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1  SME Server 7.0  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
2  ==============  ===================================
3  July 1, 2006  
4    October 20 2008
5  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME  
6  Server 7.0 This release has many new features and fixes for previously  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7  reported issues.  SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7 and all packages
8    have been updated to the latest releases.
9  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  
10    
11    All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
12  About SME Server  
13  ================  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
14    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
15  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  
16  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
17  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
18  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  
19        http://bugs.contribs.org/
20  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  
21  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  
22  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  Please Note
23  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  ===========
24    It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
25  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  during this time you may experience problems.
26  development.  
27    
28  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  About SME Server
29    ================
30    
31  Installation  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
32  ============  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
33    ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
34  - Simple single CD install  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
35    
36  - The installation procedure will rewrite all disks in the system  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
37    and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
38  - Automatic detection of multi-CPU and HyperThreading CPUs  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
39    meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
40  - In order to install on i586 machines you will need to do the following:  
41    As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
42    1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu  development.
43    2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt  
44    Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
45  Many installation issues are caused by the following issues:  
46    
47  - Incorrectly burnt CD:  Thanks
48     Please use the "Media Check" to test your media. This screen is  ======
49     presented at the start of the installation  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
50    this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
51  - Faulty memory  current level of support. More people are required to help with
52      1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu  bug triage and verification testing.
53      2) Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt  
54    
55  - Unsupported or faulty hardware  This release contains many new features, all released updates for
56    - Check the memory and CD  SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
57    - Use good quality cables and an error-free CDROM drive  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
58    - Ensure master/slave configuration is correct, if appropriate  
59    - Disable onboard RAID controllers  
60    - Disable power saving and ACPI features in the BIOS  Upgrades
61    ========
62  Automated RAID installation  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
63  ===========================  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
64    
65  NOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7.0  
66    Changes in this release
67  - Single disk provides one-way RAID1  =======================
68    - Console screen allows simple addition of second disk to provide mirroring  
69    Installer
70  - Two disks are configured as a RAID1 mirror  ---------
71    - Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
72  - Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/boot partition is RAID1)  
73    Mail system changes
74  - Six or more disks are configured as RAID6 (/boot partition is RAID1)  -------------------
75    - Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
76      (internal|external)
77  Upgrades  - New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
78  ========    to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
79    - Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
80  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades    results in 0 hits.
81    - Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
82  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data    are now rejected.
83    - qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
84  - Seamless upgrades from unmodified SME Server 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.5 servers  - A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
85      setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
86  - Many common contributed add-ons have been included in the satndard dis  - Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
87    - Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
88  Email  - Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
89  =====  - Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
90    - Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org  from default lists and use a more improved
91  - Virus scanning    list in zen.spamhaus.org.
92    
93  - Executable attachment blocking  Console
94    -------
95  - Spam filtering  - Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
96    - Automatic tagging with X-Spam-Status header    before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
97    - Optional sorting to 'junkmail' mailbox    configuration of server.
98    - Selectable tagging levels  - Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
99    - Optional rejection of spam during SMTP transaction    waiting for the second confirmation entry.
100    - Full user/domain recipient filtering  - The console should validate passwords using the common method,
101      using esmith::util::validatePassword
102  - Attachment conversion from TNEF to MIME  - The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
103      as it is redundant.
104  - Pseudonyms panel enhancements  - Display frames in console server-manager.
105    - Ability to send (e.g.) support@domain1 and support@domain2 to different    When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
106      places    http://localhost/server-manager
107    - Can enter pseudonyms of pseudonyms  
108    Backups
109  - Secure POP, IMAP and SMTP  -------
110    - Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB
111  - SMTP authentication for users and for ISP connection    of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:
112      smbfs, cifs or nfs. It also gives the option to set how many rotating
113  - Horde/IMP3 based webmail    backups are required and allows to split size of backup to DVD size.
114    - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
115  General features  - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
116  ================    cause a backup to fail.
117    - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
118  - Based on CentOS 4.3    It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
119      device without manual intervention.
120  - Software installer panel  
121    Localisation
122  - Yum based software installation  ------------
123    As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
124  - Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled  languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
125    future.
126    
127    We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
128  Changelog  Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
129  =========  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
130    
131  7.0rc3 -> 7.0  We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
132  =============  using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that
133  - Release number change  will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
134    easily maintained.
135  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  
136      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
137    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  * IMPORTANT: Pre-upgrade step for 7.0pre1 and 7.0beta releases *  this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
140  ****************************************************************  characters (like Greek).
141   Before upgrading to 7.0 from 7.0pre1 or any of the 7.0beta  
142   releases, you must run the following command:  Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
143    
144   kudzu -q  Software Installer
145    ------------------
146   If you do not do this _prior_ to the upgrade, your system may  - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
