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SME Server 7.5 Release Candidate 1 Release Announcement |
SME Server 7.6 Release Announcement |
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March 7 2010 |
June 17 2010 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 7.5RC1. This release is based on CentOS 4.8. |
SME Server 7.6. This release is based on CentOS 4.9. |
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This is planned to be the final ISO release for SME 7, only critical |
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This is only released for testing and not for production use. |
updates will be provided from now and the project intends to focus |
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all efforts on releasing SME8. |
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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 |
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 |
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in the bug tracker (and only there, please); |
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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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, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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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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 the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License |
enterprises. |
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and 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 |
SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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 |
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this release. More people are required to help with |
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bug triage and verification testing. |
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 |
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SME Server 7.4 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades |
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will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
Upgrades |
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Upgrades are available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
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Upgrades |
- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades |
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- An upgrade will preserve the existing data |
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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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Changes in this release |
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Backups |
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This will be updated for 7.5 Final, here are the changelogs |
- Allow for daylight saving changes when running backups. |
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- Handle removable backup locations. |
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- Backup to Workstation to handle full remote disc gracefully. |
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e-smith-apache |
- Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file. |
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- Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034] |
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- Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112] |
File Server |
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- Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848] |
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- Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035] |
- Create .V2 profiles for Windows 7 clients. |
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- Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548] |
- Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays). |
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- Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548] |
- Change separator character in general Samba configuration file. |
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e-smith-backup |
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- Fix full backup on Sunday displayed as Everyday. [SME: 5624] |
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- workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to bootstrap-console-save [SME: 4850] |
- Allow installation when dmraid present. |
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- workstation backup: using credentials file for cifs mount [SME: 4850] |
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- workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day [SME: 5393] |
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- workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before restore [SME: 5395] |
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- workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in a full restore [SME: 5396] |
- Add Chinese (Taiwan) language. |
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- minor fix in translation [SME: 5406] |
- Add Hebrew language. |
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- Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579] |
- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. |
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- Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841] |
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Mail Server |
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e-smith-base |
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- Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing [SME: 5736] |
- TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured. |
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- Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits [SME: 5734] |
- Fix Pseudonym "local network only" to merge multiple properties. |
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- Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console configuration pages [SME: 1189] |
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- Translate $ifName in console configuration pages [SME: 1189] |
Server manager |
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- Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5334] |
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- Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5258] |
- There should be strict checking of the IP address and Subnet Mask entered |
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- Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006] |
into remote access panel before allowing to save successfully. |
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- create service link for smartd [SME: 1445] |
- Fix handling of double speechmarks in the comment field of the hostname panel. |
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- Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172] |
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Webmail and Groupware |
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- Update path for 64-bit compatibility [SME: 5755] |
- Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions. |
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- Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional identities. |
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e-smith-grub |
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- Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf [SME: 5166] |
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e-smith-horde |
- Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup. |
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- Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's [SME: 5627] |
- Default expose_php to Off for security reasons. A database property is added to |
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- Upgrade horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.6 [SME: 5721] |
allow the value to be easily controlled. |
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- Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860] |
To enable expose_php /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP On |
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- Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN |
To disable expose_php /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP Off |
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- access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787] |
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Other fixes and updates |
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e-smith-imap |
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- Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105] |
- Fix group-modify event to honour ibays group assignment. |
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- Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105] |
- Don't exit 99 from e-smith-service script when called with 'condrestart' |
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and service is disabled. |
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e-smith-imp |
- Correct the ldif file expansion for groups to include the uid element and fix |
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- Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3.6 [SME: 5722] |
the objectClass. |
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- Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821] |
- Apply patch to allow rsync v3.0+ to work (needs -e parameter) |
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- Add random wait timer for check4updates script to distribute load on ibiblio |
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e-smith-ingo |
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- Update e-smith-ingo templates to reflect changes in Ingo 1.2.3 [SME: 5724] |
$Id: README.txt,v 1.11 2011/03/06 21:57:54 wellsi Exp $ |
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e-smith-lib |
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- Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids. [SME: 4969] |
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- Update path for 64-bit compatibility [SME: 5755] |
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- Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172] |
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e-smith-manager |
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- display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes [SME: 5475] |
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- display reconfigure warning if UnsavedChanges=yes [SME: 2081] |
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- Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022] |
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e-smith-mysql |
