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EGroupware vs Tana
A side-by-side editorial comparison of EGroupware and Tana — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
EGroupware vs Tana: 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 Tana?
Tana is building a meeting layer into its graph, and the AI now acts instead of asking.
Almost everything shipped since early July is about meetings: a pre-meeting hub card holding join, capture and RSVP-grouped attendees; an always-on-top nudge that now fires for internal Tana calls as well as Zoom, Meet and Teams; one-click conversion of a scheduled Tana call into an external audio capture; and meeting creation moved to the top of the Today page. Alongside it, meeting agents got an org-level voice picker with audition playback. The one non-meeting release lets the AI pin and unpin docs, spaces and agents directly, with no proposal to approve first.
EGroupware vs Tana: 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.
Tana
6.3COLLAB
Tana is building a meeting layer into its graph, and the AI now acts instead of asking.
◆ Current state
Almost everything shipped since early July is about meetings: a pre-meeting hub card holding join, capture and RSVP-grouped attendees; an always-on-top nudge that now fires for internal Tana calls as well as Zoom, Meet and Teams; one-click conversion of a scheduled Tana call into an external audio capture; and meeting creation moved to the top of the Today page. Alongside it, meeting agents got an org-level voice picker with audition playback. The one non-meeting release lets the AI pin and unpin docs, spaces and agents directly, with no proposal to approve first.
◆ Where it's heading
Tana is moving from the place notes about meetings land to the place meetings happen. Each release closes another gap between the calendar event and the captured artifact, and the internal-meeting nudge shows Tana now hosts calls rather than only recording other people's. The pin change is small but points the same way on the agent side: the assistant is being trusted to execute rather than propose.
◆ Prediction
Expect the meeting surface to extend past the call itself into automatic post-meeting artifacts routed into the graph, and more AI actions that apply immediately rather than queuing a proposal.
Alternatives to EGroupware and Tana
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 Tana.
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 Tana
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 9d agoEGroupwareSecurity release plus fallout fixes from the previous one
- 9d agoEGroupware23.1 security fixes with an August 15th end-of-support date
- 9d agoTanaAsk the AI to pin things for you
- 13d agoTanaStart, schedule, or capture external meetings right from Today
- 18d agoTanaNever miss an upcoming Tana meeting
- 20d agoTanaPresent and capture, in one click
- 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
- 23d agoTanaA pre-meeting hub ⚡
- 25d agoTanaA voice for your meeting agents
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between EGroupware and Tana?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Tana is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 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 Tana?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Tana is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 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 Tana?
Top Tana alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Tana alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tana for the full list with editorial commentary on each.