--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2009/06/14 21:31:08 1.2 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2015/06/25 14:27:02 1.34 @@ -1,185 +1,212 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes -=================================== +Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC1 Release Notes +========================================== -June 2009 +25 June 2015 -The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.0 Beta 4. This release is based on CentOS 5.3 and all packages -have been updated to the latest releases. +The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce +the release of SME Server 8.2 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 5.11 -Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised -in the bug tracker (and only there, please); +Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug +tracker (and only there, please); http://bugs.contribs.org/ +Download +======== + +You can download SME Server 8.2rc1 from +http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc1/ +or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download + +Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, +during this time you may experience problems. + 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. -( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to -provide marketing and legal support for SME Server. +enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., +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 -and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. +SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and +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 +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. -Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. +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. + +Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received, +simply email treasurer@koozali.org + + +Thanks +====== + +The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved +themselves with this release. + + +Notes +===== + +1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2 + 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 Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at + http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 + +3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those + security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 + (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving + workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. + Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017 + +4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, + during this time you may experience problems. + You can download SME Server 8.2 from + http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc/ + Changes in this release ======================= -e-smith-apache -- Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034] -- 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 +Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are +not included. + + +Backups +------- + - Add pkgconfig dar + - New Upstream Version of dar + - Add requires nfs-utils + - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start + - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / + + +LDAP +---- + - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be + parsed + +Localisation +------------ + - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle + - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle + - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle + +Mail Server +----------- + - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7 + - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel + - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file. + - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch + - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA + - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3 + - Fix stunnel path + - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS + - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter + by John Crisp + - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd + - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 + - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List + +Server manager +-------------- + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710 + xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 + core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669 + exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object + change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698 + spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670 + gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm. + CVE-2014-2497 + fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in + cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587 + core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT + record parsing. CVE-2014-3597 + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 + date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712 + core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing. + CVE-2014-4049 + core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type + confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 + fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270 + fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type + rules. CVE-2014-1943 + fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571 + fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479 + fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480 + fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping + DoS. CVE-2014-0237 + fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite + loop. CVE-2014-0238 + + +Web Server +---------- + - Disable SSLv3 + - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed + - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929 + +Other fixes and updates +----------------------- + - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic + (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp) + - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected + answer to NO + - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd + - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd + - Reset primary ibay default type + - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager. + Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field + Code done by Charlie Brady + and Huib + - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain + - Move mysql logging to multilog + - Allow ntp status queries from localhost. + - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update. + - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby + - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 + - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the + CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes. + - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS. + - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message + generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix + regression). + - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild + - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946) + - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2 + - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager + - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates + - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository General features ================ -- Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates -$Id: README.txt,v 1.1 2009/06/06 23:51:54 slords Exp $ +Terry Fage +On behalf of the SME Server development team