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Release Notes update for 8.1 Beta 3

1 wellsi 1.23 SME Server 8.1Beta3 Release Notes
2 wellsi 1.22 =================================
3 wellsi 1.2
4 wellsi 1.24 15 January 2014
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 1.24 Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
73     Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
74     from CGI.pm
75     Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
76     when using dar 2.4
77 wellsi 1.4
78 wellsi 1.21 Changes from Beta 1
79     ===================
80    
81 wellsi 1.22 nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
82     dmraid.
83 wellsi 1.21 Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
84     SME Server changes to initscripts included.
85 wellsi 1.22 Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
86     Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
87     Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
88     Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
89 wellsi 1.21
90 wellsi 1.2 Changes in this release
91     =======================
92    
93 wellsi 1.16 Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
94 wellsi 1.15 not included.
95 wellsi 1.5
96 wellsi 1.17
97 wellsi 1.5 Backups
98     -------
99 wellsi 1.24 - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
100 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
101     full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
102     - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
103     delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
104     OS.
105 wellsi 1.17 - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
106     For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
107     The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
108 wellsi 1.22 - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
109     device.
110     - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
111     performed.
112 wellsi 1.18 - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
113 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
114 wellsi 1.18 - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
115 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
116 wellsi 1.24 backup.
117     - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
118     to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
119     - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
120     when it goes out of scope.
121     - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
122     - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
123     of results from CGI.pm
124     - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
125     when using dar 2.4
126    
127 wellsi 1.5
128     File Server
129     -----------
130 wellsi 1.22 - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
131     - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
132     file.
133 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
134 wellsi 1.22 - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
135     The current samba default is 'no'.
136 wellsi 1.17 see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
137 wellsi 1.22 For example to enable samba Wide Links
138 wellsi 1.17 # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
139 wellsi 1.22 - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
140     Windows slow logons.
141 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
142 wellsi 1.22 - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
143     smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
144 wellsi 1.17 For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
145 wellsi 1.22 - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
146     email to be sent to the admin every night.
147 wellsi 1.17 - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
148     Auditing is enabled via
149     # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
150     # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
151     - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
152     - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
153 wellsi 1.22 - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
154     lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
155     large numbers of local networks were configured.
156     - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
157 wellsi 1.17
158 wellsi 1.10
159 wellsi 1.17 LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
160 wellsi 1.10 ----
161 wellsi 1.17 - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
162     - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
163 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
164     slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
165     corrected.
166 wellsi 1.17 - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
167 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
168     users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
169 wellsi 1.17
170 wellsi 1.5
171     Localisation
172     ------------
173 wellsi 1.18 - Latest translations included.
174 wellsi 1.5
175 wellsi 1.17
176 wellsi 1.5 Mail Server
177     -----------
178 wellsi 1.22 - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
179 wellsi 1.17 - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
180     - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
181     - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
182 wellsi 1.22 - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a
183     blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
184 wellsi 1.17 For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
185     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
186     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
187     More than one method can be removed:
188     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
189     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
190 wellsi 1.22 - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
191     sometimes very slow.
192     - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
193     database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
194 wellsi 1.17 For example to increase the memory limit
195     # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
196     # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
197     # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
198     # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
199 wellsi 1.22 - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
200     /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
201 wellsi 1.17 For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
202     # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
203     - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
204     - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
205 wellsi 1.22 - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
206     qpsmtpd.
207     - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
208     spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
209 wellsi 1.17 For example to also scan larger files
210     # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
211 wellsi 1.22 - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
212     SSLv2.
213 wellsi 1.17 - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
214 wellsi 1.22 - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
215     and SSMTP transactions
216 wellsi 1.17 - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
217 wellsi 1.18 - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
218 wellsi 1.23 - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
219     size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
220 wellsi 1.24 - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
221     - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
222    
223 wellsi 1.5
224     Server manager
225     --------------
226 wellsi 1.22 - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
227 wellsi 1.23 - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
228 wellsi 1.22 - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
229     noise.
230     - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
231     %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
232     now case-insensitive for %escapes.
233 wellsi 1.17 - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
234 wellsi 1.22 - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
235     Web panel in server-manager
236 wellsi 1.17
237 wellsi 1.5
238     Webmail and Groupware
239     ---------------------
240 wellsi 1.16
241 wellsi 1.22 - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
242     to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
243 wellsi 1.17 - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
244    
245 wellsi 1.5
246     Web Server
247     ----------
248 wellsi 1.22 - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
249     - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
250     - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
251     will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
252     is ON.
253 wellsi 1.17 - Change wording of Software Update button.
254    
255 wellsi 1.5
256     Other fixes and updates
257     -----------------------
258 wellsi 1.17 - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
259 wellsi 1.22 - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
260     variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
261     - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
262     to take only seconds
263 wellsi 1.17 - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
264 wellsi 1.22 - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
265     admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
266     ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
267     - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
268     3rd of January 2013.
269     - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
270     servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
271     prevents this.
272     - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
273     running at any particular time.
274 wellsi 1.17 - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
275 wellsi 1.22 - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
276 wellsi 1.24 - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
277     - Add an audit for groups.
278 wellsi 1.2
279     General features
280     ================
281    
282 wellsi 1.23 - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
283 wellsi 1.7
284 wellsi 1.24 $Id: README.txt,v 1.23 2013/11/11 04:22:55 wellsi Exp $

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