cdrom.image/sme7/README.txt

SME Server 7.5 Release Candidate 2 Release Announcement
=======================================================

May 5 2010

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 7.5RC2. 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
===========
It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, during this
time you may experience problems.

About SME Server
================

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


Summary of changes from SME 7.5 RC1
===================================

Mail Server
- Update to ClamAV 0.96
- Increase MemLimit to 600M for clamav-0.96
- Remove spamassassin jobs from cron.daily that are no longer needed.
- Use HeloHost (if present) for SMTP auth proxy

Server manager
- Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel to work in IE8.

Installer
- Require /sbin/mdassemble so mkinitrd works correctly.


Changes from SME 7.4
====================

Backups
-------
- The backup service has been made more robust:
  Allow many backups in the same day.
  Prevent launching a restore if all needed backups are not available.
  Do not allow a restore from a partial backup.
- Some valid passwords would fail due to how the backup directory was
  mounted, the use of a credentials file for mount.cifs now avoids this
  limitation.
- The e-mail now correctly identifies incremental and full backups.
- Make workstation-backup 'full backup allowed on'-setting stick across
  revisits of the Configure-page when set to: 'Sunday'

File Server
-----------
- A patch was added to support multiple samba roles, the change is
  transparent. However installing smeserver-adv-samba allows the user to
  take advantage of additional server roles as detailed in
  http://wiki.contribs.org/Advanced_Samba

Localisation
------------
- As part of a major update with translations we have added seven new
  languages:
  Thai, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Chinese, Norwegian (Bokmal),
  Russian.
- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.

Mail Server
-----------
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication capability has been
  added for incoming smtp ehlo requests.
- Implement correctly the subject line SPAM tagging functionality.
- The syntax of the smtproutes and SMTPSmartHost templates have been
  updated to avoid MX lookups
- Incoming mail could be incorrectly rejected by qpsmtpd plugin
  require_resolvable_fromhost.
- Update to qpsmtpd 0.83
- Update to ClamAV 0.96
- Increase MemLimit to 600M for clamav-0.96
- Remove spamassassin jobs from cron.daily that are no longer needed.
- HeuristicScanPrecedence is a new option in clamav 0.94.
  See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Heuristic_Scan
- Rotate Virus scanning log files
- Remove the external preloaded library, qmail-workaround, which was
  needed for qmail loopback connections if a domain MX resolves to
  0.0.0.0. This has now been replaced by a patch to qmail itself.
- Use HeloHost (if present) for SMTP auth proxy

Server manager
--------------
- The reconfigure warning is displayed in subsequent browser sessions of
  the server-manager when the server is updated from the Command Line,
  or after a reboot, if a full reconfiguration has not been performed.
- Allow to select "check for updates" daily, weekly or monthly in the
  Software Installer. Check for updates can also be disabled.
- Fix yum warnings about "another instance is running" when running a
  second instance of yum from another terminal.
- Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel to work in IE8.

Webmail and Groupware
---------------------
- Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
- Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
- Allow FQDN and non-FQDN access to webmail.
- The spell checker in Horde Mail has been enabled for HTML composition.
- Obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 as it makes the sidebar menu of the
  webmail interface disappear.

Web Server
----------
- Implement a database key (SSLv2) which allows to disable certificates
  signed with SSLv2, enabled by default to keep current behaviour.
- Add support for more MIME Types to Apache:
     Openoffice 1.x, Openoffice 2.x
     Microsoft Office 2007
     XML
- SSL Certificates will now use a SHA1
- SSL Certificates will now use a 2048 bits key size

Other fixes and updates
-----------------------
- From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a
  contrib.
- Do not allow re-allocation of deleted Windows user profiles.
- Template sshd login grace time
- Correct the configuration of smartd to monitor hard disk status, but
  default to disabled.
- Display the boot time menu by default by removing the hiddenmenu entry
  from the default grub.conf to be in line with the documentation.
- Enable error logging for MySQL.
- When user or group names with a "." in the names exist,
  running /sbin/e-smith/audittools/aliases will show more than the
  expected list.
- Improve the quality of the mirrors by using a network mirror-list. The
  list is automatically generated hourly based on the status of the
  current mirrors. By using these mirror-lists it is ensured that people
  are directed to an updated mirror. When a mirror is added or removed
  the change will be available quickly and automatically. It also
  centralizes control of the mirror lists.
- Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed
  packages. This stops accidental removal of core SME Server packages.
- Introduced (weak) kernel modules which are independent of kernel
  version. This means there is no need to update/rebuild kmods for each
  kernel update.
- Fix for VPN access failed with buffer too small errors.
- Require /sbin/mdassemble so mkinitrd works correctly.

$Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2010/04/26 20:09:15 wellsi Exp $


1	SME Server 7.5 Release Candidate 2 Release Announcement
2	=======================================================
3
4	May 5 2010
5
6	The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7	SME Server 7.5RC2. This release is based on CentOS 4.8.
8
9	This is only released for testing and not for production use.
10
11	The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
12	http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
13
14	Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
15	tracker (and only there, please);
16
17	http://bugs.contribs.org/
18
19
20	Please Note
21	===========
22	It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, during this
23	time you may experience problems.
24
25	About SME Server
26	================
27
28	SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
29	enterprises.
30
31	SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
32	is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
33	However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
34	meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
35
36
37	Thanks
38	======
39	The development team would like to thank all of those involved in this
40	release. More people are required to help with bug triage and
41	verification testing.
42
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	available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
46
47
48	Upgrades
49	========
50	- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
51	- An upgrade will preserve the existing data
52
53
54	Summary of changes from SME 7.5 RC1
55	===================================
56
57	Mail Server
58	- Update to ClamAV 0.96
59	- Increase MemLimit to 600M for clamav-0.96
60	- Remove spamassassin jobs from cron.daily that are no longer needed.
61	- Use HeloHost (if present) for SMTP auth proxy
62
63	Server manager
64	- Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel to work in IE8.
65
66	Installer
67	- Require /sbin/mdassemble so mkinitrd works correctly.
68
69
70	Changes from SME 7.4
71	====================
72
73	Backups
74	-------
75	- The backup service has been made more robust:
76	Allow many backups in the same day.
77	Prevent launching a restore if all needed backups are not available.
78	Do not allow a restore from a partial backup.
79	- Some valid passwords would fail due to how the backup directory was
80	mounted, the use of a credentials file for mount.cifs now avoids this
81	limitation.
82	- The e-mail now correctly identifies incremental and full backups.
83	- Make workstation-backup 'full backup allowed on'-setting stick across
84	revisits of the Configure-page when set to: 'Sunday'
85
86	File Server
87	-----------
88	- A patch was added to support multiple samba roles, the change is
89	transparent. However installing smeserver-adv-samba allows the user to
90	take advantage of additional server roles as detailed in
91	http://wiki.contribs.org/Advanced_Samba
92
93	Localisation
94	------------
95	- As part of a major update with translations we have added seven new
96	languages:
97	Thai, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Chinese, Norwegian (Bokmal),
98	Russian.
99	- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
100
101	Mail Server
102	-----------
103	- Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication capability has been
104	added for incoming smtp ehlo requests.
105	- Implement correctly the subject line SPAM tagging functionality.
106	- The syntax of the smtproutes and SMTPSmartHost templates have been
107	updated to avoid MX lookups
108	- Incoming mail could be incorrectly rejected by qpsmtpd plugin
109	require_resolvable_fromhost.
110	- Update to qpsmtpd 0.83
111	- Update to ClamAV 0.96
112	- Increase MemLimit to 600M for clamav-0.96
113	- Remove spamassassin jobs from cron.daily that are no longer needed.
114	- HeuristicScanPrecedence is a new option in clamav 0.94.
115	See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Heuristic_Scan
116	- Rotate Virus scanning log files
117	- Remove the external preloaded library, qmail-workaround, which was
118	needed for qmail loopback connections if a domain MX resolves to
119	0.0.0.0. This has now been replaced by a patch to qmail itself.
120	- Use HeloHost (if present) for SMTP auth proxy
121
122	Server manager
123	--------------
124	- The reconfigure warning is displayed in subsequent browser sessions of
125	the server-manager when the server is updated from the Command Line,
126	or after a reboot, if a full reconfiguration has not been performed.
127	- Allow to select "check for updates" daily, weekly or monthly in the
128	Software Installer. Check for updates can also be disabled.
129	- Fix yum warnings about "another instance is running" when running a
130	second instance of yum from another terminal.
131	- Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel to work in IE8.
132
133	Webmail and Groupware
134	---------------------
135	- Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
136	- Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
137	- Allow FQDN and non-FQDN access to webmail.
138	- The spell checker in Horde Mail has been enabled for HTML composition.
139	- Obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 as it makes the sidebar menu of the
140	webmail interface disappear.
141
142	Web Server
143	----------
144	- Implement a database key (SSLv2) which allows to disable certificates
145	signed with SSLv2, enabled by default to keep current behaviour.
146	- Add support for more MIME Types to Apache:
147	Openoffice 1.x, Openoffice 2.x
148	Microsoft Office 2007
149	XML
150	- SSL Certificates will now use a SHA1
151	- SSL Certificates will now use a 2048 bits key size
152
153	Other fixes and updates
154	-----------------------
155	- From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a
156	contrib.
157	- Do not allow re-allocation of deleted Windows user profiles.
158	- Template sshd login grace time
159	- Correct the configuration of smartd to monitor hard disk status, but
160	default to disabled.
161	- Display the boot time menu by default by removing the hiddenmenu entry
162	from the default grub.conf to be in line with the documentation.
163	- Enable error logging for MySQL.
164	- When user or group names with a "." in the names exist,
165	running /sbin/e-smith/audittools/aliases will show more than the
166	expected list.
167	- Improve the quality of the mirrors by using a network mirror-list. The
168	list is automatically generated hourly based on the status of the
169	current mirrors. By using these mirror-lists it is ensured that people
170	are directed to an updated mirror. When a mirror is added or removed
171	the change will be available quickly and automatically. It also
172	centralizes control of the mirror lists.
173	- Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed
174	packages. This stops accidental removal of core SME Server packages.
175	- Introduced (weak) kernel modules which are independent of kernel
176	version. This means there is no need to update/rebuild kmods for each
177	kernel update.
178	- Fix for VPN access failed with buffer too small errors.
179	- Require /sbin/mdassemble so mkinitrd works correctly.
180
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