Scalix 12.8 Release Notes

Table of Contents

Release Date: 30 March 2020

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Important End of Life Notices
• Upgrade Notices
• Features and Supported OS in 12.8
• Packaging

Introduction

Thank you for downloading Scalix 12.8

Scalix 12.8 is the latest upgrade of Scalix 12, providing important fixes and exciting new features. We recommend that you upgrade all systems running Scalix to this latest version.

This document includes late-breaking information about product capabilities, fixed bugs, known issues and workarounds, so please read it thoroughly before beginning your installation or upgrade.

To Download Scalix 12.8 please visit, www.scalix.com/en/solutions

For full documentation on how to install, configure and administer Scalix, see the customer documentation at 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:

• Scalix Web Access Online Help
• Scalix Management Console Online Help
• Scalix Connect for Microsoft Outlook Online Help

You can also learn more about any of the known issues or report others by going to the Scalix bug tracking system at rm.scalix.com.

Scalix, Inc. is committed to your success with our software. For additional information beyond what is provided here and in the official product documentation, visit the Scalix Forums at Forums.

Customers who have purchased support from Scalix may also contact Scalix Technical Support to request help, ask questions about how to use a particular feature, provide feedback, or report bugs by visiting Support.

Acknowledgements

Scalix Connect for Outlook includes software developed by the OpenSSL project for use in the OpenSSL toolkit. It also includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (Este endereço de email está sendo protegido de spambots. Você precisa do JavaScript ativado para vê-lo.) and software written by Tim Hudson (Este endereço de email está sendo protegido de spambots. Você precisa do JavaScript ativado para vê-lo.). Scalix would like to thank these individuals and the OpenSSL community for their valuable contributions.

Scalix Server includes software based on the Universal Character Set Detector from the Mozilla project written by Simon Montagu (Este endereço de email está sendo protegido de spambots. Você precisa do JavaScript ativado para vê-lo.), Shy Shalom (Este endereço de email está sendo protegido de spambots. Você precisa do JavaScript ativado para vê-lo.), Shoshannah Forbes and others. Scalix would like to thank these individuals and the Mozilla community for their valuable contributions.

Disclaimer

• The test appliance should not be used in production for this reason (would need to reconfigure Scalix with different domain/password) before you can start the download.
• Scalix Connector requires Admin-rights to install on your Computer
• System needs to be backed up before upgrading.

Java Environment

Be aware that some middleware components of Scalix require JRE. We support JRE 1.8.x and 11.x from vendors: Oracle, IBM, opensource (openjdk in particular)

Scalix Binaries

All the Scalix server binaries are compiled as 32-bit only for the moment.

Scalix can be installed on 64-bit Intel or IBM computers, and in 64-bit Linux environments as a 32-bit application. You will need to make sure that proper 32 bit compatible libraries are installed.

Installation issues

1. The following procedure/adjustments are mandatory if you installed CentOS6 (64bit) or ORACLE Linux 6 (x86/x64)

• If port 80 is not set to allow connections (open) in ip tables, Tomcat will not work at all - scalix-tomcat service will run, but in the tomcat log there will be a big backtrace. To allow connections in IP tables:

• Open port 80 in iptables
• restart the iptables service
• restart the scalix-tomcat service
• restart the httpd service

• Initialize all web applications in Tomcat (this can take over 20 sec). If you make changes to Tomcat such as the above, please also restart apache (service httpd restart).

2. Debian installation sometimes fails due to a pre-existing error in the sendmail.cf file with the MAILER lines in the wrong place. To fix this manually, move the bad MAILER lines to the end of the file and try again.
3. On IBM hardware platforms the installer does not install the jre package automatically. You would need to install the JRE package manually.
4. To improve SWA performance you must follow the description from the official Apache website and make changes accordingly depending on your environment and the JRE that you are using.
5. While installing on a non ext4 filesystem, you might be presented with "Error in `omnewul': double free or corruption (top): To avoid this, it is recommended to use the ext4 filesystem

Important end of Life Notices

Scalix Connector x86 is not recommended to use and considered as old architecture. For new installations please use Scalix Connector x64 which has a less painful installation process and works faster.

