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SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes |
Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC2 Release Announcement |
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Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC2 Release Notes |
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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 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.6 and will be the next |
the release of SME Server 8.2 Release Candidate 2 which is based on CentOS 5.11 |
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major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8. |
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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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Download |
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Testers Please Note the following... |
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You can download SME Server 8.2rc2 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc2/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this |
Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a |
during this time you may experience problems. |
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dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase. |
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2. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 |
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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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are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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3. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean |
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machines without contribs or other modifications. |
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4. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing |
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contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers. |
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Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker. |
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5. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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6. 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 SME8.0 Beta 7 from |
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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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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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Thanks and a plea for help |
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 |
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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 beta release. At this stage in development the role |
themselves with this release. |
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of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and |
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quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all |
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levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw |
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the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design, |
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up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug |
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triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement; |
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please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's |
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future. |
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This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core, |
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contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server |
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Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the |
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latest stage of development. |
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Major changes in beta 7 |
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* Require authentication for all emails, including local. |
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* Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot). UNDER DISCUSSION |
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* LDAP authentication can be enabled, but is not on by default in this version, |
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once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care. |
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Changes in this release |
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 |
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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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are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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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 |
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This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out |
3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those |
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by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6. |
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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The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes |
4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to |
during this time you may experience problems. |
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shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and |
You can download SME Server 8.2 from |
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Fedora-associated developers are not included. |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc/ |
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Switch back to upstream openssl builds |
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Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter |
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Added Windows 10 support to SME Domain |
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Changes in this release |
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Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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Backups |
Backups |
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- Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks. |
- Add pkgconfig dar |
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- Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in |
- New Upstream Version of dar |
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the Configure Workstation Backup panel |
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- Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel. |
- The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start |
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Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted |
- Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / |
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- Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number. |
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- Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update |
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- Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email. |
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- A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of |
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open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL |
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database has a very large number of tables. |
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File Server |
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- Change separator character in general Samba configuration file. |
- added W10 support to SME Domain |
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- Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays). |
- e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch |
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- Create samba account during event for machine. |
- Fix samba audit parameters Patch from Jorge Gonzalez |
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- Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP. |
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- Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account. |
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- Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership. |
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- Fix cpu critical patch missing ' |
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- LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb |
- Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be |
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Localisation |
Localisation |
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- Latest localisation updates applied. |
- 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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- Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address. |
- Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7 |
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- Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured. |
- Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel |
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- Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy. |
- Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file. |
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- Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary. |
- Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch |
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- Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts. |
- Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA |
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- Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled. |
- Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3 |
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- Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work |
- Fix stunnel path |
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- Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers. |
- Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS |
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- Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors. |
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- Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database. |
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- New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of qmail |
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logfiles. |
- Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 |
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Server manager |
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- Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel. |
- 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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Webmail and Groupware |
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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- Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5 |
exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 |
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- Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional |
- Resync with upstream php53, which include |
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spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object |
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- Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed. |
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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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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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 SSLv2 by default. |
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- make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'. |
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- Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929 |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot) |
- Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic |
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- Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP. |
(Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp) |
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- Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only. |
- When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected |
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- Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC. |
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- Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories. |
- Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd |
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- Fix create user gid parameter. |
- Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd |
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- Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script. |
- Reset primary ibay default type |
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- Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf. |
- Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager. |
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- Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup. |
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- Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add FQDN). |
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- Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks |
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- Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be inserted |
- Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain |
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in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address. |
- Move mysql logging to multilog |
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- Add validator back for ip or cname entry. |
- Allow ntp status queries from localhost. |
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- All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP. |
- Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update. |
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- Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP. |
- Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby |
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- Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master. |
- Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 |
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- Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled. |
- Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the |
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- Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database. |
CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes. |
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- Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix |
- Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS. |
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- Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps. |
- Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message |
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- LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department. |
generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix |
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- LDAP chnages: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config. |
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- Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype. |
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild |
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- Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates. |
- Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946) |
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- Change startup order for ldap. |
- Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2 |
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- ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords. |
- Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager |
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- Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts |
- Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates |
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- Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured |
- Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository |
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by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift. |
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- Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax |
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to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity. |
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- New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration. |
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- Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration. |
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- Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units. |
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- Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well. |
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- Add ldap as an auth type to radius |
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- Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled). |
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General features |
General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.6 and all available updates |
- Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2010/07/15 07:58:07 wellsi Exp $ |
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On behalf of the SME Server development team |