Software Update: Kopano WebApp 3.5.3

Kopano Groupware has its origins in the Zarafa Collaboration Platform. It can be seen as an open source counterpart to Microsoft Exchange Server and is able to handle e-mail, calendar and webmail functions. The Kopano WebApp is the component that offers a web application with which end users can use the functionality. Version 3.5.3 of this was released a few days ago with the following announcement:

WebApp 3.5.3 final available

This release introduces prefetch feature that fetches the body of emails after login, resulting in a snappier performance when reading emails.

There are two new config options related to this feature.

• The amount of items to prefetch
• The prefetch interval

The amount of items that are fetched per batch is currently not configurable and set to 5.

Further improvements are

• Fixed bug in Mattermost plugin for WebApp related to DeskApp download behavior. If you experience download issues from the Mattermost plugin while using DeskApp consider upgrading to this version.
• You can choose to use English abbreviations for reply, forward when using a non-English (Setting found in Email settings)
• Additional categories specified by the admin now extend the user categories. When a user makes any change to this category, it will be saved it the user categories.

The changelog can be found here.

Updating can be done through the repositories, packages can be downloaded from the portal or from the download server. For community members nightly packages are available here.

If you have feedback, we’d love to hear it here in the forum.