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- SME Server 7.0rc2
+ SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
- =================
+ ===================================
- ****************************************************************
+ October 20 2008
- * IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases *
- ****************************************************************
-  Before upgrading to 7.0 from 7.0pre1 or any of the 7.0beta
-  releases, you must run the following command:
-  kudzu -q
+ The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
+ SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7 and all packages
+ have been updated to the latest releases.
-  If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may
-  not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:
-  http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698
+ All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
- ***************************************************************
- Changelog
+ The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
- =========
+ http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
-.0rc1 -> 7.0rc2
+ 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 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.
+ 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 allows for daily full or incremental backup
+ - 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.
+ 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 is it’s 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 and default to 1400
+ - 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
  ================
- - Update to CentOS 4.3 base
+ - Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
- - Installer built with i686 kernel.  In order to install on i586
-   machines you will need to do the following:
+ There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
-) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu.
+ =======================================================
-) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt.
+ After installing for the very first time:
- - New system consistency audit scripts installed in /sbin/e-smith/audit/
+ -----------------------------------------
+ - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
+ - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
+   groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
+ - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
-.0pre4 -> 7.0rc1
+   about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
- ==================
- - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4
- ==================
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3
- ===================
- - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2
- ===================
- - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates
- - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer
-   updates
- - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after
-   using yum
- - Completion of change to contribs.org styling
- - Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1
- ===================
- - Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two
-   pieces of information - the version installed on your server and
-   a string used to differentiate your server from others using this
-   test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access
-   to the string does not provide any information about your server.
-   We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can
-   gain an accurate count of the installed servers.
- - Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still
-   need to be updated.
- - Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed.
- - The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31.
- - Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel
-   (added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and
-   should be used after system and yum upgrades.
- - Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed.
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9
- ====================
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers
-     See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/
-.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8
- ====================
- - Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x
- https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772
-.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7
- ====================
- - Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page
- - Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included
- - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers
-     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772
-.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
-.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
-.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
-.0beta2 -> 7.0beta3
- ====================
- - Bug fixes - not released
-.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
-.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
-.0alpha25 -> 7.0alpha26
- ========================
- - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:
-     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772
-.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)
-.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
-.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
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2006/04/05 01:46:20 slords Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $

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