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Release Notes for 8.1

1 wellsi 1.30 SME Server 8.1 Release Notes
2     ============================
3 wellsi 1.2
4 wellsi 1.30 28 February 2014
5 wellsi 1.2
6     The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7 wellsi 1.30 SME Server 8.1 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 1.30 Changes from RC 1
68     ===================
69    
70     There are no major changes.
71    
72 wellsi 1.28 Changes from Beta 4
73     ===================
74    
75     There are no major changes.
76 wellsi 1.29 Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9.
77 wellsi 1.28
78 wellsi 1.25 Changes from Beta 3
79     ===================
80    
81     Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
82     new installations.
83     Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
84     Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
85     one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
86     Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
87     Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
88    
89 wellsi 1.23 Changes from Beta 2
90     ===================
91    
92     Update to CentOS 5.10
93     Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
94 wellsi 1.24 Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
95     Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
96     from CGI.pm
97     Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
98     when using dar 2.4
99 wellsi 1.4
100 wellsi 1.21 Changes from Beta 1
101     ===================
102    
103 wellsi 1.22 nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
104     dmraid.
105 wellsi 1.21 Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
106     SME Server changes to initscripts included.
107 wellsi 1.22 Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
108     Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
109     Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
110     Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
111 wellsi 1.21
112 wellsi 1.2 Changes in this release
113     =======================
114    
115 wellsi 1.16 Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
116 wellsi 1.15 not included.
117 wellsi 1.5
118 wellsi 1.17
119 wellsi 1.5 Backups
120     -------
121 wellsi 1.24 - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
122 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
123     full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
124     - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
125     delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
126     OS.
127 wellsi 1.17 - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
128     For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
129     The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
130 wellsi 1.22 - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
131     device.
132     - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
133     performed.
134 wellsi 1.18 - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
135 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
136 wellsi 1.18 - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
137 wellsi 1.22 - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
138 wellsi 1.24 backup.
139     - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
140     to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
141     - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
142     when it goes out of scope.
143     - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
144     - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
145     of results from CGI.pm
146     - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
147     when using dar 2.4
148 wellsi 1.25 - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
149     - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
150 wellsi 1.27 - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
151 wellsi 1.24
152 wellsi 1.5
153     File Server
154     -----------
155 wellsi 1.22 - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
156     - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
157     file.
158 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
159 wellsi 1.22 - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
160     The current samba default is 'no'.
161 wellsi 1.17 see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
162 wellsi 1.22 For example to enable samba Wide Links
163 wellsi 1.17 # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
164 wellsi 1.22 - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
165     Windows slow logons.
166 wellsi 1.17 /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
167 wellsi 1.22 - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
168     smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
169 wellsi 1.17 For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
170 wellsi 1.22 - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
171     email to be sent to the admin every night.
172 wellsi 1.17 - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
173     Auditing is enabled via
174     # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
175     # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
176     - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
177     - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
178 wellsi 1.22 - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
179     lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
180     large numbers of local networks were configured.
181     - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
182 wellsi 1.25 - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
183     Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
184 wellsi 1.17
185 wellsi 1.10
186 wellsi 1.17 LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
187 wellsi 1.10 ----
188 wellsi 1.17 - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
189     - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
190 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
191     slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
192     corrected.
193 wellsi 1.17 - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
194 wellsi 1.22 - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
195     users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
196 wellsi 1.17
197 wellsi 1.5
198     Localisation
199     ------------
200 wellsi 1.18 - Latest translations included.
201 wellsi 1.5
202 wellsi 1.17
203 wellsi 1.5 Mail Server
204     -----------
205 wellsi 1.25 - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
206 wellsi 1.17 - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
207     - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
208     - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
209 wellsi 1.25 - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
210     one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
211     the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
212 wellsi 1.17 For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
213     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
214     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
215     More than one method can be removed:
216     # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
217     # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
218 wellsi 1.27 - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
219 wellsi 1.22 - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
220     sometimes very slow.
221     - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
222     database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
223 wellsi 1.17 For example to increase the memory limit
224     # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
225     # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
226     # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
227     # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
228 wellsi 1.22 - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
229     /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
230 wellsi 1.17 For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
231     # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
232     - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
233     - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
234 wellsi 1.22 - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
235     qpsmtpd.
236     - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
237     spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
238 wellsi 1.17 For example to also scan larger files
239     # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
240 wellsi 1.22 - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
241     SSLv2.
242 wellsi 1.17 - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
243 wellsi 1.22 - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
244     and SSMTP transactions
245 wellsi 1.17 - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
246 wellsi 1.18 - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
247 wellsi 1.23 - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
248     size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
249 wellsi 1.24 - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
250     - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
251 wellsi 1.25 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
252 wellsi 1.29 - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
253     - Use stunnel-tls instead of sslio to wrap imaps service.
254 wellsi 1.5
255     Server manager
256     --------------
257 wellsi 1.22 - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
258 wellsi 1.23 - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
259 wellsi 1.22 - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
260     noise.
261     - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
262     %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
263     now case-insensitive for %escapes.
264 wellsi 1.17 - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
265 wellsi 1.22 - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
266 wellsi 1.25 Web panel in server-manager.
267 wellsi 1.17
268 wellsi 1.5
269     Webmail and Groupware
270     ---------------------
271 wellsi 1.22 - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
272     to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
273 wellsi 1.17 - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
274 wellsi 1.25 - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
275 wellsi 1.17
276 wellsi 1.5
277     Web Server
278     ----------
279 wellsi 1.22 - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
280     - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
281     - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
282     will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
283     is ON.
284 wellsi 1.17 - Change wording of Software Update button.
285 wellsi 1.25 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
286 wellsi 1.17
287 wellsi 1.5
288     Other fixes and updates
289     -----------------------
290 wellsi 1.17 - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
291 wellsi 1.22 - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
292     variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
293     - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
294     to take only seconds
295 wellsi 1.17 - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
296 wellsi 1.22 - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
297     admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
298     ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
299     - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
300     3rd of January 2013.
301     - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
302     servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
303     prevents this.
304     - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
305     running at any particular time.
306 wellsi 1.17 - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
307 wellsi 1.22 - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
308 wellsi 1.24 - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
309     - Add an audit for groups.
310 wellsi 1.25 - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
311     new installations.
312     - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
313     - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
314     - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
315     other than 443,563
316     - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
317 wellsi 1.29 - Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore.
318     - Remove old images.
319     - Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9
320 wellsi 1.25
321 wellsi 1.2
322     General features
323     ================
324    
325 wellsi 1.23 - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
326 wellsi 1.7
327 wellsi 1.30 $Id: README.txt,v 1.29 2014/02/20 04:29:58 wellsi Exp $

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