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- SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.0 Release Notes
- ================================================
+ ============================
-March 2012
+May 2012
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 8.0RC1 which is based on CentOS 5.8 and will be the next
+ SME Server 8.0 which is based on CentOS 5.8
- major release of SME Server.
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  tracker (and only there, please);
      http://bugs.contribs.org/
- ***************************
- Testers Please Note the following...
-. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this
-    release but those who can are encouraged to load the
-    Release Candidate to a dedicated test machine and take part
-    in the final testing phase.
-. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
-    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
-    means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
-    AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
-    are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
-    Athlon XP and later.
-. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
-    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
-. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
-    machines without contribs or other modifications.
-. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing
-    contribs. Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker.
-. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
-    during this time you may experience problems.
-    You can download SME8.0 RC 1 from
-    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
-    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
- ***************************
  About SME Server
  ================
-Line 60 
 development.
+Line 27 
 development.
  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
- Thanks and a plea for help
+ Thanks
- ==========================
+ ======
  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
- themselves with this release. At this stage in development the role
+ themselves with this release.
- of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and
- quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all
+ Notes
- levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw
+ =====
- the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design,
- up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
- triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;
+    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
- please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's
+    means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
- future.
+    AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
+    are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
- This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,
+    Athlon XP and later.
- contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server
- Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
+. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
- latest stage of development.
+    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
- Major changes in RC 1
+. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
- =====================
+    during this time you may experience problems.
- * No major changes were introduced for RC 1
+    You can download SME8.0 from
+    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/
+    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
+ Major changes since beta 7
+ ==========================
+ * No major changes were introduced since beta 7
+ Major changes in beta 7
+ =======================
+ * Require authentication for all emails, including local.
+ * Optional - to use ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems
+   (except for /boot). At the boot prompt use "ext4" or "sme ext4".
+   *** ext4 is considered experimental, so use with caution ***
+ * Optional - LDAP authentication can be enabled. Once enabled it cannot
+   be disabled, so experiment with care.
+   To enable: db configuration setprop ldap Authentication enabled
+ Major changes in beta 5
+ =======================
+ The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling
+ reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they
+ want because of the PHP version constituted a compelling reason.
+ PHP 5.2.10: is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2.
+.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce.
  Changes in this release
  =======================
  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
- by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 7.
+ by SME-associated developers since 2009 where the most recent changes
+ to the package are dated after February 2010. The package changelogs
- The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes
+ often included earlier changes and changes carried out by non-SME-
- carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to
+ associated developers; these were removed to shorten the list. Packages
- shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and
+ recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
- Fedora-associated developers are not included.
+ not included.
  Backups
  -------
  - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
  - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
  - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
    for Workstation Backups
+ - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.
+ - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
+ - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup
+   destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.
+ - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.
+   Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not
+   restricted to only USB disks.
+ - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.
+ - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during
+   software update.
+ - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.
+ - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of
+   open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed
+   if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables.
+ - Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure.
+ - Workstation Backup emails include a To: header.
+ - Workstation Backup includes the system name and also indicates failure
+   if applicable in the subject line of the email.
+ - Update backup instructions in server-manager.
+ - The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces
+   from the hostname.
+ - Fix removal of leading slash in storage location.
+ - The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks.
+ - Only define Workstation Backup temporary directory once.
+ - Remove relocate_samba_file and all references to /etc/smbpasswd.
+ - Improved upgrade compatibility, remove .orig
+ - create mount point for verify
+ - remove comment re smbpasswd being last
+ - Fix mounting usb disks
+ - Don't backup more than once per day
+ - Fix full backup on Sunday diplayed as Everyday
+ - Add more excludes for compressed filetypes
+ - Porting Jean-Paul Leclere changes in the SME Server 7 tree to SME
+   Server 8:
+ - using credentials file for cifs mount
+ - workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to
+   bootstrap-console-save
+ - workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day
+ - workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before
+   restore
+ - workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in
+   a full restore
+ - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups
+ - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level
+ - Fix console backup from removable media
+ - Fix console restore from removable media (Federico Simoncelli)
+ - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk
  File Server
  -----------
  - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
+ - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
+ - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
+ - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility.
