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Release Notes update for Beta 4

1 wellsi 1.25 SME Server 8.1Beta4 Release Notes
2 wellsi 1.22 =================================
3 wellsi 1.2
4 wellsi 1.27 17 February 2014!
5 wellsi 1.2
6     The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7 wellsi 1.25 SME Server 8.1 Beta 4 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 1.25 2. Some notes on SME Server 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 1.25 You can download SME Server 8.1 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 1.25 Changes from Beta 3
68     ===================
69    
70     Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
71     new installations.
72     Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
73     Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
74     one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
75     Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
76     Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
77    
78 wellsi 1.23 Changes from Beta 2
79     ===================
80    
81     Update to CentOS 5.10
82     Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
83 wellsi 1.24 Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
84     Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
85     from CGI.pm
86     Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
87     when using dar 2.4
88 wellsi 1.4
89 wellsi 1.21 Changes from Beta 1
90     ===================
91    
92 wellsi 1.22 nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
93     dmraid.
94 wellsi 1.21 Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
95     SME Server changes to initscripts included.
96 wellsi 1.22 Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
97     Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
98     Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
99     Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
100 wellsi 1.21
101 wellsi 1.2 Changes in this release
102     =======================
103    
104 wellsi 1.16 Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
105 wellsi 1.15 not included.
106 wellsi 1.5
107 wellsi 1.17
108 wellsi 1.5 Backups
109     -------
110 wellsi 1.24 - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
111 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
112     full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
113     - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
114     delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
115     OS.
116 wellsi 1.17 - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
117     For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
118     The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
119 wellsi 1.22 - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
120     device.
121     - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
122     performed.
123 wellsi 1.18 - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
124 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
125 wellsi 1.18 - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
126 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
127 wellsi 1.24 backup.
128     - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
129     to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
130     - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
131     when it goes out of scope.
132     - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
133     - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
134     of results from CGI.pm
135     - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
136     when using dar 2.4
137 wellsi 1.25 - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
138     - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
139 wellsi 1.27 - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
140 wellsi 1.24
141 wellsi 1.5
142     File Server
143     -----------
144 wellsi 1.22 - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
145     - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
146     file.
147 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
148 wellsi 1.22 - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
149     The current samba default is 'no'.
150 wellsi 1.17 see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
151 wellsi 1.22 For example to enable samba Wide Links
152 wellsi 1.17 # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
153 wellsi 1.22 - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
154     Windows slow logons.
155 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
156 wellsi 1.22 - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
157     smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
158 wellsi 1.17 For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
159 wellsi 1.22 - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
160     email to be sent to the admin every night.
161 wellsi 1.17 - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
162     Auditing is enabled via
163     # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
164     # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
165     - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
166     - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
167 wellsi 1.22 - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
168     lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
169     large numbers of local networks were configured.
170     - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
171 wellsi 1.25 - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
172     Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
173 wellsi 1.17
174 wellsi 1.10
175 wellsi 1.17 LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
176 wellsi 1.10 ----
177 wellsi 1.17 - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
178     - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
179 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
180     slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
181     corrected.
182 wellsi 1.17 - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
183 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
184     users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
185 wellsi 1.17
186 wellsi 1.5
187     Localisation
188     ------------
189 wellsi 1.18 - Latest translations included.
190 wellsi 1.5
191 wellsi 1.17
192 wellsi 1.5 Mail Server
193     -----------
194 wellsi 1.25 - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
195 wellsi 1.17 - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
196     - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
197     - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
198 wellsi 1.25 - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
199     one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
200     the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
201 wellsi 1.17 For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
202     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
203     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
204     More than one method can be removed:
205     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
206     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
207 wellsi 1.27 - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
208 wellsi 1.22 - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
209     sometimes very slow.
210     - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
211     database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
212 wellsi 1.17 For example to increase the memory limit
213     # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
214     # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
215     # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
216     # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
217 wellsi 1.22 - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
218     /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
219 wellsi 1.17 For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
220     # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
221     - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
222     - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
223 wellsi 1.22 - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
224     qpsmtpd.
225     - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
226     spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
227 wellsi 1.17 For example to also scan larger files
228     # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
229 wellsi 1.22 - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
230     SSLv2.
231 wellsi 1.17 - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
232 wellsi 1.22 - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
233     and SSMTP transactions
234 wellsi 1.17 - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
235 wellsi 1.18 - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
236 wellsi 1.23 - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
237     size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
238 wellsi 1.24 - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
239     - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
240 wellsi 1.25 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
241 wellsi 1.27 - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
242 wellsi 1.5
243     Server manager
244     --------------
245 wellsi 1.22 - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
246 wellsi 1.23 - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
247 wellsi 1.22 - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
248     noise.
249     - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
250     %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
251     now case-insensitive for %escapes.
252 wellsi 1.17 - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
253 wellsi 1.22 - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
254 wellsi 1.25 Web panel in server-manager.
255 wellsi 1.17
256 wellsi 1.5
257     Webmail and Groupware
258     ---------------------
259 wellsi 1.22 - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
260     to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
261 wellsi 1.17 - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
262 wellsi 1.25 - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
263 wellsi 1.17
264 wellsi 1.5
265     Web Server
266     ----------
267 wellsi 1.22 - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
268     - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
269     - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
270     will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
271     is ON.
272 wellsi 1.17 - Change wording of Software Update button.
273 wellsi 1.25 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
274 wellsi 1.17
275 wellsi 1.5
276     Other fixes and updates
277     -----------------------
278 wellsi 1.17 - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
279 wellsi 1.22 - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
280     variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
281     - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
282     to take only seconds
283 wellsi 1.17 - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
284 wellsi 1.22 - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
285     admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
286     ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
287     - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
288     3rd of January 2013.
289     - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
290     servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
291     prevents this.
292     - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
293     running at any particular time.
294 wellsi 1.17 - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
295 wellsi 1.22 - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
296 wellsi 1.24 - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
297     - Add an audit for groups.
298 wellsi 1.25 - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
299     new installations.
300     - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
301     - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
302     - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
303     other than 443,563
304     - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
305    
306 wellsi 1.2
307     General features
308     ================
309    
310 wellsi 1.23 - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
311 wellsi 1.7
312 wellsi 1.27 $Id: README.txt,v 1.26 2014/02/08 03:53:05 wellsi Exp $

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