openDesk 1.4: More secure and user-friendly

Email, calendar and contacts

With OpenXchange's 8.37 update, all of the communication components were enhanced with technical improvements which enable more reliable synchronisation and increase platform consistency. Administrators will appreciate the resolution of layout issues and improved system stability.

For everyday users, this version offers noticeable improvements. For example, deleted contacts can now be restored via a new trash bin before they are permanently removed.

Tablet users have access to a new planning view in the calendar, and both contact and calendar management have improved contextual menus for smoother ease of use.

At the organisational level, these optimisations help foster productivity through improved data security and usability. The functionality to restore accidentally deleted contacts minimises potential data loss, while optimised tablet support makes mobile work in administration more efficient.

The complete changelog is available on OpenXchange.

Document management

Collabora Online was updated with a number of minor bug fixes that improve the stability and reliability of document editing.

IAM

Identity and access management was equipped with important security updates in Nubus 1.9.1. IT admins benefit from updated Linux base images on UCS 5.2-1, the upgrade to Keycloak 26, and the improved SSD in the UMC sidecar container, which now supports non-root deployments, an essential requirement for BSI baseline security compliance.

Users will like how the portal now offers customised favicons for mobile devices, including scalable SVG favicons. This makes it super easy to set bookmarks for openDesk on smartphones or tablets with appealing, easily recognisable icons.

Our new official support for ad hoc provisioning is another notable addition. This feature enables a straightforward connection between openDesk and your identity provider for single sign-on and user creation. It fits seamlessly with your existing IT infrastructure while supporting digital autonomy with flexible authentication options.

Deployment

Our 1.4 update also comes with some important improvements for system administrators and devops teams.

Configurability has been enhanced with the new option to select the default file format for Collabora. Details can be found in the functional.weboffice.defaultFormat parameter in the functional.yaml.gotmpl file.

In addition, a bug in deployments with self-signed certificates was fixed, which simplifies installation in specialised environments.

Finally, the global.additionalMailDomains setting was revised for multi-domain setups and changed to a list format. If you're already using this setting, please follow the migration instructions in your migrations.md file for a smooth transition.

Changelog

You can find our entire changelog for openDesk 1.4 at openCode.