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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 wellsi 1.29 Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9.
72 wellsi 1.28
73 wellsi 1.25 Changes from Beta 3
74     ===================
75    
76     Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
77     new installations.
78     Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
79     Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
80     one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
81     Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
82     Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
83    
84 wellsi 1.23 Changes from Beta 2
85     ===================
86    
87     Update to CentOS 5.10
88     Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
89 wellsi 1.24 Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
90     Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
91     from CGI.pm
92     Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
93     when using dar 2.4
94 wellsi 1.4
95 wellsi 1.21 Changes from Beta 1
96     ===================
97    
98 wellsi 1.22 nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
99     dmraid.
100 wellsi 1.21 Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
101     SME Server changes to initscripts included.
102 wellsi 1.22 Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
103     Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
104     Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
105     Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
106 wellsi 1.21
107 wellsi 1.2 Changes in this release
108     =======================
109    
110 wellsi 1.16 Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
111 wellsi 1.15 not included.
112 wellsi 1.5
113 wellsi 1.17
114 wellsi 1.5 Backups
115     -------
116 wellsi 1.24 - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
117 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
118     full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
119     - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
120     delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
121     OS.
122 wellsi 1.17 - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
123     For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
124     The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
125 wellsi 1.22 - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
126     device.
127     - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
128     performed.
129 wellsi 1.18 - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
130 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
131 wellsi 1.18 - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
132 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
133 wellsi 1.24 backup.
134     - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
135     to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
136     - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
137     when it goes out of scope.
138     - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
139     - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
140     of results from CGI.pm
141     - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
142     when using dar 2.4
143 wellsi 1.25 - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
144     - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
145 wellsi 1.27 - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
146 wellsi 1.24
147 wellsi 1.5
148     File Server
149     -----------
150 wellsi 1.22 - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
151     - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
152     file.
153 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
154 wellsi 1.22 - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
155     The current samba default is 'no'.
156 wellsi 1.17 see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
157 wellsi 1.22 For example to enable samba Wide Links
158 wellsi 1.17 # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
159 wellsi 1.22 - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
160     Windows slow logons.
161 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
162 wellsi 1.22 - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
163     smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
164 wellsi 1.17 For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
165 wellsi 1.22 - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
166     email to be sent to the admin every night.
167 wellsi 1.17 - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
168     Auditing is enabled via
169     # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
170     # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
171     - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
172     - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
173 wellsi 1.22 - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
174     lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
175     large numbers of local networks were configured.
176     - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
177 wellsi 1.25 - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
178     Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
179 wellsi 1.17
180 wellsi 1.10
181 wellsi 1.17 LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
182 wellsi 1.10 ----
183 wellsi 1.17 - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
184     - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
185 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
186     slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
187     corrected.
188 wellsi 1.17 - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
189 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
190     users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
191 wellsi 1.17
192 wellsi 1.5
193     Localisation
194     ------------
195 wellsi 1.18 - Latest translations included.
196 wellsi 1.5
197 wellsi 1.17
198 wellsi 1.5 Mail Server
199     -----------
200 wellsi 1.25 - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
201 wellsi 1.17 - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
202     - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
203     - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
204 wellsi 1.25 - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
205     one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
206     the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
207 wellsi 1.17 For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
208     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
209     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
210     More than one method can be removed:
211     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
212     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
213 wellsi 1.27 - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
214 wellsi 1.22 - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
215     sometimes very slow.
216     - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
217     database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
218 wellsi 1.17 For example to increase the memory limit
219     # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
220     # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
221     # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
222     # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
223 wellsi 1.22 - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
224     /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
225 wellsi 1.17 For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
226     # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
227     - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
228     - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
229 wellsi 1.22 - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
230     qpsmtpd.
231     - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
232     spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
233 wellsi 1.17 For example to also scan larger files
234     # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
235 wellsi 1.22 - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
236     SSLv2.
237 wellsi 1.17 - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
238 wellsi 1.22 - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
239     and SSMTP transactions
240 wellsi 1.17 - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
241 wellsi 1.18 - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
242 wellsi 1.23 - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
243     size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
244 wellsi 1.24 - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
245     - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
246 wellsi 1.25 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
247 wellsi 1.29 - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
248     - Use stunnel-tls instead of sslio to wrap imaps service.
249 wellsi 1.5
250     Server manager
251     --------------
252 wellsi 1.22 - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
253 wellsi 1.23 - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
254 wellsi 1.22 - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
255     noise.
256     - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
257     %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
258     now case-insensitive for %escapes.
259 wellsi 1.17 - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
260 wellsi 1.22 - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
261 wellsi 1.25 Web panel in server-manager.
262 wellsi 1.17
263 wellsi 1.5
264     Webmail and Groupware
265     ---------------------
266 wellsi 1.22 - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
267     to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
268 wellsi 1.17 - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
269 wellsi 1.25 - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
270 wellsi 1.17
271 wellsi 1.5
272     Web Server
273     ----------
274 wellsi 1.22 - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
275     - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
276     - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
277     will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
278     is ON.
279 wellsi 1.17 - Change wording of Software Update button.
280 wellsi 1.25 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
281 wellsi 1.17
282 wellsi 1.5
283     Other fixes and updates
284     -----------------------
285 wellsi 1.17 - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
286 wellsi 1.22 - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
287     variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
288     - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
289     to take only seconds
290 wellsi 1.17 - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
291 wellsi 1.22 - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
292     admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
293     ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
294     - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
295     3rd of January 2013.
296     - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
297     servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
298     prevents this.
299     - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
300     running at any particular time.
301 wellsi 1.17 - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
302 wellsi 1.22 - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
303 wellsi 1.24 - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
304     - Add an audit for groups.
305 wellsi 1.25 - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
306     new installations.
307     - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
308     - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
309     - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
310     other than 443,563
311     - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
312 wellsi 1.29 - Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore.
313     - Remove old images.
314     - Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9
315 wellsi 1.25
316 wellsi 1.2
317     General features
318     ================
319    
320 wellsi 1.23 - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
321 wellsi 1.7
322 wellsi 1.29 $Id: README.txt,v 1.28 2014/02/17 16:42:38 wellsi Exp $

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