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SME Server 7.0pre4 |
SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement |
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November 21 2008 |
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* IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases * |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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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 |
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must run the following command: |
in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8 |
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along with translation into 6 additional languages. |
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kudzu -q |
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If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may |
All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. |
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not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here: |
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The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see |
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http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698 |
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised |
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Changelog |
in the bug tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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7.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4 |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers |
Please Note |
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See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/ |
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It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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7.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3 |
during this time you may experience problems. |
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- The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733) |
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About SME Server |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers |
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See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/ |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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7.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2 |
enterprises. |
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- Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates |
SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License |
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and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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- Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer |
However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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updates |
meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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- Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after |
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using yum |
Thanks |
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- Completion of change to contribs.org styling |
The development team would like to thank all of those involved in |
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this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the |
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- Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre |
current level of support. More people are required to help with |
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bug triage and verification testing. |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers |
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See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/ |
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This release contains many new features, all released updates for |
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7.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1 |
SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades |
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will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
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- Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two |
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pieces of information - the version installed on your server and |
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a string used to differentiate your server from others using this |
Upgrades |
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test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access |
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to the string does not provide any information about your server. |
- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades |
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- An upgrade will preserve the existing data |
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We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can |
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gain an accurate count of the installed servers. |
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Changes in this release |
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- Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still |
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need to be updated. |
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Installer |
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- Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed. |
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- Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand. |
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- The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31. |
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Mail system changes |
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- Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel |
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(added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and |
- Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property |
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should be used after system and yum upgrades. |
(internal|external) |
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- New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability |
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- Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed. |
to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe". |
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- Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers |
results in 0 hits. |
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See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/ |
- Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part |
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are now rejected. |
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7.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9 |
- qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default. |
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- A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers |
setting of 6 in qpsmtpd. |
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See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/ |
- Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP |
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- Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections |
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7.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8 |
- Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing. |
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- Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use. |
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- Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x |
- Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org from default lists and use a more improved |
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772 |
list in zen.spamhaus.org. |
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7.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7 |
Console |
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- Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page |
- Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen |
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- Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included |
before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers |
configuration of server. |
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772 |
- Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than |
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waiting for the second confirmation entry. |
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7.0beta5 -> 7.0beta6 |
- The console should validate passwords using the common method, |
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using esmith::util::validatePassword |
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- Base updated from CentOS 4.1 to CentOS 4.2 |
- The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed |
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- Included kernel-module-slip to support dialup with diald |
as it is redundant. |
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- Gathered all L10Ns other than en-us into the smeserver-locale package |
- Display frames in console server-manager. |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers |
When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to |
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772 |
http://localhost/server-manager |
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7.0beta4 -> 7.0beta5 |
Backups |
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- German translations - Thanks Dietmar Berteld |
- Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB |
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- Italian translations - Thanks Filippo Carletti |
of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods: |
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- French translation fixups - Thanks again to Didier Rambeau |
cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many |
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- Anaconda/installer translations are still to be added to some screens |
rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup |
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- Enhanced control for Webmail access - Thanks Michael Weinberger |
to DVD size. |
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- Added the ability to set Corporate DNS Servers and specify domains |
- Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality |
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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 |
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or locally - Thanks Gordon Rowell |
cause a backup to fail. |
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- 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. |
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- 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 |
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772 |
device without manual intervention. |
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- Set dar compression to default to gzip |
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- dar backup to be less verbose in panel |
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- Correct mounting for usb disks |
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- Enhanced options for POP and IMAP access - Thanks Michael Weinberger |
- no compression for ogg media files |
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- French translations of new panels - Thanks Didier Rambeau |
- Make dar use defined list of directories to backup |
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- MySQL database restore fixes - Thanks Paul Floor |
- Remove obsolete smbfs backup method |
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- Various library bug fixes - Thanks Michiel Blotwijk |
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- PHP register_globals disabled - Thanks John Bennett |
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- Server-manager settings for ISP SMTP Authentication - Thanks Gordon Rowell |
Localisation |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers |
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772 |
As part of a major update with translations we have added six new |
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languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the |
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7.0beta2 -> 7.0beta3 |
