cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt

SME Server 8.1Beta2 Release Notes
============================

10 October 2013

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 8.1 Beta 2 which is based on CentOS 5.9

Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
tracker (and only there, please);

    http://bugs.contribs.org/

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.

As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
development.

Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.

Thanks and a plea for help
==========================

The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
themselves with this release. 

Notes
=====

1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
   will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
   means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
   AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
   are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
   Athlon XP and later.

2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
   http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8

3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
   during this time you may experience problems.
   You can download SME8.1 from
   http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
   or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8


Changes from Beta 1
===================

nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with dmraid.
Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
SME Server changes to initscripts included.


Changes in this release
=======================

Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
not included.


Backups
-------
- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft OS.
- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
  For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
  The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device.
- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed.
- Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors. 
- Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces.
- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.

File Server
-----------
- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. 
  /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'.  
  see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
  For example to enable samba Wide Links 
  # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons.
  /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
  For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an email to be sent to the admin every night.
- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
  Auditing is enabled via
  # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
  # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when large numbers of local networks were configured.
- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN 


LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
----
- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
- The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was corrected.
- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.


Localisation
------------
- Latest translations included.


Mail Server
-----------
- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
  For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
  # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
  # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
  More than one method can be removed:
  # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
  # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow.
- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
  For example to increase the memory limit
  # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
  # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
  # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
  # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
  For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
  # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd.
- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
  For example to also scan larger files
  # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2.
- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP and SSMTP transactions
- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.


Server manager
--------------
- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise.
- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is now case-insensitive for %escapes.
- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager


Webmail and Groupware
---------------------

- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.


Web Server
----------
- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder. 
- PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default is ON.
- Change wording of Software Update button.


Other fixes and updates
-----------------------
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds
- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.
- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this.
- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time.
- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org 
- Increase memory limit for ntpd .

General features
================

- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates

$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2013/09/27 14:47:02 wellsi Exp $


1	wellsi	1.21	SME Server 8.1Beta2 Release Notes
2	wellsi	1.15	============================
3	wellsi	1.2
4	wellsi	1.21	10 October 2013
5	wellsi	1.2
6			The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7	wellsi	1.21	SME Server 8.1 Beta 2 which is based on CentOS 5.9
8	wellsi	1.2
9	wellsi	1.3	Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
10			tracker (and only there, please);
11	wellsi	1.2
12			http://bugs.contribs.org/
13
14			About SME Server
15			================
16
17			SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
18	wellsi	1.4	enterprises.
19	wellsi	1.2
20	wellsi	1.5	SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
21			is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
22	wellsi	1.2	However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
23			meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
24
25			As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
26			development.
27
28	wellsi	1.4	Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
29	wellsi	1.2
30	wellsi	1.17	Thanks and a plea for help
31			==========================
32	wellsi	1.15
33			The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
34	wellsi	1.17	themselves with this release.
35	wellsi	1.15
36			Notes
37			=====
38
39	wellsi	1.17	1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
40	wellsi	1.15	will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
41			means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
42			AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
43			are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
44			Athlon XP and later.
45
46	wellsi	1.17	2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
47	wellsi	1.15	http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
48
49			3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
50			during this time you may experience problems.
51	wellsi	1.16	You can download SME8.1 from
52	wellsi	1.21	http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
53	wellsi	1.15	or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
54
55	wellsi	1.4
56	wellsi	1.21	Changes from Beta 1
57			===================
58
59			nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with dmraid.
60			Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
61			SME Server changes to initscripts included.
62
63
64	wellsi	1.2	Changes in this release
65			=======================
66
67	wellsi	1.16	Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
68	wellsi	1.15	not included.
69	wellsi	1.5
70	wellsi	1.17
71	wellsi	1.5	Backups
72			-------
73	wellsi	1.17	- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
74	wellsi	1.21	- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft OS.
75	wellsi	1.17	- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
76			For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
77			The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
78			- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device.
79			- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed.
80	wellsi	1.18	- Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
81			- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
82			- Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces.
83			- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
84			- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
85	wellsi	1.5
86			File Server
87			-----------
88	wellsi	1.17	- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file.
89			/server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
90			- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'.
91			see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
92			For example to enable samba Wide Links
93			# config setprop smb WideLinks yes
94			- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons.
95			/server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
96			- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
97			For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
98			- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an email to be sent to the admin every night.
99			- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
100			Auditing is enabled via
101			# db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
102			# signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
103			- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
104			- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
105			- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when large numbers of local networks were configured.
106	wellsi	1.18	- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
107	wellsi	1.17
108	wellsi	1.10
109	wellsi	1.17	LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
110	wellsi	1.10	----
111	wellsi	1.17	- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
112			- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
113			- The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was corrected.
114			- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
115			- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
116
117	wellsi	1.5
118			Localisation
119			------------
120	wellsi	1.18	- Latest translations included.
121	wellsi	1.5
122	wellsi	1.17
123	wellsi	1.5	Mail Server
124			-----------
125	wellsi	1.17	- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
126			- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
127			- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
128			- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
129			For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
130			# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
131			# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
132			More than one method can be removed:
133			# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
134			# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
135			- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow.
136			- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
137			For example to increase the memory limit
138			# config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
139			# expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
140			# config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
141			# expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
142			- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
143			For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
144			# config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
145			- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
146			- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
147			- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd.
148			- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
149			For example to also scan larger files
150			# config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
151			- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2.
152			- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
153			- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP and SSMTP transactions
154			- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
155	wellsi	1.18	- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
156	wellsi	1.17
157	wellsi	1.5
158			Server manager
159			--------------
160	wellsi	1.17	- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise.
161			- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is now case-insensitive for %escapes.
162			- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
163			- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager
164
165	wellsi	1.5
166			Webmail and Groupware
167			---------------------
168	wellsi	1.16
169	wellsi	1.17	- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
170			- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
171
172	wellsi	1.5
173			Web Server
174			----------
175	wellsi	1.17	- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
176			- PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default is ON.
177			- Change wording of Software Update button.
178
179	wellsi	1.5
180			Other fixes and updates
181			-----------------------
182	wellsi	1.17	- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
183			- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
184			- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds
185			- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
186			- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
187			- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.
188			- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this.
189			- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time.
190			- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
191			- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
192	wellsi	1.18	- Increase memory limit for ntpd .
193	wellsi	1.2
194			General features
195			================
196
197	wellsi	1.16	- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
198	wellsi	1.10
199	wellsi	1.21	$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2013/09/27 14:47:02 wellsi Exp $
200	wellsi	1.15
201	wellsi	1.5
202	wellsi	1.7