--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/07/03 02:58:39 1.16 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/10/12 05:51:47 1.22 @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -SME Server 8.1 Release Notes -============================ +SME Server 8.1Beta2 Release Notes +================================= -04 July 2013 +14 October 2013 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 +SME Server 8.1 Beta 2 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); @@ -22,11 +22,19 @@ is only possible through the efforts of However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. -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. +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 +your have in the field. Please, help the project Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. + Thanks ====== @@ -36,26 +44,34 @@ themselves with this release. Notes ===== -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 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 +2. Some notes on SME 8.1 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/ + http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 -Major changes since 8.0 -======================= -* TBD +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. Changes in this release ======================= @@ -63,107 +79,181 @@ Changes in this release Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are not included. + Backups ------- -- 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 +- 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, be compatible with destinations that include spaces. +- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success . +- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after +backup. File Server ----------- -- 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 +- 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 + -LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) +LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental) ---- +- 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. + Localisation ------------ -*** NONE *** +- Latest translations included. + Mail Server ----------- -- 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 +- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. +- 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 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. + Server manager -------------- -- 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 +- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. +- 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. + Web Server ---------- -- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder +- 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. + Other fixes and updates ----------------------- -- 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 +- 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 . General features ================ - 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 1.21 2013/10/06 15:40:54 wellsi Exp $ + +