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Release Notes update for 8.1 RC 1

1 wellsi 1.28 SME Server 8.1 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
2 wellsi 1.22 =================================
3 wellsi 1.2
4 wellsi 1.28 23 February 2014
5 wellsi 1.2
6     The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7 wellsi 1.28 SME Server 8.1 Release Candidate 1 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 1.28 Changes from Beta 4
68     ===================
69    
70     There are no major changes.
71    
72 wellsi 1.25 Changes from Beta 3
73     ===================
74    
75     Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
76     new installations.
77     Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
78     Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
79     one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
80     Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
81     Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
82    
83 wellsi 1.23 Changes from Beta 2
84     ===================
85    
86     Update to CentOS 5.10
87     Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
88 wellsi 1.24 Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
89     Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
90     from CGI.pm
91     Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
92     when using dar 2.4
93 wellsi 1.4
94 wellsi 1.21 Changes from Beta 1
95     ===================
96    
97 wellsi 1.22 nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
98     dmraid.
99 wellsi 1.21 Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
100     SME Server changes to initscripts included.
101 wellsi 1.22 Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
102     Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
103     Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
104     Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
105 wellsi 1.21
106 wellsi 1.2 Changes in this release
107     =======================
108    
109 wellsi 1.16 Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
110 wellsi 1.15 not included.
111 wellsi 1.5
112 wellsi 1.17
113 wellsi 1.5 Backups
114     -------
115 wellsi 1.24 - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
116 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
117     full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
118     - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
119     delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
120     OS.
121 wellsi 1.17 - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
122     For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
123     The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
124 wellsi 1.22 - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
125     device.
126     - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
127     performed.
128 wellsi 1.18 - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
129 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
130 wellsi 1.18 - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
131 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
132 wellsi 1.24 backup.
133     - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
134     to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
135     - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
136     when it goes out of scope.
137     - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
138     - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
139     of results from CGI.pm
140     - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
141     when using dar 2.4
142 wellsi 1.25 - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
143     - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
144 wellsi 1.27 - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
145 wellsi 1.24
146 wellsi 1.5
147     File Server
148     -----------
149 wellsi 1.22 - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
150     - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
151     file.
152 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
153 wellsi 1.22 - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
154     The current samba default is 'no'.
155 wellsi 1.17 see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
156 wellsi 1.22 For example to enable samba Wide Links
157 wellsi 1.17 # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
158 wellsi 1.22 - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
159     Windows slow logons.
160 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
161 wellsi 1.22 - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
162     smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
163 wellsi 1.17 For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
164 wellsi 1.22 - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
165     email to be sent to the admin every night.
166 wellsi 1.17 - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
167     Auditing is enabled via
168     # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
169     # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
170     - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
171     - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
172 wellsi 1.22 - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
173     lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
174     large numbers of local networks were configured.
175     - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
176 wellsi 1.25 - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
177     Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
178 wellsi 1.17
179 wellsi 1.10
180 wellsi 1.17 LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
181 wellsi 1.10 ----
182 wellsi 1.17 - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
183     - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
184 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
185     slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
186     corrected.
187 wellsi 1.17 - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
188 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
189     users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
190 wellsi 1.17
191 wellsi 1.5
192     Localisation
193     ------------
194 wellsi 1.18 - Latest translations included.
195 wellsi 1.5
196 wellsi 1.17
197 wellsi 1.5 Mail Server
198     -----------
199 wellsi 1.25 - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
200 wellsi 1.17 - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
201     - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
202     - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
203 wellsi 1.25 - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
204     one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
205     the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
206 wellsi 1.17 For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
207     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
208     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
209     More than one method can be removed:
210     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
211     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
212 wellsi 1.27 - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
213 wellsi 1.22 - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
214     sometimes very slow.
215     - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
216     database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
217 wellsi 1.17 For example to increase the memory limit
218     # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
219     # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
220     # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
221     # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
222 wellsi 1.22 - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
223     /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
224 wellsi 1.17 For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
225     # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
226     - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
227     - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
228 wellsi 1.22 - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
229     qpsmtpd.
230     - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
231     spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
232 wellsi 1.17 For example to also scan larger files
233     # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
234 wellsi 1.22 - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
235     SSLv2.
236 wellsi 1.17 - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
237 wellsi 1.22 - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
238     and SSMTP transactions
239 wellsi 1.17 - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
240 wellsi 1.18 - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
241 wellsi 1.23 - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
242     size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
243 wellsi 1.24 - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
244     - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
245 wellsi 1.25 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
246 wellsi 1.27 - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
247 wellsi 1.5
248     Server manager
249     --------------
250 wellsi 1.22 - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
251 wellsi 1.23 - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
252 wellsi 1.22 - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
253     noise.
254     - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
255     %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
256     now case-insensitive for %escapes.
257 wellsi 1.17 - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
258 wellsi 1.22 - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
259 wellsi 1.25 Web panel in server-manager.
260 wellsi 1.17
261 wellsi 1.5
262     Webmail and Groupware
263     ---------------------
264 wellsi 1.22 - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
265     to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
266 wellsi 1.17 - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
267 wellsi 1.25 - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
268 wellsi 1.17
269 wellsi 1.5
270     Web Server
271     ----------
272 wellsi 1.22 - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
273     - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
274     - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
275     will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
276     is ON.
277 wellsi 1.17 - Change wording of Software Update button.
278 wellsi 1.25 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
279 wellsi 1.17
280 wellsi 1.5
281     Other fixes and updates
282     -----------------------
283 wellsi 1.17 - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
284 wellsi 1.22 - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
285     variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
286     - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
287     to take only seconds
288 wellsi 1.17 - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
289 wellsi 1.22 - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
290     admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
291     ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
292     - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
293     3rd of January 2013.
294     - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
295     servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
296     prevents this.
297     - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
298     running at any particular time.
299 wellsi 1.17 - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
300 wellsi 1.22 - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
301 wellsi 1.24 - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
302     - Add an audit for groups.
303 wellsi 1.25 - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
304     new installations.
305     - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
306     - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
307     - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
308     other than 443,563
309     - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
310    
311 wellsi 1.2
312     General features
313     ================
314    
315 wellsi 1.23 - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
316 wellsi 1.7
317 wellsi 1.28 $Id: README.txt,v 1.27 2014/02/15 04:11:53 wellsi Exp $

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