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- Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807] |
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- Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807] |
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e-smith-nutUPS |
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- Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750] |
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e-smith-openssh |
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- Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903] |
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e-smith-qmail |
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- SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5455] |
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- smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5254] |
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- Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a |
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local ip [SME: 5171] |
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e-smith-samba |
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- Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to |
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join Samba 3.x domains [SME: 5423] |
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- Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 4954] |
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- Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777] |
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- Fix oslevel fragment for server roles [SME: 4730] |
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- Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172] |
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e-smith-turba |
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- Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.3 [SME: 5723] |
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- Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148] |
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- Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910] |
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horde |
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- Updated to Horde 3.3.6 [SME: 5721] |
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imp-h3 |
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- Updated to Imp 4.3.6 [SME: 5722] |
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ingo-h3 |
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- Update to Ingo 1.2.3 [SME: 5724] |
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initscripts |
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- Reapply SME Server patches [SME: 2043] |
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- Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration |
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database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653] |
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- Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only |
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initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures |
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that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects |
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against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495] |
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mkinitrd |
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- Use generated config file instead of just scanning [SME: 2192] |
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- Use mdassemble rather than raidautorun in initrd, so that we control |
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UUID to device mapping. [SME: 961, 1895] |
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qmail |
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- Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171] |
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qpsmtpd |
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- Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM |
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subject prefix [SME: 5567] |
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- Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install [SME: 5557] |
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- Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file [SME: 5549] |
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- Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings [SME: 5550] |
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- Only run/initialize plugins once [SME: 5533] |
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- Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav |
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- Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog |
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- add sme specific patches |
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- Update to 0.83 |
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rkhunter |
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From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a contrib. |
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smeserver-audittools |
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- Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot [SME: 4913] |
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- Undo changes made in 1.0.0-5 [SME: 4913] |
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- Properly fix output for usernames and groups containing a dot [SME: 4913] |
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- Remove comment lines from output of aliases [SME: 4913] |
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- Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms [SME: 5566] |
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- Revert changes made in [SME: 5416] |
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- Sort the output of the repositories audittool alphabetically [SME: 5416] |
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smeserver-clamav |
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- Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log [SME: 5287] |
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- Remove create option from logrotate configuration [SME: 5287] |
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- Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log [SME: 5287] |
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- Minor changelog fixes in version number |
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- Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5320] |
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- Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598] |
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- Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786] |
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smeserver-locale |
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- apply locale 2009-10-27 patch |
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- Add Thai language [SME: 5466] |
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- Add Polish language [SME: 5436] |
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- Add Romanian language [SME: 5268] |
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- Add Estonian language [SME: 5199] |
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- Add Chineese (China) language [SME: 5002] |
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- Add Norwegian (Bokmal) language [SME: 5002] |
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- Add Russian language [SME: 5002] |
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smeserver-qpsmtpd |
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- Tie the template fragment into the event system to have it expand [SME: 5567] |
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- Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix [SME: 5567] |
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- Add hooks cleanout back in in so auth works. |
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- Add compatibility with qpsmtpd 0.83 [SME: 5543] |
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- Add tls to base config [SME: 1076] |
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smeserver-spamassassin |
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- Fix invalid service name in sa-update [SME: 3304] |
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smeserver-support |
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- Add support for Polish (pl). [SME: 5433] |
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- Add support for Thai (th). [SME: 5466] |
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- Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268] |
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- Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172] |
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- Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203] |
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- Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ] |
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- Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002] |
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- Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002] |
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smeserver-yum |
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- only unlink file if we created it [SME: 4169] |
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- set unsaved changes in yum event [SME: 2081] |
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- move yum warming to sme yum plugin [SME: 5472] |
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- ensure file exists before unlinking [SME: 4169] |
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- remove semicolons from yum plugin |
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- Add frequency of updates toggle [SME: 5473] |
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- remove stray file |
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- Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5306] |
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- Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242] |
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- Require mailx [SME: 5131] |
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- Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of |
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needed pacakges [SME: 3133] |
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turba-h3 |
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- Updated to Turba 2.3.3 [SME: 5723] |
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