--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2011/10/04 19:45:56 1.11 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/07/03 02:58:39 1.16 @@ -1,49 +1,16 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes -=================================== +SME Server 8.1 Release Notes +============================ -8 October 2011 +04 July 2013 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next -major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8. +SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 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... - -1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this - release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a - dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase. - -2. 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. - -3. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at - http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - -4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean - machines without contribs or other modifications. - -5. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing - contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers. - Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker. - -6. 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 Beta 7 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 ================ @@ -60,168 +27,143 @@ 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 beta release. At this stage in development the role -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 -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 -triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement; -please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's -future. - -This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core, -contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server -Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the -latest stage of development. +themselves with this release. -Major changes in beta 7 +Notes +===== + +1. 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. + +2. Some notes on SME 8 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, + during this time you may experience problems. + You can download SME8.1 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 8.0 ======================= -* 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 +* TBD + 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 6. - -The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes -carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to -shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and -Fedora-associated developers are not included. +Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are +not included. 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. +- Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage +- Allow full backup to occur on Sunday +- Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level File Server ----------- -- Change separator character in general Samba configuration file. -- Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays). +- Revert previous change. +- Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option +- Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration +- Enable smb auditing per ibay +- Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12 LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) ---- -- 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). Localisation ------------ -- Latest localisation updates applied. +*** NONE *** Mail Server ----------- -- 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. +- Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled +- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments +- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady +- Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch +- Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow +- Don't use SSL over loopback +- Easier to read version of softlimit patch +- More robust version of softlimit patch +- Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s +- Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize +- modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti +- Template Qmail MaxMessageSize +- smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it +to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel +- Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base +- tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2 +- Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady Server manager -------------- -- Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel. +- Do not load mod_ssl +- Correct processing of server-manager URL +- Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady +- Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel Webmail and Groupware --------------------- -- 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. + Web Server ---------- -- Disable SSLv2 by default. -- make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'. +- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder Other fixes and updates ----------------------- -- 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. -- 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. +- Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud +- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated +- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady +- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays, +by Mark Casey +- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled +- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled +- Add_template_to_ssl.pem +- Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized +- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk +- Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save +- Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console +- Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT +- Simplified patch after review comments +- Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment +- Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb +- Template /etc/updatedb.conf +- Make CipherSuite secure by default +- D-root is changing its IPv4 address +- Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save +- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers +- Fix removing old BDB log files +- Remove unused BDB log files +- Improve error checking in isValidIP +- Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running, +patch by Charlie Brady +- Force magic_quotes Off +- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN +- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't +handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. +Fix submitted by Charlie Brady +- Remove previous change +- Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error +- Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility +- Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom +- Update Obsoletes and Conflicts General features ================ -- Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates + +$Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $ -$Id: README.txt,v 1.10 2011/09/29 06:11:45 wellsi Exp $