SME Server 7.5 Beta 1 Release Announcement
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November 21 2009

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 7.5beta1. This release is based on CentOS 4.8.


This is only released for testing and not for production use.

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
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It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
during this time you may experience problems.

About SME Server
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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
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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.


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.


Upgrades
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- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
- An upgrade will preserve the existing data


Changes in this release
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This will be updated for 7.5 RC

Please see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4785
for changes.

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