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1  SME Server 7.0  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
2  ==============  ===================================
3  July 1, 2006  
4    October 28 2008
5  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME  
6  Server 7.0 This release has many new features and fixes for previously  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7  reported issues.  SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes
8    in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8
9  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  along with translation into 6 additional languages.
10    
11    
12  About SME Server  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
13  ================  
14    The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
15  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
16  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  
17  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
18  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
19    
20  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License      http://bugs.contribs.org/
21  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  
22  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  
23  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  Please Note
24    ===========
25  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
26  development.  during this time you may experience problems.
27    
28  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  
29    About SME Server
30    ================
31  Installation  
32  ============  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
33    enterprises.
34  - Simple single CD install  
35    SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
36  - The installation procedure will rewrite all disks in the system  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
37    However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
38  - Automatic detection of multi-CPU and HyperThreading CPUs  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
39    
40  - In order to install on i586 machines you will need to do the following:  
41    Thanks
42    1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu  ======
43    2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
44    this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
45  - Many installation problems are caused by the following issues:  current level of support. More people are required to help with
46    bug triage and verification testing.
47  * Incorrectly burnt CD:  
48     Please use the "Media Check" to test your media. This screen is  
49     presented at the start of the installation  This release contains many new features, all released updates for
50    SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
51  * Faulty memory  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
52      1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu  
53      2) Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt  
54    Upgrades
55  * Unsupported or faulty hardware  ========
56    - Check the memory and CD media  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
57    - Use good quality cables and an error-free CDROM drive  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
58    - Ensure master/slave configuration is correct, if appropriate  
59    - Disable onboard RAID controllers  
60    - Disable power saving and ACPI features in the BIOS  Changes in this release
61    =======================
62  Automated RAID installation  
63  ===========================  Installer
64    ---------
65  NOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7.0  - Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
66    
67  - Single disk provides one-way RAID1  Mail system changes
68    - Console screen allows simple addition of second disk to provide mirroring  -------------------
69    - Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
70  - Two disks are configured as a RAID1 mirror    (internal|external)
71    - New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
72  - Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/boot partition is RAID1)    to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
73    - Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
74  - Six or more disks are configured as RAID6 (/boot partition is RAID1)    results in 0 hits.
75    - Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
76      are now rejected.
77  Upgrades  - qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
78  ========  - A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
79      setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
80  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  - Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
81    - Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
82  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data  - Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
83    - Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
84  - Seamless upgrades from unmodified SME Server 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.5 servers  - Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org  from default lists and use a more improved
85      list in zen.spamhaus.org.
86  - Many common contributed add-ons have been included in the satndard dis  
87    Console
88  Email  -------
89  =====  - Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
90      before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
91  - Virus scanning    configuration of server.
92    - Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
93  - Executable attachment blocking    waiting for the second confirmation entry.
94    - The console should validate passwords using the common method,
95  - Spam filtering    using esmith::util::validatePassword
96    - Automatic tagging with X-Spam-Status header  - The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
97    - Optional sorting to 'junkmail' mailbox    as it is redundant.
98    - Selectable tagging levels  - Display frames in console server-manager.
99    - Optional rejection of spam during SMTP transaction    When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
100    - Full user/domain recipient filtering    http://localhost/server-manager
101    
102  - Attachment conversion from TNEF to MIME  Backups
103    -------
104  - Pseudonyms panel enhancements  - Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB
105    - Ability to send (e.g.) support@domain1 and support@domain2 to different    of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:
106      places    smbfs, cifs or nfs. It also gives the option to set how many rotating
107    - Can enter pseudonyms of pseudonyms    backups are required and allows to split size of backup to DVD size.
108    - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
109  - Secure POP, IMAP and SMTP  - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
110      cause a backup to fail.
111  - SMTP authentication for users and for ISP connection  - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
112      It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
113  - Horde/IMP3 based webmail    device without manual intervention.
114    - Set dar compression to default to gzip
115  General features  - dar backup to be less verbose in panel
116  ================  - Correct mounting for usb disks
117    - no compression for ogg media files
118  - Based on CentOS 4.3  - Make dar use defined list of directories to backup
119    - Remove obsolete smbfs backup method
120  - Software installer panel    
121    
122  - Yum based software installation  Localisation
123    ------------
124  - Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled  As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
125    languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
126    future.
127    
128  Changelog  We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
129  =========  Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
130    Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
131  7.0rc3 -> 7.0  
132  =============  We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
133  - Release number change  using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that
134    will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
135  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  easily maintained.
136      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
137    We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
138  ****************************************************************  work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
139  * IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases *  switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
140  ****************************************************************  this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
141   Before upgrading to 7.0 from 7.0pre1 or any of the 7.0beta  characters (like Greek).
