--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2014/02/08 03:53:05 1.26 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2015/06/25 14:28:43 1.35 @@ -1,16 +1,27 @@ -SME Server 8.1Beta4 Release Notes -================================= +Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC1 Release Notes +========================================== -12 February 2014 +25 June 2015 -The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.1 Beta 4 which is based on CentOS 5.10 +The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce +the release of SME Server 8.2 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 5.11 Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug tracker (and only there, please); http://bugs.contribs.org/ +Download +======== + +You can download SME Server 8.2rc1 from +http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc1/ +or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download + +Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, +during this time you may experience problems. + + About SME Server ================ @@ -25,10 +36,12 @@ However, the availability and quality of meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development. + a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and development. + b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers @@ -39,64 +52,38 @@ Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Do Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received, simply email treasurer@koozali.org + Thanks ====== The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved themselves with this release. + Notes ===== -1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1 +1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2 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. -2. Some notes on SME Server 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at +2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 -3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, +3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those + security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 + (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving + workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. + Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017 + +4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, during this time you may experience problems. - You can download SME Server 8.1 from - http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ - or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - -Changes from Beta 3 -=================== - -Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for -new installations. -Remove insecure SSL ciphers. -Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present -one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP. -Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network. -Provide the ability to force https per ibay. - -Changes from Beta 2 -=================== - -Update to CentOS 5.10 -Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. -Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup. -Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results -from CGI.pm -Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed -when using dar 2.4 - -Changes from Beta 1 -=================== - -nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with -dmraid. -Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted. -SME Server changes to initscripts included. -Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. -Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. -Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. -Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default. + You can download SME Server 8.2 from + http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2.rc1/ + Changes in this release ======================= @@ -107,204 +94,119 @@ not included. Backups ------- -- Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup. -- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a - full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week. -- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second - delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft - OS. -- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. - For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 - The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression. -- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB - device. -- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being - performed. -- Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup. -- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors. -- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success . -- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after - backup. -- Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted - to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives. -- Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0 - when it goes out of scope. -- Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch -- Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array - of results from CGI.pm -- Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed - when using dar 2.4 -- Don't remove the apache group during restore. -- Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups. - - -File Server ------------ -- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. -- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry - file. - /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg -- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. - The current samba default is 'no'. - see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS - For example to enable samba Wide Links - # config setprop smb WideLinks yes -- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help - Windows slow logons. - /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg -- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & - smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. - For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1 -- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an - email to be sent to the admin every night. -- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. - Auditing is enabled via - # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled - # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname -- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays -- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated -- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long - lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when - large numbers of local networks were configured. -- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN -- Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default - Workgroup and Domain to sme-server + - Add pkgconfig dar + - New Upstream Version of dar + - Add requires nfs-utils + - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start + - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / -LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental) +LDAP ---- -- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled. -- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled. -- The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for - slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was - corrected. -- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers. -- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of - users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed. - + - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be + parsed Localisation ------------ -- Latest translations included. - + - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle + - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle + - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle Mail Server ----------- -- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1 -- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. -- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. -- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. -- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present - one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable - the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. - For example to remove CRAM-MD5: - # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 - # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy - More than one method can be removed: - # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" - # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy -- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was - sometimes very slow. -- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional - database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} - For example to increase the memory limit - # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000 - # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT - # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000 - # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT -- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for - /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. - For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit - # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6 -- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name. -- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers. -- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and - qpsmtpd. -- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for - spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. - For example to also scan larger files - # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000 -- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow - SSLv2. -- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email. -- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP - and SSMTP transactions -- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8. -- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled. -- Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message - size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size -- Include /usr/bin/refreshclam -- Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email. -- Remove insecure SSL ciphers. - + - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7 + - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel + - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file. + - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch + - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA + - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3 + - Fix stunnel path + - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS + - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter + by John Crisp + - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd + - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 + - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List Server manager -------------- -- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. -- Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. -- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log - noise. -- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for - %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is - now case-insensitive for %escapes. -- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm. -- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter - Web panel in server-manager. - - -Webmail and Groupware ---------------------- -- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen - to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function. -- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface. -- Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network. + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710 + xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 + core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669 + exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object + change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698 + spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670 + gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm. + CVE-2014-2497 + fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in + cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587 + core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT + record parsing. CVE-2014-3597 + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 + date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712 + core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing. + CVE-2014-4049 + core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type + confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 + fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270 + fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type + rules. CVE-2014-1943 + fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571 + fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479 + fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480 + fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping + DoS. CVE-2014-0237 + fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite + loop. CVE-2014-0238 Web Server ---------- -- Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default. -- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder. -- PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini - will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default - is ON. -- Change wording of Software Update button. -- Remove insecure SSL ciphers. - + - Disable SSLv3 + - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed + - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929 Other fixes and updates ----------------------- -- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB -- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant - variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. -- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised - to take only seconds -- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. -- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the - admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update - ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file. -- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the - 3rd of January 2013. -- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in - servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() - prevents this. -- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is - running at any particular time. -- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. -- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org -- Increase memory limit for ntpd. -- Add an audit for groups. -- Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for - new installations. -- Provide the ability to force https per ibay. -- Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks. -- Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports - other than 443,563 -- Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files. + - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic + (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp) + - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected + answer to NO + - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd + - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd + - Reset primary ibay default type + - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager. + Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field + Code done by Charlie Brady + and Huib + - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain + - Move mysql logging to multilog + - Allow ntp status queries from localhost. + - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update. + - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby + - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 + - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the + CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes. + - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS. + - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message + generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix + regression). + - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild + - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946) + - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2 + - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager + - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates + - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository General features ================ -- Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates -$Id: README.txt,v 1.25 2014/02/05 19:16:15 wellsi Exp $ +Terry Fage +On behalf of the SME Server development team