We're very excited to announce the release the public beta of Clearspace and Clearspace X 2.0 today. We'll announce further details with the full release of 2.0, but this beta includes new features like:

• Projects, intended to help groups of people coordinate with each other toward a common goal on a particular target date.

• An end-user personalizable and administrator customizable home page.

• Organizational chart views allowing people to better understand organizational relationships and leverage existing information maintained in LDAP or Active Directory.

• Enhanced integration with Openfire 3.5, including easier setup, full integration of users and groups, shared authentication, auditing of administrative actions in both Clearspace/Clearspace X and Openfire, and the same administrative look and feel in Clearspace.

• Great improvements to the rich text editor.

• On the technical side there is an improved plugin framework, Spring support and an upgrade to Struts 2.0

We would love to get your feedback on the beta. The best place to contribute is in the Clearspace Beta space. You can download the beta releases from your Jive Software website account where you find other releases.

Documentation for the beta release is available here and includes upgrade information

In the coming weeks we will also be hosting a beta Clearspace instance so that you can try out the new release without installing a copy locally. We will post more details when that instance is ready.

The Clearspace 2.0 beta is scheduled to arrive on February 14th (our Valentine's Day present to you). If you would like to participate, please let us know by posting in the beta discussion area. We've made a bunch of awesome improvements, and you won't want to miss getting an early preview during the beta program.

The beta-1 release will be made available on Feb 14 on the downloads page. A beta-2 release is scheduled for March 6. The process will be very quick, with only three weeks in which to install, test and send back feedback during each cycle. We'll post more details regarding the contents of the release and the logistics of the beta program soon.

Of course it comes with the standard beta disclaimer. Please keep in mind that we offer these betas to give customers an opportunity to test pre-released Jive Software. Do NOT run production environments using beta products. These beta products are entirely unsupported. However, we would love to hear your feedback here about the beta product to help us improve the final version of Clearspace.