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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    cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many
107    - Can enter pseudonyms of pseudonyms    rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup
108      to DVD size.
109  - Secure POP, IMAP and SMTP  - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
110    - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
111  - SMTP authentication for users and for ISP connection    cause a backup to fail.
112    - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
113  - Horde/IMP3 based webmail    It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
114      device without manual intervention.
115  General features  - Set dar compression to default to gzip
116  ================  - dar backup to be less verbose in panel
117    - Correct mounting for usb disks
118  - Based on CentOS 4.3  - no compression for ogg media files
119    - Make dar use defined list of directories to backup
120  - Software installer panel  - Remove obsolete smbfs backup method
121      
122  - Yum based software installation  
123    Localisation
124  - Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled  ------------
125    As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
126    languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
127    future.
128  Changelog  
129  =========  We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
130    Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
131  7.0rc3 -> 7.0  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
132  =============  
133  - Release number change  We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
134    using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that
135  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
136      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  easily maintained.
137    
138  ****************************************************************  We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
139  * IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases *  work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
140  ****************************************************************  switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
141   Before upgrading to 7.0 from 7.0pre1 or any of the 7.0beta  this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
142   releases, you must run the following command:  characters (like Greek).
143    
144   kudzu -q  Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
145    
146   If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may  Software Installer
147   not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:  ------------------
148    - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
149   http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698  - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
150  ***************************************************************    users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
151      which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
152  7.0rc2 -> 7.0rc3  - Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
153  ================  - The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
154  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
155      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    available.
156    
157  7.0rc1 -> 7.0rc2  Webmail
158  ================  -------
159  - Update to CentOS 4.3 base  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
160  - Installer built with i686 kernel.  In order to install on i586  - Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
161    machines you will need to do the following:    database.
162    - Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
163    1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu.    longer worked.
164    2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt.  - The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
165      To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
166  - New system consistency audit scripts installed in /sbin/e-smith/audittools/  
167    Server manager
168  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  --------------
169      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
170      files' is now displayed as the first line.
171  7.0pre4 -> 7.0rc1  - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
172  ==================    check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
173  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
174      certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
175  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
176      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
177      spaces and newlines in panel headers.
178  7.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4  - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
179  ==================    as this could be misleading.
180  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
181      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
182      user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
183  7.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3    death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
184  ===================  - Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed.
185  - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)  - The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a
186      problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
187  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  
188      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  Other fixes and updates
189    -----------------------
190  7.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2  - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
191  ===================  - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
192  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
193    - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
194  - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer  - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
195    updates  - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
196    - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
197  - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after    browsed.
198    using yum  - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.
199    - Increased the templating in php.ini
200  - Completion of change to contribs.org styling  - Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
201      generation
202  - Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre  - Added support for cciss RAID controller
203    - Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
204  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    root.
205      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
206      about lost communication.
207  7.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1  - e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
208  ===================  - ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their
209  - Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two    UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
210    pieces of information - the version installed on your server and  - Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
211    a string used to differentiate your server from others using this    to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
212    test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access  - The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
213    to the string does not provide any information about your server.  - If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now
214      only the version from e-smith-release is sent.
215    We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can  - The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
216    gain an accurate count of the installed servers.    http://smolt.contribs.org/
217    - Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
218  - Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still  - Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
219    need to be updated.    http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
220    - Do not display symlinks via ftp.
221  - Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed.  - New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
222    - Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter.
223  - The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31.  - Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use.
224    - Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels.
225  - Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel  - Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature.
226    (added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and  - dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode.
227    should be used after system and yum upgrades.  - On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate
228      script would fail.
229  - Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed.  - Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
230    - Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
231  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in
232      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    smecontribs.
233    - When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
234  7.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9    appear in any configuration file.
235  ====================  
236  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  
237      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  General features
238    ================
239  7.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8  - Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
240  ====================  
241  - Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x  
242  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
243    =======================================================
244  7.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7  
245  ====================  After installing for the very first time:
246  - Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page  -----------------------------------------
247  - Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included  - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
248  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
249      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772    groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
250    - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
251  7.0beta5 -> 7.0beta6    about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
252  ====================  
253  - Base updated from CentOS 4.1 to CentOS 4.2  $Id: README.txt,v 1.24 2008/10/28 21:14:03 wellsi Exp $
 - 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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