We've been quiet the past couple months on the front page. I just wanted to assure the community that this is not because we are missing in action but rather missing because of action. There is a lot to do with the upcoming release of ClearOS 7 beta and we don't have actual dates yet because a lot of things will converge at the same time. If you are interested in helping with the ClearOS 7 release, please contact us. Even helping to moderate the forums, submitting new howtos and source code for 6 modules, reporting bugs, or the occasional "You're doing a great job!" is quite useful. Thanks for all you do to help the community. We know that ClearOS 7 will be better than ever and hope it is worthy of our friends!

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 was released today.  Here is the press release.  

ClearOS 7 development is already well underway and an alpha release is already running on a handful of systems.  Once we start to dig into the RPM/package rebuilding process, we will have a better idea of ClearOS 7 release dates.  Please stay tuned!

ClearOS Community 6.6.0 Beta 1 has arrived!  Along with the usual round of bug fixes and enhancements, this release introduces Wordpress, Joomla, Tiki Wiki, WPAD, and AppFirst. You can also expect OwnCloud, SugarCRM, an Vtiger during the upcoming beta cycle. Under the hood, the event system, IPv6 improvements and ClearOS 7 compatibility have also been a focus of this release.

- Release Notes
- 32-bit ISO - clearos-community-6.6.0-beta-1-i386.iso  (MD5Sum)
- 64-bit ISO - clearos-community-6.6.0-beta-1-x86_64.iso  (MD5Sum)

Enjoy!

Special thanks goes out to NLUUG for adding another mirror to the ClearFoundation pool of mirrors! NLUUG is a Linux Users Group Association in the Netherlands. 

De NLUUG verenigt (professionele) gebruikers van Open Systemen en Open Standaarden in Nederland; een gemeenschap van systeem­beheerders, programmeurs en netwerk-­specialisten. Het doel van de NLUUG is de verbreiding van de toepassing en kennis over "Open" en UNIX/Linux.

You can get to their mirror here.

The security update for the OpenSSL Heartbleed issue has been released for the ClearOS Professional Edition.  The update for the Community Edition should be available in the next 12-48 hours.  You can find more information about this update here.

Note: the issue does not impact ClearOS 5.x systems.

Update (April 8, 10 pm EST): The fix for the Community Edition has now been promoted from testing to official updates.  All the mirrors will have the up-to-date in a few hours.

ClearFoundation is proud to welcome Marc Laporte to the team. 

Marc has been a huge influencer in the open source space, driving new innovation & guiding transformation of free and open web applications. Marc's primary focus has been on the advancement of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware.

Marc will be focusing on and managing continued ClearFoundation community involvement and representation with other open source communities. He will be key in the development of a ClearOS based CMS (Content Management System) and UCS (Unified Communication System).

Please join with us in welcoming Marc Laporte.

Enjoy learning with key ClearFoundation and ClearCenter Team members at Interop Las Vegas 2014. Message David Loper or Michael Proper to see where the fun is. 

ClearFoundation is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new paid app - Webmail.  This app is intended for businesses and organizations who use the ClearOS IMAP/POP3 Mail Stack and want to offer users the option of a webmail experience.

Webmail is a $US 15 one-time cost for unlimited users.  For the first time, we are using a paid model to help support/fund upstream development from the Roundcube community.

For more information, please visit the ClearCenter Marketplace.

Thanks,

ClearFoundation

We see a lot of web-based applications getting deployed on ClearOS, and we have decided to take the plunge!  WordPress is now available for technically savvy beta testers.  On a ClearOS Community system, you can install WordPress with the following command.

yum --enablerepo=clearos-updates-testing install app-wordpress

Go to Server->Web->WordPress in the menu to complete the WordPress setup.  

ClearOS Professional 6.5.0 has been released!  You can find the full release announcement on the ClearCenter web site.

ClearOS Community 6.5.0 is now available!  Along with the usual round of bug fixes and enhancements, the 6.5.0 release introduces QoS, Marketplace enhancements, a Network Detail Report, an Administrators app, official Amazon EC2 Support, a Software RAID Manager, a Network Map tool, UPnP Support, an updated Web Server app, as well as new reporting features.

Under the hood, some changes were made to support OwnCloud as well as web-based applications (Tiki Wiki, WordPress, Joomla, etc.).

- Release Notes
- 32-bit ISO (MD5Sum: 33bd324b037e6b1250ce0a6708fff6b4)
- 64-bit ISO (MD5Sum: 863bb642248868afdcaa7db876786d1d)

Enjoy!

