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EGroupware vs Hive
A side-by-side editorial comparison of EGroupware and Hive — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
EGroupware vs Hive: at a glance
What is EGroupware?
Two branches, one deadline: 23.1 security coverage ends August 15th and 26.x is the only exit.
EGroupware is releasing date-stamped builds on two branches simultaneously, and July was almost entirely security. Three separate advisory waves shipped in a fortnight, twice requiring a same-day follow-up build for vulnerabilities reported after the first fix went out. The 23.1 branch now carries an explicit end date: security coverage stops on August 15th 2026.
What is Hive?
AI Proofing gets its manual controls back while Hive builds out creative review and resourcing.
Six entries landed the same day, and five of them are proofing: version visibility rules that keep working drafts away from external approvers, a returning reference-document picker for AI Proofing, annotation stroke widths, and an optimized viewing path for very large images. The rest is Resourcing — project-name grouping in the Users view, and a day earlier a 13-week resource estimates grid that separates planned capacity from committed assignments.
EGroupware vs Hive: editorial side-by-side
EGroupware
5.0COLLAB
Two branches, one deadline: 23.1 security coverage ends August 15th and 26.x is the only exit.
◆ Current state
EGroupware is releasing date-stamped builds on two branches simultaneously, and July was almost entirely security. Three separate advisory waves shipped in a fortnight, twice requiring a same-day follow-up build for vulnerabilities reported after the first fix went out. The 23.1 branch now carries an explicit end date: security coverage stops on August 15th 2026.
◆ Where it's heading
Underneath the advisory churn, the 26.x branch is where anything new lands — AiTools gained prompts that fire on entry add, update and delete rather than only from a context menu, and can chain up to five tool calls per prompt; Invoices gained OCR that identifies document type and billing period. Meanwhile CalDAV and ActiveSync fixes keep recurring, the fallout of an internal move from timestamps to DateTime objects in Calendar.
◆ Prediction
Expect a final 23.1 security build before the August 15th cutoff and continued 26.x releases where the AiTools trigger and tool-calling work is the thread to watch.
Hive
10.0COLLABPM
AI Proofing gets its manual controls back while Hive builds out creative review and resourcing.
◆ Current state
Six entries landed the same day, and five of them are proofing: version visibility rules that keep working drafts away from external approvers, a returning reference-document picker for AI Proofing, annotation stroke widths, and an optimized viewing path for very large images. The rest is Resourcing — project-name grouping in the Users view, and a day earlier a 13-week resource estimates grid that separates planned capacity from committed assignments.
◆ Where it's heading
Hive is going deep on two modules rather than broad across the product. Creative proofing is being hardened for work with outside approvers, where the requirement is not more features but tighter control over who sees which version. The more telling change is AI Proofing: the reference-document picker is back after having been removed, with automatic selection now an explicit opt-in. That is an AI feature being walked back toward human control, and it suggests the automatic behavior was picking the wrong source material often enough to matter.
◆ Prediction
Expect the proofing round to keep accumulating external-reviewer controls, and the 13-week estimates grid to grow the path from planned to committed scheduling, since the entry describes that handoff but not how it completes.
Alternatives to EGroupware and Hive
Other Collab products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either EGroupware or Hive.
Jellyfin
Jellyfin drops the 10. prefix and puts 12.0 through a three-candidate preview.
PhotoPrism
PhotoPrism swapped in an ONNX vision pipeline, then opened the library to 360° media at 16K.
Immich
Immich is four release candidates into v3 with every feature note published somewhere else.
SOGo
SOGo's 5.12 line has become a CVE conveyor belt while the team's attention sits on SOGo 6.
File Browser
File Browser is shutting down — the repo archives on 2026-09-01 and no security fixes follow.
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Recent activity from EGroupware and Hive
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 2d agoHiveTemplate subactions can stay unassigned when applied
- 2d agoHiveResourcing Users view can sort and group by project name
- 2d agoHiveInk and highlighter annotations get thin, medium, thick strokes
- 2d agoHiveWorking proof versions stay hidden from published-only reviewers
- 2d agoHiveReference-document picker returns before AI Proofing runs
- 2d agoHiveProofing V2 handles very large images without downscaling first
- 9d agoEGroupwareSecurity release plus fallout fixes from the previous one
- 9d agoEGroupware23.1 security fixes with an August 15th end-of-support date
- 22d agoEGroupwareTwo more 23.1 vulnerabilities patched same day
- 22d agoEGroupwareHigh-severity fixes plus custom-field data loss repair
- 22d agoEGroupware26.x security build adds OCR document-type detection
- 22d agoEGroupwareTwo further vulnerabilities patched immediately after
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between EGroupware and Hive?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is EGroupware better than Hive?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to EGroupware?
Top EGroupware alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "EGroupware alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/egroupware for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Hive?
Top Hive alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hive alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hive for the full list with editorial commentary on each.