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SOGo vs Hive
A side-by-side editorial comparison of SOGo and Hive — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
SOGo vs Hive: at a glance
What is SOGo?
SOGo's 5.12 line has become a CVE conveyor belt while the team's attention sits on SOGo 6.
Six releases in three months, and the majority exist to fix vulnerabilities: XSS via crafted mail, SQL injection, JavaScript injection through hint and theme query parameters, impersonation when OpenID is paired with a non-matching user source, and two CVEs affecting PostgreSQL user sources. Releases 5.12.6 and 5.12.9 exist purely to undo regressions the security fixes introduced.
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.
SOGo vs Hive: editorial side-by-side
SOGo
0.0COLLAB
SOGo's 5.12 line has become a CVE conveyor belt while the team's attention sits on SOGo 6.
◆ Current state
Six releases in three months, and the majority exist to fix vulnerabilities: XSS via crafted mail, SQL injection, JavaScript injection through hint and theme query parameters, impersonation when OpenID is paired with a non-matching user source, and two CVEs affecting PostgreSQL user sources. Releases 5.12.6 and 5.12.9 exist purely to undo regressions the security fixes introduced.
◆ Where it's heading
Alinto declared a feature freeze on 5.12 to concentrate on SOGo 6, and the changelog reflects it — the one new capability in the window, a REST API in 5.12.2, was explicitly a pre-committed sponsored deliverable the team felt obliged to honour. What is left is a hardening cycle on a large groupware surface, with each fix carrying real regression risk into webmail and calendar.
◆ Prediction
Expect the 5.12.x line to keep producing security releases with regression follow-ups, and no new functionality until SOGo 6 surfaces.
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 SOGo 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 SOGo 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.
EGroupware
Two branches, one deadline: 23.1 security coverage ends August 15th and 26.x is the only exit.
File Browser
File Browser is shutting down — the repo archives on 2026-09-01 and no security fixes follow.
Recent activity from SOGo 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
- 2mo agoSOGoPatch undoes 5.12.8 regressions in preferences and mail display
- 2mo agoSOGoTwo CVEs fixed for PostgreSQL user sources
- 2mo agoSOGoFour vulnerabilities: XSS, SQL injection, OpenID impersonation
- 4mo agoSOGoTOTP silently disabled for new users, now fixed
- 5mo agoSOGoInjection fixes in hint queries, theme queries and categories
- 9mo agoSOGoAttachments can display above the message body
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between SOGo and Hive?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 0.0), 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 SOGo 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 0.0), 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 SOGo?
Top SOGo alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "SOGo alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/sogo 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.