smeserver/cdrom.image/README.txt

SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
===================================

October 20 2008

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7 and all packages
have been updated to the latest releases.


All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.

The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download

Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
in the bug tracker (and only there, please);

    http://bugs.contribs.org/


Please Note
===========
It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
during this time you may experience problems.


About SME Server
================

SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.

SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.

As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
development.

Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.


Thanks
======
The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
current level of support. More people are required to help with
bug triage and verification testing.


This release contains many new features, all released updates for
SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.


Upgrades
========
- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
- An upgrade will preserve the existing data


Changes in this release
=======================

Installer
---------
- Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.

Mail system changes
-------------------
- Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
  (internal|external)
- New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
  to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
- Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
  results in 0 hits.
- Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part 
  are now rejected.
- qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
- A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel 
  setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
- Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
- Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
- Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
- Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
- Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org  from default lists and use a more improved 
  list in zen.spamhaus.org.

Console
-------
- Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen 
  before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to 
  configuration of server.
- Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than 
  waiting for the second confirmation entry.
- The console should validate passwords using the common method,
  using esmith::util::validatePassword
- The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
  as it is redundant.
- Display frames in console server-manager.
  When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
  http://localhost/server-manager

Backups
-------
- Backups now use dar which allows for daily full or incremental backup 
- Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
- The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
  cause a backup to fail.
- A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
  It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
  device without manual intervention.

Localisation
------------
As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
future.

We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that
will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
easily maintained.

We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
characters (like Greek).

Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.

Software Installer
------------------
- smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
- The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
  users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
  which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
- Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
- The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
- The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
  available.

Webmail
-------
- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
- Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
  database.
- Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
  longer worked. 
- The name of the webmail installation is now configurable. 
  To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.

Server manager
--------------
- The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log 
  files' is now displayed as the first line.
- Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
  check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
- Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
  certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
- Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
- Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
  spaces and newlines in panel headers.
- The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
  as this could be misleading.
- Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
- After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
  user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
  death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
- Remove the last 'pleasewait' message is it’s no longer needed.
- The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a 
  problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.

Other fixes and updates
-----------------------
- Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
- The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
- The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
- radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
- Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
- Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
- Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
  browsed.
- Made mtu/mru settings configurable and default to 1400
- Increased the templating in php.ini 
- Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
  generation
- Added support for cciss RAID controller
- Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with 
  root.
- nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
  about lost communication.
- e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
- ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their 
  UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
- Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
  to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
- The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
- If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now
  only the version from e-smith-release is sent.
- The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
  http://smolt.contribs.org/
- Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
- Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
  http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
- Do not display symlinks via ftp.
- New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
- Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter.
- Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use.
- Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels.
- Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature.
- dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode.
- On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate 
  script would fail.
- Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
- Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
- The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in 
  smecontribs.
- When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
  appear in any configuration file.


General features
================
- Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates


There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
=======================================================

After installing for the very first time:
-----------------------------------------
- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
  groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
  about those changes (rkhunter email notification).

