What’s New

From Open-Xchange

Open-Xchange products continue to be enhanced and further developed. Existing applications continue to evolve with new features added each release.

This page provides an overview of the key updates in the latest product versions below.


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Email

Messaging and Communication

OX App Suite Software Subscription v8.31

  • The focus for this release is improving stability and refining the user experience.
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OX App Suite
New features with v8.31
 
  • The focus for this release is improving stability and refining the user experience. Key updates include more streamlined setup instructions, for OX App Suite for Mobile, and more refined mobile layouts. This all makes the mobile experience more user-friendly, especially on devices with notches and in landscape mode. Avatars and fallback images have also been ‘smoothed out’ for a more consistent look. We have also removed some of the outdated functions to keep things running smoothly. Finally, we have resolved a few bugs across the app. This ensures smoother navigation and more reliability overall.

Dovecot Pro v3

We are very pleased to announce the release of a new version of Dovecot Pro.

Dovecot Pro 3.0 has been created based on customer/operator feedback and the changing requirements of the wider market. Input revealed a fundamental need for an email platform that is distributed by nature, highly available by design, resilient and easy to manage (including things like zero downtime maintenance) in a distributed architecture. In short, a cloud-native email platform.

The main feature of this Dovecot Pro release is its new cloud-native architecture (called the “Palomar” architecture). By becoming cloud-native, Dovecot Pro now provides features that make managing a large-scale, distributed email platform easier, and delivers more flexibility, enhanced security, a better end-user experience, increased efficiency and ultimately significant cost savings.

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Dovecot Pro
New features with v3.0

New cloud-native architecture - By having Dovecot Pro now based on a cloud-native architecture (Palomar) it can now provide the following:

  • Enhanced High Availability – more levels and more granular
  • Zero Downtime Maintenance
  • Built-in health checking
  • Built-in statistics/monitoring
  • Built-in user/group cluster management
    • Lateral user move/evacuations (no storage access needed)
    • Automated platform load balancing
  • Two-layer stateless network architecture
  • Separation of control plane from data plane
  • Clustering, high availability, metro and geo-redundancy
  • Site-aware architecture
  • Cluster control and administration
  • Multi-site support and administration
  • A/B testing capabilities
  • Centralized administration
Expanded storage support - With this release, we have also expanded our storage support. We can now support Azure and (non-AWS) S3-compatible object storage options. Also, the obox has been optimized for cloud technologies by minimizing the I/O with the storage which could result in significant cost savings.

 

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Productivity

Storage and Collaboration

OX Documents v8.31

OX Documents has always been a compelling feature that attracts customers to OX App Suite.

  • With this new release, Open-Xchange integrates OX Documents closely with the new OX App Suite v8.31 features.

OX Drive app v4.0.0 for Android

This new OX Drive app, from Open-Xchange, makes all your OX Drive content available in Apple's native Files app.

  • Extensive UI redesign following Material UI guidelines
  • Scan and upload documents within the app.
  • Create and upload notes within the app.
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OX Drive app for Android

 
  • Extensive UI redesign following Material UI guidelines.
  • Scan and upload documents within the app.
  • Create and upload notes within the app.
  • Introducing a new bottom navigation bar.
  • Partial media access permissions supported.
  • View files in the browser if the server supports the file type.
  • Enhanced UX, particularly for automatic uploads.
  • Optional location data upload for media files.
  • App-specific language settings now available.
  • Improved support for chromeOS.

 


Security

Email and Network Protection

OX Guard v8.31

With this new release, Open-Xchange integrates OX Guard even more closely with OX App Suite v8.31.


OX Abuse Shield v2.12.0

OX Abuse Shield provides abuse-prevention for Webmail, POP, and IMAP. It is integrated with both OX App Suite and OX Dovecot Pro to prevent login and authentication abuse as well as protecting against brute-force attacks. OX Abuse Shield release v2.12.0 includes:

  • Build the wforce-minimal image for both arm64 and amd64, and add provenance.
  • Add support for Debian Bookworm, remove support for Debian Buster
  • Enable webserver tls and password to be specified via an external secret
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OX Abuse Shield
New features with v2.12.0
 
  • Now builds a separate luajit package (`wforce-lua-dist`), based on the openresty luajit fork. This is to address some issues found with stock luajit. The package also includes some lua modules that wforce typically makes use of.
  • Build the wforce-minimal image for both arm64 and amd64, and add provenance.
  • Fix centos-7/el-7 builds to still work after centos-7 went EOL.
  • Add support for Debian Bookworm, remove support for Debian Buster.
  • Enable webserver tls and password to be specified via an external secret.
  • Tested on Kubernetes 1.28 through 1.30.
  • Use wforce and replfwd images based on alpine, which are much smaller and more secure.

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PowerDNS Protect v2.0

PowerDNS Protect secures your subscribers, their families, businesses and all connected devices from malware, phishing and other harmful online content. Users are able to filter inappropriate content for different profiles and control access during specific times.

  • Security Dashboard for Users
  • Enhanced Notifications and Event Aggregation
  • Homework Time
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PowerDNS Protect
New features with v2.0
 
  • Security Dashboard for Users
    PowerDNS Protect 2.0 comes with a security dashboard that allows users to view reports that show the security status of their network and the connected devices. It informs about blocked attempts to access filtered content, potentially malware-infected devices, and more. Security reports can be viewed over a time period ranging from one to thirty days.
  • Enhanced Notifications and Event Aggregation
    The new version provides a simpler way of displaying, consolidating, and acting on real-time notifications about events such as attempts to visit blacklisted webpages, blocked phishing attacks, and more.
  • Homework Time
    Homework time provides a feature whereby a more restrictive set of filtering rules can be applied during certain times, for example, to support children doing their homework and removing distractions such as messaging apps or video streaming. This can be done on a per-profile basis so different family members can have different homework times and settings.

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