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-Revision 1.14 by gordonr,
Tue Jul 25 09:18:31 2006 UTC
+Revision 1.15 by gordonr,
Tue Dec 26 20:50:21 2006 UTC
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- SME Server 7.0
+ SME Server 7.1
  ==============
- July 1, 2006
+ December 31, 2006
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME
- Server 7.0 This release has many new features and fixes for previously
+ Server 7.1 This release has many new features and fixes for previously
  reported issues.
  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
+ The packages in 7.1 will be made available as updates for SME Server 7.0
+ Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
+ in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
+     http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
+ Major changes from SME Server 7.0
+ =================================
+ - The CD no longer boots automatically into the installer
+ - The installer now provides many raid and lvm configuration options
+ - The Software Installer has been enhanced to provide better feedback during
+   installs and to deal with large update sets
+ - Local mail delivery is noticeably faster
+ - The clam filesystem scan now scans /home/e-smith/files by default
+ - A list of work included in this release can be found here:
+     http://contribs.org/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=2036
  About SME Server
  ================
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 Installation
+Line 55 
 Installation
  - Simple single CD install
- - The installation procedure will rewrite all disks in the system
+ - The default installation procedure will rewrite all disks in the system
  - Automatic detection of multi-CPU and HyperThreading CPUs
  - In order to install on i586 machines you will need to do the following:
+   - Type "smei586" at the boot prompt
-) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu
-) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt
  - Many installation problems are caused by the following issues:
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 Installation
+Line 69 
 Installation
     presented at the start of the installation
  * Faulty memory
-) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu
+     - Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt
-) Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt
  * Unsupported or faulty hardware
    - Check the memory and CD media
-Line 62 
 Installation
+Line 81 
 Installation
  Automated RAID installation
  ===========================
- NOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7.0
+ NOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7
- - Single disk provides one-way RAID1
+ - The default installation provides the following setup:
-   - Console screen allows simple addition of second disk to provide mirroring
+   - Single disk provides one-way RAID1
+     - Console screen allows simple addition of second disk to provide mirroring
- - Two disks are configured as a RAID1 mirror
+   - Two disks are configured as a RAID1 mirror
+   - Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/boot partition is RAID1)
- - Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/boot partition is RAID1)
+   - Six or more disks are configured as RAID6 (/boot partition is RAID1)
- - Six or more disks are configured as RAID6 (/boot partition is RAID1)
+ - (bug 2015, 2066) The installer provides options to:
+   - skip software raid
+   - skip logical volume manager
+   - force a raid 1 install on the first two disks detected
+   - attempt to reserve one disk as a spare
+ - (bug 130) A script has been provided for conversion from non-RAID to RAID
  Upgrades
  ========
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 Email
+Line 137 
 Email
  - Horde/IMP3 based webmail
- General features
+ - (bug 1893) Local mail delivery is noticeably faster
- ================
+   - Different configuration is used for local and external connections
+   - Local connections are not subject to spam scanning, and DNS tests
- - Based on CentOS 4.3
+ Software installer
+ ==================
- - Software installer panel
+ - Yum based software installation with server-manager panel
- - Yum based software installation
+ - (bug 59, 1163) Software installer panel has been enhanced to:
+   - provide better feedback during installs
+   - use multiple mirror sites
+   - automatically choose the closest working mirror
+   - deal with large updates
+   Note: The 'prereposetup' stage may take 5-10 minutes for a large update set
  - Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled
+   - (bug 1849) CentOS base and updates channels are now enabled by default
+ General features
- Changelog
- =========
-.0rc3 -> 7.0
- =============
- - Release number change
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
- ****************************************************************
- * IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases *
- ****************************************************************
-  Before upgrading to 7.0 from 7.0pre1 or any of the 7.0beta
-  releases, you must run the following command:
-  kudzu -q
-  If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may
-  not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:
-  http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698
- ***************************************************************
-.0rc2 -> 7.0rc3
- ================
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0rc1 -> 7.0rc2
  ================
- - Update to CentOS 4.3 base
- - Installer built with i686 kernel.  In order to install on i586
-   machines you will need to do the following:
-) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu.
-) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt.
- - New system consistency audit scripts installed in /sbin/e-smith/audittools/
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre4 -> 7.0rc1
- ==================
- - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4
- ==================
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3
+ - Based on CentOS 4.4 and all available updates
- ===================
- - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2
- ===================
- - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates
- - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer
-   updates
- - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after
-   using yum
- - Completion of change to contribs.org styling
- - Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1
- ===================
- - Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two
-   pieces of information - the version installed on your server and
-   a string used to differentiate your server from others using this
-   test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access
-   to the string does not provide any information about your server.
-   We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can
-   gain an accurate count of the installed servers.
- - Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still
-   need to be updated.
- - Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed.
- - The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31.
- - Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel
-   (added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and
-   should be used after system and yum upgrades.
- - Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed.
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9
- ====================
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8
- ====================
- - Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x
- https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772
-.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7
- ====================
- - Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page
- - Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers
-     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772
-.0beta5 -> 7.0beta6
- ====================
- - 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
-.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
-.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
-.0beta2 -> 7.0beta3
- ====================
- - Bug fixes - not released
-.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
-.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
-.0alpha25 -> 7.0alpha26
- ========================
- - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:
-     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772
-.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)
-.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
-.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
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.13 2006/06/30 05:12:38 gordonr Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2006/07/25 09:18:31 gordonr Exp $

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