Scalix 11.4 - Release Notes $Rev: 264 $

Release Date: 22 May 2008


Contents




Introduction

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Thank you for downloading Scalix 11.4.

Scalix 11.4 is the latest release of Scalix 11, providing new functionality, updated platform support as well as several important enhancements and fixes to previous versions. We recommend you upgrade all systems running Scalix 11 to this latest release.

This document includes late-breaking information about product capabilities, known issues and workarounds. Please read this document thoroughly before beginning your installation or upgrade.

For full documentation on how to install, configure and administer Scalix, see the customer documentation at http://www.scalix.com/documentation. In addition, after Installing the Scalix Mail Server and other applications, you can access the following online help systems, which are embedded in the product:

You also can learn more about any of the known issues listed here - or report others - by going to the Scalix bug tracking system at https://bugzilla.scalix.com/.

Scalix Corporation is committed to your success with our software. For additional information above and beyond what is provided here and in the official product documentation, visit the Scalix Forums at http://www.scalix.com/forums/. Customers who have purchased support from Scalix also may also contact Scalix Technical Support to request help, ask questions about how to use a particular feature, provide feedback, or report bugs by sending email to support@scalix.com.



Acknowledgments

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Starting with version 11.3 Scalix Connect for Outlook now includes software developed by the OpenSSL project for use in the OpenSSL toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org). It also includes includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com) and software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com). Scalix would like to thank these individuals and the OpenSSL community for their valuable contributions.

Starting with version 11.3 Scalix Server now includes software based on the Universal Character Set Detector from the Mozilla project (http://www.mozilla.org), written by Simon Montagu (smontagu@smontagu.org), Shy Shalom (shooshX@gmail.com), Shoshannah Forbes <xslf@xslf.com> and others. Scalix would like to thank these individuals and the Mozilla community for their valuable contributions.



Important End of Life Notices

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Scalix 11.4 is the last release of Scalix to provide support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9). We recommend that you upgrade to SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10).

Scalix is planning to freeze development of Scalix Connect for Outlook for Outlook versions 9 (Outlook 2000) and 10 (Outlook XP/2002) in one of the next releases of Scalix. We recommend that you consider upgrading to Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. Note that we will continue to provide support on the basis of a frozen connector version, however, no new functionality in Scalix Connect will be made available for these platforms.

Scalix is committed to both providing programmatic access to the system as well as to promote the use of open standards. With Scalix 11.3, we released support for CalDAV (RFC 4791) and will continue to enhance Scalix WebDAV capabilities in future releases. As there is significant overlap between the technologies, we are considering to halt further development and then later remove support for Scalix REST-based Messaging Services APIs, which use proprietary interfaces and data formats. If you are using Scalix Messaging Services for your application development, we recommend investigating into updating your code to use CalDAV/WebDAV interfaces instead. No date has been set for this change yet.


Upgrade Notices

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Please read the following carefully, as some specific actions might be required as you upgrade from earlier versions of Scalix.

 If you are upgrading from a previous version of Scalix, there are several changes of which you should be aware:

If you are upgrading Scalix Connect for Outlook to version 11.4 from any previous version of Scalix Connect for Outlook 11, there are several things to be aware of:

If you are using omldapsync to manage Scalix users and groups through an external directory:

          Change
                        JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06
          or
                        JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_11
          to
                        JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_13

If you are upgrading your server to Scalix 11.3 or later from any previous installation of Scalix 11, there are a number of new packages supporting Scalix Server:

If you are using Scalix Community Edition and you are upgrading your server to Scalix 11.3 or later from any previous version of Scalix, please note that the number of free Premium User licenses has changed from 25 to 10.

If you are upgrading your Server to Scalix 11.4 from any previous installation of Scalix 11 and if you have changed the SMTP Relay configuration in smtpd.cfg your changes will be saved in Osmtpd.cfg since Scalix 11.4 delivers a new version of smtpd.cfg. You need to manually integrate the changes you made into the new smtpd.cfg after finishing the upgrade.

On Windows Vista auto upgrading to Scalix Connect for Outlook 11.4 from version 11.3 will not work. You need to manually install the new connector.

Please also check the Scalix 11 Upgrade FAQ on the Scalix Wiki.


New in Scalix 11

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New Features in Scalix 11.4

Scalix 11.4 provides the following new features:

General

Scalix Server

Scalix Messaging Services

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook (for Scalix "Premium" users only)

* Running Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 on Vista 64bit is subject to a number of issues and known limitations. Please see Bug 17250 for details.

New Features in Scalix 11.3

Scalix 11.3 provides the following new features:

General

Licensing

Scalix Server

Scalix Messaging Services

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook (for Scalix "Premium" users only)

New Features in Scalix 11.2

Scalix 11.2 provides the following new features:

General

Server

Scalix Connect for Outlook (for Scalix "Premium" users only)

New Features in Scalix 11.1

Scalix 11.1 provides the following new features:

Scalix Server

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook (for Scalix "Premium" users only)

Scalix Connect for Evolution

New Features in Scalix 11.0

Scalix 11 includes many new product features and improvements across all product components:

Scalix Mail Server

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook (for Scalix "Premium" users only)

Mobility

Management and Administration (Scalix Management Console)

Services Architecture

Internationalization and Localization

Scalix Search and Indexing Service

Note: This product includes a 'phone home' feature, which, for Community Edition installations, summarizes basic server and installation information such as platform type and number of users, and periodically sends it back to Scalix via email. This information helps Scalix to track product usage statistically and better plan our upcoming releases. The information is also sent by email to your administrator account so that you can confirm that the content is simple, transparent and non-sensitive. Except where disallowed by local statute, it is a violation of the licensing conditions to disable or circumvent this feature. Installing a Small Business or Enterprise Edition license key deactivates this feature.

