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We will be releasing Baruwa Enterprise Edition version 2.0.3 on Monday 23rd September 2013. As part of this update the web interface has been completely rewritten. The new interface uses responsive design meaning it scales to fit the screen size of the device, providing a better user experience. SVG graphs are back as well, which improves the performance of the... Read the rest of this post

Today we are issuing release -- Baruwa 2.0.2, this Enterprise edition only release contains a range of bug fixes as well as new features and enhancements. This release introduces backward incompatible changes. Fixed taskid session checks, which caused an exception when the session attribute did not exist. Fixed issue with headers which can not be decoded... Read the rest of this post

Today we are issuing release -- Baruwa 2.0.1 to remedy a security issue reported to us. This release also contains a range of bug fixes to both the Community and Enterprise Editions. This release does NOT introduce any backward incompatible changes. Users of Baruwa 2.0 are encouraged to upgrade immediately. This security release fixes one issue: an information leakage... Read the rest of this post

Baruwa is a web 2.0 MailScanner frontend which can be used to build Robust and Efficient Mail Security systems based on the best of breed Open source packages. Baruwa 2.0 represents many changes from previous releases. Baruwa 2.0 is a ground up rewrite of Baruwa 1.0 using the Pylons framework with a PostgreSQL backend. The stability and... Read the rest of this post

Baruwa 1.1.2 deb packages are now available at http://apt.baruwa.org Review the upgrade notes in the documentation then run: apt-get update apt-get upgrade http://www.baruwa.org/blog/2012/11/01/baruwa-1.1.2-released/ As always, use the list to report any issues or provide feedback http://lists.baruwa.org/ ... Read the rest of this post

Hi All, I am pleased to announce the release of Baruwa 1.1.2. This is a maintenance release that includes mostly bug fix's and a few new features. This is a source only release, binary packages for various Linux distributions will be released at a later stage. Added Active Directory support Fixed Radius authentication Fixed spam distribution graph Fixed... Read the rest of this post

I have just pushed to the Baruwa apt repo - http://apt.baruwa.org Baruwa packages for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, as well as the following dependency packages mailscanner 4.84.3 Note Ubuntu does not ship mailscanner packages since release 12.04 Precise Pangolin so users of Ubuntu who do not use baruwa can also use this repo to access the mailscanner... Read the rest of this post

The upstream Django project recently released updated packages to address various security issues. These updated packages are now available via the Baruwa rpm repo, please study the upstream release notes and update. Users who use Django from their distro's repo's are also advised to study the release notes and update from their distro's repo. Upstreams release notes https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/aug/01/django-13-bugfix-release/ https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/jul/30/security-releases-issued/... Read the rest of this post

I have just open sourced the source code to Baruwa 2.0 on Github. Baruwa 2.0 is a ground up rewrite of Baruwa which adds lots of new features. Notable features include: Full text indexing and search Audit log Full queue management Message status tracking Scanner node status MailScanner SQL configuration management Domain aliasing Built in External authentication for AD/LDAP,... Read the rest of this post

I have just pushed to the Baruwa apt repo, updated MailScanner packages. This update fixes the issue with excess number of children causing the system to run out of memory and crash. It also includes various backported fixes from the git repo. http://apt.baruwa.org You should be able to upgrade using: apt-get upgrade mailscanner Feedback and support Please... Read the rest of this post