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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes
  ===================================
- June 2009
+September 2011
  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
+ SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next
- have been updated to the latest releases.
+ major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8.
- Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised
+ Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
- in the bug tracker (and only there, please);
+ tracker (and only there, please);
      http://bugs.contribs.org/
+ ***************************
+ Testers Please Note the following...
+. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this
+    release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a
+    dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
+    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.
+. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
+    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
+. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
+    machines without contribs or other modifications.
+. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing
+    contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers.
+    Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker.
+. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
+    during this time you may experience problems.
+    You can download SME8.0 Beta 7 from
+    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
+    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
+ ***************************
  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.
+ enterprises.
- ( 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
+ SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
- and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
+ 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.
+ Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
+ Thanks and a plea for help
+ ==========================
+ The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
+ themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role
+ of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and
+ quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all
+ levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw
+ the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design,
+ up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug
+ triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;
+ please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's
+ future.
+ This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,
+ contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server
+ Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
+ latest stage of development.
+ Major changes in beta 7
+ =======================
+ * Require authentication for all emails, including local.
+ * Optional - to use ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems
+   (except for /boot). At the boot prompt use "ext4" or "sme ext4".
+   *** ext4 is considered experimental, so use with caution ***
+ * Optional - LDAP authentication can be enabled. Once enabled it cannot
+   be disabled, so experiment with care.
+   To enable: db configuration setprop ldap Authentication enabled
  Changes in this release
  =======================
- e-smith-apache
+ This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
- - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]
+ by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6.
- - 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
+ The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes
+ carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to
+ shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and
+ Fedora-associated developers are not included.
+ Backups
+ -------
+ - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.
+ - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
+ - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup
+   destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.
+ - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.
+   Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not
+   restricted to only USB disks.
+ - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.
+ - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during
+   software update.
+ - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.
+ - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of
+   open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed
+   if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables.
+ File Server
+ -----------
+ - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
+ - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
+ LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
+ ----
+ - Create samba account during event for machine.
+ - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP.
+ - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account.
+ - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership.
+ - Fix cpu critical patch missing '
+ - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb
+ - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database.
+ - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed.
+ - Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with
+   regards to LDAP.
+ - Fix create user gid parameter.
+ - Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script.
+ - All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP.
+ - Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP.
+ - Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master.
+ - Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled.
+ - Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database.
+ - Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix
+ - Change script order: ldap-update should be called after
+   domain-group-maps.
+ - LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department.
+ - LDAP changes: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config.
+ - Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype.
+ - Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates.
+ - Change startup order for ldap.
+ - ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords.
+ - Add ldap as an auth type to radius
+ - Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled).
+ Localisation
+ ------------
+ - Latest localisation updates applied.
+ Mail Server
+ -----------
+ - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external
+   address.
+ - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
+ - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.
+ - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.
+ - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.
+ - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.
+ - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work
+ - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no
+   headers.
+ - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.
+ - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.
+ - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.
+ - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of
+   mail logfiles.
+ Server manager
+ --------------
+ - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.
+ Webmail and Groupware
+ ---------------------
+ - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5
+ - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
+   identities.
+ Web Server
+ ----------
+ - Disable SSLv2 by default.
+ - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.
+ Other fixes and updates
+ -----------------------
+ - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt
+ - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.
+ - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.
+ - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.
+ - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.
+ - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.
+ - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
+ - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add
+   FQDN).
+ - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks
+ - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be
+   inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.
+ - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.
+ - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts
+ - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be
+   configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.
+ - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and
+   ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by
+   network inactivity.
+ - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.
+ - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.
+ - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.
+ - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.
+ - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.9 2011/09/25 17:53:32 wellsi Exp $
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.1 2009/06/06 23:51:54 slords Exp $

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