+ - Remove require strong key part of regedit file.
+ - Backup all the samba tdb files.
+ - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup.
+ - Create/remove V2 profile directories
+ - Enable bindinterfaces by default
+ - Set recyle bin permissions
+ - Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to join Samba
+.x domains
+ - Fix warnings in template expansion
+ - Fix migrate fragments for samba
  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
  ----
- None
+ - Create samba account during event for machine
+ - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP
+ - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account
+ - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership
+ - Fix cpu critical patch missing '
+ - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb
+ - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database
+ - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed
+ - Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with
+   regards to LDAP
+ - Fix create user gid parameter
+ - Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script
+ - All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP
+ - Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP
+ - Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master
+ - Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled
+ - Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database
+ - Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix
+ - Change script order: ldap-update should be called after
+   domain-group-maps
+ - LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department
+ - LDAP changes: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config
+ - Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype
+ - Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates
+ - Change startup order for ldap
+ - ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords
+ - Add ldap as an auth type to radius
+ - Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled)
+ - Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups.
+ - The LDAP information for admin was not being updated.
+ - Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP.
+ - Fix admin user password change (Daniel B.)
+ - Init database if the ldif dump is empty (ie from sme8b)
+ - revert re-init database
+ - re-init readonly database on post-upgrade
+ - Force SSL/TLS for remote authentication
+ - reuse users_groups_ous.patch2
+ - Separate groups and users with mailboxRelatedObject
+ - Set readonly access
+ - Fix ldap-update action script to user-lock event
+ - Add Groups entries
+ - Add admin user as a standard user
+ - Add ldap-update action script to user-lock event
+ - Add ldap authentication and tls support
+ - Update schema for newer openldap and remove calFBurl
+ - Convert ldif dump
+ - Create bdb log directory
+ - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem
  Localisation
  ------------
- None
+ - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
+ - Add Chinese (Taiwan) language (zh_TW).
+ - Add Hebrew language (he).
+ - Fix translation of local nic string in console.
+ - Add Thai language
+ - Add Polish language
+ - Add Romanian language
+ - Add Estonian language
  Mail Server
  -----------
-Line 120 
 Mail Server
+Line 227 
 Mail Server
       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
  - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
  - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
+ - Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections
+ - Add template fragment for pyzor timeout
+ - Remove spamd restart from bootstrap-console-save event
+ - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external
+   address.
+ - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
+ - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.
+ - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.
+ - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.
+ - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.
+ - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work
+ - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no
+   headers.
+ - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.
+ - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.
+ - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.
+ - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of
+   mail logfiles.
+ - Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from
+   sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be
+   transparently proxied.
+ - Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP
+   Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before
+   Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5).
+ - Update qpsmtpd to 0.84
+ - Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses
+   enabled/disabled for clarity.
+ - Fix HeloHost patch.
+ - Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed.
+ - Update email addresses on domain change.
+ - Work around how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
+ - Use HeloHost (if present) in smtp-auth-proxy.pl
+ - Allow for changing SPAM subject tag through server-manager
+ - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file
+ - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use
+ - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request)
+ - SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups
+ - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups
+ - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0
+   as a local ip
+ - Remove spool and log dir from package (in smeserver-qpsmtpd)
+ - Don't create smtpd user (unused in sme)
+ - Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM subject prefix
+ - Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install
+ - Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file
+ - Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings
+ - Only run/initialize plugins once
+ - Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav
+ - Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog
+ - don't add qpsmtpd to start-up by default
+ - add apache config file to qpsmtpd-apache package
+ - use rpm macros for dirs
+ - use a filelist for main package instead of a long list of files
+ - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log
+ - Remove create option from logrotate configuration
+ - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log
+ - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file
+ - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default to yes
+ - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus
+ - Enable qpsmtpd RequireResolvableFromHost plugin by default, remove
+   database entry and the database default value
+ - Tie template fragment into event system to have it expanded
+ - Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix
+ - Remove FuzzyOcr
+ - Run sa-update every two hours and check restart every hour
+ - Redirect cron job output to logfile to avoid mail noise
+ - Fix invalid service name in sa-update
  Server manager
  --------------
- None
+ - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.
+ - Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel.
+ - Remove empty <p> tag from footer template.
+ - Only display error messages intended for admin in server-manager
+ - Fix css validation errors.
+ - display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes
+ - Fix unitialized value errors in HTML.pm
  Webmail and Groupware
  ---------------------
- None
+ - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5
+ - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
+   identities.
+ - Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book.
+ - Templated attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email
+   values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space.
+ - Update to freebusy info in sources.php
+ - Update to remove turbaContact info that SME is not using.
+ - Change horde's templated mime_drivers.php file so some additional
+   settings can be customized
+ - Make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
+ - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of
+   php-pear-HTTP-Request information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7
+   and sme8
+ - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8
+ - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN
+   and non-FQDN access to webmail will work.
+ - Remove klutz template from registry.php
+ - Template imp's mime_drivers.php file so some settings can be
+   customized
  Web Server
  ----------
  - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
+ - Disable SSLv2 by default.
+ - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.
+ - Default expose_php in php.ini to Off.
+ - Add option to disable SSLv2
+ - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types
+ - Add OpenOffice MIME Types
+ - Add XML MIME Type
+ - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
  - Add MAC address into console network selection
  - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
  - Improve error message for quota
  - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
+ - Initialize ExternalInterface db structure so hwaddr in console works.
+ - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt.
+ - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.
+ - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.
+ - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.
+ - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.
+ - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.
+ - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
+ - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add
+   FQDN).
+ - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks
+ - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be
+   inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.
+ - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.
+ - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts
+ - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be
+   configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.
+ - Set the TimeZone property earlier, so templates can rely on it.
+ - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and
+   ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by
+   network inactivity.
+ - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.
+ - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.
+ - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.
+ - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.
+ - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.
+ - Handle no network interface scenario in console.
+ - Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server.
+ - Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+
+ - Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules.
+ - Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos.
+ - Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos.
+ - Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos.
+ - Enable cpuspeed by default.
+ - Fix scriplet error in e-smith-service script when service is disabled.
+ - Allow use of CNAME in remote hosts.
+ - Add Obsoletes for php5-cgi-{imap,ldap,mysql,pear,xmlrpc}.
+ - Restate smartd dependency.
+ - Fix gettext errors in WAN/LAN subnet error message
+ - Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing
+ - Fix eth? swapping
+ - Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits
+ - Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console
+   configuration pages.
+ - Translate $ifName in console configuration pages
+ - Prevent IP conflicts between local and external interface in server
+   gateway mode
+ - Clean up: remove unused nonetworkdrivers
+ - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod
+ - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize
+ - Add compiled python files to the packaged files list
+ - Update path for 64-bit compatibility
+ - Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf
+ - adds the hwaddr parameter to probeAdapters()
+ - Update path for 64-bit compatibility
+ - Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids
+ - Fix log-error detection algorithm
+ - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut
+ - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s
+ - Enable port forwards to localhost if mode is serveronly
+ - Adjust xml entry in locale
+ - Add option to limit port forwards from source ip
+ - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line
+ - Fix owner/perms for radius files
+ - Fix typo in /sbin/service patch (Federico Simoncelli)
+ - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration
+   database to avoid failures in post scriptlets
+ - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only
+   initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures that
+   the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects against
+   running "service httpd restart"
+ - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first
+ - Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot
+ - Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms
+ - only unlink file if we created it
+ - Import only keys not already imported
+ - set unsaved changes in yum event
+ - move yum warming to sme yum plugin
+ - ensure file exists before unlinking
+ - remove semicolons from yum plugin
+ - Add frequency of updates toggle
+ - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package
+ - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio
+ - Require mailx
+ - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed pacakges
  General features
  ================
  - Based on CentOS 5.8 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.13 2012/03/19 06:01:41 wellsi Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2012/03/19 15:13:47 wellsi Exp $

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