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1  SME Server 7.0rc2  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
2  =================  ===================================
3    
4  ****************************************************************  October 20 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 7.0pre1 or any of the 7.0beta  SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7 and all packages
8   releases, you must run the following command:  have been updated to the latest releases.
9    
10   kudzu -q  
11    All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
12   If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may  
13   not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
14    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
15   http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698  
16  ***************************************************************  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
17    in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
18  Changelog  
19  =========      http://bugs.contribs.org/
20    
21  7.0rc1 -> 7.0rc2  
22  ================  Please Note
23  - Update to CentOS 4.3 base  ===========
24  - Installer built with i686 kernel.  In order to install on i586  It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
25    machines you will need to do the following:  during this time you may experience problems.
26    
27    1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu.  
28    2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt.  About SME Server
29    ================
30  - New system consistency audit scripts installed in /sbin/e-smith/audit/  
31    SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
32  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
33      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
34    provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
35  7.0pre4 -> 7.0rc1  
36  ==================  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
37  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
38    However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
39  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
40      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
41    As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
42  7.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4  development.
43  ==================  
44  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
45      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  
46    
47  7.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3  Thanks
48  ===================  ======
49  - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
50    this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
51  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  current level of support. More people are required to help with
52      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  bug triage and verification testing.
53    
54  7.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2  
55  ===================  This release contains many new features, all released updates for
56  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
57    will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
58  - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer  
59    updates  
60    Upgrades
61  - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after  ========
62    using yum  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
63    - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
64  - Completion of change to contribs.org styling  
65    
66  - Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre  Changes in this release
67    =======================
68  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  
69      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  Installer
70    ---------
71  7.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1  - Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
72  ===================  
73  - Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two  Mail system changes
74    pieces of information - the version installed on your server and  -------------------
75    a string used to differentiate your server from others using this  - Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
76    test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access    (internal|external)
77    to the string does not provide any information about your server.  - New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
78      to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
79    We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can  - Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
80    gain an accurate count of the installed servers.    results in 0 hits.
81    - Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
82  - Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still    are now rejected.
83    need to be updated.  - qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
84    - A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
85  - Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed.    setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
86    - Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
87  - The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31.  - Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
88    - Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
89  - Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel  - Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
90    (added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and  - Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org  from default lists and use a more improved
91    should be used after system and yum upgrades.    list in zen.spamhaus.org.
92    
93  - Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed.  Console
94    -------
95  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
96      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
97      configuration of server.
98  7.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9  - Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
99  ====================    waiting for the second confirmation entry.
100  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - The console should validate passwords using the common method,
101      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    using esmith::util::validatePassword
102    - The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
103  7.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8    as it is redundant.
104  ====================  - Display frames in console server-manager.
105  - Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x    When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
106  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772    http://localhost/server-manager
107    
108  7.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7  Backups
109  ====================  -------
110  - Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page  - Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB
111  - Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included    of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:
112  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers    smbfs, cifs or nfs. It also gives the option to set how many rotating
113      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772    backups are required and allows to split size of backup to DVD size.
114    - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
115  7.0beta5 -> 7.0beta6  - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
116  ====================    cause a backup to fail.
117  - Base updated from CentOS 4.1 to CentOS 4.2  - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
118  - Included kernel-module-slip to support dialup with diald    It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
119  - Gathered all L10Ns other than en-us into the smeserver-locale package    device without manual intervention.
120  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  
121      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  Localisation
122    ------------
123  7.0beta4 -> 7.0beta5  As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
124  ====================  languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
125  - German translations - Thanks Dietmar Berteld  future.
126  - Italian translations - Thanks Filippo Carletti  
127  - French translation fixups - Thanks again to Didier Rambeau  We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
128  - Anaconda/installer translations are still to be added to some screens  Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
129  - Enhanced control for Webmail access - Thanks Michael Weinberger  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
130  - Added the ability to set Corporate DNS Servers and specify domains  
131    to be resolved via the Corporate DNS Servers, Internet DNS Servers  We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
132    or locally - Thanks Gordon Rowell  using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that
133  - RAID conversion on upgrade re-added after installer changes (see Alpha24)  will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
134  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  easily maintained.
