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1  SME Server 7.0rc1  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
2  ==================  ===================================
3    
4  ****************************************************************  October 28 2008
5  * IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases *  
6  ****************************************************************  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7   Before upgrading to 7.0 from any of the 7.0 test releases, you  SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes
8   must run the following command:  in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8
9    along with translation into 6 additional languages.
10   kudzu -q  
11    
12   If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
13   not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:  
14    The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
15   http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
16  ***************************************************************  
17    Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
18  Changelog  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
19  =========  
20        http://bugs.contribs.org/
21  7.0pre3 -> 7.0rc1  
22  =================  
23  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  Please Note
24      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  ===========
25    It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
26  7.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3  during this time you may experience problems.
27  ===================  
28  - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)  
29    About SME Server
30  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  ================
31      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
32    SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
33  7.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2  enterprises.
34  ===================  
35  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  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  - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
38    updates  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
39    
40  - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after  
41    using yum  Thanks
42    ======
43  - Completion of change to contribs.org styling  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
44    this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
45  - Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre  current level of support. More people are required to help with
46    bug triage and verification testing.
47  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  
48      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
49    This release contains many new features, all released updates for
50  7.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1  SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
51  ===================  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
52  - Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two  
53    pieces of information - the version installed on your server and  
54    a string used to differentiate your server from others using this  Upgrades
55    test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access  ========
56    to the string does not provide any information about your server.  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
57    - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
58    We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can  
59    gain an accurate count of the installed servers.  
60    Changes in this release
61  - Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still  =======================
62    need to be updated.  
63    Installer
64  - Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed.  ---------
65    - Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
66  - The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31.  
67    Mail system changes
68  - Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel  -------------------
69    (added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and  - Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
70    should be used after system and yum upgrades.    (internal|external)
71    - New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
72  - Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed.    to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
73    - Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
74  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    results in 0 hits.
75      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
76      are now rejected.
77  7.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9  - qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
78  ====================  - A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
79  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
80      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
81    - Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
82  7.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8  - Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
83  ====================  - Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
84  - Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x  - Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org  from default lists and use a more improved
85  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772    list in zen.spamhaus.org.
86    
87  7.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7  Console
88  ====================  -------
89  - Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page  - Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
90  - Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included    before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
91  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers    configuration of server.
92      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  - Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
93      waiting for the second confirmation entry.
94  7.0beta5 -> 7.0beta6  - The console should validate passwords using the common method,
95  ====================    using esmith::util::validatePassword
96  - Base updated from CentOS 4.1 to CentOS 4.2  - The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
97  - Included kernel-module-slip to support dialup with diald    as it is redundant.
98  - Gathered all L10Ns other than en-us into the smeserver-locale package  - Display frames in console server-manager.
99  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers    When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
100      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772    http://localhost/server-manager
101    
102  7.0beta4 -> 7.0beta5  Backups
103  ====================  -------
104  - German translations - Thanks Dietmar Berteld  - Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB
105  - Italian translations - Thanks Filippo Carletti    of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:
106  - French translation fixups - Thanks again to Didier Rambeau    cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many
107  - Anaconda/installer translations are still to be added to some screens    rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup
108  - Enhanced control for Webmail access - Thanks Michael Weinberger    to DVD size.
109  - Added the ability to set Corporate DNS Servers and specify domains  - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
110    to be resolved via the Corporate DNS Servers, Internet DNS Servers  - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
111    or locally - Thanks Gordon Rowell    cause a backup to fail.
112  - RAID conversion on upgrade re-added after installer changes (see Alpha24)  - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
113  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers    It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
114      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772    device without manual intervention.
115    - Set dar compression to default to gzip
116  7.0beta2 -> 7.0beta4  - dar backup to be less verbose in panel
117  ====================  - Correct mounting for usb disks
118  - Enhanced options for POP and IMAP access - Thanks Michael Weinberger  - no compression for ogg media files
119  - French translations of new panels - Thanks Didier Rambeau  - Make dar use defined list of directories to backup
120  - MySQL database restore fixes - Thanks Paul Floor  - Remove obsolete smbfs backup method
121  - Various library bug fixes - Thanks Michiel Blotwijk    
122  - PHP register_globals disabled - Thanks John Bennett  
123  - Server-manager settings for ISP SMTP Authentication - Thanks Gordon Rowell  Localisation
124  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  ------------
125      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  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  7.0beta2 -> 7.0beta3  future.
128  ====================  
129  - Bug fixes - not released  We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
130    Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
131  7.0beta1 -> 7.0beta2  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
132  ====================  
133  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
134      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that
135  - Many thanks to all of our testers and bug reporters  will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
136    easily maintained.
137  7.0alpha26 -> 7.0beta1  
138  ======================  We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
139  - Use anaconda upgrade detection  work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
140  - Boot straight into anaconda  switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
141  - Remove KickStart configuration files (no longer used)  this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
142  - Hide many installer screens  characters (like Greek).
143  - Clean up RPM dependencies and package lineage  
144  - Removed some unused packages from CD image  Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
145  - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  
146      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  Software Installer
147    ------------------
148  7.0alpha25 -> 7.0alpha26  - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
149  ========================  - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
150  - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:    users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
151      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772    which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
152    - Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
153  7.0alpha24 -> 7.0alpha25  - The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
154  ========================  - The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
155  - Fix anaconda to pick up/smp kernel correctly    available.
156  - Remove cups from installation  
157  - Add real appletalk module  Webmail
158  - Add latest CentOS updates  -------
159  - Fix shadow-utils to allow machines to join domain  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
160  - Add missing dependencies  - Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
161  - Fix bugs (see sourceforge site for any missed above)    database.
162    - Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
163  7.0alpha23 -> 7.0alpha24    longer worked.
164  ========================  - The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
165  - Fixed grub installer so it get installed on mbr for raid setups    To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
166  - Removed perl-Mail-SpamAssassin as rhel4 spamassassin contains that  
167  - ext2fs, ext3fs and swap partitions are automatically upgraded to  Server manager
168    degraded (single disk) RAID-1 volumes so that a second disk can  --------------
169    be added later - Thanks to Mitel for funding this feature  - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
170  - Rebuild ipsvd to prevent segfaults    files' is now displayed as the first line.
171  - Fixed radiusd/pptpd services so VPN now works  - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
172  - Upgraded nut to v2.0    check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
173  - Fixed warnquota permissions  - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
174  - Upgrade packages from el3 to el4 versions    certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
175  - Added few useful services that CentOS 4.1 recommends  - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
176    - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
177  7.0alpha22 -> 7.0alpha23    spaces and newlines in panel headers.
178  ========================  - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
179  - Removed webalizer    as this could be misleading.
180  - Added rkhunter  - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
181  - Added i586 packages - openssl, kernel, glibc  - After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
182  - Added smeserver-yum    user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
183  - Added smeserver-qpsmtpd-tnef2mime-0.0.2-0.noarch.rpm and dependencies:    death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
184          perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-3.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm  - Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed.
185          perl-File-MMagic-1.21-1.noarch.rpm  - The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a
186          perl-IO-stringy-2.108-4.rhel3.dag.noarch.rpm    problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
187          perl-MIME-tools-5.411-2.rhel3.dag.noarch.rpm  
188  - Added centos-release and made e-smith-release depend on it  Other fixes and updates
189  - Removed centos-yumconf  -----------------------
190  - Imported cdrom.image into CVS  - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
191    - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
192  $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2006/02/13 02:20:59 gordonr Exp $  - 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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