In May, the internal ClearOS packages were moved to GitHub (blog post).  Today, we are now in the final stages of getting ready to move the ClearOS app packages, framework and themes to GitHub :-)   For those of you hacking in the development environment, please take a look at the following announcement in the forums: Development Environment Changes

ClearOS Professional 6.5.0 Beta 2 has been released!  You can find the full release announcement on the ClearCenter web site.

ClearOS Community 6.5.0 Beta 2 is now available!  Changes since Beta 1 include:

- Tuning various apps to be Samba 4 ready
- Updating apps to be ClearOS 7 ready
- Improving web browser support, notably the quirky Internet Explorer

Along with the usual round of bug fixes and enhancements, the 6.5.0 release introduces Marketplace enhancements, a Network Detail Report, an Administrators app, Official Amazon EC2 Support, a Software RAID Manager, UPnP Support, an updated Web Server app, as well as new reporting features.

Under the hood, some changes were made to support OwnCloud as well as web-based applications (Tiki Wiki, WordPress, Joomla, etc.).  For those of you deploying ClearOS Professional, you should know that Beta 2 will be available next week.

- Release Notes
- 32-bit ISO - clearos-community-6.5.0-beta-2-i386.iso  (MD5Sum)
- 64-bit ISO - clearos-community-6.5.0-beta-2-x86_64.iso  (MD5Sum)

Enjoy!

ClearOS Community 6.5.0 Beta 1 has arrived!  Along with the usual round of bug fixes and enhancements, this release introduces Marketplace enhancements, a Network Detail Report, an Administrators app, Official Amazon EC2 Support, a Software RAID Manager, UPnP Support, an updated Web Server app, as well as new reporting features.

Under the hood, some changes were made to support OwnCloud as well as web-based applications (Tiki Wiki, WordPress, Joomla, etc.). The Professional Edition will also include a new QoS app, as well as a Network Map tool to help manage devices on the network.

- Release Notes
- 32-bit ISO - clearos-community-6.5.0-beta-1-i386.iso  (MD5Sum)
- 64-bit ISO - clearos-community-6.5.0-beta-1-x86_64.iso  (MD5Sum)

Enjoy!

Special thanks goes out to our friends at 1000mbps.com who have just lit up a mirror for ClearOS in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This mirror is very fast and will be especially fast for ClearOS users in Europe. We appreciate their support and encourage users of ClearOS to support them. They provide virtual hosting at great prices. So if you are looking to light up a ClearOS server in the cloud, consider them please.

Dank je wel 1000mbps en baseip.com. 

This is a heads up for those of you who keep the updates-testing repository enabled.   The ClearOS 6.5.0 Beta 1 release will be pushed to the updates-testing repository on August 27. 

The ClearCenter development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new paid app - Mail Archive.  This app is intended for businesses and organizations who need to meet regulatory compliance or enforce internal policies for e-mail use in the workplace.  Mail Archive stores an exact duplicate of all incoming and outgoing mail when configured in either mail filter gateway mode or final destination MTA.

Mail Archive is a $US 95/yr subscription service (up to 50 mailboxes) with discounts offered via ClearCenter Partners and to educational and non-profit organizations.  The app can be purchased and installed on both ClearOS Community or Professional editions.  For environments over 50 mailboxes, please contact ClearCenter Sales.

Feedback (via email or the forums) is always welcome.

Thanks,

ClearCenter Development Team

We haven't being doing a great job at communicating the roadmap for ClearOS, so here's a quick update on what is in store for next three months!  A follow-up blog post will detail some of the medium and long term roadmap goals (more/better reports, IPv6, etc.).

The following apps are in public beta right now -- head on over to the developer forums for details:

- Software RAID Manager
- UPnP
- VLAN support
- Amazon EC2 Support

In addition, a few apps are nearing completion or waiting on the ClearOS 6.5 testing phase (which will begin in August):

- Mail Archive (paid app)
- Administrators
- QoS
- OwnCloud (Tim app)

Under the hood, a new engine for supporting web applications (WordPress, Joomla, SugarCRM, etc.) is also in development.  There's also work with "reports, reports, reports" going on.

Over the next coming days, ClearFoundation will be moving off of the slow server which is now on to a newer environment to be provided by ClearCenter. We know things have been slow and this should speed things up nicely. We will continue to look for more improvements and optimization but things may be choppy. We hope to make the cut-overs as speedy as possible (i.e. under a couple of minutes.) So if you can't get to us, come back in a few minutes and hopefully all will be well.