--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2009/06/06 23:51:54 1.1 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2009/06/14 21:31:08 1.2 @@ -1,165 +1,185 @@ -SME Server 7.3 Release Notes -============================ - -January 1 2008 - -The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages -have been updated to the latest releases. - - -All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. - - -Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised -in the bug tracker (and only there, please); - - http://bugs.contribs.org/ - - -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. - -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 -development. - -Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. - - -Thanks ------- -The development team would like to thank all of those involved in -this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the -current level of support. More people are required to help with -bug triage and verification testing. - - -This release contains many new features, all released updates for -SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades -will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. - - -Upgrades -======== - -- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades - -- An upgrade will preserve the existing data - - -Changes in this release -======================= - - -Installer Options ------------------ -- Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's - see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files - - -Other mail system changes -------------------------- -- Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin -- Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient - addresses -- Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues -- Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes - - -Console -------- -- Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting -- Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install - time - - -Backups -------- -- Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media -- Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore - - -Localisation ------------- -- The fr-fr browser language is now supported -- Italian translation minor update - - -Software Installer ------------------- -- The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror - location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors -- Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months -- Added smecontribs repository to smeserver - - -Webmail -------- -- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions - - -Server manager --------------- -- Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in - serveronly mode -- Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel -- Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files -- Convert squid timestamp in view log files -- Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no - longer invalidate access to server manager -- Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip - address - - -Other fixes and updates ------------------------ -- More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5 -- Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package -- Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable -- Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly -- Fixed various log noise issues -- Allow root to be key based login only -- Increased dnscache forwarder cache size -- Freshclam permissions now corrected -- Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear -- Added WPAD feature in DHCP -- Fixed various perl issues -- Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day - - -General features -================ - -- Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates - - -There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2 -====================================================================== - - -After installing for the very first time: ------------------------------------------ -- First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates. -- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of - groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification). -- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day - about those changes (rkhunter email notification). - - -Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3 ------------------------------------------ -- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates -- First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files - (rkhunter email notification). - -$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $ +SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes +=================================== + +June 2009 + +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. + +Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised +in the bug tracker (and only there, please); + + http://bugs.contribs.org/ + + +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. + +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 +development. + +Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. + +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 + + +General features +================ + +- Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates + +$Id: README.txt,v 1.1 2009/06/06 23:51:54 slords Exp $