Release of OTRS 1.1 (Bondi Beach)

Hi,

we are proud to announce OTRS 1.1 (Bondi Beach) today. The increased
number of developers made it possible to shift a huge amount of working
power the new version. So we are a little bit ahead of our internal
schedule. Bondi Beach has many nifty new features. Here are some of
them:

- support of sub-queues
- ro/rw group feature
- ticket split feature
- new send mail backends (SMTP and MTA)
- new page navigator for AgentQueueView
- html color highlighting for ticket priority and 
  note types (e. g. note-internal and note-external)
- full support of apache2/mod_perl2
- new RPM packages for RedHat 8
- CSS is now used everywhere (100% CSS support)
- new Italian translation
   
And we heavily improved the following things:

- default theme with icons (much nicer now!)
- performance of the MIME parse
- customer source (database/LDAP) connectivity to the agent interface
- AdminEmail feature (announcements to groups and users)
- ticket search

You can find a complete list of all changes in the CHANGES file. And
before you install it you can try our demosystem at http://otrs.org/demo

But lets hear what OTRS users say about the system:

University of California at Los Angeles

        We are currently using OTRS for the Bruin OnLine Helpdesk at
        UCLA. As an ISP for the University, we recieve troubleshooting
        questions from our users about dial-up, email, proxy etc via
        phones and email. We receive about 600 emails on a slow week to
        1000+ on a heavy week, half of which are spam/viruses.

        We find OTRS very helpful in our work. OTRS has allowed us to
        easily filter out messages to different queues. Some users
        forget to include the original problem, but OTRS keep track of
        the Help Desk cases from the begining. With so many options
        available on OTRS, we were able to configure OTRS to fit our
        needs perfectly, allowing us to work more efficiently.

        Since we first used OTRS in the summer of 2002, we were able to
        easily communicate to the OTRS developers on the things we
        liked, and the things that we would like to have in OTRS. To
        this day, you guys have implemented everything we suggested. We
        can't begin to express our appreciation for your responsiveness.

        We reccomend OTRS for any Help Desk whether it be in a
        University or a Corporation.
        -- Diane Shieh, Bruin OnLine UCLA
        -- Eddie Urenda, Supervisor Bruin OnLine UCLA

Our mirrors have been armed by now. You can download the new release at 
the following servers:

  ftp://ftp.samurai.com/pub/otrs/
  ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/otrs/
  ftp://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/

A full list of all download mirrors (ftp/http/rsync) is available at

  http://otrs.org/download

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For those folks who are using OTRS 1.0 and want to upgrade to 1.1 
please read the UPGRADING and INSTALL files.

We want to say DANKESCHOEN ("Thank you!") to all developers and users 
of the system. It is a pleasure to work with you guys!

PS: In case you have never heard of "Bondi Beach" and want to see it: 
    Fly to Sydney and than catch the bus 380, 382 or L82 from the city.
    http://www.lonelyplanet.com/theme/beaches/be_bondi.htm

take care
  Stefan Wintermeyer

-- 
Stefan Wintermeyer

   That's all I have to say about that. (Forrest Gump)
                                        "Forrest Gump"