Zentyal Development Team today announced the availability of Zentyal Server Development Edition 8.1.
Zentyal Server 8.1 is based on Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS and comes with the latest versions of all integrated software. This release focuses on improving overall performance, security hardening, and system stability, and includes a large number of internal improvements and bug fixes across the platform. The most important highlights include:
- Numerous bug fixes and reliability improvements across networking, mail, Samba, and core system components.
- Improved system security with expanded AppArmor protection across multiple services.
- Better dashboard and UI, including a new license widget and usability improvements.
- Improved network configuration reliability with better validation and cleanup of VLAN, bridge and bond configurations.
Zentyal Server provides an easy-to-use Linux alternative to Windows Server®. Thanks to the integration of Samba, Zentyal provides native compatibility with the Microsoft Active Directory® and allows transparent management of Windows® clients. It is used by companies and public administrations mainly as a domain and directory server and a file server. The graphical user inferface that Zentyal offers helps to make Linux server management easier for all and specially for new Linux users.
See the full changelog for all the details.
Download
You can download the Zentyal Server Development Edition 8.1
And the MD5 checksum
Upgrading
Information for upgrading from Zentyal 8.0 to Zentyal 8.1 will be published shortly.
Documentation
The official documentation for Zentyal 8.1: https://doc.zentyal.org/en/index.html.
Repositories
Here is the APT source entry for Zentyal 8.1:
deb http://packages.zentyal.org/zentyal 8.1 main extra
Public key is available at:
https://keys.zentyal.org/zentyal-8.1-packages-org.asc
Changelog
You can read the full changelog from 8.0 to 8.1 here.
Commercial Edition
The Zentyal Server Commercial Edition v. 8.1 will be published shortly.
About Zentyal
Zentyal Linux Server has been developed since 2004. Zentyal Server incorporates all the network services required in corporate environments, most importantly the first-ever native Microsoft Active Directory® implementation on Linux that is easy to use.
With Zentyal Server there is no need to use command line, but system administrators can manage all the network services via graphical user interface. Zentyal-based solutions allow companies to reduce and rationalize IT investments, improve the security and minimize system downtime.
Zentyal Server is widely used by companies independently of their size, activity or location, as well as by public administration or the education sector. The partnership agreements signed with IT support and service providers in more than 20 countries guarantee the distribution of Zentyal-based solutions to customers worldwide.