Re: Zimbra 5.x to 6.0.6

[Tim Ross <tross@calpoly.edu>]

Hi Pam,

We are upgrading our Prod environment to 6.0.6.1 this weekend.  We were concerned about the iPhone and Auto-complete bugs in 6.0.6, but the 6.0.6.1 patch has resolved these as far as our testing has shown.  We have been testing 6.0.6 and 6.0.6.1 for a couple months and feel pretty secure about going to 6.0.6.1.

Sounds like there are some nice bug fixes/enhancements in 6.0.7, but we won't be upgrading again for a while. 

Tim Ross
Application Administrator
Collaboration Support Group
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Buffington" <pam.buffington@oit.gatech.edu>
To: "Xueshan Feng" <sfeng@stanford.edu>
Cc: zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca, "Rich Graves" <rgraves@carleton.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:33:31 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Zimbra 5.x to 6.0.6

Hello Everyone,
    We are looking to anyone who has done any serious 6.0.7 testing, (or who plans to put it into production) Currently we are on 5.0.23 and are trying to determine when to move to the 6x line. If you were a unhappy 6.0.6 group did the patch make things better for you?

Thanks
Pam

----- "Xueshan Feng" <sfeng@stanford.edu> wrote:

> From: "Xueshan Feng" <sfeng@stanford.edu>
> To: "Rich Graves" <rgraves@carleton.edu>
> Cc: zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca
> Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:20:41 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: Zimbra 5.x to 6.0.6
>
> We upgraded from 5.0.21 to 6.0.6 on 04/30. We ran into major
> performance degradation which we don't know if it is specific to our
> institution's usage pattern/configuration.  Some bugs - 45677 might
> have contributed to  the performance issue. We also have to disable
> GAL sync while working through the problem. 
> 
> 
> Xueshan
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> | We upgraded from 6.0.4 to 6.0.6 last weekend despite the added
> | autocomplete bugs, because it was a break in the academic calendar
> and
> | because bug 35688 was critical for us (starting mailboxd took > 90
> | minutes).
> | 
> | The latest 5.x continues to provide the best user experience, as
> long
> | as your users don't require new 6.x features.
> | 
> | 6.0.4 was a pretty good place to be, as long as you never, ever
> need
> | to restart the server, or if you only have a very small number of
> | ical/rss/pop feeds (we have at least one per user for course
> | schedules).
> | 
> | 6.0.5 brought popup reminders for shared calendars. Very annoying.
> I
> | wonder if I could have worked around that by backporting some
> | javascript from 6.0.6. Too late now.
> | 
> | 6.0.6 fixes several bugs (at least 3 that I reported based on our
> user
> | issues), but makes autocomplete worse than 6.0.5 and earlier.
> | 
> | I don't agree that 45906 is a bug... just an unusual user
> | configuration. The junk button was correctly toggling junk/not junk
> | state. The better answer to the user's problem would have been to
> add
> | -in:junk and -in:trash to his search.
> | 
> | I fixed 46148 and a couple others by fetching and manually
> integrating
> | javascript source code changes from perforce. But the more serious
> | AutoComplete bugs require recompiling mailboxd, not to mention
> pending
> | Zimbra QA.
> | 
> | 6.0.7 looks like a good target, if you can wait.
> | -- Rich Graves http://claimid.com/rcgraves
> | Carleton.edu Sr UNIX and Security Admin
> | CMC135: 507-222-7079 Cell: 952-292-6529
> 
> -- 
> 
> Xueshan Feng <sfeng@stanford.edu>
> Technical Lead, IT Services, Stanford University

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