OTRS 2.0.1 (Klong Jark Beach) Released

Hi,

after five years of heavy testing, developing and debugging we are proud
to release OTRS 2.0. A big step after the successful OTRS 1.x series.

The codename of the new OTRS 2.0 release is "Klong Jark Beach".
Klong Jark Beach is a heavenly beach in the north of the small island
Koh Lanta (Thailand).

OTRS is a trouble ticket system with many new features to manage
both customer and employee enquiries. OTRS helps you to manage
your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc.
departments to react quickly to inbound inquiries via a userfriendly
webinterface.

New OTRS 2.0 Key Features:
============================

   Ticket:
   -------
   o WorkingTime feature for ticket time calculations support
   o PGP feature for email support
   o SMIME feature for email support
   o Role feature for large setups
   o Ticket ACL support
   o TicketHookDivider - the divider between TicketHook# and number
   o Ticket Merge support
   o No escalation group feature
   o added ticket free time feature

   and many other new features

   General:
   --------
   o moved to a web application framework
   o database xml interface (driver based to support different
     databases)
   o Link support for objects link tickets, FAQs, ...
   o OTRS web package manager (to install applications like calendar or
     filemanager)
   o added new admin web gui for Kernel/Config.pm
   o improved stats framework to send stats and to write stats in the
     filesystem
   o fcgi support
   o added new db2 support (experimental) - thanks to Friedmar Moch!
   o improved webinstaller
   o new html access keys (alt+)
     general:
     h = home
     l = logout
     o = overview
     n = new
     s = search
     p = preferences
     a = admin interface
     t = ticket interface
     f = faq interface
     g = formular submit

     ticket:
     o = queue view
     n = phone ticket
     e = email ticket
     k = locked ticket list
     m = new messages in locked ticket list

   and many other new features

   Major Changes:
   --------------
   o navigation bar will be generated based on the module registration
   o consistent use of the dtl/html block feature
   o improved design of the webinterface
   o new implemented css support
   o split of the default Kernel/Config/Defaults.pm into
     Kernel/Config/Files/*.pm (Kernel/Config.pm is still the private
     config file)
   o foreign-keys for database schema
   o new ticket event handler layer

   and many other new features

Please have a look at the complete list of changes:

http://cvs.otrs.org/viewcvs.cgi/otrs/CHANGES


Download:
=========
The OTRS 2.0.1 is available from the following location:

ftp://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/ (Germany/Hamburg)

(a full list of all download mirrors (ftp/http/rsync) is available at
http://otrs.org/download/)


MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:
=========================================
d665c65cd232f33401aa3cd40a5ab119  RPMS/suse/7.3/otrs-2.0.1-01.i386.rpm
9f4798f27ab1616b0235734b655aa3be  RPMS/suse/8.x/otrs-2.0.1-01.i386.rpm
c55984abe7cd3ab10bcb8676ce4b0434  RPMS/suse/9.0/otrs-2.0.1-01.i386.rpm
e86ec1aaa036bf9e0025023e21467e9c  RPMS/suse/9.1/otrs-2.0.1-01.i386.rpm
2d4ce41cbc3ef623abfbf68ca2c30635  RPMS/redhat/7.x/otrs-2.0.1-01.i386.rpm
41ebb9bcbed95dee50634592606dc038  RPMS/redhat/8.0/otrs-2.0.1-01.i386.rpm
d8a947fa8ecb72e09036be2748f4f47c  SRPMS/suse/7.3/otrs-2.0.1-01.src.rpm
5b8f989a59b39563fe6720e95ab7129e  SRPMS/suse/8.x/otrs-2.0.1-01.src.rpm
86ed7ae82285b8f76b4b0bf08dc9041e  SRPMS/suse/9.0/otrs-2.0.1-01.src.rpm
b2d3e12bbfc092dcba3a7ef0003fd105  SRPMS/suse/9.1/otrs-2.0.1-01.src.rpm
e47e9e390b616830ebd96e7f5fdea59e  SRPMS/redhat/7.x/otrs-2.0.1-01.src.rpm
d8da4f4a9bfdfd0528c7ce7f12c4e7fd  SRPMS/redhat/8.0/otrs-2.0.1-01.src.rpm
f9817856dc0e8752e8325478d72b7e14  otrs-2.0.1-01.tar.gz
a78856e21aeee8096d6836a9c2f82e40  otrs-2.0.1-01.tar.bz2


Important for Upgrading:
========================
For those folks who are using OTRS 1.3 and want to upgrade to 2.0
please read the UPGRADING and INSTALL files.

PS: 80% of all config settings are renamed in OTRS 2.0, so most of the
Kernel/Config.pm settings will not be compatible.


Bugreports:
===========
http://bugs.otrs.org/ (Thanks!)

We want to say "thank you" to the OTRS community! :)

Have a lot of fun!

Stefan Rother