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SME 8 Beta 7 Work in progress

1 wellsi 1.9 SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes
2 wellsi 1.2 ===================================
3    
4 wellsi 1.9 DATE TBD
5 wellsi 1.2
6     The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7 wellsi 1.9 SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.6 and will be the next
8 wellsi 1.5 major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8.
9 wellsi 1.2
10 wellsi 1.3 Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
11     tracker (and only there, please);
12 wellsi 1.2
13     http://bugs.contribs.org/
14    
15 wellsi 1.3 ***************************
16     Testers Please Note the following...
17    
18 wellsi 1.9 1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this
19 wellsi 1.5 release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a
20     dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.
21    
22 wellsi 1.9 2. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
23 wellsi 1.3 will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
24     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
25     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
26     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
27     Athlon XP and later.
28    
29 wellsi 1.9 3. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
30     machines without contribs or other modifications.
31 wellsi 1.3
32 wellsi 1.9 4. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing
33 wellsi 1.7 contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers.
34     Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker.
35    
36 wellsi 1.9 5. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
37 wellsi 1.5 http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
38 wellsi 1.4
39 wellsi 1.9 6. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
40 wellsi 1.5 during this time you may experience problems.
41 wellsi 1.9 You can download SME8.0 Beta 7 from
42 wellsi 1.4 http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
43 wellsi 1.5 or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
44 wellsi 1.4
45 wellsi 1.3 ***************************
46 wellsi 1.2
47     About SME Server
48     ================
49    
50     SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
51 wellsi 1.4 enterprises.
52 wellsi 1.2
53 wellsi 1.5 SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
54     is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
55 wellsi 1.2 However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
56     meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
57    
58     As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
59     development.
60    
61 wellsi 1.4 Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
62 wellsi 1.2
63 wellsi 1.3 Thanks and a plea for help
64     ==========================
65    
66     The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
67     themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role
68 wellsi 1.5 of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and
69     quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all
70     levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw
71 wellsi 1.6 the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design,
72     up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug
73     triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;
74     please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's
75     future.
76 wellsi 1.3
77 wellsi 1.9 This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,
78 wellsi 1.5 contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server
79     Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
80     latest stage of development.
81 wellsi 1.3
82 wellsi 1.9 Major changes in beta 7
83 wellsi 1.4 =======================
84 wellsi 1.9 * Require authentication for all emails, including local.
85     * Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot). UNDER DISCUSSION
86     * LDAP authentication can be enabled, but is not on by default in this version,
87     once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care.
88 wellsi 1.4
89 wellsi 1.2 Changes in this release
90     =======================
91    
92 wellsi 1.5 This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
93 wellsi 1.9 by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6.
94 wellsi 1.5
95     The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes
96     carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to
97 wellsi 1.9 shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and
98 wellsi 1.5 Fedora-associated developers are not included.
99    
100     Backups
101     -------
102 wellsi 1.9 - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.
103     - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in
104     the Configure Workstation Backup panel
105     - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.
106     Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted
107     to only USB disks.
108     - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.
109     - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update
110     - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.
111     - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of
112     open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL
113     database has a very large number of tables.
114 wellsi 1.5
115     File Server
116     -----------
117 wellsi 1.9 - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
118     - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
119     - Create samba account during event for machine.
120     - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP.
121     - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account.
122     - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership.
123     - Fix cpu critical patch missing '
124     - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb
125 wellsi 1.5
126     Localisation
127     ------------
128 wellsi 1.9 - Latest localisation updates applied.
129 wellsi 1.5
130     Mail Server
131     -----------
132 wellsi 1.9 - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address.
133     - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
134     - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.
135     - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.
136     - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.
137     - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.
138     - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work
139     - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers.
140     - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.
141     - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database.
142     - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of qmail
143     logfiles.
144 wellsi 1.5
145     Server manager
146     --------------
147 wellsi 1.9 - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.
148 wellsi 1.5
149     Webmail and Groupware
150     ---------------------
151 wellsi 1.9 - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5
152     - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
153     identities.
154     - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed.
155 wellsi 1.5
156     Web Server
157     ----------
158 wellsi 1.9 - Disable SSLv2 by default.
159     - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.
160 wellsi 1.5
161     Other fixes and updates
162     -----------------------
163 wellsi 1.9 - Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot)
164     - Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP.
165     - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.
166     - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.
167     - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.
168     - Fix create user gid parameter.
169     - Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script.
170     - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.
171     - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
172     - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add FQDN).
173     - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks
174     - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be inserted
175     in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.
176     - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.
177     - All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP.
178     - Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP.
179     - Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master.
180     - Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled.
181     - Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database.
182     - Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix
183     - Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps.
184     - LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department.
185     - LDAP chnages: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config.
186     - Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype.
187     - Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates.
188     - Change startup order for ldap.
189     - ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords.
190     - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts
191     - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured
192     by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.
193     - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax
194     to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity.
195     - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.
196     - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.
197     - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.
198     - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.
199     - Add ldap as an auth type to radius
200     - Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled).
201 wellsi 1.2
202     General features
203     ================
204    
205 wellsi 1.9 - Based on CentOS 5.6 and all available updates
206 wellsi 1.5
207 wellsi 1.8 $Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2010/07/15 07:58:07 wellsi Exp $
208 wellsi 1.7

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