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2			===================================
3	gordonr	1.12
4	slords	1.21	October 20 2008
5	gordonr	1.12
6	slords	1.17	The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7	slords	1.21	SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7 and all packages
8	slords	1.20	have been updated to the latest releases.
9	gordonr	1.12
10	gordonr	1.15
11	slords	1.20	All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
12
13	slords	1.21	The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
14			http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
15	gordonr	1.15
16	slords	1.20	Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
17			in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
18	gordonr	1.15
19	slords	1.18	http://bugs.contribs.org/
20	gordonr	1.11
21	gordonr	1.3
22	slords	1.21	Please Note
23			===========
24			It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
25			during this time you may experience problems.
26
27
28	slords	1.20	About SME Server
29			================
30
31			SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
32			enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
33			( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
34			provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
35
36			SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
37			and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
38			However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
39			meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
40
41			As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
42			development.
43
44			Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
45
46
47	slords	1.17	Thanks
48	slords	1.21	======
49	slords	1.17	The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
50			this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
51	slords	1.18	current level of support. More people are required to help with
52			bug triage and verification testing.
53
54
55	slords	1.20	This release contains many new features, all released updates for
56	slords	1.21	SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
57	slords	1.20	will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
58
59
60	slords	1.18	Upgrades
61			========
62			- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
63			- An upgrade will preserve the existing data
64	slords	1.17
65
66			Changes in this release
67			=======================
68
69	slords	1.21	Installer
70			---------
71			- Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
72
73			Mail system changes
74			-------------------
75			- Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
76			(internal\|external)
77			- New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
78			to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
79			- Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
80			results in 0 hits.
81			- Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
82			are now rejected.
83			- qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
84			- A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
85			setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
86			- Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
87			- Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
88			- Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
89			- Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
90			- Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org from default lists and use a more improved
91			list in zen.spamhaus.org.
92	slords	1.20
93			Console
94			-------
95	slords	1.21	- Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
96			before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
97			configuration of server.
98			- Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
99			waiting for the second confirmation entry.
100			- The console should validate passwords using the common method,
101			using esmith::util::validatePassword
102			- The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
103			as it is redundant.
104			- Display frames in console server-manager.
105			When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
106			http://localhost/server-manager
107	slords	1.17
108			Backups
109			-------
110	slords	1.21	- Backups now use dar which allows for daily full or incremental backup
111			- Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
112			- The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
113			cause a backup to fail.
114			- A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
115			It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
116			device without manual intervention.
117	slords	1.17
118			Localisation
119			------------
120	slords	1.21	As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
121			languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
122			future.
123
124			We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
125			Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
126			Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
127
128			We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
129			using a tool called pootle. This is a web based translation tool that
130			will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
131			easily maintained.
132
133			We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
134			work with pootle. Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
135			switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
136			this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
137			characters (like Greek).
138	slords	1.20
139	slords	1.21	Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
140	slords	1.17
141			Software Installer
142			------------------
143	slords	1.21	- smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
144			- The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
145			users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
146			which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
147			- Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
148			- The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
149			- The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
150			available.
151	slords	1.17
152			Webmail
153			-------
154			- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
155	slords	1.21	- Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
156			database.
157			- Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
158			longer worked.
159			- The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
160			To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
161	slords	1.17
162			Server manager
163			--------------
164	slords	1.21	- The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
165			files' is now displayed as the first line.
166			- Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
167			check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
168			- Server-manager > printers > add printer - now advises users to avoid
169			certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
170			- Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
171			- Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
172			spaces and newlines in panel headers.
173			- The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
174			as this could be misleading.
175			- Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
176			- After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
177			user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
178			death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
179			- Remove the last 'pleasewait' message is it’s no longer needed.
180			- The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a
181			problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
182	slords	1.17
183			Other fixes and updates
184			-----------------------
185	slords	1.21	- Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
186			- The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
187			- The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
188			- radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
189			- Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
190			- Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
191			- Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
192			browsed.
193			- Made mtu/mru settings configurable and default to 1400
194			- Increased the templating in php.ini
195			- Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
196			generation
197			- Added support for cciss RAID controller
198			- Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
199			root.
200			- nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
201			about lost communication.
202			- e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
203			- ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their
204			UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
205			- Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
206			to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
207			- The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
208			- If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now
209			only the version from e-smith-release is sent.
210			- The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
211			http://smolt.contribs.org/
212			- Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
213			- Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
214			http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
215			- Do not display symlinks via ftp.
216			- New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
217			- Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter.
218			- Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use.
219			- Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels.
220			- Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature.
221			- dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode.
222			- On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate
223			script would fail.
224			- Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
225			- Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
226			- The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in
227			smecontribs.
228			- When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
229			appear in any configuration file.
230	slords	1.20
231	gordonr	1.1
232	slords	1.18	General features
233			================
234	slords	1.21	- Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
235	slords	1.20
236
237			There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
238	slords	1.21	=======================================================
239	slords	1.20
240			After installing for the very first time:
241			-----------------------------------------
242	slords	1.21	- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
243	slords	1.20	- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
244			groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
245			- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
246			about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
247
248	slords	1.21	$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $