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1  SME Server 7.2 Release Notes  SME Server 7.3 Release Notes
2  ============================  ============================
3    
4  July 22 2007  January 1 2008
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7  SME Server 7.2. This release is based on CentOS 4.5 and all packages  SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages
8  have been updated to the latest releases.  have been updated to the latest releases.
9    
 This release contains many new features, all released updates for  
 SME Server 7.1 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades  
 will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.  
10    
11  All users should upgrade to this release.  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
12    
13    
14  Please report any issues with the SME Server to the bug tracker,  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
15  and only there:  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
16    
17      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
18    
19    
20    About SME Server
21    ================
22    
23    SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
24    enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
25    ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
26    provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
27    
28    SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
29    and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
30    However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
31    meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
32    
33    As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
34    development.
35    
36    Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
37    
38    
39  Thanks  Thanks
40  ------  ------
41  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
# Line 27  current level of support. More people ar Line 44  current level of support. More people ar
44  bug triage and verification testing.  bug triage and verification testing.
45    
46    
47    This release contains many new features, all released updates for
48    SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
49    will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
50    
51    
52  Upgrades  Upgrades
53  ========  ========
54    
# Line 38  Upgrades Line 60  Upgrades
60  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
61  =======================  =======================
62    
63  Virus/Spam Scanning  
64  -------------------  Installer Options
65  - The FuzzyOCR spamassassin plugin has been enabled to detect image spam  -----------------
66  - An X-Virus-Checked header is now added to mail when it is virus scanned  - Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's
67  - sa-update is now run daily to download the latest SpamAssassin rules    see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files
68  - The "freshclam: Update failed" mail now shows the recent history of  
   the freshclam update process  
 - The mail server now defers delivery if clamd is unavailable  
 - Clamd and spamassassin have been updated to the latest releases  
69    
70  Other mail system changes  Other mail system changes
71  -------------------------  -------------------------
72  - Attempts to mail to invalid users now show "Relaying denied"  - Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin
73    instead of "Invalid recipient"  - Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient
74  - The qpsmtpd "terse" log plugin is now used, which results in a single    addresses
75    line summarising each mail  - Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues
76  - The qplogsumm.pl tool has been added, which generates mail system  - Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes
77    plugin statistics in /var/log/qpsmtpd/state  
78  - The DNS blacklist plugin would occasionally return "False positive"  
79    results for multiple overlapping requests. This has been corrected.  Console
80  - It is now possible to tune the memory limit for qpsmtpd  -------
81  - Disclaimer plugin added to allow footers in internal to external mails  - Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting
82    - Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install
83  Disk redundancy    time
84  ---------------  
 - The default disk layout has changed. A hot spare drive is  
   automatically created if the system has more than two drives.  
   A new boot option "nospare" has been added if you are certain that  
   you do not want to create the spare. You should only use this option  
   if you are aware of the consequences of running without a hot spare.  
