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SME Server 7.3 Release Notes |
Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes |
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January 1 2008 |
18 March 2015 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce |
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SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages |
the release of SME Server 8.2 beta2 which is based on CentOS 5.11 |
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have been updated to the latest releases. |
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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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All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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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/ |
You can download SME Server 8.2 beta2 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2.beta2/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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About SME Server |
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Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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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 |
About SME Server |
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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 |
SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
for SME Server. |
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As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further |
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development. |
SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. |
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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Thanks |
As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development. |
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The development team would like to thank all of those involved in |
a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual |
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this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the |
using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute |
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current level of support. More people are required to help with |
within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and |
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bug triage and verification testing. |
development. |
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b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in |
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This release contains many new features, all released updates for |
the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation |
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SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades |
commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers |
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will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
your have in the field. Please, help the project |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Upgrades |
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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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- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades |
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- An upgrade will preserve the existing data |
Thanks |
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Changes in this release |
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
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themselves with this release. |
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Installer Options |
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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 |
1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2 |
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will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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Other mail system changes |
AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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- Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin |
Athlon XP and later. |
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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 |
2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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- Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes |
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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Console |
3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those |
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security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 |
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- Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting |
(so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving |
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- Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install |
workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. |
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time |
Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017 |
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Backups |
4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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- Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media |
You can download SME Server 8.2 from |
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- Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/i386/ |
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Localisation |
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Changes in this release |
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- The fr-fr browser language is now supported |
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- Italian translation minor update |
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Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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Software Installer |
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Backups |
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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 |
- Add pkgconfig dar |
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- Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months |
- New Upstream Version dar |
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- Added smecontribs repository to smeserver |
- Add requires nfs-utils |
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- The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start |
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- Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / |
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Webmail |
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- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions |
LDAP |
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- Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be |
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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 |
Localisation |
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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 |
- apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle |
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- Convert squid timestamp in view log files |
- apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle |
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- Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no |
- apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle |
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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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Mail Server |
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- Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6 |
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Other fixes and updates |
- Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel |
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- Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file. |
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- More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5 |
- Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & |
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- Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package |
ZIPV3 |
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- Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable |
- Fix stunnel path |
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- Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly |
- Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS |
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- Fixed various log noise issues |
- Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter |
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- Allow root to be key based login only |
by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk> |
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- Increased dnscache forwarder cache size |
- Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd |
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- Freshclam permissions now corrected |
- Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 |
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- Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear |
- Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List |
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- Added WPAD feature in DHCP |
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- Fixed various perl issues |
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- Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day |
PHP |
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- Resync with upstream php53, which include |
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General features |
fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710 |
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xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 |
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core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669 |
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- Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates |
exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 |
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- Resync with upstream php53, which include |
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spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object |
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There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2 |
change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698 |
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spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670 |
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gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm. |
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CVE-2014-2497 |
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After installing for the very first time: |
fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in |
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cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587 |
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- First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates. |
core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT |
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- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of |
record parsing. CVE-2014-3597 |
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groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification). |
- Resync with upstream php53, which include |
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- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day |
core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 |
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about those changes (rkhunter email notification). |
date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712 |
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core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing. |
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CVE-2014-4049 |
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Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3 |
core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type |
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confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 |
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- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates |
fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270 |
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- First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files |
fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type |
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(rkhunter email notification). |
rules. CVE-2014-1943 |
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fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571 |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $ |
fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479 |
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fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480 |
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fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping |
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DoS. CVE-2014-0237 |
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fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite |
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loop. CVE-2014-0238 |
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Web Server |
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- Disable SSLv3 |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected |
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answer to NO |
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- Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip |
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allowed in dhcpd |
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- Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against |
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ip allowed in dhcpd |
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- Reset primary ibay default type |
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- Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters |
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in the server-manager. |
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Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the |
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hostname field |
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Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au> |
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and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com> |
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- Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain |
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- Move mysql logging to multilog |
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- Allow ntp status queries from localhost. |
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- Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update. |
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- Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby |
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- Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and |
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CVE-2012-2252 |
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- Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of |
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CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes. |
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- Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS. |
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- Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message |
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generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix |
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regression). |
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- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild |
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- Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946) |
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- Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2 |
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- Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager |
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- Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates |
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- Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository |
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On behalf of the SME Server development team |