future. |
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- Bug fixes - not released |
We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish, |
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Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, |
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7.0beta1 -> 7.0beta2 |
Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. |
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- Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here: |
We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by |
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772 |
using a tool called pootle. This is a web based translation tool that |
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- Many thanks to all of our testers and bug reporters |
will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more |
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easily maintained. |
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We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to |
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- Use anaconda upgrade detection |
work with pootle. Another big change as part of this upgrade is the |
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- Boot straight into anaconda |
switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset, |
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- Remove KickStart configuration files (no longer used) |
this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin |
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- Hide many installer screens |
characters (like Greek). |
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- Clean up RPM dependencies and package lineage |
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- Removed some unused packages from CD image |
Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. |
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- Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here: |
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772 |
Software Installer |
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- smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO |
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- The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow |
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- Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here: |
users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting, |
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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772 |
which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem. |
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- Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly. |
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7.0alpha24 -> 7.0alpha25 |
- The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists. |
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- The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are |
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- Fix anaconda to pick up/smp kernel correctly |
available. |
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- Remove cups from installation |
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- Add real appletalk module |
Webmail |
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- Add latest CentOS updates |
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- Fix shadow-utils to allow machines to join domain |
- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions |
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- Add missing dependencies |
- Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP |
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- Fix bugs (see sourceforge site for any missed above) |
database. |
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- Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no |
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7.0alpha23 -> 7.0alpha24 |
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- The name of the webmail installation is now configurable. |
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- Fixed grub installer so it get installed on mbr for raid setups |
To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update. |
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- Removed perl-Mail-SpamAssassin as rhel4 spamassassin contains that |
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- ext2fs, ext3fs and swap partitions are automatically upgraded to |
Server manager |
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degraded (single disk) RAID-1 volumes so that a second disk can |
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be added later - Thanks to Mitel for funding this feature |
- The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log |
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- Rebuild ipsvd to prevent segfaults |
files' is now displayed as the first line. |
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- Fixed radiusd/pptpd services so VPN now works |
- Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the |
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- Upgraded nut to v2.0 |
check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator. |
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- Fixed warnquota permissions |
- Server-manager > printers > add printer - now advises users to avoid |
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- Upgrade packages from el3 to el4 versions |
certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect. |
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- Added few useful services that CentOS 4.1 recommends |
- Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update. |
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- Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra |
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spaces and newlines in panel headers. |
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- The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire' |
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- Removed webalizer |
as this could be misleading. |
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- Added rkhunter |
- Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account. |
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- Added i586 packages - openssl, kernel, glibc |
- After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or |
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- Added smeserver-yum |
user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of |
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- 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. |
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perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-3.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm |
- Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed. |
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perl-File-MMagic-1.21-1.noarch.rpm |
- The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a |
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perl-IO-stringy-2.108-4.rhel3.dag.noarch.rpm |
problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit. |
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perl-MIME-tools-5.411-2.rhel3.dag.noarch.rpm |
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- Added centos-release and made e-smith-release depend on it |
Other fixes and updates |
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- Removed centos-yumconf |
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- Imported cdrom.image into CVS |
- Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems |
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- The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength |
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- The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility |
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- radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods |
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- Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters |
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- Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server |
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- Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is |
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browsed. |
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- Made mtu/mru settings configurable. |
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- Increased the templating in php.ini |
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- Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate |
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- Added support for cciss RAID controller |
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- Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with |
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root. |
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- nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox |
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about lost communication. |
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- e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed. |
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- ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their |
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UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled. |
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- Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due |
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to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives.. |
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- The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events. |
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- If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now |
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only the version from e-smith-release is sent. |
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- The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to |
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http://smolt.contribs.org/ |
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- Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html |
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- Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' - |
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http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html |
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- Do not display symlinks via ftp. |
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- New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work. |
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- Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter. |
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- Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use. |
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- Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels. |
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- Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature. |
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- dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode. |
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- On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate |
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- Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts. |
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- Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles. |
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- The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in |
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smecontribs. |
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- When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not |
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General features |
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- Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates |
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There are a few differences from previous releases <=7.2 |
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After installing for the very first time: |
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- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates. |
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- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of |
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groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification). |
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- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day |
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about those changes (rkhunter email notification). |
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