Roadmap

Current roadmap of grommunio (as of 29th of January, 2025):

  • The Current Stable release of grommunio has been released on the 29th of January 2025, with a support lifecycle of 3 years and optional extended lifecycle extensions available with grommunio's subscription program.

  • The Next point release is planned for release in the last week of February 2025 with the following features:

    • RFC 2184/2231: Enhanced handling of extended parameters in MIME headers.

    • Trashed Mailboxes & Migration: Improvements for advanced mailbox handling across multiple migrations, including x400 addressing and undocumented MAPI attributes.

    • grommunio Setup v2: Expanding support for the setup stage for RHEL9, Debian 12, and Ubuntu 24.04.

    • grommunio-files: Updated version with group folder management and modern authentication.

  • Following 2025.01.2 the following features are in the upcoming release funnel (in QA and/or deployed already in pilot-installations):

    • Modern Authentication (OAuth2) for Outlook, IMAP, and POP3.

    • Full HTML-based MR (Meeting Request) Processing in the Web UI.

    • AI-Powered Features for enhanced user productivity.

    • Extended rules & autoprocessing support.

Release strategy

grommunio is committed to delivering quality software products in a customer-friendly and predictable way.

The release model of grommunio is divided into 2 different chains:

  • Major releases (e.g. 2025.01.1, 2023.11.1, 2022.12.1)

  • Minor releases (e.g. 2025.01.2, 2023.11.3, 2022.12.2)

Major releases contain are determined to larger feature sets as well as including potential architectural changes whereas minor releases are focused on bugfixes, security updates and smaller features.

grommunio provides a major release annually with patch-level releases in monthly cycles.

Supported Distributions

As of 2025.01.1, grommunio actively supports installation and operation on the following Linux distributions:

  • RHEL9 / EPEL9

  • openSUSE 15.5+ / SLES 15.5+

  • Debian 12

  • Ubuntu 24.04

With 2025.01.2, grommunio additionally will start to provide automatic deployment tools (grommunio-setup) for these distributions, too.

Disclaimer

While grommunio does everything to provide the highest level of transparency, the roadmap document is subject to change based on factors such as customer demand, technological adaption or community response. While this document is crafted with the highest level of care and accuracy, there might be changes, which grommunio communicates through its available communication channels, such as social networks, newsletters and on grommunio's other news sections.