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-Revision 1.10 by gordonr,
Fri May 26 02:50:58 2006 UTC
+Revision 1.15 by gordonr,
Tue Dec 26 20:50:21 2006 UTC
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- SME Server 7.0rc3
+ SME Server 7.1
- =================
+ ==============
+ December 31, 2006
- ****************************************************************
+ The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME
- * IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases *
+ Server 7.1 This release has many new features and fixes for previously
- ****************************************************************
+ reported issues.
-  Before upgrading to 7.0 from 7.0pre1 or any of the 7.0beta
-  releases, you must run the following command:
-  kudzu -q
+ All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
-  If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may
+ The packages in 7.1 will be made available as updates for SME Server 7.0
-  not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:
-  http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698
+ Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
- ***************************************************************
+ in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
+     http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
- Changelog
+ Major changes from SME Server 7.0
- =========
+ =================================
-.0rc2 -> 7.0rc3
+ - The CD no longer boots automatically into the installer
- ================
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
+ - The installer now provides many raid and lvm configuration options
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
+ - 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
-.0rc1 -> 7.0rc2
+ About SME Server
  ================
- - 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.
+ SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
-) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt.
+ 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.
- - New system consistency audit scripts installed in /sbin/e-smith/audittools/
+ 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.
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
+ As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
+ development.
-.0pre4 -> 7.0rc1
+ Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
- ==================
- - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates
+ Installation
+ ============
+ - Simple single CD install
+ - 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
+ - Many installation problems are caused by the following issues:
+ * Incorrectly burnt CD:
+    Please use the "Media Check" to test your media. This screen is
+    presented at the start of the installation
+ * Faulty memory
+     - Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt
+ * Unsupported or faulty hardware
+   - Check the memory and CD media
+   - Use good quality cables and an error-free CDROM drive
+   - Ensure master/slave configuration is correct, if appropriate
+   - Disable onboard RAID controllers
+   - Disable power saving and ACPI features in the BIOS
+ Automated RAID installation
+ ===========================
+ NOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7
+ - The default installation provides the following setup:
+   - 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
+   - Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/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 fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
+ - (bug 130) A script has been provided for conversion from non-RAID to RAID
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4
+ Upgrades
+ ========
+ - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
+ - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
+ - Seamless upgrades from unmodified SME Server 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.5 servers
+ - Many common contributed add-ons have been included in the standard
+   distribution
+ Email
+ =====
+ - Virus scanning
+ - Executable attachment blocking
+ - Spam filtering
+   - Automatic tagging with X-Spam-Status header
+   - Optional sorting to 'junkmail' mailbox
+   - Selectable tagging levels
+   - Optional rejection of spam during SMTP transaction
+   - Full user/domain recipient filtering
+ - Attachment conversion from TNEF to MIME
+ - Pseudonyms panel enhancements
+   - Ability to send (e.g.) support@domain1 and support@domain2 to different
+     places
+   - Can enter pseudonyms of pseudonyms
+ - Secure POP, IMAP and SMTP
+ - SMTP authentication for users and for ISP connection
+ - Horde/IMP3 based webmail
+ - (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
+ Software installer
  ==================
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3
+ - Yum based software installation with server-manager panel
- ===================
- - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)
+ - (bug 59, 1163) Software installer panel has been enhanced to:
+   - provide better feedback during installs
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
+   - use multiple mirror sites
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
+   - automatically choose the closest working mirror
+   - deal with large updates
-.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2
+   Note: The 'prereposetup' stage may take 5-10 minutes for a large update set
- ===================
- - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates
+ - Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled
+   - (bug 1849) CentOS base and updates channels are now enabled by default
- - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer
-   updates
+ General features
+ ================
- - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after
-   using yum
+ - Based on CentOS 4.4 and all available updates
- - 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 1.9 2006/04/27 02:30:13 gordonr Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2006/07/25 09:18:31 gordonr Exp $

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