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SME Server 8.1 Beta 2

1 wellsi 1.21 SME Server 8.1Beta2 Release Notes
2 wellsi 1.22 =================================
3 wellsi 1.2
4 wellsi 1.22 14 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 wellsi 1.22 As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
26     a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
27     using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
28     within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
29 wellsi 1.2 development.
30 wellsi 1.22 b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
31     the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
32     commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
33     your have in the field. Please, help the project
34 wellsi 1.2
35 wellsi 1.4 Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
36 wellsi 1.2
37 wellsi 1.22
38     Thanks
39     ======
40 wellsi 1.15
41     The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
42 wellsi 1.22 themselves with this release.
43 wellsi 1.15
44     Notes
45     =====
46    
47 wellsi 1.17 1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
48 wellsi 1.15 will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
49     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
50     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
51     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
52     Athlon XP and later.
53    
54 wellsi 1.17 2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
55 wellsi 1.15 http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
56    
57     3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
58     during this time you may experience problems.
59 wellsi 1.16 You can download SME8.1 from
60 wellsi 1.21 http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
61 wellsi 1.15 or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
62    
63 wellsi 1.4
64 wellsi 1.21 Changes from Beta 1
65     ===================
66    
67 wellsi 1.22 nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
68     dmraid.
69 wellsi 1.21 Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
70     SME Server changes to initscripts included.
71 wellsi 1.22 Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
72     Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
73     Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
74     Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
75 wellsi 1.21
76 wellsi 1.2 Changes in this release
77     =======================
78    
79 wellsi 1.16 Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
80 wellsi 1.15 not included.
81 wellsi 1.5
82 wellsi 1.17
83 wellsi 1.5 Backups
84     -------
85 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
86     full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
87     - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
88     delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
89     OS.
90 wellsi 1.17 - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
91     For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
92     The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
93 wellsi 1.22 - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
94     device.
95     - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
96     performed.
97 wellsi 1.18 - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
98 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
99 wellsi 1.18 - Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces.
100     - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
101 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
102     backup.
103 wellsi 1.5
104     File Server
105     -----------
106 wellsi 1.22 - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
107     - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
108     file.
109 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
110 wellsi 1.22 - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
111     The current samba default is 'no'.
112 wellsi 1.17 see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
113 wellsi 1.22 For example to enable samba Wide Links
114 wellsi 1.17 # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
115 wellsi 1.22 - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
116     Windows slow logons.
117 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
118 wellsi 1.22 - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
119     smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
120 wellsi 1.17 For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
121 wellsi 1.22 - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
122     email to be sent to the admin every night.
123 wellsi 1.17 - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
124     Auditing is enabled via
125     # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
126     # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
127     - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
128     - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
129 wellsi 1.22 - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
130     lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
131     large numbers of local networks were configured.
132     - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
133 wellsi 1.17
134 wellsi 1.10
135 wellsi 1.17 LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
136 wellsi 1.10 ----
137 wellsi 1.17 - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
138     - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
139 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
140     slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
141     corrected.
142 wellsi 1.17 - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
143 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
144     users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
145 wellsi 1.17
146 wellsi 1.5
147     Localisation
148     ------------
149 wellsi 1.18 - Latest translations included.
150 wellsi 1.5
151 wellsi 1.17
152 wellsi 1.5 Mail Server
153     -----------
154 wellsi 1.22 - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
155 wellsi 1.17 - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
156     - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
157     - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
158 wellsi 1.22 - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a
159     blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
160 wellsi 1.17 For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
161     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
162     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
163     More than one method can be removed:
164     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
165     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
166 wellsi 1.22 - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
167     sometimes very slow.
168     - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
169     database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
170 wellsi 1.17 For example to increase the memory limit
171     # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
172     # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
173     # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
174     # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
175 wellsi 1.22 - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
176     /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
177 wellsi 1.17 For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
178     # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
179     - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
180     - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
181 wellsi 1.22 - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
182     qpsmtpd.
183     - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
184     spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
185 wellsi 1.17 For example to also scan larger files
186     # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
187 wellsi 1.22 - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
188     SSLv2.
189 wellsi 1.17 - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
190 wellsi 1.22 - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
191     and SSMTP transactions
192 wellsi 1.17 - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
193 wellsi 1.18 - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
194 wellsi 1.17
195 wellsi 1.5
196     Server manager
197     --------------
198 wellsi 1.22 - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
199     - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
200     noise.
201     - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
202     %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
203     now case-insensitive for %escapes.
204 wellsi 1.17 - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
205 wellsi 1.22 - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
206     Web panel in server-manager
207 wellsi 1.17
208 wellsi 1.5
209     Webmail and Groupware
210     ---------------------
211 wellsi 1.16
212 wellsi 1.22 - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
213     to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
214 wellsi 1.17 - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
215    
216 wellsi 1.5
217     Web Server
218     ----------
219 wellsi 1.22 - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
220     - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
221     - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
222     will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
223     is ON.
224 wellsi 1.17 - Change wording of Software Update button.
225    
226 wellsi 1.5
227     Other fixes and updates
228     -----------------------
229 wellsi 1.17 - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
230 wellsi 1.22 - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
231     variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
232     - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
233     to take only seconds
234 wellsi 1.17 - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
235 wellsi 1.22 - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
236     admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
237     ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
238     - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
239     3rd of January 2013.
240     - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
241     servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
242     prevents this.
243     - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
244     running at any particular time.
245 wellsi 1.17 - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
246 wellsi 1.22 - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
247 wellsi 1.18 - Increase memory limit for ntpd .
248 wellsi 1.2
249     General features
250     ================
251    
252 wellsi 1.16 - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
253 wellsi 1.10
254 wellsi 1.22 $Id: README.txt,v 1.21 2013/10/06 15:40:54 wellsi Exp $
255    
256    
257 wellsi 1.15
258 wellsi 1.5
259 wellsi 1.7

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