AppSuite:Versioning and Numbering
From Open-Xchange
Versioning and Numbering of Open-Xchange Products
Abbreviations
The Open-Xchange versioning 2015 will be structured in the following way:
<generation>.<major release>.<minor release> Rev<build number>
| Abbreviation | Meaning | Comparison |
|---|---|---|
| <generation> | The first number is the product generation number. A new generation may contain new architecture, different technology and many more. | OX App Suite 7 |
| <major release> | The second version number (major release) indicates significant program changes in terms of added functionality. Major changes to design and enhancements of APIs are possible. All APIs shall be backward compatible, which means, that mainly new functions can be added. If Open-Xchange releases a new major release this will be an even number, unstable interim releases have odd numbers. | OX App Suite v7.6 |
| <minor release> | The third version number (minor releases) indicates an update with consolidated bug fixes and non-intrusive feature enhancements. APIs and database will not be changed if this can be avoided. All changes must be backward compatible. | OX App Suite v7.6.1 |
| <build number> | The Rev-number (Revision) shows the progress of the development in single steps | OX App Suite v7.6.1-Rev3 |
| Public Patch Release / Patch Release | A Public Patch Release enables Open-Xchange to publish a feature together with a patch. This in turn enables Open-Xchange to react more flexibly to time requests for certain features, thus relieving minor releases and making it possible to shift them. Delivering a feature with a Public Patch Release requires:
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Release Levels of Open-Xchange
| OX Release Level (new) | New Generation | Major Release | Minor Release | Patch Release | Public Patch Release |
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| Target Audience | All | Public/All | Maintenance customers & Partners | L3 Support Customers, Value Package Partners | Public/All |
| Purpose | Provide new technologies | Provide functional enhancements including Bug Fixes, accumulate earlier Patch Releases's/ major releases | Provide common bug fixes for all customers, accumulate previous Patch Release's | Provide fixes for severity level 1/2 tickets, for a specific Support Customer, small features, temporary until next Maintenance Release accumulative | Provide fixes for severity level 1/2 tickets, for all Support Customer, small features, temporary until next Maintenance Release accumulative |
| Frequency | Open-Xchange Roadmap | Decided by Open-Xchange | Decided by Open-Xchange | According to SLA | As soon as required |
| Support Committment | 5 years after First Customer Shippment (FCS) | 6 months after FCS (Latest Minor Release at the Major-Release cycle will be official supported) | Last Minor Release of a supported Major Release | Next (Public) Patch Release | Next Public Patch Release |
| Requested by | Product Management | Product Management, Professional Services | Support, QA, Product Management, Professional Services | Entitled Customer (Support, Professional Services) | Entitled Customer (Support, Professional Services), Product Management |
| Compatibility requirements/backward compatibility | Database updates, Changes of configuration files | Backward compatibility to last major release. In urgent cases there could be database updates or configuration file changes | Backward compatibility to last major release | Backward compatibility to last major release | |
| Test Efforts OX (QA) | Smoke Tests, Always Tests, Bug Fix Tests, Feature Tests, Dependencies Tests, Heuristic Tests, Performance Tests | Smoke Tests, Always Tests, Bug Fix Tests, Feature Tests, Dependencies Tests, Heuristic Tests, Performance Tests | Smoke Test, Always Tests, Bug Fix Tests, Dependencies Tests, Heuristic Tests, Performance Tests | Smoke Tests, Always Tests, Bug Fix Tests - Support: Fix Approval | Smoke Tests, Always Tests, Bug Fix Tests - Fix Approval |
| Test Efforts Customer/Partner | Smoke Tests, Bug Fix Tests, New Feature Tests, Integration Tests | Smoke Tests, Bug Fix Tests, New Feature Tests, Integration Tests | Smoke Tests, Bug Fix Tests, Integration Tests | Smoke Tests, Bug Fix Approval | Smoke Tests |
Open-Xchange Server 6
Editions
| Abbreviation | Description | Target usage |
|---|---|---|
| OX:HE | Open-Xchange Hosting Edition | Designed for organizations that want to provide a scalable, multi-tenant e-mail and collaboration solution to their customers. Focus: Software-as-a-Service offerings |
| OX:SE | Open-Xchange Server Edition | Designed for medium and large size organizations, educational institutions and public administrations seeking a customizable communication solution. Focus: System Integrators |
| OX:SEforUCS | Open-Xchange Server Edition for Univention Corporate Server | Integration to in-house customer environments |
Open-Xchange App Suite
Editions
| Abbreviation | Description | Target usage |
|---|---|---|