 - Errors from add_drive_to_raid are now displayed in the console  
 - Adding drives with invalid partition tables now works without a reboot  
 - Attempts to manually add RAID devices to systems without RAID shows an error  
   
 Remote Access  
 -------------  
 - It is now possible to set the TCP port for SSH sessions from the  
   Remote Access panel. Note: Changing this port affects SSH, SFTP and SCP  
 - Issues with SFTP remote access have been corrected  
 - Users can be assigned fixed IP addresses with PPTP  
     db accounts setprop fredfrog PPTPIP 192.168.1.5  
     signal-event remoteaccess-update  
 - The PPTP link timeout has been increased to better handle unreliable links  
 - PPTP has been upgraded to the latest release  
85    
86  Backups  Backups
87  -------  -------
88  - USB backup and restore has been added to the console on a fresh install  - Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media
89  - The tape reminder mail can now be sent to a user other than admin  - Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore
90      config setprop backup reminderEmail fredfrog  
 - Backup to desktop no longer affects the BackupType set for tape backups  
 - Restores of MySQL databases with binary 'blobs' up to 16MB are now  
   supported by default (previous was 1MB). To change the setting:  
     config setprop mysqld MaxAllowedPacket 20MB  
91    
92  Localisation  Localisation
93  ------------  ------------
94  - Swedish translations have been added  - The fr-fr browser language is now supported
95  - The Spanish translations have been updated  - Italian translation minor update
96  - The online manual link now points to the manual in the chosen browser  
   language, if such a manual exists  
 - The en-au and en-nz browser languages are now supported  
97    
98  Software Installer  Software Installer
99  ------------------  ------------------
100  - The pacific.net.au mirror has been added as a mirror location. Many  - The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror
101    thanks to all of our mirrors.    location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors
102  - It is possible to limit visibility of updates to specific patterns or  - Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months
103    repositories (see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2416 for details)  - Added smecontribs repository to smeserver
104    
105    
106  Webmail  Webmail
107  -------  -------
108  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
109    
 Console  
 -------  
 - Further validation has been added for the Gateway IP to ensure that  
   it is on the same network as the External IP address  
110    
111  Server manager  Server manager
112  --------------  --------------
113  - The new session-based login to the server-manager now works correctly  - Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in
114    on servers where port 80 is blocked    serveronly mode
115  - The user-password panel now correctly enforces the user password policy  - Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel
116  - I-bay assignment when a name appears in Domains and Hostnames and Addresses  - Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files
117    now gives preference to the domain setting  - Convert squid timestamp in view log files
118    - Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no
119  UPS    longer invalidate access to server manager
120  ---  - Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip
121  - More template options are available to support more UPS models    address
122    (see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2791 for details)  
123    
124  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
125  -----------------------  -----------------------
126  - Many changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5  - More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5
127  - We are now using the CentOS 4 php-pear modules instead of our own builds  - Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package
128  - runit was upgraded to the latest release  - Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable
129    - The runsvctrl command has been replaced by the much simpler 'sv' command  - Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly
130  - The server-only firewall code now respects UDPPort configuration settings  - Fixed various log noise issues
131  - The "use client driver" setting in smb.conf was corrected  - Allow root to be key based login only
132  - An apostrophe in the last name caused aliases to be undeletable  - Increased dnscache forwarder cache size
133  - The hostnames description on the Hostnames and Addresses page was corrected  - Freshclam permissions now corrected
134  - Some log warnings from FormMagick were removed  - Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear
135  - Unused openldap PID files are no longer created  - Added WPAD feature in DHCP
136  - Various minor text corrections to the console  - Fixed various perl issues
137  - The version number has been removed from the installer splash screen  - Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day
138  - It is no longer possible to quit form the initial configuration wizard  
   before configuring the system  
 - The radius templates have been reorganised to simplify extension  
 - The templates.metadata settings can now be provided by a directory of files  
 - templates.metadata now provides an option to delete unwanted expansions  
 - The /etc/pam.d/login fragments have been corrected  
 - The gauge console widget now allows the --clear action to be optional  
 - The e-smith-service wrapper initscript filename match has been tightened  
 - Empty dnscache forwarder entries are ignored  
 - The CD no longer says "DVD" in the media check screen  
 - Many old dungog contribs were incompatible, untested or replaced with  
   SME Server 7.x features. These packages are now automatically removed  
   on upgrades  
139    
140  General features  General features
141  ================  ================
142    
143  - Based on CentOS 4.5 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates
144    
145    
146    There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
147    ======================================================================
148    
149    
150    After installing for the very first time:
151    -----------------------------------------
152    - First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
153    - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
154      groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
155    - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
156      about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
157    
158    
159    Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3
160    -----------------------------------------
161    - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates
162    - First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files
163      (rkhunter email notification).
164    
165  $Id: README.txt,v 1.18 2007/07/21 00:13:59 slords Exp $  $Id: README.txt,v 1.18 2007/07/21 00:13:59 slords Exp $

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