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1  SME Server 7.5 Release Candidate 1 Release Announcement  SME Server 7.6 Release Announcement
2  ==========================================  ===================================
3    
4  March 7 2010  May 21 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 7.5RC1. This release is based on CentOS 4.8.  SME Server 7.6. This release is based on CentOS 4.9 which is the final
8    version of CentOS 4 and now End of Life.
9    
10    This is the final ISO release for SME 7, only critical updates will be
11  This is only released for testing and not for production use.  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
29  ================  ================
# Line 29  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. More people are required to help with  release. More people are required to help with bug triage and
44  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.  
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 56  Upgrades Line 54  Upgrades
54  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
55  =======================  =======================
56    
57  This will be updated for 7.5 Final, here are the changelogs  Backups
58    -------
59    - Allow for daylight saving changes when running backups.
60  e-smith-apache  - Handle removable backup locations when using modern browsers.
61  - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]  - Backup to Workstation to handle full remote disc gracefully.
62  - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]  - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
63  - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]  - The backup to workstation did not correctly handle network drives
64  - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]    starting with a leading slash. The leading slash is now allowed
65  - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]    and silently removed.
66  - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  
67    File Server
68  e-smith-backup  -----------
69  - Fix full backup on Sunday displayed as Everyday. [SME: 5624]  - Create .V2 profiles for Windows 7 clients.
70  - workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to bootstrap-console-save [SME: 4850]  - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
71  - workstation backup: using credentials file for cifs mount [SME: 4850]  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
72  - workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day [SME: 5393]  - Fix USB fstab issue preventing automatic mount (HAL).
73  - workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before restore [SME: 5395]  
74  - workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in a full restore [SME: 5396]  Installer
75  - minor fix in translation [SME: 5406]  ---------
76  - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579]  - Allow installation when dmraid present.
77  - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]  
78    Localisation
79  e-smith-base  ------------
80  - Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing [SME: 5736]  - Add Chinese (Taiwan) language.
81  - Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits [SME: 5734]  - Add Hebrew language.
82  - Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console configuration pages [SME: 1189]  - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
83  - Translate $ifName in console configuration pages [SME: 1189]  
84  - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5334]  Mail Server
85  - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5258]  -----------
86  - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]  - TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
87  - create service link for smartd [SME: 1445]  - Fix Pseudonym "local network only" to merge multiple properties.
88  - Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172]  - Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections.
89    
90  e-smith-formmagick  Server manager
91  - Update path for 64-bit compatibility [SME: 5755]  --------------
92    - There should be strict checking of the IP address and Subnet Mask
93  e-smith-grub    entered into remote access panel before allowing to save successfully.
94  - Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf [SME: 5166]  - Fix handling of double speechmarks in the comment field of the
95      hostname panel.
96  e-smith-horde  
97  - Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's [SME: 5627]  Webmail and Groupware
98  - Upgrade horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.6 [SME: 5721]  ---------------------
99  - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860]  - Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions.
100  - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN  - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
101  - access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787]    identities.
102    
103  e-smith-imap  Web Server
104  - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]  ----------
105  - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]  - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
106    - Default expose_php to Off for security reasons. A database property
107  e-smith-imp    is added to allow the value to be easily controlled.
108  - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3.6 [SME: 5722]    To enable expose_php   /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP On
109  - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]    To disable expose_php  /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP Off
110    
111  e-smith-ingo  Other fixes and updates
112  - Update e-smith-ingo templates to reflect changes in Ingo 1.2.3 [SME: 5724]  -----------------------
113    - Fix group-modify event to honour ibays group assignment.
114  e-smith-lib  - Don't exit 99 from e-smith-service script when called with
115  - Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids. [SME: 4969]    'condrestart' and service is disabled.
116  - Update path for 64-bit compatibility [SME: 5755]  - Correct the ldif file expansion for groups to include the uid element
117  - Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172]    and fix the objectClass.
118    - Apply patch to allow rsync v3.0+ to work (needs -e parameter).
119  e-smith-manager  - Add random wait timer for check4updates script to distribute load on
120  - display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes [SME: 5475]    ibiblio.
121  - display reconfigure warning if UnsavedChanges=yes [SME: 2081]  - Update Clamav to latest version.  
122  - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]  - Update yum to handle CentOS 4 moving to the vault.
   
 e-smith-mysql  
 - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]  
 - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]  
   
 e-smith-nutUPS  
 - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]  
   
 e-smith-openssh  
 - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]  
   
 e-smith-qmail  
 - SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5455]  
 - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5254]  
 - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a  
 local ip [SME: 5171]  
   
 e-smith-samba  
 - Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to  
 join Samba 3.x domains [SME: 5423]  
 - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 4954]  
 - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]  
 - Fix oslevel fragment for server roles [SME: 4730]  
 - Add patch to support multiple samba roles [SME: 4172]  
   
 e-smith-turba  
 - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.3 [SME: 5723]  
 - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]  
 - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]  
   
 horde  
 - Updated to Horde 3.3.6 [SME: 5721]  
   
 imp-h3  
 - Updated to Imp 4.3.6 [SME: 5722]  
   
 ingo-h3  
 - Update to Ingo 1.2.3 [SME: 5724]  
   
 initscripts  
 - Reapply SME Server patches [SME: 2043]  
 - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration  
 database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]  
 - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only  
 initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures  
 that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects  
 against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]  
   
 mkinitrd  
 - Use generated config file instead of just scanning [SME: 2192]  
 - Use mdassemble rather than raidautorun in initrd, so that we control  
 UUID to device mapping. [SME: 961, 1895]  
   
 qmail  
 - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]  
   
 qpsmtpd  
 - Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM  
 subject prefix [SME: 5567]  
 - Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install [SME: 5557]  
 - Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file [SME: 5549]  
 - Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings [SME: 5550]  
 - Only run/initialize plugins once [SME: 5533]  
 - Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav  
 - Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog  
 - add sme specific patches  
 - Update to 0.83  
   
 rkhunter  
 From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a contrib.  
   
 smeserver-audittools  
 - Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot [SME: 4913]  
 - Undo changes made in 1.0.0-5 [SME: 4913]  
 - Properly fix output for usernames and groups containing a dot [SME: 4913]  
 - Remove comment lines from output of aliases [SME: 4913]  
 - Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms [SME: 5566]  
 - Revert changes made in [SME: 5416]  
 - 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]  
   
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124  $Id: README.txt,v 1.3 2010/02/28 10:02:23 wellsi Exp $  $Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2012/03/23 06:09:48 wellsi Exp $


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