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1  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement  SME Server 7.6 Release Announcement
2  ===================================  ===================================
3    
4  November 21 2008  March 24 2012
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  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  SME Server 7.6. This release is based on CentOS 4.9 which is the final
8  in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8  version of CentOS 4 and now End of Life.
 along with translation into 6 additional languages.  
9    
10    This is the final ISO release for SME 7, only critical updates will be
11  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  provided from now as SME 8 is now at Release Candidate status.
12    
13  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
14  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
15    
16  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
17  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
18    
19      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
20    
21    
22  Please Note  Please Note
23  ===========  ===========
24  It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,  It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, during this
25  during this time you may experience problems.  time you may experience problems.
26    
27    
28  About SME Server  About SME Server
# Line 32  About SME Server Line 31  About SME Server
31  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
32  enterprises.  enterprises.
33    
34  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
35  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
36  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
37  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
38    
39    
40  Thanks  Thanks
41  ======  ======
42  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in this
43  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the  release. More people are required to help with bug triage and
44  current level of support. More people are required to help with  verification testing.
 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.  
45    
46    
47  Upgrades  Upgrades
48  ========  ========
49    Upgrades are available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
50  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
51  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
52    
# Line 60  Upgrades Line 54  Upgrades
54  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
55  =======================  =======================
56    
 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  
   
57  Backups  Backups
58  -------  -------
59  - Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB  - Allow for daylight saving changes when running backups.
60    of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:  - Handle removable backup locations when using modern browsers.
61    cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many  - Backup to Workstation to handle full remote disc gracefully.
62    rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup  - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
63    to DVD size.  - The backup to workstation did not correctly handle network drives
64  - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality    starting with a leading slash. The leading slash is now allowed
65  - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not    and silently removed.
66    cause a backup to fail.  
67  - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.  File Server
68    It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup  -----------
69    device without manual intervention.  - Create .V2 profiles for Windows 7 clients.
70  - Set dar compression to default to gzip  - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
71  - dar backup to be less verbose in panel  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
72  - Correct mounting for usb disks  - Fix USB fstab issue preventing automatic mount (HAL).
73  - no compression for ogg media files  
74  - Make dar use defined list of directories to backup  Installer
75  - Remove obsolete smbfs backup method  ---------
76      - Allow installation when dmraid present.
77    
78  Localisation  Localisation
79  ------------  ------------
80  As part of a major update with translations we have added six new  - Add Chinese (Taiwan) language.
81  languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the  - Add Hebrew language.
82  future.  - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
83    
84  We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,  Mail Server
85  Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,  -----------
86  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.  - TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
87    - Fix Pseudonym "local network only" to merge multiple properties.
 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.  
88    
89  Server manager  Server manager
90  --------------  --------------
91  - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log  - There should be strict checking of the IP address and Subnet Mask
92    files' is now displayed as the first line.    entered into remote access panel before allowing to save successfully.
93  - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the  - Fix handling of double speechmarks in the comment field of the
94    check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.    hostname panel.
95  - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid  
96    certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.  Webmail and Groupware
97  - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.  ---------------------
98  - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra  - Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions.
99    spaces and newlines in panel headers.  - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
100  - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'    identities.
101    as this could be misleading.  
102  - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.  Web Server
103  - After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or  ----------
104    user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of  - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
105    death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.  - Default expose_php to Off for security reasons. A database property
106  - Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed.    is added to allow the value to be easily controlled.
107  - The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a    To enable expose_php   /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP On
108    problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.    To disable expose_php  /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP Off
109    
110  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
111  -----------------------  -----------------------
112  - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems  - Fix group-modify event to honour ibays group assignment.
113  - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength  - Don't exit 99 from e-smith-service script when called with
114  - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility    'condrestart' and service is disabled.
115  - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods  - Correct the ldif file expansion for groups to include the uid element
116  - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters    and fix the objectClass.
117  - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server  - Apply patch to allow rsync v3.0+ to work (needs -e parameter).
118  - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is  - Add random wait timer for check4updates script to distribute load on
119    browsed.    ibiblio.
120  - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.  - Update Clamav to latest version.  
121  - Increased the templating in php.ini  - Update yum to handle CentOS 4 moving to the vault.
 - 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).  
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123  $Id: README.txt,v 1.27 2008/11/17 23:15:15 slords Exp $  $Id: README.txt,v 1.13 2012/03/23 05:12:32 wellsi Exp $


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