--- cdrom.image/README.txt 2006/12/26 20:50:21 1.15 +++ cdrom.image/README.txt 2008/11/17 22:57:49 1.26 @@ -1,164 +1,253 @@ -SME Server 7.1 -============== -December 31, 2006 - -The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME -Server 7.1 This release has many new features and fixes for previously -reported issues. - -All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. - -The packages in 7.1 will be made available as updates for SME Server 7.0 - -Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised -in the bug tracker (and only there, please); - http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/ - -Major changes from SME Server 7.0 -================================= - -- The CD no longer boots automatically into the installer - -- The installer now provides many raid and lvm configuration options - -- 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 - -About SME Server -================ - -SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium -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. - -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. - -As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further -development. - -Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. - - -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 130) A script has been provided for conversion from non-RAID to RAID - -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 -================== - -- Yum based software installation with server-manager panel - -- (bug 59, 1163) Software installer panel has been enhanced to: - - provide better feedback during installs - - use multiple mirror sites - - automatically choose the closest working mirror - - deal with large updates - Note: The 'prereposetup' stage may take 5-10 minutes for a large update set - -- Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled - - (bug 1849) CentOS base and updates channels are now enabled by default - -General features -================ - -- Based on CentOS 4.4 and all available updates - -$Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2006/07/25 09:18:31 gordonr Exp $ +SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement +=================================== + +November 21 2008 + +The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of +SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes +in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8 +along with translation into 6 additional languages. + + +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); + + 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 +================ + +SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium +enterprises. + +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. + + +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 +bug triage and verification testing. + + +This release contains many new features, all released updates for +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 +--------- +- 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 +------- +- 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 +------- +- Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB + of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods: + cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many + rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup + to DVD size. +- 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. +- Set dar compression to default to gzip +- dar backup to be less verbose in panel +- Correct mounting for usb disks +- no compression for ogg media files +- Make dar use defined list of directories to backup +- Remove obsolete smbfs backup method + + +Localisation +------------ +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 +------------------ +- 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 +-------------- +- 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 as it is 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 +----------------------- +- 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. +- 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 4.7 and all available updates + + +There are a few differences from previous releases <=7.2 +======================================================= + +After installing for the very first time: +----------------------------------------- +- 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). + +$Id: README.txt,v 1.25 2008/10/28 22:57:58 wellsi Exp $