What’s New
From Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange products continue to be enhanced and further developed. Existing applications continue to evolve with new features added each release.
This page provides an overview of the key updates in the latest product versions below.
Messaging and Communication
OX App Suite Software Subscription v8.30
- Improved user onboarding and general user experience
- Notified about new emails even if your browser window is closed
OX App Suite
New features with v8.30
- Improved user onboarding and general user experience
We continue to improve user onboarding and general user experience. We have added a new way to authenticate users across devices. Logging in on another device is now as easy as scanning a QR code.
- Notified about new emails even if your browser window is closed
In addition, it is now possible to get notified about new emails even if your browser window is closed. This feature requires OX App Suite to be “installed” on your device.
OX Dovecot Pro v2.3.21
With more than 76% market share, OX Dovecot Pro is the world’s market-leading IMAP server. OX Dovecot Pro 2.3.21 includes the following:
- This is a maintenance release of OX Dovecot Pro v2.3 branch, which contains bug fixes, optimizations, and minor feature additions.
Productivity
Storage and Collaboration
OX Documents v8.30
OX Documents has always been a compelling feature that attracts customers to OX App Suite.
- With this new release, Open-Xchange integrates OX Documents closely with the new OX App Suite v8.30 features.
OX Drive app v4.0.0 for Android
This new OX Drive app, from Open-Xchange, makes all your OX Drive content available in Apple's native Files app.
- Extensive UI redesign following Material UI guidelines
- Scan and upload documents within the app.
- Create and upload notes within the app.
OX Drive app for Android
- Extensive UI redesign following Material UI guidelines.
- Scan and upload documents within the app.
- Create and upload notes within the app.
- Introducing a new bottom navigation bar.
- Partial media access permissions supported.
- View files in the browser if the server supports the file type.
- Enhanced UX, particularly for automatic uploads.
- Optional location data upload for media files.
- App-specific language settings now available.
- Improved support for chromeOS.
Security
Email and Network Protection
OX Guard v8.30
With this new release, Open-Xchange integrates OX Guard even more closely with OX App Suite v8.30.
OX Abuse Shield v2.12.0
OX Abuse Shield provides abuse-prevention for Webmail, POP, and IMAP. It is integrated with both OX App Suite and OX Dovecot Pro to prevent login and authentication abuse as well as protecting against brute-force attacks. OX Abuse Shield release v2.12.0 includes:
- Build the wforce-minimal image for both arm64 and amd64, and add provenance.
- Add support for Debian Bookworm, remove support for Debian Buster
- Enable webserver tls and password to be specified via an external secret
OX Abuse Shield
New features with v2.12.0
- Now builds a separate luajit package (`wforce-lua-dist`), based on the openresty luajit fork. This is to address some issues found with stock luajit. The package also includes some lua modules that wforce typically makes use of.
- Build the wforce-minimal image for both arm64 and amd64, and add provenance.
- Fix centos-7/el-7 builds to still work after centos-7 went EOL.
- Add support for Debian Bookworm, remove support for Debian Buster.
- Enable webserver tls and password to be specified via an external secret.
- Tested on Kubernetes 1.28 through 1.30.
- Use wforce and replfwd images based on alpine, which are much smaller and more secure.
PowerDNS Protect v2.0
PowerDNS Protect secures your subscribers, their families, businesses and all connected devices from malware, phishing and other harmful online content. Users are able to filter inappropriate content for different profiles and control access during specific times.
- Security Dashboard for Users
- Enhanced Notifications and Event Aggregation
- Homework Time
PowerDNS Protect
New features with v2.0
- Security Dashboard for Users
PowerDNS Protect 2.0 comes with a security dashboard that allows users to view reports that show the security status of their network and the connected devices. It informs about blocked attempts to access filtered content, potentially malware-infected devices, and more. Security reports can be viewed over a time period ranging from one to thirty days. - Enhanced Notifications and Event Aggregation
The new version provides a simpler way of displaying, consolidating, and acting on real-time notifications about events such as attempts to visit blacklisted webpages, blocked phishing attacks, and more. - Homework Time
Homework time provides a feature whereby a more restrictive set of filtering rules can be applied during certain times, for example, to support children doing their homework and removing distractions such as messaging apps or video streaming. This can be done on a per-profile basis so different family members can have different homework times and settings.