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SME Server 8.1 Release Notes |
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04 July 2013 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 |
SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.10 |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
tracker (and only there, please); |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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enterprises. |
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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for SME Server. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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 |
As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development. |
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a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual |
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using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute |
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within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and |
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development. |
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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the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation |
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commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers |
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your have in the field. Please, help the project |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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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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Thanks |
Thanks |
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Notes |
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1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 |
1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1 |
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will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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, |
are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
Athlon XP and later. |
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2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at |
2. Some notes on SME Server 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
3. 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. |
during this time you may experience problems. |
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You can download SME8.1 from |
You can download SME Server 8.1 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/ |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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Major changes since 8.0 |
Changes from RC 1 |
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* TBD |
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There are no major changes. |
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Changes from Beta 4 |
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There are no major changes. |
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Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9. |
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Changes from Beta 3 |
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Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for |
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new installations. |
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Remove insecure SSL ciphers. |
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Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present |
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one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP. |
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Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network. |
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Provide the ability to force https per ibay. |
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Changes from Beta 2 |
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Update to CentOS 5.10 |
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Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. |
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Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup. |
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Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results |
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from CGI.pm |
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Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed |
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when using dar 2.4 |
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Changes from Beta 1 |
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nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with |
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dmraid. |
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Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted. |
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SME Server changes to initscripts included. |
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Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. |
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Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. |
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Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. |
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Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default. |
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Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
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Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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not included. |
not included. |
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Backups |
Backups |
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- Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage |
- Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup. |
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- Allow full backup to occur on Sunday |
- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a |
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- Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level |
full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week. |
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- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second |
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delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft |
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- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. |
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For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 |
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The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression. |
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- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB |
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device. |
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- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being |
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performed. |
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- Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup. |
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- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors. |
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- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success . |
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- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after |
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backup. |
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- Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted |
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to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives. |
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- Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0 |
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when it goes out of scope. |
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- Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch |
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- Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array |
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of results from CGI.pm |
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- Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed |
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- Don't remove the apache group during restore. |
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- Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups. |
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- Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files. |
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File Server |
File Server |
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- Revert previous change. |
- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. |
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- Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option |
- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry |
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- Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration |
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- Enable smb auditing per ibay |
/server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg |
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- Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12 |
- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. |
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The current samba default is 'no'. |
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see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS |
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For example to enable samba Wide Links |
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# config setprop smb WideLinks yes |
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- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help |
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Windows slow logons. |
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/server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg |
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- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & |
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smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. |
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For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1 |
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- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an |
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email to be sent to the admin every night. |
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- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. |
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Auditing is enabled via |
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# db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled |
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# signal-event ibay-modify ibayname |
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- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays |
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- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
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- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long |
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lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when |
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large numbers of local networks were configured. |
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- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN |
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- Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default |
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Workgroup and Domain to sme-server |
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LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) |
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LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental) |
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- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled. |
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- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled. |
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- The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for |
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slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was |
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corrected. |
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- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers. |
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- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of |
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users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed. |
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Localisation |
Localisation |
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*** NONE *** |
- Latest translations included. |
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Mail Server |
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- Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled |
- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1 |
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- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments |
- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. |
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- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady |
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. |
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- Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch |
- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. |
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- Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow |
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one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable |
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- Easier to read version of softlimit patch |
the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. |
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- More robust version of softlimit patch |
For example to remove CRAM-MD5: |
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- Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s |
# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 |
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- Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
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- modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti |
More than one method can be removed: |
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- Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" |
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- smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it |
# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
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to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel |
- Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing. |
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- Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base |
- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was |
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- tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2 |
sometimes very slow. |
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- Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady |
- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional |
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database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} |
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# config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000 |
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# expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT |
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# config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000 |
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# expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT |
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- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for |
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/var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. |
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# config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6 |
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- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name. |
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- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers. |
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- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and |
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qpsmtpd. |
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- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for |
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spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. |
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For example to also scan larger files |
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# config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000 |
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- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow |
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SSLv2. |
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- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email. |
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- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP |
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and SSMTP transactions |
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- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8. |
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- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled. |
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- Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message |
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size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size |
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- Include /usr/bin/refreshclam |
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- Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email. |
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- Remove insecure SSL ciphers. |
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- Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services. |
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- Use stunnel-tls instead of sslio to wrap imaps service. |
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Server manager |
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- Do not load mod_ssl |
- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. |
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- Correct processing of server-manager URL |
- Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. |
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- Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady |
- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log |
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- Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel |
noise. |
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- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for |
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%escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is |
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now case-insensitive for %escapes. |
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- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm. |
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- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter |
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Web panel in server-manager. |
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Webmail and Groupware |
Webmail and Groupware |
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- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen |
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to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function. |
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- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface. |
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- Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network. |
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Web Server |
Web Server |
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- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder |
- Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default. |
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- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder. |
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- PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini |
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will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default |
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is ON. |
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- Change wording of Software Update button. |
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- Remove insecure SSL ciphers. |
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Other fixes and updates |
Other fixes and updates |
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- Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud |
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB |
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- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant |
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- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady |
variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. |
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- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays, |
- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised |
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to take only seconds |
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- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled |
- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. |
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- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled |
- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the |
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- Add_template_to_ssl.pem |
admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update |
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- Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized |
ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file. |
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- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk |
- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the |
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- Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save |
3rd of January 2013. |
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- Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console |
- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in |
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- Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT |
servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() |
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- Simplified patch after review comments |
prevents this. |
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- Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment |
- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is |
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- Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb |
running at any particular time. |
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- Template /etc/updatedb.conf |
- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. |
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- Make CipherSuite secure by default |
- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org |
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- D-root is changing its IPv4 address |
- Increase memory limit for ntpd. |
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- Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save |
- Add an audit for groups. |
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- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers |
- Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for |
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- Fix removing old BDB log files |
new installations. |
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- Remove unused BDB log files |
- Provide the ability to force https per ibay. |
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- Improve error checking in isValidIP |
- Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks. |
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- Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running, |
- Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports |
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patch by Charlie Brady |
other than 443,563 |
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- Force magic_quotes Off |
- Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files. |
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- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN |
- Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore. |
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- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't |
- Remove old images. |
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handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. |
- Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9 |
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- Remove previous change |
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- Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error |
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- Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility |
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- Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom |
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- Update Obsoletes and Conflicts |
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General features |
General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates |
- Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates |
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