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1  SME Server 7.1  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
2  ==============  ===================================
3  December 31, 2006  
4    October 28 2008
5  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME  
6  Server 7.1 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  The packages in 7.1 will be made available as updates for SME Server 7.0  
12    All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
13  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  
14  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
15      http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
16    
17  Major changes from SME Server 7.0  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
18  =================================  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
19    
20  - The CD no longer boots automatically into the installer      http://bugs.contribs.org/
21    
22  - The installer now provides many raid and lvm configuration options  
23    Please Note
24  - The Software Installer has been enhanced to provide better feedback during  ===========
25    installs and to deal with large update sets  It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
26    during this time you may experience problems.
27  - Local mail delivery is noticeably faster  
28    
29  - The clam filesystem scan now scans /home/e-smith/files by default  About SME Server
30    ================
31  - A list of work included in this release can be found here:  
32      http://contribs.org/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=2036  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
33    enterprises.
34  About SME Server  
35  ================  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
36    and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
37  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
38  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
39  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  
40  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  
41    Thanks
42  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  ======
43  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
44  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
45  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  current level of support. More people are required to help with
46    bug triage and verification testing.
47  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  
48  development.  
49    This release contains many new features, all released updates for
50  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
51    will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
52    
53  Installation  
54  ============  Upgrades
55    ========
56  - Simple single CD install  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
57    - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
58  - The default installation procedure will rewrite all disks in the system  
59    
60  - Automatic detection of multi-CPU and HyperThreading CPUs  Changes in this release
61    =======================
62  - In order to install on i586 machines you will need to do the following:  
63    - Type "smei586" at the boot prompt  Installer
64    ---------
65  - Many installation problems are caused by the following issues:  - Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
66    
67  * Incorrectly burnt CD:  Mail system changes
68     Please use the "Media Check" to test your media. This screen is  -------------------
69     presented at the start of the installation  - Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
70      (internal|external)
71  * Faulty memory  - New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
72      - Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt    to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
73    - Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
74  * Unsupported or faulty hardware    results in 0 hits.
75    - Check the memory and CD media  - Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
76    - Use good quality cables and an error-free CDROM drive    are now rejected.
77    - Ensure master/slave configuration is correct, if appropriate  - qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
78    - Disable onboard RAID controllers  - A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
79    - Disable power saving and ACPI features in the BIOS    setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
80    - Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
81  Automated RAID installation  - Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
82  ===========================  - Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
83    - Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
84  NOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7  - Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org  from default lists and use a more improved
85      list in zen.spamhaus.org.
86  - The default installation provides the following setup:  
87    - Single disk provides one-way RAID1  Console
88      - Console screen allows simple addition of second disk to provide mirroring  -------
89    - Two disks are configured as a RAID1 mirror  - Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
90    - Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/boot partition is RAID1)    before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
91    - Six or more disks are configured as RAID6 (/boot partition is RAID1)    configuration of server.
92    - Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
93  - (bug 2015, 2066) The installer provides options to:    waiting for the second confirmation entry.
94    - skip software raid  - The console should validate passwords using the common method,
95    - skip logical volume manager    using esmith::util::validatePassword
96    - force a raid 1 install on the first two disks detected  - The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
97    - attempt to reserve one disk as a spare    as it is redundant.
98    - Display frames in console server-manager.
99  - (bug 130) A script has been provided for conversion from non-RAID to RAID    When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
100      http://localhost/server-manager
101  Upgrades  
102  ========  Backups
103    -------
104  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  - Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB
105      of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:
106  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data    cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many
107      rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup
108  - Seamless upgrades from unmodified SME Server 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.5 servers    to DVD size.
109    - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
110  - Many common contributed add-ons have been included in the standard  - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
111    distribution    cause a backup to fail.
112    - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
113  Email    It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
114  =====    device without manual intervention.
115    - Set dar compression to default to gzip
116  - Virus scanning  - dar backup to be less verbose in panel
117    - Correct mounting for usb disks
118  - Executable attachment blocking  - no compression for ogg media files
119    - Make dar use defined list of directories to backup
120  - Spam filtering  - Remove obsolete smbfs backup method
121    - Automatic tagging with X-Spam-Status header    
122    - Optional sorting to 'junkmail' mailbox  
123    - Selectable tagging levels  Localisation
124    - Optional rejection of spam during SMTP transaction  ------------
125    - Full user/domain recipient filtering  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  - Attachment conversion from TNEF to MIME  future.
128    
129  - Pseudonyms panel enhancements  We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
130    - Ability to send (e.g.) support@domain1 and support@domain2 to different  Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
131      places  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
132    - Can enter pseudonyms of pseudonyms  
133    We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
134  - Secure POP, IMAP and SMTP  using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that
135    will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
136  - SMTP authentication for users and for ISP connection  easily maintained.
137    
138  - Horde/IMP3 based webmail  We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
139    work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
140  - (bug 1893) Local mail delivery is noticeably faster  switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
141    - Different configuration is used for local and external connections  this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
142    - Local connections are not subject to spam scanning, and DNS tests  characters (like Greek).
143    
144  Software installer  Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
145  ==================  
146    Software Installer
147  - Yum based software installation with server-manager panel  ------------------
148    - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
149  - (bug 59, 1163) Software installer panel has been enhanced to:  - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
150    - provide better feedback during installs    users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
151    - use multiple mirror sites    which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
152    - automatically choose the closest working mirror  - Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
153    - deal with large updates  - The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
154    Note: The 'prereposetup' stage may take 5-10 minutes for a large update set  - The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
155      available.
156  - Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled  
157    - (bug 1849) CentOS base and updates channels are now enabled by default  Webmail
158    -------
159  General features  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
160  ================  - Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
161      database.
162  - Based on CentOS 4.4 and all available updates  - Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
163      longer worked.
164  $Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2006/07/25 09:18:31 gordonr Exp $  - The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
165      To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
166    
167    Server manager
168    --------------
169    - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
170      files' is now displayed as the first line.
171    - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
172      check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
173    - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
174      certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
175    - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
176    - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
177      spaces and newlines in panel headers.
178    - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
179      as this could be misleading.
180    - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
181    - 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      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 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    
188    Other fixes and updates
189    -----------------------
190    - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
191    - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
192    - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
193    - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
194    - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
195    - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
196    - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
197      browsed.
198    - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.
199    - Increased the templating in php.ini
200    - Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
201      generation
202    - Added support for cciss RAID controller
203    - Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
204      root.
205    - nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
206      about lost communication.
207    - e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
208    - ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their
209      UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
210    - Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
211      to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
212    - The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
213    - 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    - The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
216      http://smolt.contribs.org/
217    - Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
218    - Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
219      http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
220    - Do not display symlinks via ftp.
221    - New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
222    - Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter.
223    - 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    - Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature.
226    - dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode.
227    - On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate
228      script would fail.
229    - Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
230    - Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
231    - The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in
232      smecontribs.
233    - When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
234      appear in any configuration file.
235    
236    
237    General features
238    ================
239    - Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
240    
241    
242    There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
243    =======================================================
244    
245    After installing for the very first time:
246    -----------------------------------------
247    - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
248    - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
249      groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
250    - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
251      about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
252    
253    $Id: README.txt,v 1.24 2008/10/28 21:14:03 wellsi Exp $


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