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Information for developers, integrators and users

Our products are 100% Open Source software. We are thus committed to make the source code of our software available under Open Source licenses such as the AGPLv3. We also want to give access to
the products themselves as easy as possible. Another important aspect for us is to provide you with technical information and be available for your questions and suggestions at all times.

This page offers an overview of the most important entry points for all those who want to test, use, understand, modify or expand UCS.

Contact details, information & documentation for administrators and developers

  • Univention forum: includes all the important, technical information such as announcements, updates, FAQs and HOWTOs concerning all aspects of the development of UCS and its components. The forum allows direct, uncomplicated communication and discussion with the Univention developers.
  • Univention Wiki: provides technicians and developers with information on the technical concepts behind UCS as well as documentation for the integration of their proprietary developments in UCS.
  • Univention support and knowledge base: offers users, administrators and developers practical guides covering all aspects of UCS, the management system and UCS components such as Nagios or Services for Windows.
  • Documentation on UCS, its components and the UCS-based software appliances for administrators and users can be found on the Univention homepage.

Evaluate and test UCS

The complete source code for UCS including Univention's proprietary developments is available under the GNU Affero General Public Licence (AGPLv3). The Univention products comprising the installation software, software packages in binary format and documentation may only be circulated in the commercial environment in accordance with the software license for UCS, UCS TCS, UCS DVS or http://www.univention.de/en/produkte/preise/UCD. This software license authorizes purchasers to use the software without time or extent restrictions.

  • Online demo version
  • Download UCS including preinstalled VMware
  • Download test version 
  • Download UCS Free for Personal Use Edition
  • Download source code

Further development of UCS and integrated Open Source components 

Our bug tracking system Bugzilla is publicly accessible to facilitate your contribution to the further development. Simply register and follow the development of certain features or create your own feature requests or error descriptions:

https://forge.univention.org/bugzilla/


All partners and members of the Open Source community are welcome to participate actively in the further development of UCS. To ensure that modifications and expansions can be integrated in UCS and other Univention products, this requires a written declaration assigning Univention the right to publish Univention software including the modifications made by third parties under the AGPL and other licensing conditions. Please download the corresponding declaration and return it to us completed if required.

Support and maintenance

In the scope of the maintenance, Univention regularly publishes hot fixes, security updates and new releases. A new release appears approximately every 6 months (e.g., UCS 2.x); patch level versions (e.g., UCS 2.2-x) with improvements and straightforward feature expansions are published as necessary. Univention releases hot fixes at least every 2 weeks and security updates as required. Component updates are also regularly published independently of this.