SME Server 7.6 Release Announcement
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March 10 2010

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 7.6. This release is based on CentOS 4.9. 

This is planned to be the final ISO release for SME 7, only critical
updates will be provided from now and the project intends to focus
all efforts on releasing SME8.

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
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It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, during this
time you may experience problems.


About SME Server
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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
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The development team would like to thank all of those involved in this
release. More people are required to help with bug triage and
verification testing.


Upgrades
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Upgrades are available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
- An upgrade will preserve the existing data


Changes in this release
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Backups
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- Allow for daylight saving changes when running backups

File Server
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- Create .V2 profiles for Windows 7 clients

Installer
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- Allow installation when dmraid present

Localisation
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- Add Chinese (Taiwan) language
- Add Hebrew language
- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.

Server manager
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- There should be strict checking of the IP address and Subnet Mask entered 
  into remote access panel before allowing to save successfully.
- Fix handling of double speechmarks in the comment field of the hostname panel

Webmail and Groupware
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- Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
- Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional identities

Web Server
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- Default expose_php to Off for security reasons. A database property is added to 
  allow the value to be easily controlled. 
  To enable expose_php   /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP On
  To disable expose_php  /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP Off

Other fixes and updates
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- Fix group-modify event to honour ibays group assignment
- Don't exit 99 from e-smith-service script when called with 'condrestart'
  and service is disabled.
- Correct the ldif file expansion for groups to include the uid element and fix
  the objectClass.
- Apply patch to allow rsync v3.0+ to work (needs -e parameter)
- Add random wait timer for check4updates script to distribute load on ibiblio 

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