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SME Server 7.3 Release Notes |
SME Server 8.1Beta3 Release Notes |
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January 1 2008 |
12 November 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 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages |
SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 which is based on CentOS 5.10 |
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have been updated to the latest releases. |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
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All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised |
About SME Server |
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in the bug tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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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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About SME Server |
for SME Server. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc. |
However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to |
meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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provide marketing and legal support for SME Server. |
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As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License |
a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual |
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and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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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As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further |
the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation |
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development. |
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://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Thanks |
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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The development team would like to thank all of those involved in |
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this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the |
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current level of support. More people are required to help with |
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bug triage and verification testing. |
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The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
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themselves with this release. |
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This release contains many new features, all released updates for |
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SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades |
Notes |
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will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
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1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1 |
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Upgrades |
will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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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 |
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- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades |
are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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- An upgrade will preserve the existing data |
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2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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Changes in this release |
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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. |
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You can download SME8.1 from |
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Installer Options |
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 |
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- Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's |
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see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files |
Changes from Beta 2 |
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Other mail system changes |
Update to CentOS 5.10 |
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Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. |
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- Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin |
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- Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient |
Changes from Beta 1 |
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addresses |
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- Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues |
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- Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes |
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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Console |
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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- Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting |
Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. |
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- Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install |
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 |
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Backups |
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- Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media |
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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- Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore |
not included. |
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Localisation |
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- The fr-fr browser language is now supported |
- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a |
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- Italian translation minor update |
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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Software Installer |
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- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. |
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- The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror |
For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 |
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location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors |
The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression. |
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- Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months |
- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB |
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- Added smecontribs repository to smeserver |
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- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being |
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Webmail |
- 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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- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions |
- Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces. |
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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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Server manager |
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- Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in |
File Server |
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- Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel |
- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. |
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- Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files |
- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry |
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- Convert squid timestamp in view log files |
file. |
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- Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no |
/server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg |
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longer invalidate access to server manager |
- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. |
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- Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip |
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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Other fixes and updates |
- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help |
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Windows slow logons. |
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- More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5 |
/server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg |
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- Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package |
- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & |
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- Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable |
smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. |
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- Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly |
For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1 |
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- Fixed various log noise issues |
- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an |
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- Allow root to be key based login only |
email to be sent to the admin every night. |
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- Increased dnscache forwarder cache size |
- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. |
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- Freshclam permissions now corrected |
Auditing is enabled via |
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- Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear |
# db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled |
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- Added WPAD feature in DHCP |
# signal-event ibay-modify ibayname |
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- Fixed various perl issues |
- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays |
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- Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day |
- 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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General features |
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- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN |
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- Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates |
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LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental) |
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There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2 |
- 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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After installing for the very first time: |
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- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers. |
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- First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates. |
- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of |
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- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of |
users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed. |
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groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification). |
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- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day |
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about those changes (rkhunter email notification). |
Localisation |
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- Latest translations included. |
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Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3 |
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- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates |
Mail Server |
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- First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files |
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(rkhunter email notification). |
- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. |
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- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $ |
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. |
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- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. |
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- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a |
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blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. |
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For example to remove CRAM-MD5: |
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# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 |
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# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
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More than one method can be removed: |
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# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" |
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# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
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- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was |
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sometimes very slow. |
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- 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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For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit |
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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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- 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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- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. |
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- Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. |
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- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log |
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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 |
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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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- 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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- Change wording of Software Update button. |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB |
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- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant |
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variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. |
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- 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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- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. |
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- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the |
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admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update |
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ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file. |
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- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the |
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3rd of January 2013. |
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- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in |
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servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() |
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prevents this. |
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- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is |
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running at any particular time. |
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- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. |
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- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org |
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- Increase memory limit for ntpd . |
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