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1  SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement  SME Server 7.5 Release Candidate 2 Release Announcement
2  ===================================  =======================================================
3    
4  November 21 2008  May 1 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 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes  SME Server 7.5RC2. This release is based on CentOS 4.8.
 in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8  
 along with translation into 6 additional languages.  
8    
9    This is only released for testing and not for production use.
 All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  
10    
11  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see  The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
12  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
13    
14  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
15  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
16    
17      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
18    
19    
20  Please Note  Please Note
21  ===========  ===========
22  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
23  during this time you may experience problems.  time you may experience problems.
   
24    
25  About SME Server  About SME Server
26  ================  ================
# Line 32  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    
37  Thanks  Thanks
38  ======  ======
39  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
40  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the  release. More people are required to help with bug triage and
41  current level of support. More people are required to help with  verification testing.
42  bug triage and verification testing.  
43    This release contains many new features, all released updates for SME
44    Server 7.4 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades will be
45  This release contains many new features, all released updates for  available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
 SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades  
 will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.  
46    
47    
48  Upgrades  Upgrades
# 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  - The backup service has been made more robust:
60    of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods:    Allow many backups in the same day.
61    cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many    Prevent launching a restore if all needed backups are not available.
62    rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup    Do not allow a restore from a partial backup.
63    to DVD size.  - Some valid passwords would fail due to how the backup directory was
64  - Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality    mounted, the use of a credentials file for mount.cifs now avoids this
65  - The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not    limitation.
66    cause a backup to fail.  - The e-mail now correctly identifies incremental and full backups.
67  - A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device.  - Make workstation-backup 'full backup allowed on'-setting stick across
68    It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup    revisits of the Configure-page when set to: 'Sunday'
69    device without manual intervention.  
70  - Set dar compression to default to gzip  File Server
71  - dar backup to be less verbose in panel  -----------
72  - Correct mounting for usb disks  - A patch was added to support multiple samba roles, the change is
73  - no compression for ogg media files    transparent. However installing smeserver-adv-samba allows the user to
74  - Make dar use defined list of directories to backup    take advantage of additional server roles as detailed in
75  - Remove obsolete smbfs backup method    http://wiki.contribs.org/Advanced_Samba
     
76    
77  Localisation  Localisation
78  ------------  ------------
79  As part of a major update with translations we have added six new  - As part of a major update with translations we have added seven new
80  languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the    languages:
81  future.    Thai, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Chinese, Norwegian (Bokmal),
82      Russian.
83  We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish,  - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
84  Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,  
85  Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.  Mail Server
86    -----------
87  We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by  - Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication capability has been
88  using a tool called pootle.  This is a web based translation tool that    added for incoming smtp ehlo requests.
89  will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more  - Implement correctly the subject line SPAM tagging functionality.
90  easily maintained.  - The syntax of the smtproutes and SMTPSmartHost templates have been
91      updated to avoid MX lookups
92  We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to  - Incoming mail could be incorrectly rejected by qpsmtpd plugin
93  work with pootle.  Another big change as part of this upgrade is the    require_resolvable_fromhost.
94  switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset,  - Update to qpsmtpd 0.83
95  this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin  - Update to ClamAV 0.96
96  characters (like Greek).  - Increase MemLimit to 600M for clamav-0.96
97    - Remove spamassassin jobs from cron.daily that are no longer needed.
98  Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.  - HeuristicScanPrecedence is a new option in clamav 0.94.
99      See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Heuristic_Scan
100  Software Installer  - Rotate Virus scanning log files
101  ------------------  - Remove the external preloaded library, qmail-workaround, which was
102  - smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO    needed for qmail loopback connections if a domain MX resolves to
103  - The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow    0.0.0.0. This has now been replaced by a patch to qmail itself.
   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.  
104    
105  Server manager  Server manager
106  --------------  --------------
107  - The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log  - The reconfigure warning is displayed in subsequent browser sessions of
108    files' is now displayed as the first line.    the server-manager when the server is updated from the Command Line,
109  - Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the    or after a reboot, if a full reconfiguration has not been performed.
110    check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator.  - Allow to select "check for updates" daily, weekly or monthly in the
111  - Server-manager > printers > add printer -  now advises users to avoid    Software Installer. Check for updates can also be disabled.
112    certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect.  - Fix yum warnings about "another instance is running" when running a
113  - Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update.    second instance of yum from another terminal.
114  - Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra  
115    spaces and newlines in panel headers.  Webmail and Groupware
116  - The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire'  ---------------------
117    as this could be misleading.  - Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
118  - Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account.  - Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
119  - After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or  - Allow FQDN and non-FQDN access to webmail.
120    user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of  - The spell checker in Horde Mail has been enabled for HTML composition.
121    death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used.  - Obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 as it makes the sidebar menu of the
122  - Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed.    webmail interface disappear.
123  - The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a  
124    problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit.  Web Server
125    ----------
126    - Implement a database key (SSLv2) which allows to disable certificates
127      signed with SSLv2, enabled by default to keep current behaviour.
128    - Add support for more MIME Types to Apache:
129         Openoffice 1.x, Openoffice 2.x
130         Microsoft Office 2007
131         XML
132    - SSL Certificates will now use a SHA1
133    - SSL Certificates will now use a 2048 bits key size
134    
135  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
136  -----------------------  -----------------------
137  - Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems  - From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a
138  - The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength    contrib.
139  - The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility  - Do not allow re-allocation of deleted Windows user profiles.
140  - radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods  - Template sshd login grace time
141  - Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters  - Correct the configuration of smartd to monitor hard disk status, but
142  - Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server    default to disabled.
143  - Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is  - Display the boot time menu by default by removing the hiddenmenu entry
144    browsed.    from the default grub.conf to be in line with the documentation.
145  - Made mtu/mru settings configurable.  - Enable error logging for MySQL.
146  - Increased the templating in php.ini  - When user or group names with a "." in the names exist,
147  - Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate    running /sbin/e-smith/audittools/aliases will show more than the
148    generation    expected list.
149  - Added support for cciss RAID controller  - Improve the quality of the mirrors by using a network mirror-list. The
150  - Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with    list is automatically generated hourly based on the status of the
151    root.    current mirrors. By using these mirror-lists it is ensured that people
152  - nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox    are directed to an updated mirror. When a mirror is added or removed
153    about lost communication.    the change will be available quickly and automatically. It also
154  - e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed.    centralizes control of the mirror lists.
155  - ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their  - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed
156    UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled.    packages. This stops accidental removal of core SME Server packages.
157  - Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due  - Introduced (weak) kernel modules which are independent of kernel
158    to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives..    version. This means there is no need to update/rebuild kmods for each
159  - The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events.    kernel update.
160  - If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now  - Fix for VPN access failed with buffer too small errors.
161    only the version from e-smith-release is sent.  - Require /sbin/mdassemble so mkinitrd works correctly.
162  - The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to  
163    http://smolt.contribs.org/  $Id: README.txt,v 1.6 2010/04/26 20:05:51 wellsi Exp $
164  - Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html  
165  - Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' -  
166    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.  
167    
168    
 General features  
 ================  
 - Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates  
169    
170    
 There are a few differences from previous releases <=7.2  
 ========================================================  
171    
 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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