135      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
136    We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
137  7.0beta2 -> 7.0beta4  work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
138  ====================  switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
139  - Enhanced options for POP and IMAP access - Thanks Michael Weinberger  this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
140  - French translations of new panels - Thanks Didier Rambeau  characters (like Greek).
141  - MySQL database restore fixes - Thanks Paul Floor  
142  - Various library bug fixes - Thanks Michiel Blotwijk  Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
143  - PHP register_globals disabled - Thanks John Bennett  
144  - Server-manager settings for ISP SMTP Authentication - Thanks Gordon Rowell  Software Installer
145  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  ------------------
146      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
147    - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
148  7.0beta2 -> 7.0beta3    users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
149  ====================    which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
150  - Bug fixes - not released  - Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
151    - The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
152  7.0beta1 -> 7.0beta2  - The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
153  ====================    available.
154  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  
155      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  Webmail
156  - Many thanks to all of our testers and bug reporters  -------
157    - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
158  7.0alpha26 -> 7.0beta1  - Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
159  ======================    database.
160  - Use anaconda upgrade detection  - Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
161  - Boot straight into anaconda    longer worked.
162  - Remove KickStart configuration files (no longer used)  - The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
163  - Hide many installer screens    To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
164  - Clean up RPM dependencies and package lineage  
165  - Removed some unused packages from CD image  Server manager
166  - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  --------------
167      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
168      files' is now displayed as the first line.
169  7.0alpha25 -> 7.0alpha26  - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
170  ========================    check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
171  - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
172      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772    certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
173    - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
174  7.0alpha24 -> 7.0alpha25  - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
175  ========================    spaces and newlines in panel headers.
176  - Fix anaconda to pick up/smp kernel correctly  - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
177  - Remove cups from installation    as this could be misleading.
178  - Add real appletalk module  - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
179  - Add latest CentOS updates  - After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
180  - Fix shadow-utils to allow machines to join domain    user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
181  - Add missing dependencies    death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
182  - Fix bugs (see sourceforge site for any missed above)  - 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  7.0alpha23 -> 7.0alpha24    problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
185  ========================  
186  - Fixed grub installer so it get installed on mbr for raid setups  Other fixes and updates
187  - Removed perl-Mail-SpamAssassin as rhel4 spamassassin contains that  -----------------------
188  - ext2fs, ext3fs and swap partitions are automatically upgraded to  - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
189    degraded (single disk) RAID-1 volumes so that a second disk can  - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
190    be added later - Thanks to Mitel for funding this feature  - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
191  - Rebuild ipsvd to prevent segfaults  - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
192  - Fixed radiusd/pptpd services so VPN now works  - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
193  - Upgraded nut to v2.0  - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
194  - Fixed warnquota permissions  - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
195  - Upgrade packages from el3 to el4 versions    browsed.
196  - Added few useful services that CentOS 4.1 recommends  - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.
197    - Increased the templating in php.ini
198  7.0alpha22 -> 7.0alpha23  - Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
199  ========================    generation
200  - Removed webalizer  - Added support for cciss RAID controller
201  - Added rkhunter  - Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
202  - Added i586 packages - openssl, kernel, glibc    root.
203  - Added smeserver-yum  - nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
204  - Added smeserver-qpsmtpd-tnef2mime-0.0.2-0.noarch.rpm and dependencies:    about lost communication.
205          perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-3.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm  - e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
206          perl-File-MMagic-1.21-1.noarch.rpm  - ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their
207          perl-IO-stringy-2.108-4.rhel3.dag.noarch.rpm    UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
208          perl-MIME-tools-5.411-2.rhel3.dag.noarch.rpm  - Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
209  - Added centos-release and made e-smith-release depend on it    to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
210  - Removed centos-yumconf  - The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
211  - Imported cdrom.image into CVS  - 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  $Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2006/04/05 01:46:20 slords Exp $  - 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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