| OX App Suite | Open-Xchange App Suite Community Version | Need to revitalize business growth and increase your competitive advantage? OX App Suite integrates smoothly into existing infrastructures and massively scales across multi-tenant architectures securely and reliably. Offer your users a seamless messaging experience to deliver branded, app-economy services and take back the user experience. German engineered and designed for a mobile world, OX App Suite uses open API's to deliver device independent access to email and messaging, social collaboration and digital media via a rich web-based interface. Through a modular App-based portal, HTML5 interoperability gives providers a new basis to up-sell and cross-sell white-labeled services and mobile applications. |
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Please Note: Minor and Major Product Releases in bold
| GA | Product | Major Release | Minor Release | Public Patch Releases | Shipped Packages |
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| 2015-01-12 | OX App Suite / OX 6 Backend v7.4.2 | 
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Open-Xchange App Suite / OX 6 backend backend 7.4.2-rev42 | ||
| 2015-01-12 | OX App Suite / OX 6 Backend v7.6.0 |
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Open-Xchange App Suite / OX 6 backend 7.6.0-rev36 | ||
| 2015-01-12 | OX App Suite / OX 6 Backend v7.6.1 |
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Open-Xchange App Suite / OX 6 backend v7.6.1-rev14 Open-Xchange App Suite frontend v7.6.1-rev11 Open-Xchange Documentconverter v7.6.1-rev7 | ||
| 2015-01-14 | OX Guard v1.2.0 |
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Open-Xchange Guard backend 1.2.0-rev4 Open-Xchange Guard frontend 1.2.0-rev3 | ||
| 2015-01-22 | OX Documents v7.6.1 & OX Guard v1.2.0 for Univention Corporate Server |
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OX Documents office-web v7.6.1-10 OX Documents office v7.6.1-9 OX Documents calcengine v7.6.1-9 Open-Xchange Guard backend 1.2.0-rev4 Open-Xchange Guard frontend 1.2.0-rev3 | ||
| 2015-01-27 | OX App Suite / OX 6 Backend v7.6.1 / OX Documents v7.6.1 |
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Open-Xchange App Suite / OX 6 backend v7.6.1-rev16 Open-Xchange App Suite frontend v7.6.1-rev12 Open-Xchange App Suite USM v7.6.1-rev8 OX Documents App Suite office-web v7.6.1-11 | ||
| 2015-02-02 | OX Guard v1.2.0 |
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Open-Xchange Guard backend 1.2.0-rev5 | ||
| 2015-02-09 | OX App Suite v7.6.1 / OX 6 Backend v7.6.1 |
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Open-Xchange App Suite / OX 6 backend v7.6.1-rev18 Open-Xchange App Suite frontend v7.6.1-rev14 | ||
| 2015-02-10 | OX App Suite Frontend v7.6.1 |
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Open-Xchange App Suite frontend v7.6.1-rev15 | ||
| 2015-02-13 | OX Connector for Business Mobility |
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Open-Xchange App Suite EAS 7.6.1-rev8 | ||
| 2015-02-24 | OX Connector for Microsoft Outlook |
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Open-Xchange Connector for Microsoft Outlook v7.2.12 Open-Xchange App Suite Updater v7.6.1-rev7 | ||
| 2015-02-25 | OX Messenger v1.0.0 |
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Open-Xchange Messenger v1.0.0-rev13 | ||
| 2015-03-02 | Security Public Patch OX App Suite v7.4.2 |
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Open-Xchange App Suite / OX 6 backend backend 7.4.2-rev43 | ||
| 2015-03-02 | Security Public Patch OX App Suite v7.6.0 |
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Open-Xchange App Suite / OX 6 backend 7.6.0-rev38 | ||
| 2015-03-02 | Security Public Patch OX App Suite v7.6.1 |
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Open-Xchange App Suite / OX 6 backend v7.6.1-rev21 Open-Xchange App Suite frontend v7.6.1-rev16 Open-Xchange Driverestricted 7.6.1-rev6 Open-Xchange App Suite USM v7.6.1-rev9 |
Maintenance expires
| Product-, Release- and Component Name | Planned Maintance expires |
|---|---|
| Open-Xchange will discontinue support for Apple iOS 7 with the next major release of OX App Suite v7.8.0 | v7.8.0 |
| Open-Xchange will discontinue support for Debian Squeeze (Debian 6) with the next major release of OX App Suite v7.8.0. We encourage administrators to update to the latest operating system version of Debian. | v7.8.0 |
| With the v7.8.0 release, Open-Xchange will discontinue support for the Random Token login method (sometimes also called Easy Login). Specifically, this means that the "login?action=redirect" call (see http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=HTTP_API#Redirect) will be removed. Furthermore, the "com.openexchange.ajax.login.randomToken" setting will be removed from the "login.properties" file, and the "login?action=login" call will never contain the "random" token. We strongly encourage users of the Random Token login method to change their custom login implementations and use one of the supported methods. | v7.8.0 |
Please Note - Additional Information
| Product-, Release- and Component Name | Additional Information |
|---|---|
| LinkedIn Integration | Regarding the integration between OX App Suite and LinkedIn, we would like to notify you about an upcoming LinkedIn API change, which is used by the App Suite app server.
