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SME Server 7.5 Release Announcement |
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March xx 2010 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 7.5. This release is based on CentOS 4.8. |
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The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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Please Note |
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It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, during this |
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time you may experience problems. |
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About SME Server |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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enterprises. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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Thanks |
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The development team would like to thank all of those involved in this |
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release. More people are required to help with bug triage and |
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verification testing. |
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This release contains many new features, all released updates for SME |
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Server 7.4 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades will be |
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available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
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Upgrades |
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- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades |
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- An upgrade will preserve the existing data |
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Changes in this release |
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Backups |
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- The backup service has been made more robust: |
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Allow many backups in the same day. |
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Prevent launching a restore if all needed backups are not available. |
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Do not allow a restore from a partial backup. |
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- Some valid passwords would fail due to how the backup directory was |
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mounted, the use of a credentials file for mount.cifs now avoids this |
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limitation. |
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- The e-mail now correctly identifies incremental and full backups. |
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- Make workstation-backup 'full backup allowed on'-setting stick across |
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revisits of the Configure-page when set to: 'Sunday' |
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File Server |
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- A patch was added to support multiple samba roles, the change is |
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transparent. However installing smeserver-adv-samba allows the user to |
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take advantage of additional server roles as detailed in |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/Advanced_Samba |
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Localisation |
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- As part of a major update with translations we have added seven new |
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languages: |
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Thai, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Chinese, Norwegian (Bokmal), |
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Russian. |
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- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. |
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Mail Server |
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- Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication capability has been |
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added for incoming smtp ehlo requests. |
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- Implement correctly the subject line SPAM tagging functionality. |
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- The syntax of the smtproutes and SMTPSmartHost templates have been |
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updated to avoid MX lookups |
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- Incoming mail could be incorrectly rejected by qpsmtpd plugin |
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require_resolvable_fromhost. |
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- Update to qpsmtpd 0.83 |
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- HeuristicScanPrecedence is a new option in clamav 0.94. |
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See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Heuristic_Scan |
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- Rotate Virus scanning log files |
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- Remove the external preloaded library, qmail-workaround, which was |
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needed for qmail loopback connections if a domain MX resolves to |
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0.0.0.0. This has now been replaced by a patch to qmail itself. |
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Server manager |
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- The reconfigure warning is displayed in subsequent browser sessions of |
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the server-manager when the server is updated from the Command Line, |
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or after a reboot, if a full reconfiguration has not been performed. |
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- Allow to select "check for updates" daily, weekly or monthly in the |
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Software Installer. Check for updates can also be disabled. |
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- Fix yum warnings about "another instance is running" when running a |
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second instance of yum from another terminal. |
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Webmail and Groupware |
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- Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions |
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- Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's |
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- Allow FQDN and non-FQDN access to webmail. |
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- The spell checker in Horde Mail has been enabled for HTML composition. |
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- Obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 as it makes the sidebar menu of the |
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webmail interface disappear. |
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Web Server |
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- Implement a database key (SSLv2) which allows to disable certificates |
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signed with SSLv2, enabled by default to keep current behaviour. |
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- Add support for more MIME Types to Apache: |
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Openoffice 1.x, Openoffice 2.x |
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Microsoft Office 2007 |
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XML |
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- SSL Certificates will now use a SHA1 |
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- SSL Certificates will now use a 2048 bits key size |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a |
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contrib. |
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- Do not allow re-allocation of deleted Windows user profiles. |
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- Template sshd login grace time |
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- Correct the configuration of smartd to monitor hard disk status, but |
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default to disabled. |
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- Display the boot time menu by default by removing the hiddenmenu entry |
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from the default grub.conf to be in line with the documentation. |
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- Enable error logging for MySQL. |
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- When user or group names with a "." in the names exist, |
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running /sbin/e-smith/audittools/aliases will show more than the |
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expected list. |
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- Improve the quality of the mirrors by using a network mirror-list. The |
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list is automatically generated hourly based on the status of the |
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current mirrors. By using these mirror-lists it is ensured that people |
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are directed to an updated mirror. When a mirror is added or removed |
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the change will be available quickly and automatically. It also |
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centralizes control of the mirror lists. |
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- Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed |
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packages. This stops accidental removal of core SME Server packages. |
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- Introduced (weak) kernel modules which are independent of kernel |
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version. This means there is no need to update/rebuild kmods for each |
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kernel update. |
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- Fix for VPN access failed with buffer too small errors. |
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