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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.1Beta1 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ============================
- June 2009
+September 2013
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 which will be the next major release of SME Server.
+ SME Server 8.1 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 5.9
- This release is based on CentOS 5.3 and all packages have been updated
- to the latest releases.
- ***************************
- 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.
- ***************************
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  tracker (and only there, please);
      http://bugs.contribs.org/
- Please be sure to choose 'SME Server Release 8.X'
- ***************************
- Testers Please Note the following...
-. 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.
-. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
-    machines without contribs or other modifications. Issues with
-    upgrading from clean SME machines can be reported in the bug
-    tracker, but detailed reviews of upgrading paths will not start
-    until Release Candidate versions are made available.
-    Some notes on upgrading from Release 7 can be found
-    at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
- ***************************
  About SME Server
  ================
  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
- enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
+ enterprises.
- ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
- provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
- SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
+ SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
- and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
+ is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
  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
  development.
- Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
+ Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
  Thanks and a plea for help
  ==========================
  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
+ themselves with this release.
- 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
+ Notes
- 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
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
- verification testing needs lots of community involvement; please try to
+    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
- spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's future.
+    means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
+    AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
- This release, which is based on a major update of CentOS, contains
+    are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
- many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server Manager
+    Athlon XP and later.
- regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the latest stage
- of development.
+. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
+    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
+. 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
  Changes in this release
  =======================
- e-smith-apache
+ Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
- - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]
+ not included.
- - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]
- - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]
- - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]
- - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]
- - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]
- e-smith-backup
- - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579]
- - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]
- e-smith-base
- - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336]
- - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230]
- - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]
- e-smith-horde
- - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request
- information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7 and sme8 [SME: 4821]
- - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860]
- - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN
- - access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787]
- - Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.2 [SME: 4831]
- e-smith-imap
- - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]
- - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]
- e-smith-imp
- - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) and remove obsolete
- php-pear-HTTP-Request line. [SME: 4928]
- - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]
- - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832]
- e-smith-ldap
- - Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018]
- - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem.
- [SME: 3018, 2859]
- e-smith-manager
- - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]
- e-smith-mysql
- - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]
- - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]
- e-smith-nutUPS
- - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]
- e-smith-openssh
- - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]
- e-smith-qmail
- - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5257]
- - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a
- local ip [SME: 5171]
- e-smith-quota
- - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112]
- e-smith-radiusd
- - Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317]
- e-smith-samba
- - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309]
- - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]
- e-smith-turba
- - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]
- - Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910]
- - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]
- - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]
- horde
- - Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831]
- imp-h3
- - Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832]
- initscripts
- - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration
- database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]
- - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only
- initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures
- that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects
- against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]
- mod_auth_external
- - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318]
- qmail
- - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]
- qpsmtpd
- - Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108]
- smeserver-clamav
- - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319]
- - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]
- - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]
- smeserver-locale
- - apply locale 2009-05-27 patch
- - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]
- - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]
- smeserver-release
- - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]
- - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]
- - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]
- - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]
- - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]
- - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]
- smeserver-yum
- - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305]
- - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242]
- - Require mailx [SME: 5131]
- - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of
- needed pacakges [SME: 3133]
- turba-h3
- - Updated to Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]
- The following files are no longer in the ISO
- - libdhcp
- - qmail-workaround
- - rkhunter
- The following files were added to the ISO
- - aspell-ru
- - dbus-libs
- - perl-Package-Constants
- - smeserver-locale-et
- - smeserver-locale-nb
- - smeserver-locale-ro
- - smeserver-locale-ru
- - smeserver-locale-zh_CN
- - yum-protect-packages
+ Backups
+ -------
+ - 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.
+ - 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
+ -----------
+ - 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 8.1, 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
+ ------------
+ - Latest translations included.
+ Mail Server
+ -----------
+ - 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 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.
+ - 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
+ -----------------------
+ - 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.
+ - 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 5.3 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.18 2013/09/11 04:35:48 wellsi Exp $
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/06/14 21:31:08 wellsi Exp $

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