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  • Horde’s new Two-Factor API

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    New Horde 6 feature: The horde/horde base app’s next release supports two factor logins.Dmitry Petrov is working to release a new One-Time Password module which integrates with this new API. Seemless integration for One Time Passwords. Several years ago I did some downstream development for a customer. They wanted to use One Time Passwords (OTP)…

  • Sunsetting the Maintaina Horde Fork

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    A few years back I started a downstream fork of Horde to develop features I needed for foss and customer deployments without upstream dependencies. It went successful, was a great learning opportunity and a good exercise in critiquing our old tool chain and approaches. We had some well-known downstream users and contributors but I’d say…

  • Maintaina’s Horde 6 goes upstream

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    Horde 6 alpha versions with composer 2 support are coming to the upstream repos and packagist.org composer create-project horde/bundle .

  • Luedecke petitions Hewlett-Packard: Release the HP WebOS code now!

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    OpenSUSE Ambassador Roger Luedecke has just started a petition towards the Hewlett-Packackard Company (HP) to release the WebOS source code under the GPL license. Luedecke says, “I care deeply about this very important issue”. WebOS is a mobile operating system based on Linux and was originally developed by handheld computer producer Palm, who are now…