142   releases, you must run the following command:  
143    Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
144   kudzu -q  
145    Software Installer
146   If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may  ------------------
147   not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:  - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
148    - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
149   http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698    users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
150  ***************************************************************    which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
151    - Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
152  7.0rc2 -> 7.0rc3  - The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
153  ================  - The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
154  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    available.
155      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
156    Webmail
157  7.0rc1 -> 7.0rc2  -------
158  ================  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
159  - Update to CentOS 4.3 base  - Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
160  - Installer built with i686 kernel.  In order to install on i586    database.
161    machines you will need to do the following:  - Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
162      longer worked.
163    1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu.  - The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
164    2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt.    To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
165    
166  - New system consistency audit scripts installed in /sbin/e-smith/audittools/  Server manager
167    --------------
168  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
169      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    files' is now displayed as the first line.
170    - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
171  7.0pre4 -> 7.0rc1    check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
172  ==================  - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
173  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates    certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
174    - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
175  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
176      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    spaces and newlines in panel headers.
177    - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
178  7.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4    as this could be misleading.
179  ==================  - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
180  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
181      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
182      death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
183  7.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3  - Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed.
184  ===================  - The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a
185  - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)    problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
186    
187  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  Other fixes and updates
188      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  -----------------------
189    - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
190  7.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2  - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
191  ===================  - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
192  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
193    - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
194  - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer  - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
195    updates  - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
196      browsed.
197  - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after  - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.
198    using yum  - Increased the templating in php.ini
199    - Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
200  - Completion of change to contribs.org styling    generation
201    - Added support for cciss RAID controller
202  - Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre  - Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
203      root.
204  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
205      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    about lost communication.
206    - e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
207  7.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1  - ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their
208  ===================    UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
209  - Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two  - Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
210    pieces of information - the version installed on your server and    to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
211    a string used to differentiate your server from others using this  - The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
212    test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access  - If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now
213    to the string does not provide any information about your server.    only the version from e-smith-release is sent.
214    - The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
215    We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can    http://smolt.contribs.org/
216    gain an accurate count of the installed servers.  - Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
217    - Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
218  - Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still    http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
219    need to be updated.  - Do not display symlinks via ftp.
220    - New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
221  - Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed.  - Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter.
222    - Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use.
223  - The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31.  - Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels.
224    - Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature.
225  - Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel  - dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode.
226    (added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and  - On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate
227    should be used after system and yum upgrades.    script would fail.
228    - Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
229  - Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed.  - Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
230    - The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in
231  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    smecontribs.
232      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
233      appear in any configuration file.
234  7.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9  
235  ====================  
236  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  General features
237      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  ================
238    - Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
239  7.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8  
240  ====================  
241  - Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
242  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772  =======================================================
243    
244  7.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7  After installing for the very first time:
245  ====================  -----------------------------------------
246  - Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page  - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
247  - Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included  - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
248  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers    groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
249      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
250      about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
251  7.0beta5 -> 7.0beta6  
252  ====================  $Id: README.txt,v 1.22 2008/10/15 22:56:59 wellsi Exp $
 - Base updated from CentOS 4.1 to CentOS 4.2  
 - Included kernel-module-slip to support dialup with diald  
 - Gathered all L10Ns other than en-us into the smeserver-locale package  
 - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  
     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
   
