top-level special folders and improved the doc around this (1146038)
• core: always set the charset when sending IMIP replies (6ec002f)
• core: avoid caching group members per instance (0ff0d43)
• core: avoid fetching quick records for non-existant users (2be7bab)
• core: avoid pooling channels with tools (fixes #4684) (cecf157)
• core: disable ASM version of blowfish on i386 (e37ae5f)
• core: don’t synchronize defaults if no mail identity is created (e6e994b), closes #5070
• core: fix compilation of pkcs5_pbkdf2.c (d39208e)
• core: fixed linked and packaging for zip->libzip work (0e95de3)
• core: improve debbuging when dealing with groups (5b6096e)
• core: improve debugging on invalid group sources (105ca88)
• core: improve error log when parsing PKCS12 certificate (6e0e678)
• core: improved debugging on bogus groups (42587f7)
• core: initial compat work on libzip (3c4b1af)
• core: never use zip_error_init_with_code (f6a4dfc)
• core: no need to call zip_discard, it’s handled in zip_close (1389dcf)
• core: NSData+String: Dont mix tabs and spaces (562f81f)
• core: NSData+String: Simplify generateSalt function (c3a4f4a)
• core: require current password on password change (#285) (2300fe8), closes #4140
• core: second pass at libzip compat (67f5e5e)
• eas: avoid doing bogus truncation (9698628)
• eas: gcc v10 compat fixes (fixes #5029) (e469f52)
• eas: handle noselect special folders in Dovecot (39255b1)
• mail: add all unknown recipients to an address book (d29c2b2)
• mail: change default search scope to “subject or from” (#287) (8642ff9)
• mail: pick proper “from” address when replying/forwarding (c99170b), closes #5056
• mail: use double-quotes for attributes when re-encoding HTML (b7f0ee7)
• mail: use unique names for attachments (9c391b8), closes #5086
• mail(css): add explicit expanded/collapsed mailbox status (2545caf)
• mail(css): respect white spaces in plaintext messages (f6ce265), closes #5069
• mail(css): yellow flags for more visibility (94efa4d)
• mail(js): encode HTML entities when computing height of textarea (964e6f0), closes #5020
• mail(js): fix message(s) deletion when overquota (35ebb7a)
• mail(js): pick proper “from” address when replying/forwarding (f7e7612 8f3738b), closes #5072
• mail(js): respect signature placement when switching identity (0899352)
• mail(js): use initial number of rows of textarea with sgAutogrow (200c353)
• packaging: control files adjustments for old distro wrt libzip (3b46281)
• packaging: don’t enable mfa on squeeze (e9cc088)
• packaging: enable mfa on focal (a102a94)
• packaging: fixed condition syntax (d797987)
• packaging: fixed typo (b4b9e62)
• packaging: fixes for centos/rhel v8 support (7ef507b)
• packaging: more control file fixes (5366522)
• packaging: Ubuntu Focal changes (7a66818 bf4c083)
• packaging: Xenial control files fixes (1a7fa0b)
• preferences: accept an “id” key for mail accounts (528b758), closes #5091
• preferences: improve handling of forward addresses (7494bb3), closes #5053
• preferences(html): add placeholders to forward addresses field (1712a7e), closes #5053
• preferences(html): improve placeholders (2730a91)
• preferences(js): automatically expand newly created mail account (f1ff8bf)
• preferences(js): conditionally sanitize forward addresses (b78e66a), closes #5085
• preferences(js): handle cancellation of IMAP account edition (ee904ac)
• preferences(js): honor SOGoForwardConstraints in Sieve filters (5bb8161 85a6d8e)
• preferences(js): initialize Forward defaults (f60a30c)
• preferences(js): set account id before importing certificate (566fe55), closes #5084
• preferences(js): show error when passwords don’t match (0e7ce31)
• test: fix for failing test in NSString+Utilities (fc863bf)
• web: add icon to expandable list items (0e5e88a)
• web: consistency in icon of expandable list items (1c99c2c)
• web: restore menu separators in sidenav of Calendars & Mailer (6e2d652)
• web(css): improve mailbox expand button in sidenav (37d3cb7)
• web(js): handle SAML assertion expiration (6af5541 8692e64 433da56 3ef94da)
• web(js): remove calls to deprecated functions in ng-material (1cb9a83 cd95649)

Localization

• ca: update Catalan translation (497594d)
• de: update German translation (d26bc18)
• pl: update Polish translation (b5f9861)
• preferences: rename “Current Time Zone” to “Time Zone” (443a41b)

Enhancements

• mail(js): replace ckEditor directive by sgCkeditor component (07c06db)
• preferences: replace comma-separated list of addresses by md-chips (7e21c6c 4292a45 8b1b938), closes #5048

See the closed tickets for this release and the complete change log.