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SME Server 7.3 Release Notes |
SME Server 8.1 Release Notes |
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January 1 2008 |
04 July 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 which is based on CentOS 5.9 |
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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. |
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About SME Server |
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. |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc. |
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( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to |
As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further |
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provide marketing and legal support for SME Server. |
development. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License |
Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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and 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 |
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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 |
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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Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. |
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1. 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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The development team would like to thank all of those involved in |
means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the |
AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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current level of support. More people are required to help with |
are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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bug triage and verification testing. |
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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This release contains many new features, all released updates for |
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades |
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will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
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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Upgrades |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades |
Major changes since 8.0 |
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- An upgrade will preserve the existing data |
* TBD |
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Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
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Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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Installer Options |
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- Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's |
Backups |
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see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files |
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- Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage |
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- Allow full backup to occur on Sunday |
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Other mail system changes |
- Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level |
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- Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin |
File Server |
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- Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient |
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addresses |
- Revert previous change. |
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- Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues |
- Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option |
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- Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes |
- 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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Console |
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LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) |
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- Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting |
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- Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install |
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Localisation |
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Backups |
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Mail Server |
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- Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media |
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- Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore |
- Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled |
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- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments |
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- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady |
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Localisation |
- Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch |
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- Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow |
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- The fr-fr browser language is now supported |
- Don't use SSL over loopback |
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- Italian translation minor update |
- Easier to read version of softlimit patch |
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- More robust version of softlimit patch |
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- Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s |
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Software Installer |
- Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
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- modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti |
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- The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror |
- Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
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location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors |
- smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it |
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- Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months |
to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel |
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- Added smecontribs repository to smeserver |
- 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 |
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Server manager |
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- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions |
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- Do not load mod_ssl |
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- Correct processing of server-manager URL |
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Server manager |
- Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady |
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- Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel |
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- Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in |
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serveronly mode |
Webmail and Groupware |
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- Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel |
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- Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files |
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- Convert squid timestamp in view log files |
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- Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no |
Web Server |
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longer invalidate access to server manager |
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- Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip |
- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder |
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Other fixes and updates |
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Other fixes and updates |
- Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud |
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- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
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- More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5 |
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady |
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- Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package |
- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays, |
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- Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable |
by Mark Casey |
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- Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly |
- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled |
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- Fixed various log noise issues |
- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled |
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- Allow root to be key based login only |
- Add_template_to_ssl.pem |
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- Increased dnscache forwarder cache size |
- Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized |
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- Freshclam permissions now corrected |
- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk |
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- Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear |
- Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save |
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- Added WPAD feature in DHCP |
- Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console |
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- Fixed various perl issues |
- Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT |
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- Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day |
- Simplified patch after review comments |
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- Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb |
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General features |
- Template /etc/updatedb.conf |
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- Make CipherSuite secure by default |
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- D-root is changing its IPv4 address |
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- Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates |
- Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save |
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- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers |
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- Fix removing old BDB log files |
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There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2 |
- Remove unused BDB log files |
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- Improve error checking in isValidIP |
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- Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running, |
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patch by Charlie Brady |
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After installing for the very first time: |
- Force magic_quotes Off |
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- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN |
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- First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates. |
- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't |
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- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of |
handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. |
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groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification). |
Fix submitted by Charlie Brady |
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- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day |
- Remove previous change |
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about those changes (rkhunter email notification). |
- Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error |
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- Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility |
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- Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom |
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Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3 |
- Update Obsoletes and Conflicts |
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- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates |
General features |
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- First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files |
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(rkhunter email notification). |
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- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $ |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $ |
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