cdrom.image/sme7/README.txt

SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
===================================

November 21 2008

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes
in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8 
along with translation into 6 additional languages.


All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.

The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download

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 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.


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 enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB 
  of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods: 
  cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many 
  rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup 
  to DVD size.
- 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.
- Set dar compression to default to gzip
- dar backup to be less verbose in panel
- Correct mounting for usb disks
- no compression for ogg media files
- Make dar use defined list of directories to backup
- Remove obsolete smbfs backup method
  

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 as it is 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.
- 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
================
- Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates


There are a few differences from previous releases <=7.2
========================================================

After installing for the very first time:
-----------------------------------------
- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
  groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
  about those changes (rkhunter email notification).

$Id: README.txt,v 1.27 2008/11/17 23:15:15 slords Exp $
1	slords	1.1	SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement
2			===================================
3
4			November 21 2008
5
6			The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7			SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes
8			in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8
9			along with translation into 6 additional languages.
10
11
12			All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
13
14			The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
15			http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
16
17			Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
18			in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
19
20			http://bugs.contribs.org/
21
22
23			Please Note
24			===========
25			It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
26			during this time you may experience problems.
27
28
29			About SME Server
30			================
31
32			SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
33			enterprises.
34
35			SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
36			and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
37			However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
38			meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
39
40
41			Thanks
42			======
43			The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
44			this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
45			current level of support. More people are required to help with
46			bug triage and verification testing.
47
48
49			This release contains many new features, all released updates for
50			SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
51			will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
52
53
54			Upgrades
55			========
56			- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
57			- An upgrade will preserve the existing data
58
59
60			Changes in this release
61			=======================
62
63			Installer
64			---------
65			- Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand.
66
67			Mail system changes
68			-------------------
69			- Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property
70			(internal\|external)
71			- New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability
72			to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe".
73			- Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking
74			results in 0 hits.
75			- Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part
76			are now rejected.
77			- qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default.
78			- A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel
79			setting of 6 in qpsmtpd.
80			- Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP
81			- Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections
82			- Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing.
83			- Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use.
84			- Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org from default lists and use a more improved
85			list in zen.spamhaus.org.
86
87			Console
88			-------
89			- Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen
90			before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to
91			configuration of server.
92			- Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than
93			waiting for the second confirmation entry.
94			- The console should validate passwords using the common method,
95			using esmith::util::validatePassword
96			- The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed
97			as it is redundant.
98			- Display frames in console server-manager.
99			When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to
100			http://localhost/server-manager
101
102			Backups
103			-------
104			- Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB
105			of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:
106			cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many
107			rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup
108			to DVD size.
109			- Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality
110			- The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not
111			cause a backup to fail.
112			- A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.
113			It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup
114			device without manual intervention.
115			- Set dar compression to default to gzip
116			- dar backup to be less verbose in panel
117			- Correct mounting for usb disks
118			- no compression for ogg media files
119			- Make dar use defined list of directories to backup
120			- Remove obsolete smbfs backup method
121
122
123			Localisation
124			------------
125			As part of a major update with translations we have added six new
126			languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the
127			future.
128
129			We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,
130			Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
131			Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
132
133			We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by
134			using a tool called pootle. This is a web based translation tool that
135			will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more
136			easily maintained.
137
138			We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to
139			work with pootle. Another big change as part of this upgrade is the
140			switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,
141			this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin
142			characters (like Greek).
143
144			Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
145
146			Software Installer
147			------------------
148			- smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO
149			- The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow
150			users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting,
151			which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem.
152			- Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly.
153			- The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists.
154			- The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are
155			available.
156
157			Webmail
158			-------
159			- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
160			- Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP
161			database.
162			- Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no
163			longer worked.
164			- The name of the webmail installation is now configurable.
165			To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update.
166
167			Server manager
168			--------------
169			- The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log
170			files' is now displayed as the first line.
171			- Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the
172			check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.
173			- Server-manager > printers > add printer - now advises users to avoid
174			certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.
175			- Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.
176			- Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra
177			spaces and newlines in panel headers.
178			- The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'
179			as this could be misleading.
180			- Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.
181			- After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or
182			user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of
183			death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.
184			- Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed.
185			- The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a
186			problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.
187
188			Other fixes and updates
189			-----------------------
190			- Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems
191			- The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength
192			- The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility
193			- radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods
194			- Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters
195			- Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server
196			- Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is
197			browsed.
198			- Made mtu/mru settings configurable.
199			- Increased the templating in php.ini
200			- Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate
201			generation
202			- Added support for cciss RAID controller
203			- Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with
204			root.
205			- nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox
206			about lost communication.
207			- e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.
208			- ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their
209			UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.
210			- Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due
211			to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..
212			- The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.
213			- If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now
214			only the version from e-smith-release is sent.
215			- The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to
216			http://smolt.contribs.org/
217			- Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html
218			- Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -
219			http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
220			- Do not display symlinks via ftp.
221			- New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work.
222			- Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter.
223			- Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use.
224			- Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels.
225			- Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature.
226			- dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode.
227			- On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate
228			script would fail.
229			- Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts.
230			- Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles.
231			- The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in
232			smecontribs.
233			- When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not
234			appear in any configuration file.
235
236
237			General features
238			================
239			- Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates
240
241
242			There are a few differences from previous releases <=7.2
243			========================================================
244
245			After installing for the very first time:
246			-----------------------------------------
247			- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates.
248			- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of
249			groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).
250			- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day
251			about those changes (rkhunter email notification).
252
253			$Id: README.txt,v 1.27 2008/11/17 23:15:15 slords Exp $