Sugar Suite 4.2 Community Preview
 March 11, 2006

The Sugar Team is pleased to make the 4.2 release available for a limited community preview. Click here to build your own 4.2 demo environment and begin exploring the exciting new functionality in 4.2.

The 4.2 Beta release is planned to be available for download early in the week of March 20. The final 4.2 release is planned for general availability (GA) at the end of the week of March 27.

Release 4.2 provides these exciting new features:


  • Significant performance, usability and stability improvements to the Sugar Plug-in for Microsoft® Outlook®
  • Access to the new Sugar Network Support Portal and Online documentation capabilities directly via the Admin area (training available later this year).
  • Exciting UI enhancements to streamline and simplify the user experience.
  • The ability within Campaign Management to provide multiple tracking URLs within a single email, as well as other refinements and more flexible suppression options.
  • Extensive enhancements to Inbound Email including a new personal inbox, signature support, and enhanced administrative control over email functions across Sugar Suite.
  • Outbound Email is improved by the ability to add Sugar Documents directly to emails and by the use of an improved email editor.
  • A new Contracts module available in Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise allows organizations to accumulate and manage important legal documents.
  • Several new capabilities exist in Admin including a new diagnostic tool and the ability to edit the config.php file. The organization of the Admin area has also been improved.
  • Documents can now be related to one another, forming a hierarchy such as when a Master Service Agreement may contain multiple related Statements of Work.


With the exception of the Outlook Plug-in, the Diagnostic Tool and the Sugar Network Support Portal, each 4.2 feature is available in this Community Preview.

The Outlook Plug-in is being evaluated in a limited preview initially with members of the Sugar Testing Community. It will be unveiled in the 4.2 Beta release as early as next week. The Diagnostic Tool and Sugar Network Support Portal have been disabled for the Community Preview and will be available in the Beta.

For more information on the Sugar Suite 4.2 Community Preview, please see the release notes.

Have fun!
Clint