--- cdrom.image/sme7/README.txt 2009/06/06 23:51:54 1.1 +++ cdrom.image/sme7/README.txt 2011/03/06 21:57:54 1.11 @@ -1,253 +1,103 @@ -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 $ +SME Server 7.6 Release Announcement +=================================== + +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 +=========== +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. More people are required to help with bug triage and +verification testing. + + +Upgrades +======== +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 +======================= + +Backups +------- +- Allow for daylight saving changes when running backups + +File Server +----------- +- Create .V2 profiles for Windows 7 clients + +Installer +--------- +- Allow installation when dmraid present + +Localisation +------------ +- Add Chinese (Taiwan) language +- Add Hebrew language +- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. + +Server manager +-------------- +- 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 +--------------------- +- 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 +---------- +- 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 +----------------------- +- 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 + +$Id: $