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1  SME Server 7.5 Beta 2 Release Announcement  SME Server 7.5.1 Release Announcement
2  ==========================================  ===================================
3    
4  March 1 2010  June 27 2010
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 7.5beta2. This release is based on CentOS 4.8.  SME Server 7.5.1 This is a patch release for SME 7.5 to resolve
8    problems seen by some VPN users, and other minor fixes.
   
 This is only released for testing and not for production use.  
9    
10  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
11  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
12    
13  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
14  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
15    
16      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
17    
18    
19  Please Note  Please Note
20  ===========  ===========
21  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
22  during this time you may experience problems.  time you may experience problems.
23    
24    
25  About SME Server  About SME Server
26  ================  ================
# Line 29  About SME Server Line 28  About SME Server
28  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
29  enterprises.  enterprises.
30    
31  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
32  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
33  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
34  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
35    
36    This release is based on CentOS 4.8.
37    
38    
39  Thanks  Thanks
40  ======  ======
41  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
42  this release. More people are required to help with  release. More people are required to help with bug triage and
43  bug triage and verification testing.  verification testing.
   
   
 This release contains many new features, all released updates for  
 SME Server 7.4 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades  
 will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.  
44    
45    
46  Upgrades  Upgrades
47  ========  ========
48    Upgrades are available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
49  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
50  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data
51    
# Line 56  Upgrades Line 53  Upgrades
53  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
54  =======================  =======================
55    
56  This will be updated for 7.5 RC, here are the changelogs  Backups
57    -------
58    - Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure.
59  e-smith-apache  - The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces
60  - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]    from the hostname.
61  - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]  
62  - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]  Localisation
63  - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]  ------------
64  - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  - Latest translation updates.
65  - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  - Fix translation of local nic string in console.
66    
67  e-smith-backup  Mail Server
68  - Fix full backup on Sunday displayed as Everyday. [SME: 5624]  -----------
69  - workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to bootstrap-console-save [SME: 4850]  - Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP
70  - workstation backup: using credentials file for cifs mount [SME: 4850]    Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before
71  - workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day [SME: 5393]    Auth (introduced in SME 7.5).
72  - workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before restore [SME: 5395]  
73  - workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in a full restore [SME: 5396]  Server manager
74  - minor fix in translation [SME: 5406]  --------------
75  - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579]  - Add option to limit port forwarding by source ip address.
76  - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]  - Enable port forwards to localhost if mode is serveronly.
77    - Text description added for each Port Forwarding.
78  e-smith-base  
79  - Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing [SME: 5736]  Other fixes and updates
80  - Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits [SME: 5734]  -----------------------
81  - Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console configuration pages [SME: 1189]  - VPN failed for some users due to incorrect kernel module.
82  - Translate $ifName in console configuration pages [SME: 1189]  - Error in postuninstall script prevented kmod packages from being
83  - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5334]    removed during upgrade.
84  - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5258]  - /etc/cron.daily/freshclam was replaced by a dummy file as freshclam
85  - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]    does not need to be run daily as it is run as a supervised process.
86  - create service link for smartd [SME: 1445]  
87  - Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172]  Changes from SME 7.4 to SME 7.5
88    ===============================
89  e-smith-formmagick  
90  - Update path for 64-bit compatibility [SME: 5755]  Backups
91    -------
92  e-smith-grub  - The backup service has been made more robust:
93  - Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf [SME: 5166]    Allow many backups in the same day.
94      Prevent launching a restore if all needed backups are not available.
95  e-smith-horde    Do not allow a restore from a partial backup.
96  - Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's [SME: 5627]  - Some valid passwords would fail due to how the backup directory was
97  - Upgrade horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.6 [SME: 5721]    mounted, the use of a credentials file for mount.cifs now avoids this
98  - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860]    limitation.
99  - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN  - The e-mail now correctly identifies incremental and full backups.
100  - access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787]  - Make Workstation Backup 'full backup allowed on' setting stick across
101      revisits of the Configure page when set to 'Sunday'.
102  e-smith-imap  - Workstation Backup emails now include a To: header.
103  - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]  
104  - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]  File Server
105    -----------
106  e-smith-imp  - A patch was added to support multiple samba roles, the change is
107  - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3.6 [SME: 5722]    transparent. However installing smeserver-adv-samba allows the user to
108  - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]    take advantage of additional server roles as detailed in
109      http://wiki.contribs.org/Advanced_Samba
110  e-smith-ingo  
111  - Update e-smith-ingo templates to reflect changes in Ingo 1.2.3 [SME: 5724]  Localisation
112    ------------
113  e-smith-lib  - As part of a major update with translations we have added seven new
114  - Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids. [SME: 4969]    languages:
115  - Update path for 64-bit compatibility [SME: 5755]    Thai, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Chinese, Norwegian (Bokmal),
