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SME Server 7.3 Release Notes |
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January 1 2008 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages |
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have been updated to the latest releases. |
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All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. |
The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce |
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the release of SME Server 8.2 which is based on CentOS 5.11 |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised |
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in the bug tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
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About SME Server |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc. |
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( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to |
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provide marketing and legal support for SME Server. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License |
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and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further |
You can download SME Server 8.2 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/x86_64/ |
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Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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Thanks |
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The development team would like to thank all of those involved in |
Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the |
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current level of support. More people are required to help with |
during this time you may experience problems. |
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bug triage and verification testing. |
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This release contains many new features, all released updates for |
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SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades |
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will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
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Upgrades |
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- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades |
SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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- An upgrade will preserve the existing data |
enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., |
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a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support |
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Changes in this release |
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Installer Options |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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- Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's |
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see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files |
is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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Other mail system changes |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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- Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin |
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- Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient |
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addresses |
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- Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues |
As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development. |
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- Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes |
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a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual |
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- Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting |
using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute |
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- Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install |
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within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and |
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development. |
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Backups |
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- Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media |
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- Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore |
b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in |
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the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation |
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Localisation |
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commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers |
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- The fr-fr browser language is now supported |
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- Italian translation minor update |
your have in the field. Please, help the project |
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Software Installer |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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- The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror |
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location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors |
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- Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months |
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- Added smecontribs repository to smeserver |
Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received, |
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simply email treasurer@koozali.org |
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Webmail |
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- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions |
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Server manager |
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- Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in |
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serveronly mode |
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- Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel |
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- Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files |
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- Convert squid timestamp in view log files |
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
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- Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no |
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longer invalidate access to server manager |
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- Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5 |
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- Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package |
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- Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable |
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- Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly |
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- Fixed various log noise issues |
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- Allow root to be key based login only |
1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2 |
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- Increased dnscache forwarder cache size |
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- Freshclam permissions now corrected |
will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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- Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear |
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- Added WPAD feature in DHCP |
means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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- Fixed various perl issues |
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- Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day |
AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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- Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates |
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2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2 |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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After installing for the very first time: |
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3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those |
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- First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates. |
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- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of |
security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 |
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groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification). |
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- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day |
(so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving |
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about those changes (rkhunter email notification). |
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workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. |
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Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3 |
Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017 |
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- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates |
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- First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files |
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(rkhunter email notification). |
4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $ |
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You can download SME Server 8.2 from |
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Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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- Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch |
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xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 |
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core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 |
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confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 |
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- Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates |
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On behalf of the SME Server development team |