--- cdrom.image/README.txt 2008/01/01 17:18:13 1.20 +++ cdrom.image/README.txt 2008/10/15 21:02:16 1.21 @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ -SME Server 7.3 Release Notes -============================ +SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement +=================================== -January 1 2008 +October 20 2008 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages +SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7 and all packages have been updated to the latest releases. All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. +The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see +http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug tracker (and only there, please); @@ -17,6 +19,12 @@ in the bug tracker (and only there, plea http://bugs.contribs.org/ +Please Note +=========== +It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, +during this time you may experience problems. + + About SME Server ================ @@ -37,7 +45,7 @@ Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/do Thanks ------- +====== The development team would like to thank all of those involved in this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the current level of support. More people are required to help with @@ -45,121 +53,196 @@ bug triage and verification testing. This release contains many new features, all released updates for -SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades +SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. Upgrades ======== - - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades - - An upgrade will preserve the existing data Changes in this release ======================= - -Installer Options ------------------ -- Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's - see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files - - -Other mail system changes -------------------------- -- Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin -- Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient - addresses -- Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues -- Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes - +Installer +--------- +- Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand. + +Mail system changes +------------------- +- Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property + (internal|external) +- New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability + to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe". +- Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking + results in 0 hits. +- Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part + are now rejected. +- qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default. +- A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel + setting of 6 in qpsmtpd. +- Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP +- Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections +- Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing. +- Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use. +- Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org from default lists and use a more improved + list in zen.spamhaus.org. Console ------- -- Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting -- Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install - time - +- Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen + before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to + configuration of server. +- Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than + waiting for the second confirmation entry. +- The console should validate passwords using the common method, + using esmith::util::validatePassword +- The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed + as it is redundant. +- Display frames in console server-manager. + When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to + http://localhost/server-manager Backups ------- -- Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media -- Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore - +- Backups now use dar which allows for daily full or incremental backup +- Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality +- The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not + cause a backup to fail. +- A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device. + It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup + device without manual intervention. Localisation ------------ -- The fr-fr browser language is now supported -- Italian translation minor update +As part of a major update with translations we have added six new +languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the +future. + +We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish, +Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, +Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. + +We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by +using a tool called pootle. This is a web based translation tool that +will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more +easily maintained. + +We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to +work with pootle. Another big change as part of this upgrade is the +switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset, +this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin +characters (like Greek). +Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. Software Installer ------------------ -- The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror - location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors -- Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months -- Added smecontribs repository to smeserver - +- smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO +- The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow + users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting, + which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem. +- Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly. +- The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists. +- The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are + available. Webmail ------- - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions - +- Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP + database. +- Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no + longer worked. +- The name of the webmail installation is now configurable. + To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update. Server manager -------------- -- Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in - serveronly mode -- Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel -- Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files -- Convert squid timestamp in view log files -- Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no - longer invalidate access to server manager -- Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip - address - +- The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log + files' is now displayed as the first line. +- Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the + check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator. +- Server-manager > printers > add printer - now advises users to avoid + certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect. +- Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update. +- Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra + spaces and newlines in panel headers. +- The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire' + as this could be misleading. +- Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account. +- After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or + user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of + death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used. +- Remove the last 'pleasewait' message is it’s no longer needed. +- The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a + problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit. Other fixes and updates ----------------------- -- More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5 -- Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package -- Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable -- Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly -- Fixed various log noise issues -- Allow root to be key based login only -- Increased dnscache forwarder cache size -- Freshclam permissions now corrected -- Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear -- Added WPAD feature in DHCP -- Fixed various perl issues -- Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day +- Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems +- The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength +- The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility +- radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods +- Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters +- Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server +- Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is + browsed. +- Made mtu/mru settings configurable and default to 1400 +- Increased the templating in php.ini +- Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate + generation +- Added support for cciss RAID controller +- Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with + root. +- nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox + about lost communication. +- e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed. +- ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their + UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled. +- Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due + to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives.. +- The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events. +- If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now + only the version from e-smith-release is sent. +- The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to + http://smolt.contribs.org/ +- Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html +- Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' - + http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html +- Do not display symlinks via ftp. +- New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work. +- Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter. +- Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use. +- Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels. +- Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature. +- dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode. +- On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate + script would fail. +- Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts. +- Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles. +- The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in + smecontribs. +- When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not + appear in any configuration file. General features ================ - -- Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2 -====================================================================== - +======================================================= After installing for the very first time: ----------------------------------------- -- First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates. +- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates. - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification). - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day about those changes (rkhunter email notification). - -Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3 ------------------------------------------ -- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates -- First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files - (rkhunter email notification). - -$Id: README.txt,v 1.18 2007/07/21 00:13:59 slords Exp $ +$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $