cdrom.image/sme10/README.txt

Koozali SME Server 10 Alpha 5 Release Notes
=====================================

These are draft only and are in a constant state of update.

17 Jun 2020

The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the 
release of SME Server 10 Alpha 5 which will be the next major release of 
SME Server.

This release is based on CentOS 7. CentOS 7.# has an EOL of 30 June 2024.

***************************
Koozali SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this 
release but those who can are encouraged to load the alpha to a 
dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.
***************************

Some notes on Koozali SME Server 10 can be found at
https://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_10.0_Development

SME10 Roadmap - Alpha 5
https://wiki.contribs.org/SME10_Roadmap#SME_10_Alpha_5

Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
tracker (and only there, please);

     https://bugs.koozali.org/

Download
========
You can download SME Server 10 from
https://mirror.koozali.org/smeserver/releases/testing/10/
or for other methods see https://wiki.koozali.org/SME_Server:Download

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 Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
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 donation to offset costs and fund further development.

a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an 
individual using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate 
you to contribute within your means toward the costs associated with 
hosting, maintenance and development.

b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME 
Server in the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to 
make a donation commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and 
the number of servers your have in the field. Please, help the project

Please visit https://wiki.koozali.org/Donate to donate.

Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
simply email treasurer at koozali.org

Notes
=====
In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then 
restore. (Remember, testing purpose only)

The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented as yet.

New Server-Manager Framework, Mojolicious, is now well on the way to full implementation

USB installs are once again fully supported 
Note: it is important to use proposed apps to create the boot media
See: https://wiki.koozali.org/Install_From_USB 

Netinstall is once again fully supported

Install to a system supporting a UEFI BIOS is also now fully supported

The work that has gone into getting SME 10 to this stage has been enormous, an attempt to list and detail the work that has been done in recent months would not do justice to the effort contributed by the following,

thank you one and all:

Jean Phillipe Pialasse
Michel Begue
Brian Read
Catton Durbrow
Chris Sansom-Ninnes
John Crisp

there have also been many others who have done what they can, thank you:


Major changes in this release
=============================
This release is based on CentOS 7.#

Changes in this release
=======================
see above and below, too much to list

General features
================
- Based on CentOS 7.6.1810 and all available updates

Detailed changes in this release
=======================
Only the changes since SME Server 10 Alpha3 are listed, mainly
autogenerated from the changelogs.

Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
not included.

The changelogs are written per package, and each package is assigned a group.

Backups

e-smith-backup
- Added /etc/backup-data.d to backup paths
- Added error handling to restore using pipe pattern from perform_backup
- Made reboot optional after console restore
- Fixed bootstrap restore not activating config changes
- Manually added ext2 and ext3 to Block Device file system check where ext4 present
- updated Block Device discovery to fix recovery from console
- Credit to Catton Durbrow

File Server


LDAP

e-smith-ldap
- New protocol default as TLSv1.2
New property TLSProtocolMin
Ciphers are now ordered with stronger first

Localisation


Mail Server

clamav
- Update clamav-db as per epel last spec file
to add clamav-update as provides
-
smeserver-clamav
- increase lower memory limit to 1GB
- fix for AllowSupplementaryGroups warning
thanks to bunkobugsy
smeserver-dovecot
- fix typo in enabling TLSv1.2 as default
- fix typo in 35ssl template
- fix typo in createlinks
- revert property names with period in it
- add property AcceptFullEmail with enabled as default
smeserver-qpsmtpd
- minimum Protocol TLSv1.0
better ciphers order.

Server manager

e-smith-formmagick
- add locale for CSRF
- add CSRF patch - thank you to Daniel Berteaud
e-smith-manager
perl-CGI-FormMagick
- add timeout
- update CSRF patch
- add requires perl(Session::Token)
- fix add CSRF patch - thank you to Daniel Berteaud

Webmail and Groupware

smeserver-horde
- workaround logging noise caused by libsasl
- log as admin and not admin@domain for cli tasks
- fix ingo imap preferences
- allow httpd-auth for calendar, tasks access using rpc.php ...
- add smeserver-horde-update event
- avoid loss of user parameter on Primary Domain change
this will also avoid the loss of parameter if we log with a different virtualhost
horde preference is now stored with the SME username without @domain
- fix bad regex to strip domain
also we can now force Primary domain to use as default email
we can strip heading string from virtualhost domain to create email
default identity email will update as long as no other identity is created for the user
- fix typo in php-fpm patch
- remove php3 references
- remove strict and warning alert from error log
- dedicated php-fpm pool for horde
- apply patches from John H. Bennett III
- cvs admin -ko on patch1

Web Server

e-smith-apache
- disable TLSv1 TLSv1.1 by default

Other fixes and updates

e-smith-base
- wildcard self-signed certificate
e-smith-ibays
- revert patch, wrong rpm
- add support for php-fpm
e-smith-lib
- add support for systemctl reload-or-restart, try-restart, enable -now
e-smith-ntp
- revert last change
on sme10 systemd has ntpd disabled by default
e-smith-openssh
- add Whitelist to AutoBlock using property sshd ValidFrom
- update client ciphers to use
- add ciphers, macs and KexAlgorithms for server
rssh
smeserver-release
- Bump new rpm for sme10 alpha5
smeserver-support
- obsoletes e-smith-starterwebsite
smeserver-yum
- avoid missing template error after removal of a rpm
- restart php-fpm services when needed
- applying patch
- fix NameError: global name 'yum_update_dbs' is not defined
- use yum-cron with autoupdate feature 


On behalf of the Koozali SME Server development team
- Compilation of release data is thanks to scripts developed by Ian Wells and 
   substantially improved by Jean Phillipe Pialasse
1	jpp	1.5	Koozali SME Server 10 Alpha 5 Release Notes
2	unnilennium	1.3	=====================================
3
4	jpp	1.5	These are draft only and are in a constant state of update.
5	unnilennium	1.3
6	jpp	1.5	17 Jun 2020
7	jpp	1.4
8			The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the
9	jpp	1.5	release of SME Server 10 Alpha 5 which will be the next major release of
10	jpp	1.4	SME Server.
11	unnilennium	1.3
12			This release is based on CentOS 7. CentOS 7.# has an EOL of 30 June 2024.
13
14			***************************
15	jpp	1.4	Koozali SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this
16			release but those who can are encouraged to load the alpha to a
17			dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.
18	unnilennium	1.3	***************************
19
20	jpp	1.4	Some notes on Koozali SME Server 10 can be found at
21	unnilennium	1.3	https://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_10.0_Development
22
23	jpp	1.5	SME10 Roadmap - Alpha 5
24			https://wiki.contribs.org/SME10_Roadmap#SME_10_Alpha_5
25	jpp	1.4
26	unnilennium	1.3	Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
27			tracker (and only there, please);
28
29	jpp	1.4	https://bugs.koozali.org/
30	unnilennium	1.3
31			Download
32			========
33			You can download SME Server 10 from
34			https://mirror.koozali.org/smeserver/releases/testing/10/
35			or for other methods see https://wiki.koozali.org/SME_Server:Download
36
37			Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
38			during this time you may experience problems.
39
40			About SME Server
41			================
42			SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
43			enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
44			a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
45			for SME Server.
46
47			SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
48			is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
49
50			However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
51			meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
52
53			As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
54
55	jpp	1.4	a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an
56			individual using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate
57			you to contribute within your means toward the costs associated with
58			hosting, maintenance and development.
59
60			b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME
61			Server in the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to
62			make a donation commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and
63			the number of servers your have in the field. Please, help the project
64	unnilennium	1.3
65			Please visit https://wiki.koozali.org/Donate to donate.
66
67			Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
68	jpp	1.4	simply email treasurer at koozali.org
69	unnilennium	1.3
70			Notes
71			=====
72	jpp	1.4	In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then
73	jpp	1.5	restore. (Remember, testing purpose only)
74	unnilennium	1.3
75	jpp	1.5	The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented as yet.
76	unnilennium	1.3
77	jpp	1.5	New Server-Manager Framework, Mojolicious, is now well on the way to full implementation
78
79			USB installs are once again fully supported
80			Note: it is important to use proposed apps to create the boot media
81			See: https://wiki.koozali.org/Install_From_USB
82
83			Netinstall is once again fully supported
84
85			Install to a system supporting a UEFI BIOS is also now fully supported
86
87			The work that has gone into getting SME 10 to this stage has been enormous, an attempt to list and detail the work that has been done in recent months would not do justice to the effort contributed by the following,
88
89			thank you one and all:
90
91			Jean Phillipe Pialasse
92			Michel Begue
93			Brian Read
94			Catton Durbrow
95			Chris Sansom-Ninnes
96			John Crisp
97
98			there have also been many others who have done what they can, thank you:
99	unnilennium	1.3
100
101			Major changes in this release
102			=============================
103	jpp	1.4	This release is based on CentOS 7.#
104	unnilennium	1.3
105			Changes in this release
106			=======================
107	jpp	1.6	see above and below, too much to list
108	unnilennium	1.3
109			General features
110			================
111	jpp	1.4	- Based on CentOS 7.6.1810 and all available updates
112	unnilennium	1.3
113			Detailed changes in this release
114			=======================
115	jpp	1.4	Only the changes since SME Server 10 Alpha3 are listed, mainly
116	unnilennium	1.3	autogenerated from the changelogs.
117
118			Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
119			not included.
120
121	jpp	1.5	The changelogs are written per package, and each package is assigned a group.
122
123	unnilennium	1.3	Backups
124
125	jpp	1.5	e-smith-backup
126			- Added /etc/backup-data.d to backup paths
127			- Added error handling to restore using pipe pattern from perform_backup
128			- Made reboot optional after console restore
129			- Fixed bootstrap restore not activating config changes
130			- Manually added ext2 and ext3 to Block Device file system check where ext4 present
131			- updated Block Device discovery to fix recovery from console
132			- Credit to Catton Durbrow
133	unnilennium	1.3
134			File Server
135
136	jpp	1.4
137	jpp	1.5	LDAP
138	unnilennium	1.3
139	jpp	1.5	e-smith-ldap
140			- New protocol default as TLSv1.2
141			New property TLSProtocolMin
142			Ciphers are now ordered with stronger first
143	unnilennium	1.3
144			Localisation
145
146
147			Mail Server
148
149	jpp	1.5	clamav
150			- Update clamav-db as per epel last spec file
151			to add clamav-update as provides
152			-
153			smeserver-clamav
154			- increase lower memory limit to 1GB
155			- fix for AllowSupplementaryGroups warning
156			thanks to bunkobugsy
157			smeserver-dovecot
158			- fix typo in enabling TLSv1.2 as default
159			- fix typo in 35ssl template
160			- fix typo in createlinks
161			- revert property names with period in it
162			- add property AcceptFullEmail with enabled as default
163			smeserver-qpsmtpd
164			- minimum Protocol TLSv1.0
165			better ciphers order.
166	unnilennium	1.3
167			Server manager
168
169	jpp	1.5	e-smith-formmagick
170			- add locale for CSRF
171			- add CSRF patch - thank you to Daniel Berteaud
172			e-smith-manager
173			perl-CGI-FormMagick
174			- add timeout
175			- update CSRF patch
176			- add requires perl(Session::Token)
177			- fix add CSRF patch - thank you to Daniel Berteaud
178	unnilennium	1.3
179			Webmail and Groupware
180
181	jpp	1.5	smeserver-horde
182			- workaround logging noise caused by libsasl
183			- log as admin and not admin@domain for cli tasks
184			- fix ingo imap preferences
185			- allow httpd-auth for calendar, tasks access using rpc.php ...
186			- add smeserver-horde-update event
187			- avoid loss of user parameter on Primary Domain change
188			this will also avoid the loss of parameter if we log with a different virtualhost
189			horde preference is now stored with the SME username without @domain
190			- fix bad regex to strip domain
191			also we can now force Primary domain to use as default email
192			we can strip heading string from virtualhost domain to create email
193			default identity email will update as long as no other identity is created for the user
194			- fix typo in php-fpm patch
195			- remove php3 references
196			- remove strict and warning alert from error log
197			- dedicated php-fpm pool for horde
198			- apply patches from John H. Bennett III
199			- cvs admin -ko on patch1
200
201	jpp	1.4	Web Server
202
203	jpp	1.5	e-smith-apache
204			- disable TLSv1 TLSv1.1 by default
205
206	jpp	1.4	Other fixes and updates
207
208	jpp	1.5	e-smith-base
209			- wildcard self-signed certificate
210			e-smith-ibays
211			- revert patch, wrong rpm
212			- add support for php-fpm
213			e-smith-lib
214			- add support for systemctl reload-or-restart, try-restart, enable -now
215			e-smith-ntp
216			- revert last change
217			on sme10 systemd has ntpd disabled by default
218			e-smith-openssh
219			- add Whitelist to AutoBlock using property sshd ValidFrom
220			- update client ciphers to use
221			- add ciphers, macs and KexAlgorithms for server
222			rssh
223			smeserver-release
224			- Bump new rpm for sme10 alpha5
225			smeserver-support
226			- obsoletes e-smith-starterwebsite
227			smeserver-yum
228			- avoid missing template error after removal of a rpm
229			- restart php-fpm services when needed
230			- applying patch
231			- fix NameError: global name 'yum_update_dbs' is not defined
232			- use yum-cron with autoupdate feature
233	unnilennium	1.3
234
235	jpp	1.4	On behalf of the Koozali SME Server development team
236	jpp	1.5	- Compilation of release data is thanks to scripts developed by Ian Wells and
237			substantially improved by Jean Phillipe Pialasse