116  - Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172]    Russian.
117    - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
118  e-smith-manager  
119  - display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes [SME: 5475]  Mail Server
120  - display reconfigure warning if UnsavedChanges=yes [SME: 2081]  -----------
121  - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]  - Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication capability has been
122      added for incoming smtp ehlo requests.
123  e-smith-mysql  - SMTP Authentication requires TLS before Auth to increase security.
124  - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]  - Implement correctly the subject line SPAM tagging functionality.
125  - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]  - The syntax of the smtproutes and SMTPSmartHost templates have been
126      updated to avoid MX lookups
127  e-smith-nutUPS  - Incoming mail could be incorrectly rejected by qpsmtpd plugin
128  - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]    require_resolvable_fromhost.
129    - Update to qpsmtpd 0.83
130  e-smith-openssh  - Update to ClamAV 0.96.1
131  - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]  - Increase MemLimit to 600M for clamav-0.96
132    - Remove spamassassin jobs from cron.daily that are no longer needed.
133  e-smith-qmail  - HeuristicScanPrecedence is a new option in clamav 0.94.
134  - SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5455]    See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Heuristic_Scan
135  - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5254]  - Rotate Virus scanning log files
136  - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a  - Remove the external preloaded library, qmail-workaround, which was
137  local ip [SME: 5171]    needed for qmail loopback connections if a domain MX resolves to
138      0.0.0.0. This has now been replaced by a patch to qmail itself.
139  e-smith-samba  - Use HeloHost (if present) for SMTP auth proxy
140  - Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to  
141  join Samba 3.x domains [SME: 5423]  Server manager
142  - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 4954]  --------------
143  - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]  - The reconfigure warning is displayed in subsequent browser sessions of
144  - Fix oslevel fragment for server roles [SME: 4730]    the server-manager when the server is updated from the Command Line,
145  - Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172]    or after a reboot, if a full reconfiguration has not been performed.
146    - Allow to select "check for updates" daily, weekly or monthly in the
147  e-smith-turba    Software Installer. Check for updates can also be disabled.
148  - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.3 [SME: 5723]  - Fix yum warnings about "another instance is running" when running a
149  - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]    second instance of yum from another terminal.
150  - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]  - Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel to work in IE8.
151    
152  horde  Webmail and Groupware
153  - Updated to Horde 3.3.6 [SME: 5721]  ---------------------
154    - Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
155  imp-h3  - Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
156  - Updated to Imp 4.3.6 [SME: 5722]  - Allow FQDN and non-FQDN access to webmail.
157    - The spell checker in Horde Mail has been enabled for HTML composition.
158  ingo-h3  - Obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 as it makes the sidebar menu of the
159  - Update to Ingo 1.2.3 [SME: 5724]    webmail interface disappear.
160    
161  initscripts  Web Server
162  - Reapply SME Server patches [SME: 2043]  ----------
163  - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration  - Implement a database key (SSLv2) which allows to disable certificates
164  database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]    signed with SSLv2, enabled by default to keep current behaviour.
165  - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only  - Add support for more MIME Types to Apache:
166  initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures       Openoffice 1.x, Openoffice 2.x
167  that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects       Microsoft Office 2007
168  against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]       XML
169    - SSL Certificates will now use a SHA1
170  mkinitrd  - SSL Certificates will now use a 2048 bits key size
171  - Use generated config file instead of just scanning [SME: 2192]  
172  - Use mdassemble rather than raidautorun in initrd, so that we control  Other fixes and updates
173  UUID to device mapping. [SME: 961, 1895]  -----------------------
174    - From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a
175  qmail    contrib.
176  - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]  - Do not allow re-allocation of deleted Windows user profiles.
177    - Template sshd login grace time
178  qpsmtpd  - Correct the configuration of smartd to monitor hard disk status, but
179  - Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM    default to disabled.
180  subject prefix [SME: 5567]  - Display the boot time menu by default by removing the hiddenmenu entry
181  - Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install [SME: 5557]    from the default grub.conf to be in line with the documentation.
182  - Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file [SME: 5549]  - Enable error logging for MySQL.
183  - Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings [SME: 5550]  - When user or group names with a "." in the names exist,
184  - Only run/initialize plugins once [SME: 5533]    running /sbin/e-smith/audittools/aliases will show more than the
185  - Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav    expected list.
186  - Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog  - Improve the quality of the mirrors by using a network mirror-list. The
187  - add sme specific patches    list is automatically generated hourly based on the status of the
188  - Update to 0.83    current mirrors. By using these mirror-lists it is ensured that people
189      are directed to an updated mirror. When a mirror is added or removed
190  rkhunter    the change will be available quickly and automatically. It also
191  From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a contrib.    centralizes control of the mirror lists.
192    - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed
193  smeserver-audittools    packages. This stops accidental removal of core SME Server packages.
194  - Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot [SME: 4913]  - Introduced (weak) kernel modules which are independent of kernel
195  - Undo changes made in 1.0.0-5 [SME: 4913]    version. This means there is no need to update/rebuild kmods for each
196  - Properly fix output for usernames and groups containing a dot [SME: 4913]    kernel update.
197  - Remove comment lines from output of aliases [SME: 4913]  - Fix for VPN access failed with buffer too small errors.
198  - Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms [SME: 5566]  - Require /sbin/mdassemble so mkinitrd works correctly.
199  - Revert changes made in [SME: 5416]  - Reduce drive size requirements from 5G to 1.5G
 - Sort the output of the repositories audittool alphabetically [SME: 5416]  
   