We were informed by LinkedIn this week that LinkedIn will restrict access to parts of their currently available API for all existing users and partners by May 15th. LinkedIn will only allow access to the full API, if you sign up for the LinkedIn partner program. Read More: Open-Xchange Forum |
| Facebook Integration | Regarding the integration between OX App Suite and Facebook, we would like to notify you about some Facebook API changes which affect the integration between OX App Suite and the Facebook social network. Specifically Facebook has reduced the ability to access the Fetch Contact Data from the Graph API.
This does not change the ability for OX App Suite to display Facebook content on the portal it does affect the Contacts module. Due to these new restrictions OX App Suite is no longer able to provide a stable way for users to enhance the address book using the Facebook API. This means that the subscription capability of the OX App Suite Contacts module, from Facebook accounts, will be disabled. Existing content will not be affected. Read More: Open-Xchange Forum |
| New Sharing Concept with OX App Suite v7.8.0 | Open-Xchange would like to provide you with early notification of an upcoming behavior change for the sharing / publication concept. With OX App Suite v7.8.0, Open-Xchange will enhance the sharing concept from the producer perspective (“Shared by me”) and the consumer perspective (“Shared with me”). The new sharing concept will be based on a completely new guest-user concept to allow users to provide and consume shared materials in an easy and quick way. Please Note: Publications which were created before v7.8.0 will be available and manageable via the user settings menu. New publications can be created via the new sharing concept. Open-Xchange will provide a detailed summary about the behavior change as pre-information before the launch OX App Suite v7.8.0. |
Maintenance expired (Archive)
| Product-, Release- and Component Name | Maintance expired |
|---|---|
| Open-Xchange discontinues support for Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion with the minor release of OX App Suite, v7.6.2: 2015-03-11 | Since OX App Suite v7.6.2: 2015-03-16 |
| Open-Xchange discontinues support for Apple iOS 6 with the minor release of OX App Suite, v7.6.2 | Since OX App Suite v7.6.2: 2015-03-16 |
| Open-Xchange discontinued support of all old Android stock browsers on mobile and tablet devices with the release of OX App Suite v7.6.1. OX App Suite is only supported on the new official stock browser, Chrome on Android. | Since OX App Suite v7.6.1: 2014-10-15 |
| Support for AJP based communication between the HTTP server and the OX backend server. Open-Xchange already provides a new HTTP connector which is based on the Grizzly project. Download and configuration instructions are available at http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:Grizzly | Since OX App Suite v7.6.0: 2014-06-25 |
| Open-Xchange discontinued OX App Suite web frontend support for Internet Explorer 9 with the major release of OX App Suite v7.6.0. | Since OX App Suite v7.6.0: 2014-06-25 |
| Open-Xchange discontinued Open-Xchange Server 6 and OX App Suite calendar and contact synchronization (CalDAV/CardDAV) support for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) with the major release of OX App Suite v7.6.0. | Since OX App Suite v7.6.0: 2014-06-25 |
| Open-Xchange discontinued Connector for Business Mobility support for Windows Mobile 6, 6.5, Symbian (Mail for Exchange 3.x), Apple iPhone iOS 5 and Blackberry with the major release of OX App Suite v7.6.0. | Since OX App Suite v7.6.0: 2014-06-25 |
| With OX App Suite v7.4.2, the name of the “Files” app was changed to “Drive”. As part of our product strategy we developed clients for different desktop and mobile devices to provide improved file handling and synchronization. | Since OX App Suite v7.4.2: 2014-02-11 |
| Debian 7 (Wheezy) was released by the Debian project on May 4th 2013. Both OX App Suite and Open-Xchange Server 6 support Debian 7 with OpenJDK 7 and MySQL 5.5 with this release of OX App Suite. Please note that the combination Debian 7 / OpenJDK 6 or Sun Java 6 will not be supported as a platform by Open-Xchange. | Since OX App Suite v7.4.0: 2013-09-26 |
| Open-Xchange discontinued support for the currently available "showruntimestats" monitoring function (which fetches runtime information from the Java virtual machine and about the Open-Xchange Groupware backend). With OX App Suite v7.4.0, there is a new monitoring function using Jolokia for Open-Xchange. From v7.4.0 onwards, this is located inside the Open-Xchange Bundle and configured by jolokia.properties. Further information can be found at http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jolokia | Since OX App Suite v7.4.0: 2013-09-26 |
| Open-Xchange provided a new LDAP Contact Storage Integration Bundle. Open-Xchange discontinued support for the old bundle with OX App Suite v7.2.1. Further configuration information is available at the Open-Xchange Knowledgebase under: http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=ContactStorageLDAP | Since OX App Suite v7.2.1: 2013-05-27 |
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