Upgrade Notices

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

When running Scalix in a mixed-version multi-server setup, where your front end servers are running Scalix Web Access 12.8, the back end servers have to be upgraded to at minimum version 12.8 as well.

After upgrading old CalDav url won't work you should add new urls. For those users who are connected to their calendars via GroupDav no actions needed.

Upgrading from a previous version

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

• Before beginning any upgrades, check your license key>. If you are upgrading to or from a Small Business Edition (SBE), Enterprise Edition (EE) or Hosting Edition (HE) installation, you need to have a valid and current license key with a "Last Valid Issue Date" (LVID) on or after July 1, 2016 (2016-07-01) to use Scalix 12.8. If you continue installation after the respective warning and the license is not valid, your installation will downgrade to the Community Edition. To check the LVID of your license, use the Scalix Management Console or the sxlicense command. To extend your upgrade subscription or to get a new license key, please contact Scalix Sales.
• When upgrading from a previous installation of Scalix to 12.8, it is recommended that you empty your IMAP caches by running the following command on your backend server (when nobody is signed on to the system and (the rci and IMAP services are off): cd $(omrealpath "~/"); find user* -name imap-cache -exec rm -rf {} \;
• While moving Scalix to a newer OS version, please follow http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Howtos/Move_Scalix

Features & Supported OS in 12.8

Scalix 12.8 provides the following new features:

Scalix Web application:

• JRE 1.8 - 11  support.
• Tomcat 9.30
• Scalix Auto Discovery service
• Applying changes to Scalix web applications without restarting Tomcat.
• Tomcat log files rotating.

Scalix Web Access (SWA):

• Vertical Layout.
• Modern HTML pop-up modal dialogs instead of old fashioned alert’s
• Download Contact as VCARD file or view Contact in VCARD format.
• Integrated https://www.jsxc.org/ Real-time xmpp chat application with video calls, file transfer and encrypted communication.

Scalix Platform (API):

• New Caldav protocol implementation. With support for many CalDav clients (desktop and mobile)
• "Other Users" folders in Caldav
• Subfolders in Caldav.
• Better CalDav ACL support.
• CardDav support. Contact folders with Scalix System and Personal AddressBook now available via Dav protocol.
• CalDav support for multiplier accounts for Thunderbird Lightning

Scalix Connector for Outlook:

• X64 platform support.
• Performance improvements on loading Scalix components.
• Extensively tested with up to latest versions of Microsoft Outlook 2016/2019.
• New Scalix Connector installer .

Scalix ActiveSync

Connect ActiveSync enabled wireless devices directly to the Scalix server without additional software needed on the device and use them for push email and wireless calendar and contact synchronization.

• Task support.
• Faster and more reliable work for all the latest devices for all existing vendors.

Scalix Meet

Secure, fully featured, and completely free video conferencing based on Jitsi multi-platform open-source video conferencing  but more secure for companies.

Supported Platforms

NOTES:

Support for Centos7 on IBM platform is presently not available for following reasons:

• They support Little Endian (LE) only.
• They have dropped some 32bit packages.

Hardware Support extended for IBM Power and Mainframe

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

Packaging

Scalix 12.8 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:

* Text extractors allow the indexing of binary Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and PDF documents. They are only available as part of Scalix Small Business Edition (SBE) or Enterprise Edition (EE)

** For Scalix Community Edition downloads, Scalix Connect for Outlook (MAPI) is a separate ZIP-file download.

*** The Scalix Migration Tool is a separately-sold product to migrate eMail, Calendar, Contacts and other objects from Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 to Scalix. Please contact Este endereço de email está sendo protegido de spambots. Você precisa do JavaScript ativado para vê-lo.Este endereço de email está sendo protegido de spambots. Você precisa do JavaScript ativado para vê-lo. for details.

**** The Scalix Active Directory Extensions are only available as part of Scalix Small Business Edition (SBE) or Enterprise Edition (EE)