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1  SME Server 7.0  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
2  ==============  ===================================
3  July 1, 2006  
4    October 20 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 and all packages
8    have been updated to the latest releases.
9  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  
10    
11    All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
12  About SME Server  
13  ================  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
14    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
15  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  
16  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
17  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
18  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  
19        http://bugs.contribs.org/
20  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  
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  Please Note
23  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  ===========
24    It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
25  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  during this time you may experience problems.
26  development.  
27    
28  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  About SME Server
29    ================
30    
31  Installation  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
32  ============  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
33    ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
34  - Simple single CD install  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
35    
36  - The installation procedure will rewrite all disks in the system  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
37    and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
38  - Automatic detection of multi-CPU and HyperThreading CPUs  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
39    meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
40  - In order to install on i586 machines you will need to do the following:  
41    As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
42    1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu  development.
43    2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt  
44    Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
45  - Many installation problems are caused by the following issues:  
46    
47  * Incorrectly burnt CD:  Thanks
48     Please use the "Media Check" to test your media. This screen is  ======
49     presented at the start of the installation  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
50    this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
51  * Faulty memory  current level of support. More people are required to help with
52      1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu  bug triage and verification testing.
53      2) Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt  
54    
55  * Unsupported or faulty hardware  This release contains many new features, all released updates for
56    - Check the memory and CD media  SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
57    - Use good quality cables and an error-free CDROM drive  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
58    - Ensure master/slave configuration is correct, if appropriate  
59    - Disable onboard RAID controllers  
60    - Disable power saving and ACPI features in the BIOS  Upgrades
61    ========
62  Automated RAID installation  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
63  ===========================  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
64    
65  NOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7.0  
66    Changes in this release
67  - Single disk provides one-way RAID1  =======================
68    - Console screen allows simple addition of second disk to provide mirroring  
69    Installer
70  - Two disks are configured as a RAID1 mirror  ---------
71    - Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
72  - Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/boot partition is RAID1)  
73    Mail system changes
74  - Six or more disks are configured as RAID6 (/boot partition is RAID1)  -------------------
75    - Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
76      (internal|external)
77  Upgrades  - New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
78  ========    to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
79    - Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
80  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades    results in 0 hits.
81    - Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
82  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data    are now rejected.
83    - qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
84  - Seamless upgrades from unmodified SME Server 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.5 servers  - A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
85      setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
86  - Many common contributed add-ons have been included in the standard  - Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
87    distribution  - Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
88    - Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
89  Email  - Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
90  =====  - Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org  from default lists and use a more improved
91      list in zen.spamhaus.org.
92  - Virus scanning  
93    Console
94  - Executable attachment blocking  -------
95    - Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
96  - Spam filtering    before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
97    - Automatic tagging with X-Spam-Status header    configuration of server.
98    - Optional sorting to 'junkmail' mailbox  - Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
99    - Selectable tagging levels    waiting for the second confirmation entry.
100    - Optional rejection of spam during SMTP transaction  - The console should validate passwords using the common method,
101    - Full user/domain recipient filtering    using esmith::util::validatePassword
102    - The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
103  - Attachment conversion from TNEF to MIME    as it is redundant.
104    - Display frames in console server-manager.
105  - Pseudonyms panel enhancements    When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
106    - Ability to send (e.g.) support@domain1 and support@domain2 to different    http://localhost/server-manager
107      places  
108    - Can enter pseudonyms of pseudonyms  Backups
109    -------
110  - Secure POP, IMAP and SMTP  - Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB
111      of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:
112  - SMTP authentication for users and for ISP connection    smbfs, cifs or nfs. It also gives the option to set how many rotating
113      backups are required and allows to split size of backup to DVD size.
114  - Horde/IMP3 based webmail  - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
115    - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
116  General features    cause a backup to fail.
117  ================  - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
118      It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
119  - Based on CentOS 4.3    device without manual intervention.
120    
121  - Software installer panel  Localisation
122    ------------
123  - Yum based software installation  As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
124    languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
125  - Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled  future.
126    
127    We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
128    Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
129  Changelog  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
130  =========  
131    We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
132  7.0rc3 -> 7.0  using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that
133  =============  will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
134  - Release number change  easily maintained.
135    
136  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
137      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
138    switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
139  ****************************************************************  this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
140  * IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases *  characters (like Greek).
141  ****************************************************************  
142   Before upgrading to 7.0 from 7.0pre1 or any of the 7.0beta  Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
143   releases, you must run the following command:  
144    Software Installer
145   kudzu -q  ------------------
146    - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
147   If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may  - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
148   not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:    users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
149      which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
150   http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698  - Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
151  ***************************************************************  - The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
152    - The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
153  7.0rc2 -> 7.0rc3    available.
154  ================  
155  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  Webmail
156      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  -------
157    - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
158  7.0rc1 -> 7.0rc2  - Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
159  ================    database.
160  - Update to CentOS 4.3 base  - Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
161  - Installer built with i686 kernel.  In order to install on i586    longer worked.
162    machines you will need to do the following:  - The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
163      To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
164    1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu.  
165    2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt.  Server manager
166    --------------
167  - New system consistency audit scripts installed in /sbin/e-smith/audittools/  - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
168      files' is now displayed as the first line.
169  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
170      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
171    - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
172  7.0pre4 -> 7.0rc1    certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
173  ==================  - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
174  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
175      spaces and newlines in panel headers.
176  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
177      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    as this could be misleading.
178    - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
179  7.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4  - After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
180  ==================    user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
181  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
182      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed.
183    - The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a
184  7.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3    problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
185  ===================  
186  - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)  Other fixes and updates
187    -----------------------
188  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
189      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
190    - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
191  7.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2  - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
192  ===================  - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
193  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
194    - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
195  - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer    browsed.
196    updates  - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.
197    - Increased the templating in php.ini
198  - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after  - Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
199    using yum    generation
200    - Added support for cciss RAID controller
201  - Completion of change to contribs.org styling  - Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
202      root.
203  - Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre  - nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
204      about lost communication.
205  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
206      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their
207      UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
208  7.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1  - Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
209  ===================    to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
210  - Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two  - The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
211    pieces of information - the version installed on your server and  - If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now
212    a string used to differentiate your server from others using this    only the version from e-smith-release is sent.
213    test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access  - The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
214    to the string does not provide any information about your server.    http://smolt.contribs.org/
215    - Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
216    We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can  - Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
217    gain an accurate count of the installed servers.    http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
218    - Do not display symlinks via ftp.
219  - Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still  - New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
220    need to be updated.  - Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter.
221    - Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use.
222  - Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed.  - Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels.
223    - Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature.
224  - The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31.  - dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode.
225    - On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate
226  - Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel    script would fail.
227    (added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and  - Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
228    should be used after system and yum upgrades.  - Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
229    - The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in
230  - Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed.    smecontribs.
231    - When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
232  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    appear in any configuration file.
233      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
234    
235  7.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9  General features
236  ====================  ================
237  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
238      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
239    
240  7.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
241  ====================  =======================================================
242  - Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x  
243  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772  After installing for the very first time:
244    -----------------------------------------
245  7.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7  - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
246  ====================  - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
247  - Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page    groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
248  - Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included  - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
249  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers    about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
250      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
251    $Id: README.txt,v 1.22 2008/10/15 22:56:59 wellsi Exp $
 7.0beta5 -> 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  
   
 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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