Does anyone know when will a new version of Zimbra Desktop be released?

no1tmorrow · Post by **no1tmorrow** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:37 am

We are running 7.2.5 on all of our machines. I thought I read somewhere where development had stopped and then it was restarted. If that is the case does anyone know what the status is for the next update?

Thanks
Thom

Dan2343 · Post by **Dan2343** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 5:03 pm

Read somewhere middle 2015. I assume this includes moving to modern JRE.

cf7 · Post by **cf7** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:58 am

Great, hope the development team will look into missing phone numbers (home label) with yahoo address book..

cf7 · Post by **cf7** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:30 am

Now add fixing "human verification" to the desktop.

stormpoorun · Post by **stormpoorun** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:01 pm

The new version of Zimbra Desktop (probably v 3) will be released 'soon'. Perhaps in March. Bugs are being worked through atm.

It will be based upon node-webkit rather than Prism, and will be matched with the look and style of Zimbra 8.6.

There will be a lot of improvements, but a minor (temporary) loss of a couple of features which aren't (yet) available in node-webkit - such as becoming a mail handler (this is being worked upon).

Dan2343 · Post by **Dan2343** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:29 pm

So will Java still be required?

cf7 · Post by **cf7** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:59 pm

can't wait..thx..

stormpoorun · Post by **stormpoorun** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:18 pm

Yes, Java will still be required.

Dan2343 · Post by **Dan2343** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:35 pm

Will it be JRE 1.8?

Dan2343 · Post by **Dan2343** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:10 pm

I hope it will have a return of a theme (the old one was 'Twilight') that has zebra stripping to make it easier to scan the email header list. If not, I will probably switch back to Thunderbird.