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SME Server 8.1 Release Notes |
Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes |
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04 July 2013 |
18 March 2015 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce |
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SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 |
the release of SME Server 8.2 beta2 which is based on CentOS 5.11 |
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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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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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You can download SME Server 8.2 beta2 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2.beta2/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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About SME Server |
About SME Server |
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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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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 |
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themselves with this release. |
themselves with this release. |
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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 8.2 |
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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 |
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2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 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, |
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3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those |
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security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 |
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(so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving |
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workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. |
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Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017 |
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4. 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 8.2 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/ |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/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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Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
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Backups |
Backups |
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- Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage |
- Add pkgconfig dar |
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- Allow full backup to occur on Sunday |
- New Upstream Version dar |
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- Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level |
- Add requires nfs-utils |
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- The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start |
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- Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / |
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- Revert previous change. |
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- Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option |
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- Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration |
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- Enable smb auditing per ibay |
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- Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12 |
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LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) |
LDAP |
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- Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be |
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Localisation |
Localisation |
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*** NONE *** |
- apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle |
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- apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle |
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- apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle |
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Mail Server |
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- Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled |
- Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6 |
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- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments |
- Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel |
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- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady |
- Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file. |
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- Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch |
- Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & |
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- Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow |
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- Don't use SSL over loopback |
- Fix stunnel path |
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- Easier to read version of softlimit patch |
- Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS |
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- More robust version of softlimit patch |
- Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter |
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- Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s |
by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk> |
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- Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
- Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd |
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- modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti |
- Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 |
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- Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
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to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel |
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- Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base |
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- tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2 |
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- Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady |
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Webmail and Groupware |
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- Resync with upstream php53, which include |
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fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710 |
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xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 |
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core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669 |
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exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 |
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- Resync with upstream php53, which include |
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spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object |
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change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698 |
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spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670 |
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gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm. |
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CVE-2014-2497 |
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fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in |
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cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587 |
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core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT |
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record parsing. CVE-2014-3597 |
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- Resync with upstream php53, which include |
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core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 |
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date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712 |
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core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing. |
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CVE-2014-4049 |
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core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type |
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confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 |
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fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270 |
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fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type |
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rules. CVE-2014-1943 |
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fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571 |
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fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479 |
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fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480 |
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fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping |
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DoS. CVE-2014-0237 |
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fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite |
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loop. CVE-2014-0238 |
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Web Server |
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- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder |
- Disable SSLv3 |
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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 |
- When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected |
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- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
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- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled |
ip allowed in dhcpd |
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- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled |
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- Add_template_to_ssl.pem |
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- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk |
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- Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save |
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Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au> |
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- Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT |
and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com> |
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- Simplified patch after review comments |
- Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain |
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- Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment |
- Move mysql logging to multilog |
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- Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb |
- Allow ntp status queries from localhost. |
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- Template /etc/updatedb.conf |
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- Make CipherSuite secure by default |
- Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby |
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- Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save |
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- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers |
- Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of |
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- Fix removing old BDB log files |
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- Improve error checking in isValidIP |
- Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS. |
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- Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running, |
- Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message |
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patch by Charlie Brady |
generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix |
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- Force magic_quotes Off |
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- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN |
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild |
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- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't |
- Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946) |
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handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. |
- Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2 |
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Fix submitted by Charlie Brady |
- Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager |
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- Remove previous change |
- Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates |
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- Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error |
- Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository |
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- Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility |
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General features |
General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates |
- Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $ |
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