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1  SME Server 7.1  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
2  ==============  ===================================
3  December 31, 2006  
4    October 20 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 and all packages
8    have been updated to the latest releases.
9  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  
10    
11  The packages in 7.1 will be made available as updates for SME Server 7.0  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
12    
13  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
14  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
15      http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
16    Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
17  Major changes from SME Server 7.0  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
18  =================================  
19        http://bugs.contribs.org/
20  - The CD no longer boots automatically into the installer  
21    
22  - The installer now provides many raid and lvm configuration options  Please Note
23    ===========
24  - The Software Installer has been enhanced to provide better feedback during  It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
25    installs and to deal with large update sets  during this time you may experience problems.
26    
27  - Local mail delivery is noticeably faster  
28    About SME Server
29  - The clam filesystem scan now scans /home/e-smith/files by default  ================
30    
31  - A list of work included in this release can be found here:  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
32      http://contribs.org/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=2036  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
33    ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
34  About SME Server  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
35  ================  
36    SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
37  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
38  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
39  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
40  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  
41    As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
42  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  development.
43  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  
44  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
45  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  
46    
47  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  Thanks
48  development.  ======
49    The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
50  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
51    current level of support. More people are required to help with
52    bug triage and verification testing.
53  Installation  
54  ============  
55    This release contains many new features, all released updates for
56  - Simple single CD install  SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
57    will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
58  - The default installation procedure will rewrite all disks in the system  
59    
60  - Automatic detection of multi-CPU and HyperThreading CPUs  Upgrades
61    ========
62  - In order to install on i586 machines you will need to do the following:  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
63    - Type "smei586" at the boot prompt  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
64    
65  - Many installation problems are caused by the following issues:  
66    Changes in this release
67  * Incorrectly burnt CD:  =======================
68     Please use the "Media Check" to test your media. This screen is  
69     presented at the start of the installation  Installer
70    ---------
71  * Faulty memory  - Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
72      - Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt  
73    Mail system changes
74  * Unsupported or faulty hardware  -------------------
75    - Check the memory and CD media  - Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
76    - Use good quality cables and an error-free CDROM drive    (internal|external)
77    - Ensure master/slave configuration is correct, if appropriate  - New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
78    - Disable onboard RAID controllers    to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
79    - Disable power saving and ACPI features in the BIOS  - Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
80      results in 0 hits.
81  Automated RAID installation  - Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
82  ===========================    are now rejected.
83    - qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
84  NOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7  - A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
85      setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
86  - The default installation provides the following setup:  - Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
87    - Single disk provides one-way RAID1  - Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
88      - Console screen allows simple addition of second disk to provide mirroring  - Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
89    - Two disks are configured as a RAID1 mirror  - Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
90    - Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/boot partition is RAID1)  - Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org  from default lists and use a more improved
91    - Six or more disks are configured as RAID6 (/boot partition is RAID1)    list in zen.spamhaus.org.
92    
93  - (bug 2015, 2066) The installer provides options to:  Console
94    - skip software raid  -------
95    - skip logical volume manager  - Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
96    - force a raid 1 install on the first two disks detected    before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
97    - attempt to reserve one disk as a spare    configuration of server.
98    - Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
99  - (bug 130) A script has been provided for conversion from non-RAID to RAID    waiting for the second confirmation entry.
100    - The console should validate passwords using the common method,
101  Upgrades    using esmith::util::validatePassword
102  ========  - The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
103      as it is redundant.
104  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  - Display frames in console server-manager.
105      When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
106  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data    http://localhost/server-manager
107    
108  - Seamless upgrades from unmodified SME Server 7.0, 6.5, 6.0.1 and 6.0 servers  Backups
109    -------
110  - Many common contributed add-ons have been included in the standard  - Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB
111    distribution    of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:
112      smbfs, cifs or nfs. It also gives the option to set how many rotating
113  Email    backups are required and allows to split size of backup to DVD size.
114  =====  - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
115    - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
116  - Virus scanning    cause a backup to fail.
117    - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
118  - Executable attachment blocking    It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
119      device without manual intervention.
120  - Spam filtering  
121    - Automatic tagging with X-Spam-Status header  Localisation
122    - Optional sorting to 'junkmail' mailbox  ------------
123    - Selectable tagging levels  As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
124    - Optional rejection of spam during SMTP transaction  languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
125    - Full user/domain recipient filtering  future.
126    
127  - Attachment conversion from TNEF to MIME  We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
128    Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
129  - Pseudonyms panel enhancements  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
130    - Ability to send (e.g.) support@domain1 and support@domain2 to different  
131      places  We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
132    - Can enter pseudonyms of pseudonyms  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  - Secure POP, IMAP and SMTP  easily maintained.
135    
136  - SMTP authentication for users and for ISP connection  We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
137    work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
138  - Horde/IMP3 based webmail  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  - (bug 1893) Local mail delivery is noticeably faster  characters (like Greek).
141    - Different configuration is used for local and external connections  
142    - Local connections are not subject to spam scanning, and DNS tests  Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
143    
144  Software installer  Software Installer
145  ==================  ------------------
146    - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
147  - Yum based software installation with server-manager panel  - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
148      users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
149  - (bug 59, 1163) Software installer panel has been enhanced to:    which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
150    - provide better feedback during installs  - Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
151    - use multiple mirror sites  - The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
152    - automatically choose the closest working mirror  - The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
153    - deal with large updates    available.
154    Note: The 'prereposetup' stage may take 5-10 minutes for a large update set  
155    Webmail
156  - Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled  -------
157    - (bug 1849) CentOS base and updates channels are now enabled by default  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
158    - Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
159  General features    database.
160  ================  - Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
161      longer worked.
162  - Based on CentOS 4.4 and all available updates  - The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
163      To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
164  $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2006/12/26 20:50:21 gordonr Exp $  
165    Server manager
166    --------------
167    - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
168      files' is now displayed as the first line.
169    - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
170      check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
171    - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
172      certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
173    - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
174    - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
175      spaces and newlines in panel headers.
176    - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
177      as this could be misleading.
178    - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
179    - 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      death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
182    - 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      problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
185    
186    Other fixes and updates
187    -----------------------
188    - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
189    - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
190    - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
191    - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
192    - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
193    - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
194    - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
195      browsed.
196    - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.
197    - Increased the templating in php.ini
198    - Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
199      generation
200    - Added support for cciss RAID controller
201    - Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
202      root.
203    - nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
204      about lost communication.
205    - e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
206    - 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    - Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
209      to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
210    - The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
211    - If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now
212      only the version from e-smith-release is sent.
213    - The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
214      http://smolt.contribs.org/
215    - Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
216    - Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
217      http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
218    - Do not display symlinks via ftp.
219    - New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
220    - 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    - 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    - 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      script would fail.
227    - Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
228    - Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
229    - The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in
230      smecontribs.
231    - When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
232      appear in any configuration file.
233    
234    
235    General features
236    ================
237    - Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
238    
239    
240    There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
241    =======================================================
242    
243    After installing for the very first time:
244    -----------------------------------------
245    - 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      groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
248    - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
249      about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
250    
251    $Id: README.txt,v 1.22 2008/10/15 22:56:59 wellsi Exp $


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