147   not boot. If this happens, please see the workaround here:  - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
148      users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
149   http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=698    which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
150  ***************************************************************  - Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
151    - The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
152  7.0rc2 -> 7.0rc3  - The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
153  ================    available.
154  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  
155      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  Webmail
156    -------
157  7.0rc1 -> 7.0rc2  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
158  ================  - Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
159  - Update to CentOS 4.3 base    database.
160  - Installer built with i686 kernel.  In order to install on i586  - Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
161    machines you will need to do the following:    longer worked.
162    - The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
163    1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu.    To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
164    2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt.  
165    Server manager
166  - New system consistency audit scripts installed in /sbin/e-smith/audittools/  --------------
167    - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
168  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    files' is now displayed as the first line.
169      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
170      check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
171  7.0pre4 -> 7.0rc1  - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid
172  ==================    certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
173  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
174    - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
175  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    spaces and newlines in panel headers.
176      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
177      as this could be misleading.
178  7.0pre3 -> 7.0pre4  - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
179  ==================  - After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
180  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
181      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
182    - Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed.
183  7.0pre2 -> 7.0pre3  - The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a
184  ===================    problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
185  - The pre2 image wouldn't boot on some machines (bug 733)  
186    Other fixes and updates
187  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  -----------------------
188      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
189    - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
190  7.0pre1 -> 7.0pre2  - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
191  ===================  - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
192  - Includes latest CentOS kernel and updates  - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
193    - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
194  - Reconfiguration reboot now requested after Software Installer  - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
195    updates    browsed.
196    - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.
197  - Simple yum wrapper added to remind people to reconfigure after  - Increased the templating in php.ini
198    using yum  - Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
199      generation
200  - Completion of change to contribs.org styling  - Added support for cciss RAID controller
201    - Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
202  - Updated French translation - thanks Franck Pierre    root.
203    - nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
204  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers    about lost communication.
205      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
206    - ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their
207  7.0beta9 -> 7.0pre1    UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
208  ===================  - Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
209  - Test Internet Access now accesses contribs.org and only passes two    to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
210    pieces of information - the version installed on your server and  - The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
211    a string used to differentiate your server from others using this  - If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now
212    test. This string is generated by a one-way hash function and access    only the version from e-smith-release is sent.
213    to the string does not provide any information about your server.  - The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
214      http://smolt.contribs.org/
215    We appreciate your assistance in sending this information so we can  - Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
216    gain an accurate count of the installed servers.  - Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
217      http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
218  - Server manager changed to use contribs.org branding. CSS files still  - Do not display symlinks via ftp.
219    need to be updated.  - New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
220    - Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter.
221  - Usernames of the form first.last and first_last are now allowed.  - 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  - The maximum length of user and group names has increased from twelve to 31.  - Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature.
224    - dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode.
225  - Reconfiguration reboot added to "Shutdown and Reboot" panel  - On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate
226    (added in Beta9). This performs a "post-upgrade" and a "reboot" and    script would fail.
227    should be used after system and yum upgrades.  - Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
228    - Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
229  - Automated conversion to RAID on upgrade feature removed.  - The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in
230      smecontribs.
231  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  - When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
232      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/    appear in any configuration file.
233    
234  7.0beta8 -> 7.0beta9  
235  ====================  General features
236  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker - Thanks to testers and developers  ================
237      See http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/  - Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
238    
239  7.0beta7 -> 7.0beta8  
240  ====================  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2
241  - Rebuild ipsvd package on CentOS 4.x  =======================================================
242  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226207&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
243    After installing for the very first time:
244  7.0beta6 -> 7.0beta7  -----------------------------------------
245  ====================  - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
246  - Reconfigure option added to Shutdown/reboot page  - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
247  - Correct versions of kernel slip and ppp modules included    groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
248  - Bug fixes - see the bug tracker here - Thanks to testers and developers  - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
249      https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772    about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
250    
251  7.0beta5 -> 7.0beta6  $Id: README.txt,v 1.22 2008/10/15 22:56:59 wellsi Exp $
 ====================  
 - 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  
   
 7.0beta4 -> 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  
   
 7.0beta2 -> 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  
   
 7.0beta2 -> 7.0beta3  
 ====================  
 - Bug fixes - not released  
   
 7.0beta1 -> 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  
   
 7.0alpha26 -> 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  
   
 7.0alpha25 -> 7.0alpha26  
 ========================  
 - Many, many bug fixes - see the bug tracker here:  
     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=96750&atid=615772  
   
 7.0alpha24 -> 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)  
   
 7.0alpha23 -> 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  
   
 7.0alpha22 -> 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  
   
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