Note: Group scheduling features and public folders in Scalix Connect for Evolution are available only to Scalix Premium users, not Standard users.



Bugs fixed in Scalix 11.x

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Fixed in 11.4

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.4:

Scalix Server

Scalix Messaging Services

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook

Scalix Installation

Fixed in 11.3 U1

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.3 U1:

Scalix Web Access


Fixed in Scalix 11.3

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.3:

Scalix Admin Tools

Scalix Server

Scalix Messaging Services

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook


Fixed in Scalix 11.2

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.2:

Scalix Admin Tools

Scalix Server

Scalix Messaging Services

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook

* 'scalix-text-extractors' are only available for Scalix Small Business Edition (SBE) and Scalix Enterprise Edition (EE)


Fixed in Scalix 11.1.0

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.1.0:

Scalix Server

Scalix Messaging Services

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook

Scalix Installation


Fixed in Scalix 11.0.4

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.0.4:

Scalix Server

Scalix Messaging Services

Scalix Search and Indexing Services

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook

Scalix Installation

* Indexing of binary attachment types (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF) is only available for Scalix Small Business Edition (SBE) and Scalix Enterprise Edition (EE)
** The Recovery Folder feature is only available for premium users in Scalix Small Business Edition (SBE) and Scalix Enterprise Edition (EE)


Fixed in Scalix 11.0.3

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.0.3:

Scalix Admin Tools

Scalix Server

Scalix Messaging Services

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook

Scalix Installation

Scalix Migration Tool

* The Scalix Migration Tool (SMT) is a separate product for migrating user data from Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007 to Scalix. Please contact Scalix Sales at info@scalix.com for further information.
** The Recovery Folder feature is only available for premium users in Scalix Small Business Edition (SBE) and Scalix Enterprise Edition (EE)
*** Indexing of binary attachment types (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF) is only available for Scalix Small Business Edition (SBE) and Scalix Enterprise Edition (EE)


Fixed in Scalix 11.0.2.1

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.0.2.1:

Scalix Server


Fixed in Scalix 11.0.2

The following issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.0.2:

Scalix Admin Tools

Scalix Server

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Mobile Web Client

Scalix Connect for Outlook

Scalix Installation


Fixed in Scalix 11.0.1

The following additional issues have been addressed in Scalix 11.0.1:

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook

Scalix Installation

Scalix Search and Indexing Services

Scalix Server


Fixed in Scalix 11

The following issues have been addressed in this release:

Scalix Admin Tools

Scalix Web Access

Scalix Connect for Outlook

Scalix Server

Scalix Installation

Scalix Active Directory Extensions



Supported Environments

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Supported Linux Platforms

Scalix 11.4 is supported on the following platforms:

System Requirements

Please check the Scalix Installation guide for current minimum system requirements.

Alert

Note that the choice of storage environments will have a major influence on performance of your Scalix system. Scalix as an application is largely I/O-bound, using variable, small-blocksize random read/write synchronous file I/O.

Also note that Scalix does not support putting a Scalix Message Store on a NFS- or SMB-based storage device such as a NAS Filer. Performance issues and/or Message Store corruption can occur. This is true for all Linux distributions using Linux 2.6.x kernels as the NFS client software in these kernels have known issues with file locking operations, which Scalix heavily relies on.

We suggest putting the Scalix message store on a Hardware RAID Array, using RAID 1+0 for best performance. The use of RAID 5 will result in substantially worse performance due to the nature of Scalix Disk I/O patterns (small, synchronous random writes) and is not recommended. In larger installations, we do recommend using iSCSI- or FibreChannel-based SAN storage. We also recommend the use of battery-backed write cache on the RAID controller where available.



Packaging

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The Scalix 11.4 Release consists of a self-extracting shell archives for Linux and a separate ZIP file download for the Windows components.

The Components in the package and their respective version numbers are as follows:

Component

Package

Build

Scalix Installer

Linux .bin

11.4.0.2476

Scalix Server

Linux .bin

11.4.0.11669

Scalix Character Set Detectors

Linux .bin

1.0.20071031

Scalix Libical

Linux .bin

0.27.20071008

Scalix iconv Extras

Linux .bin

1.2

Scalix Management Services (SAC, RES)

Linux .bin

11.4.0.4501

Scalix Messaging Services ("Platform")

Linux .bin

11.4.0.1922

Scalix Web Access (SWA)

Linux .bin

11.4.0.11344

Scalix Mobile Web Client (Mobile)

Linux .bin

11.4.0.872

Scalix Search and Indexing Services (SIS)

Linux .bin

11.4.0.1030

Scalix Text Extractors for Indexing and