Released: February 29, 2012
If you do not want to read these release notes (you should!), please at least read the following two bullet items:
ClearOS Professional 6.2.0 Beta 3 has arrived! Along with the usual round of bug fixes and enhancements, Beta 3 includes the following new apps: Google Apps Synchronization, Active Directory Connector, Central Management, Content Filter, Flexshare, Samba, Remote Server Backup, Print Server, Password Policies, and Network Visualizer. This will be the last beta as we head toward a final release.
For those of you who missed the recent announcement, ClearOS now comes in two different flavors: Community and Professional. The Professional Edition includes technical support and is intended for businesses, education, non-profit and other professional organizations. The Community Edition has all the old Enterprise features and is intended for less critical environments: home, Linux shops, and just plain old open source hacking. More information is available here.
So what can you expect in the final release of ClearOS Professional 6? Along with updating the base system built on source code from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1) 6.2, this release includes the following major changes. Please note: these features will be rolled out during the alpha/beta phase.
Along with many bug fixes and enhancements, the following new apps have been released with beta 2.
Please post your feedback in the ClearOS Development and Test Release Forum.