System Requirements for activeCollab 3

The main reason why we have been quiet lately is because we are busy working on the next big release - activeCollab 3. Our policy is that we do not discuss upcoming releases until they are ready for testing, but we need to make a couple of announcements this time. activeCollab 3 has bigger system requirements than activeCollab 1 and activeCollab 2 and we want to give you enough time to upgrade your platform.

Here is what'll change:

• No more support for PHP4. Minimal PHP version will be PHP5, where PHP 5.0.x is considered deprecated and we recommend that you use PHP 5.1 or later. Moving to PHP5 will help us get rid of all the unnecessary code that was required for activeCollab to work well on PHP4 and pay back some of our technical debt. Also, with language enhancements that PHP5 has, it's finally possible to implement some of the ideas that we wanted to introduce, but had to put aside because of PHP4 compatibility. This will make system more stable and future development much easier.
• Minimal MySQL version will be MySQL 4.1 because we rely on Unicode and want to take advantage of some of the features that are pretty common and frequently used, but not available in MySQL 3.23.x (like subqueries, for example).
• Support for Internet Explorer 6 will no longer be maintained, as previously discussed. If something works in IE6, than great, but we will not spend any more time testing for this browser.

Our decision to support some older versions of software that activeCollab runs on made a perfect sense back in 2007, but it's 2010. now, some things have changed considerably and we feel that it's time to move on.

However, most of you'll want to know when activeCollab 3 will be available... Be aware that we can't promise any specific date (not even a month), and that we are talking months here, not weeks or days. This should give you enough time to get ready for the new release.