 7.0beta4 -> 7.0beta5  
 ====================  
 - German translations - Thanks Dietmar Berteld  
 - Italian translations - Thanks Filippo Carletti  
 - French translation fixups - Thanks again to Didier Rambeau  
 - Anaconda/installer translations are still to be added to some screens  
 - Enhanced control for Webmail access - Thanks Michael Weinberger  
 - Added the ability to set Corporate DNS Servers and specify domains  
   to be resolved via the Corporate DNS Servers, Internet DNS Servers  
   or locally - Thanks Gordon Rowell  
 - RAID conversion on upgrade re-added after installer changes (see Alpha24)  
 - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  
     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
   
 7.0beta2 -> 7.0beta4  
 ====================  
 - Enhanced options for POP and IMAP access - Thanks Michael Weinberger  
 - French translations of new panels - Thanks Didier Rambeau  
 - MySQL database restore fixes - Thanks Paul Floor  
 - Various library bug fixes - Thanks Michiel Blotwijk  
 - PHP register_globals disabled - Thanks John Bennett  
 - Server-manager settings for ISP SMTP Authentication - Thanks Gordon Rowell  
 - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  
     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
   
 7.0beta2 -> 7.0beta3  
 ====================  
 - Bug fixes - not released  
   
 7.0beta1 -> 7.0beta2  
 ====================  
 - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  
     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
 - Many thanks to all of our testers and bug reporters  
   
 7.0alpha26 -> 7.0beta1  
 ======================  
 - Use anaconda upgrade detection  
 - Boot straight into anaconda  
 - Remove KickStart configuration files (no longer used)  
 - Hide many installer screens  
 - Clean up RPM dependencies and package lineage  
 - Removed some unused packages from CD image  
 - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  
     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
   
 7.0alpha25 -> 7.0alpha26  
 ========================  
 - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  
     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
   
 7.0alpha24 -> 7.0alpha25  
 ========================  
 - Fix anaconda to pick up/smp kernel correctly  
 - Remove cups from installation  
 - Add real appletalk module  
 - Add latest CentOS updates  
 - Fix shadow-utils to allow machines to join domain  
 - Add missing dependencies  
 - Fix bugs (see sourceforge site for any missed above)  
   
 7.0alpha23 -> 7.0alpha24  
 ========================  
 - Fixed grub installer so it get installed on mbr for raid setups  
 - Removed perl-Mail-SpamAssassin as rhel4 spamassassin contains that  
 - ext2fs, ext3fs and swap partitions are automatically upgraded to  
   degraded (single disk) RAID-1 volumes so that a second disk can  
   be added later - Thanks to Mitel for funding this feature  
 - Rebuild ipsvd to prevent segfaults  
 - Fixed radiusd/pptpd services so VPN now works  
 - Upgraded nut to v2.0  
 - Fixed warnquota permissions  
 - Upgrade packages from el3 to el4 versions  
 - Added few useful services that CentOS 4.1 recommends  
   
 7.0alpha22 -> 7.0alpha23  
 ========================  
 - Removed webalizer  
 - Added rkhunter  
 - Added i586 packages - openssl, kernel, glibc  
 - Added smeserver-yum  
 - Added smeserver-qpsmtpd-tnef2mime-0.0.2-0.noarch.rpm and dependencies:  
         perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-3.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm  
         perl-File-MMagic-1.21-1.noarch.rpm  
         perl-IO-stringy-2.108-4.rhel3.dag.noarch.rpm  
         perl-MIME-tools-5.411-2.rhel3.dag.noarch.rpm  
 - Added centos-release and made e-smith-release depend on it  
 - Removed centos-yumconf  
 - Imported cdrom.image into CVS  
   
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