GroupWise 8.0.1 – which will officially release in a couple of months – builds upon the very solid release of 8.0.0. We have had significant uptake and rollout of GroupWise 8 throughout our customer base and are very confident that the rest of you – those that by policy or choice ALWAYS wait for the first support pack – will be very pleased. As you already know, GroupWise 8 has a ton of new features and functionality and now with the added bake time, stability and reliability of the support pack – there is not better time than now to empower your end-users with significant benefits of their personal productivity tool.

The overall effort of 8.0.1 was to simply fix bugs and work out issues that usually only are found during actual deployments of the product. However, there are few other benefits and added functionality that can be found with 8.0.1.

• Unicode – The Windows Client is now fully Unicode compliant
• Accessibility and 508 testing and bug fixing was completed
• Improved iCal support – especially with Exchange systems
• Windows Client additions
  • Reply from Sent Items
  • Don’t Ask me Again’ options on accepting recurring appointments with conflicts
  • Improvements to ‘Modify Recipients’ for a calendar item
  • Improvements with Teaming integrations
  • New IMAP option to eliminate strike-through on the iPhone and other IMAP clients
• Linux Client additions
  • Vacation Rule
  • Type to create a task and sub-task management
  • Calendar Import
  • XGL support
  • GTK support
• New Platform Support
  • SLES 11 and SLED 11
  • Windows 7
  • Internet Explorer 6 compatibility improvements
  • Internet Explorer 8
• Support for Turkish Language

We are not planning a public BETA for 8.0.1. The Authorized BETA and internal roll out will give us enough confidence and exposure to move directly to final release. We are finishing up some localization, internationalization issues and just need some bake time and then we will move to General Availability and Release.