1. New Features

1.1 Instant Messaging

The main innovation in this 3.0 release is the instant messaging integration, server and client, with :

• Standard XMPP protocol
• Integrated web client
• Multiple individual or group chats

1.2 Full text search in webmail

A rich and efficient search engine for the webmail. The full text search is now based on the elasticsearch engine which brings :

• Multi-directories and multi-mailboxes search
• Multi-criteria search
• Instant results
• Archived mails and attachments are also indexed
• In order to keep the global architecture consistency, calendar and contact search has been moved to elasticsearch too.

1.3 Tags

Categorize and select your events and contacts with global or personal tags.

1.4 CalDAV Support and Mac Calendar Synchronization

The support of CalDAV protocol allows you to synchronize BlueMind with your MaxOSX Calendar (Lion or above).

1.5 SSO AD Kerberos

The Windows single sign-on allows users to automatically be logged into their BlueMind when they log into their computer.

2. Global Improvements

2.1 New Languages: German, Italian and Chinese

BlueMind 3.0 is now available in :

• French
• English
• Spanish
• Slovak
• Polish
• German
• Italian
• Chinese

All languages except French and English are from contributions. Congratulations and many thanks to all of our contributors!

An online tool is available and allows everyone to become a translation contributor, with observing translation rules.

2.2 Automatic Update of Outlook Connector

No more massive deployments of connectors. The new Outlook connector automatically updates itself when the BlueMind server is updated !

2.3 Mail Filters Management Improvements

Now you can update an existing filter and sort filters.

2.4 Multiple Calendars Management on iPhone

Improvements of mobiles synchronization with the addition of multi-calendars management.

• Feature supported by iPhone
• A first support (not completely operational) is offered by Android KitKat 4.4

2.5 IMAP Proxy

A new component, the IMAP proxy, is added to the BlueMind architecture. It allows you to:

• Optimize some IMAP commands and unload back-end servers
• Transform some actions for external processing.

3. Technical Notes

3.1 BlueMind 3.0 Documentation

Read the complete BlueMind documentation : usage, installation, administration of BlueMind 3.0: https://forge.blue-mind.net/confluence/

3.2 Update from 2.0 Version

Be aware that update needs a BlueMind subscription

• Always do a backup before updating
• Indexing : In order to make the new search engine available after the update, data have to be re-indexed. This may take a while depending on their volume. The old IMAP search is still active as long as a mailbox has not been indexed.
  On RedHat, 2 operations are necessary : the execution of a command before the upgrade and a manipulation after for certificates.
  For our partners, more information can be found here : https://forge.blue-mind.net/conflue…

Exa Networks, Internet Service Provider specialising in business and education, has chosen BlueMind for its internal collaborative services. The ease of deployment and integration of the solution, the quality of the calendaring service and the native LDAP directory interface were key elements in the decision to pick Blue Mind.

“We were looking for a robust collaborative solution and, among the tools we evaluated, we found that BlueMind attracted us both with its modern design and architecture, and the ease with which it allows us to integrate into our SI.”, Thomas Mangin, Technical Director, Exa Networks

“Exa Networks’s choice delights us. It validates our model and the ease of implementation and self administration of the solution, which is the result of an ongoing commitment to industrialize the solution, and represents a new milestone reached at internationally, “Pierre Baudracco, BlueMind’s CEO.

Blue Mind won the prestigious « Open Innovation Awards » at the  Open World Forum 2012, with DocDoku and Hippo.

Blue Mind : most innovative Open Source project of the year !

The OWF Demo Cup has been recognized as an important showcase and deal-making forum in Europe and worldwide. It is the launchpad for innovative Open Source technologies, products and services. These Open Innovation Awards reward a unique ability to deliver a great product and position it in the market, to show off its most compelling features, to differentiate it from other products

Some points that put Blue Mind ahead :

• Light, lean, comprehensive and blazing fast UI.
• Technology innovation that allows off-line mode directly in a standard web browser and so reduces the need of local programs.
• Openness and extensibity Blue Mind provides a SDK to allow easy usage of its full featured web services API, server plugins, and its Message oriented middleware.

Pierre Baudracco, BlueMind’s CEO said : “Winning this OWF innovation awards 2012 price at the first Open Source related event in Europe is a great reward for the whole Blue Mind team from the Open Source ecosystem. In this serious and impressive event, the choice by the heterogeneous jury with investors,
entrepreneurs, managers and experts validates all our effort and our result to bring Blue Mind, a new, modern and truly innovative collaborative messaging solution to the market.”