1 |
SME Server 8.1 Release Notes |
SME Server 8.1Beta1 Release Notes |
2 |
============================ |
============================ |
3 |
|
|
4 |
04 July 2013 |
30 September 2013 |
5 |
|
|
6 |
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
7 |
SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 |
SME Server 8.1 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 |
8 |
|
|
9 |
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 |
10 |
tracker (and only there, please); |
tracker (and only there, please); |
27 |
|
|
28 |
Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
29 |
|
|
30 |
Thanks |
Thanks and a plea for help |
31 |
====== |
========================== |
32 |
|
|
33 |
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
34 |
themselves with this release. |
themselves with this release. |
35 |
|
|
36 |
Notes |
Notes |
37 |
===== |
===== |
38 |
|
|
39 |
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 |
40 |
will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
41 |
means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
42 |
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 |
43 |
are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
44 |
Athlon XP and later. |
Athlon XP and later. |
45 |
|
|
46 |
2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at |
2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at |
47 |
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
48 |
|
|
49 |
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, |
52 |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/ |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/ |
53 |
or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
54 |
|
|
|
Major changes since 8.0 |
|
|
======================= |
|
|
* TBD |
|
|
|
|
55 |
|
|
56 |
Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
57 |
======================= |
======================= |
59 |
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
60 |
not included. |
not included. |
61 |
|
|
62 |
|
|
63 |
Backups |
Backups |
64 |
------- |
------- |
65 |
- Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage |
- 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. |
66 |
- Allow full backup to occur on Sunday |
- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup. |
67 |
- Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level |
- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. |
68 |
|
For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 |
69 |
|
The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression. |
70 |
|
- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device. |
71 |
|
- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed. |
72 |
|
- Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup. |
73 |
|
- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors. |
74 |
|
- Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces. |
75 |
|
- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success . |
76 |
|
- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup. |
77 |
|
|
78 |
File Server |
File Server |
79 |
----------- |
----------- |
80 |
- Revert previous change. |
- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. |
81 |
- Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option |
/server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg |
82 |
- Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration |
- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'. |
83 |
- Enable smb auditing per ibay |
see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS |
84 |
- Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12 |
For example to enable samba Wide Links |
85 |
|
# config setprop smb WideLinks yes |
86 |
|
- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons. |
87 |
|
/server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg |
88 |
|
- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. |
89 |
|
For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1 |
90 |
|
- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an email to be sent to the admin every night. |
91 |
|
- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. |
92 |
|
Auditing is enabled via |
93 |
|
# db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled |
94 |
|
# signal-event ibay-modify ibayname |
95 |
|
- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays |
96 |
|
- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
97 |
|
- 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. |
98 |
|
- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN |
99 |
|
|
100 |
|
|
101 |
LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) |
LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental) |
102 |
---- |
---- |
103 |
|
- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled. |
104 |
|
- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled. |
105 |
|
- 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. |
106 |
|
- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers. |
107 |
|
- 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. |
108 |
|
|
109 |
|
|
110 |
Localisation |
Localisation |
111 |
------------ |
------------ |
112 |
*** NONE *** |
- Latest translations included. |
113 |
|
|
114 |
|
|
115 |
Mail Server |
Mail Server |
116 |
----------- |
----------- |
117 |
- Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled |
- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. |
118 |
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments |
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. |
119 |
- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady |
- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. |
120 |
- Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch |
- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. |
121 |
- Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow |
For example to remove CRAM-MD5: |
122 |
- Don't use SSL over loopback |
# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 |
123 |
- Easier to read version of softlimit patch |
# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
124 |
- More robust version of softlimit patch |
More than one method can be removed: |
125 |
- Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s |
# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" |
126 |
- Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
127 |
- modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti |
- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow. |
128 |
- Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} |
129 |
- smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it |
For example to increase the memory limit |
130 |
to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel |
# config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000 |
131 |
- Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base |
# expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT |
132 |
- tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2 |
# config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000 |
133 |
- Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady |
# expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT |
134 |
|
- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. |
135 |
|
For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit |
136 |
|
# config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6 |
137 |
|
- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name. |
138 |
|
- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers. |
139 |
|
- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd. |
140 |
|
- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. |
141 |
|
For example to also scan larger files |
142 |
|
# config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000 |
143 |
|
- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2. |
144 |
|
- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email. |
145 |
|
- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP and SSMTP transactions |
146 |
|
- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8. |
147 |
|
- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled. |
148 |
|
|
149 |
|
|
150 |
Server manager |
Server manager |
151 |
-------------- |
-------------- |
152 |
- Do not load mod_ssl |
- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise. |
153 |
- Correct processing of server-manager URL |
- 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. |
154 |
- Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady |
- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm. |
155 |
- Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel |
- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager |
156 |
|
|
157 |
|
|
158 |
Webmail and Groupware |
Webmail and Groupware |
159 |
--------------------- |
--------------------- |
160 |
|
|
161 |
|
- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function. |
162 |
|
- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface. |
163 |
|
|
164 |
|
|
165 |
Web Server |
Web Server |
166 |
---------- |
---------- |
167 |
- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder |
- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder. |
168 |
|
- 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. |
169 |
|
- Change wording of Software Update button. |
170 |
|
|
171 |
|
|
172 |
Other fixes and updates |
Other fixes and updates |
173 |
----------------------- |
----------------------- |
174 |
- Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud |
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB |
175 |
- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. |
176 |
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady |
- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds |
177 |
- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays, |
- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. |
178 |
by Mark Casey |
- 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. |
179 |
- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled |
- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. |
180 |
- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled |
- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this. |
181 |
- Add_template_to_ssl.pem |
- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time. |
182 |
- Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized |
- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. |
183 |
- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk |
- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org |
184 |
- Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save |
- Increase memory limit for ntpd . |
|
- 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 |
|
185 |
|
|
186 |
General features |
General features |
187 |
================ |
================ |
188 |
|
|
189 |
- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates |
- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates |
190 |
|
|
191 |
$Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $ |
$Id: README.txt,v 1.19 2013/09/14 19:21:18 wellsi Exp $ |
192 |
|
|
193 |
|
|
194 |
|
|