 smeserver-clamav  
 - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log [SME: 5287]  
 - Remove create option from logrotate configuration [SME: 5287]  
 - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log [SME: 5287]  
 - Minor changelog fixes in version number  
 - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5320]  
 - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]  
 - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]  
   
 smeserver-locale  
 - apply locale 2009-10-27 patch  
 - Add Thai language [SME: 5466]  
 - Add Polish language [SME: 5436]  
 - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]  
 - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]  
 - Add Chineese (China) language [SME: 5002]  
 - Add Norwegian (Bokmal) language [SME: 5002]  
 - Add Russian language [SME: 5002]  
   
 smeserver-qpsmtpd  
 - Tie the template fragment into the event system to have it expand [SME: 5567]  
 - Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix [SME: 5567]  
 - Add hooks cleanout back in in so auth works.  
 - Add compatibility with qpsmtpd 0.83 [SME: 5543]  
 - Add tls to base config [SME: 1076]  
   
 smeserver-spamassassin  
 - Fix invalid service name in sa-update [SME: 3304]  
   
 smeserver-support  
 - Add support for Polish (pl). [SME: 5433]  
 - Add support for Thai (th). [SME: 5466]  
 - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]  
 - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]  
 - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]  
 - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]  
 - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]  
 - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]  
   
 smeserver-yum  
 - only unlink file if we created it [SME: 4169]  
 - set unsaved changes in yum event [SME: 2081]  
 - move yum warming to sme yum plugin [SME: 5472]  
 - ensure file exists before unlinking [SME: 4169]  
 - remove semicolons from yum plugin  
 - Add frequency of updates toggle [SME: 5473]  
 - remove stray file  
 - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5306]  
 - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242]  
 - Require mailx [SME: 5131]  
 - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of  
 needed pacakges [SME: 3133]  
   
 turba-h3  
 - Updated to Turba 2.3.3 [SME: 5723]  
   
200    
201  $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/11/21 20:03:10 wellsi Exp $  $Id: README.txt,v 1.9 2010/05/24 21:17:17 wellsi Exp $


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