cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt

SME Server 8.1Beta3 Release Notes
=================================

12 November 2013

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 which is based on CentOS 5.10

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 brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., 
a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support 
for SME Server.

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 donation to offset costs and fund further development.
a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
development.
b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
your have in the field. Please, help the project

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

Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received, 
simply email treasurer@koozali.org

Thanks
======

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 2
===================

Update to CentOS 5.10
Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.

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.
Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.

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
-----------
- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
- 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
-----------
- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
- 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.
- Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message 
  size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size

Server manager
--------------
- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
- Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
- 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
----------
- Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
- 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 2013.
- 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 5.10 and all available updates

$Id: README.txt,v 1.22 2013/10/12 05:51:47 wellsi Exp $
1	wellsi	1.23	SME Server 8.1Beta3 Release Notes
2	wellsi	1.22	=================================
3	wellsi	1.2
4	wellsi	1.23	12 November 2013
5	wellsi	1.2
6			The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7	wellsi	1.23	SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 which is based on CentOS 5.10
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	1.23	enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
19			a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
20			for SME Server.
21	wellsi	1.2
22	wellsi	1.5	SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
23			is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
24	wellsi	1.2	However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
25			meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
26
27	wellsi	1.22	As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
28			a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
29			using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
30			within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
31	wellsi	1.2	development.
32	wellsi	1.22	b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
33			the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
34			commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
35			your have in the field. Please, help the project
36	wellsi	1.2
37	wellsi	1.4	Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
38	wellsi	1.2
39	wellsi	1.23	Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
40			simply email treasurer@koozali.org
41	wellsi	1.22
42			Thanks
43			======
44	wellsi	1.15
45			The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
46	wellsi	1.22	themselves with this release.
47	wellsi	1.15
48			Notes
49			=====
50
51	wellsi	1.17	1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
52	wellsi	1.15	will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
53			means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
54			AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
55			are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
56			Athlon XP and later.
57
58	wellsi	1.17	2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
59	wellsi	1.15	http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
60
61			3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
62			during this time you may experience problems.
63	wellsi	1.16	You can download SME8.1 from
64	wellsi	1.21	http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
65	wellsi	1.15	or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
66
67	wellsi	1.23	Changes from Beta 2
68			===================
69
70			Update to CentOS 5.10
71			Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
72	wellsi	1.4
73	wellsi	1.21	Changes from Beta 1
74			===================
75
76	wellsi	1.22	nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
77			dmraid.
78	wellsi	1.21	Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
79			SME Server changes to initscripts included.
80	wellsi	1.22	Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
81			Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
82			Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
83			Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
84	wellsi	1.21
85	wellsi	1.2	Changes in this release
86			=======================
87
88	wellsi	1.16	Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
89	wellsi	1.15	not included.
90	wellsi	1.5
91	wellsi	1.17
92	wellsi	1.5	Backups
93			-------
94	wellsi	1.22	- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
95			full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
96			- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
97			delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
98			OS.
99	wellsi	1.17	- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
100			For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
101			The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
102	wellsi	1.22	- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
103			device.
104			- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
105			performed.
106	wellsi	1.18	- Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
107	wellsi	1.22	- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
108	wellsi	1.18	- Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces.
109			- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
110	wellsi	1.22	- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
111			backup.
112	wellsi	1.5
113			File Server
114			-----------
115	wellsi	1.22	- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
116			- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
117			file.
118	wellsi	1.17	/server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
119	wellsi	1.22	- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
120			The current samba default is 'no'.
121	wellsi	1.17	see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
122	wellsi	1.22	For example to enable samba Wide Links
123	wellsi	1.17	# config setprop smb WideLinks yes
124	wellsi	1.22	- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
125			Windows slow logons.
126	wellsi	1.17	/server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
127	wellsi	1.22	- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
128			smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
129	wellsi	1.17	For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
130	wellsi	1.22	- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
131			email to be sent to the admin every night.
132	wellsi	1.17	- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
133			Auditing is enabled via
134			# db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
135			# signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
136			- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
137			- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
138	wellsi	1.22	- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
139			lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
140			large numbers of local networks were configured.
141			- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
142	wellsi	1.17
143	wellsi	1.10
144	wellsi	1.17	LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
145	wellsi	1.10	----
146	wellsi	1.17	- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
147			- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
148	wellsi	1.22	- The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
149			slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
150			corrected.
151	wellsi	1.17	- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
152	wellsi	1.22	- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
153			users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
154	wellsi	1.17
155	wellsi	1.5
156			Localisation
157			------------
158	wellsi	1.18	- Latest translations included.
159	wellsi	1.5
160	wellsi	1.17
161	wellsi	1.5	Mail Server
162			-----------
163	wellsi	1.22	- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
164	wellsi	1.17	- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
165			- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
166			- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
167	wellsi	1.22	- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a
168			blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
169	wellsi	1.17	For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
170			# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
171			# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
172			More than one method can be removed:
173			# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
174			# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
175	wellsi	1.22	- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
176			sometimes very slow.
177			- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
178			database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
179	wellsi	1.17	For example to increase the memory limit
180			# config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
181			# expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
182			# config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
183			# expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
184	wellsi	1.22	- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
185			/var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
186	wellsi	1.17	For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
187			# config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
188			- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
189			- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
190	wellsi	1.22	- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
191			qpsmtpd.
192			- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
193			spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
194	wellsi	1.17	For example to also scan larger files
195			# config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
196	wellsi	1.22	- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
197			SSLv2.
198	wellsi	1.17	- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
199	wellsi	1.22	- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
200			and SSMTP transactions
201	wellsi	1.17	- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
202	wellsi	1.18	- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
203	wellsi	1.23	- Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
204			size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
205	wellsi	1.5
206			Server manager
207			--------------
208	wellsi	1.22	- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
209	wellsi	1.23	- Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
210	wellsi	1.22	- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
211			noise.
212			- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
213			%escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
214			now case-insensitive for %escapes.
215	wellsi	1.17	- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
216	wellsi	1.22	- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
217			Web panel in server-manager
218	wellsi	1.17
219	wellsi	1.5
220	wellsi	1.23
221	wellsi	1.5	Webmail and Groupware
222			---------------------
223	wellsi	1.16
224	wellsi	1.22	- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
225			to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
226	wellsi	1.17	- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
227
228	wellsi	1.5
229			Web Server
230			----------
231	wellsi	1.22	- Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
232			- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
233			- PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
234			will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
235			is ON.
236	wellsi	1.17	- Change wording of Software Update button.
237
238	wellsi	1.5
239			Other fixes and updates
240			-----------------------
241	wellsi	1.17	- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
242	wellsi	1.22	- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
243			variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
244			- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
245			to take only seconds
246	wellsi	1.17	- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
247	wellsi	1.22	- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
248			admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
249			ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
250			- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
251			3rd of January 2013.
252			- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
253			servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
254			prevents this.
255			- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
256			running at any particular time.
257	wellsi	1.17	- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
258	wellsi	1.22	- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
259	wellsi	1.18	- Increase memory limit for ntpd .
260	wellsi	1.2
261			General features
262			================
263
264	wellsi	1.23	- Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
265	wellsi	1.7
266	wellsi	1.23	$Id: README.txt,v 1.22 2013/10/12 05:51:47 wellsi Exp $