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Development Roadmap 2020
May 21 2020Zextras Development Roadmap 2020
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Development Roadmap 2020 4
Zextras Authentication and Login 4
Zextrasconfig Infrastructure Manager 4
Docs Server 4
Team: Video Server 4
Team: New functions 4
Team: Instant Meeting 5
Team: Meeting’s new functionalities 5
Team Privacy settings 5
Mobile Apps QR Authentication 5
Admin Interface & User Preferences 5
Backup on external endpoint 5
High Availability 6
New installer using native Linux Packaging system 6
Email Sign & Encryption (S/Mime-PGP) 6
Zextras Address Book for MS Outlook/MAC Mail/ Thunderbird 6
Drive Personal external Account 6
Timeline 7
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Development Roadmap 2020
Zextras is committed to continuous improvement of the Zimbra Open Source experience.
Zextras wants to make sure that you have a clear overview on the company’s next steps,
allowing you to better evaluate your strategic decisions.
Here you can find our development Roadmap for 2020.
Zextras is focused on respecting the following timelines and sharing with you the 2021
Roadmap by the end of this year.
Zextras Authentication and Login
(NEW) - Sep 2020
Introduces to Zimbra Open Source: 2 Factor Authentication, SAML and a Multi mobile
Password, managed through a new and customizable Login Page.
Zextrasconfig Infrastructure Manager
(NEW) - Oct 2020
All Zextras components in the infrastructure will be managed via a centralized
configuration broker.
Zextrasconfig allows Zimbra Admins to handle all Zextras components on different nodes,
including the new integrated Docs Server and Team Video Server. Integrated
Docs Server
(NEW) - Nov 2020
Docs Server will be part of the infrastructure, managed by Zextrasconfig.
Installation and Upgrade on a separate node will no longer be needed.
Team: Video Server
(NEW) Aug 2020
A new set of functionalities with high performances will be introduced via the new
integrated video server managed directly by the new Zextrasconfig infrastructure’s
handler.
Audio and video flows will be compressed, optimized and combined in order to obtain a
unique and specific stream for each device, considering and using the best bandwidth/
codec for every specific device.
Team: New functions
(IMPROVED) - Starting June
Among others:
Reply to message;
Clear conversation history;
Edit messages;
Delete messages.
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Team: Instant Meeting
(IMPROVED) - Dec 2020
Create a meeting room and share access to it with other users through persistent and
shareable links.
Team: Meeting’s new functionalities
(NEW) - Nov 2020
Thanks to the new Team Video Server a new set of functionalities will be available on
Team, among others you will have:
Moderator mode > - Mute user/Mute all > - Webinar/conference mode;
Events log;
Request to talk;
Push to talk;
Recorded meeting available on Drive.
Team Privacy settings
(NEW) - Sep 2020
Either Users and Admins will be able to choose what personal presence information (like
message acknowledgement, user presence, etc) can be shown.
Mobile Apps QR Authentication
(NEW) - Sep 2020
Use our Mobile Apps password-free employing the new QR-Login system that allows to
handle Cross Authorization within our Apps ecosystem and manage devices authorization
and registration.
Admin Interface & User Preferences
(REFACTORING) - Oct 2020
A new Admin Interface for Zextras Components based on React.
Starting from Zextras Components present in the Legacy Admin UI we are moving all
Zextras related options to a new technology remaining consistent
and integrated in the Legacy Admin UI.
A full transition will follow.
Backup on external endpoint
(NEW) - Aug 2020
Backup your system either on Object Storage like S3 (local/hybrid/cloud) or to
external file blobs such as NFS.
Metadata’s local cache allows to maintain the original performance while it will also be
stored on the external endpoint for disaster recovery purpose.
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High Availability
(NEW) - Nov 2020
Synchronized in real-time to another node from user, group, domain to an entire mailbox.
Choose to sync toward a spare node or to another active node in the cluster.
The system is designed in order to reach the 99.99% of availability on a monthly basis.
New installer using native Linux Packaging system
(NEW) - Oct 2020
New Zextras package will be distributed using repository leveraging on Linux
methodology.
When installing and updating the package, you just need to use OS commands like "apt-
get install/update".
Email Sign & Encryption (S/Mime-PGP)
(NEW) - Dec 2020
End to End cryptography will be implemented on the webmail.
The system will be able to cypher and/or sign the sent emails as to decipher and verify
the signature on received emails.
Zextras Address Book for MS Outlook/MAC Mail/ Thunderbird
(NEW) - Sep 2020
Connect Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird and Mac Mail to your centralized Zimbra GAL
and address books to achieve a complete client experience.
The Address Book can work either in conjoint with IMAP/ POP or EAS.
Microsoft Outlook can leverage on EAS and Address Book to provide a full Outlook
connector experience without any plugin on the client!
Drive Personal external Account
(IMPROVED) - Nov 2020
Connect your Dropbox/Gdrive/nextCloud/OwnCloud account to your Drive and get the
full access to your files.
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Timeline
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