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1  SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1 Release Notes
2  ===================================  ============================
3    
4  8 October 2011  28 February 2014
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7  SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next  SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.10
 major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8.  
8    
9  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
10  tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
11    
12      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
13    
 ***************************  
 Testers Please Note the following...  
   
 1. 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.  
   
 2. 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.  
   
 3. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at  
    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8  
   
 4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean  
    machines without contribs or other modifications.  
   
 5. 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.  
   
 6. 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  
   
 ***************************  
   
14  About SME Server  About SME Server
15  ================  ================
16    
17  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
18  enterprises.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
19    a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
20    for SME Server.
21    
22  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
23  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
24  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
25  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
26    
27  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.
28    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
29    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
30    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
31  development.  development.
32    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
33    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
34    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
35    your have in the field. Please, help the project
36    
37  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
38    
39  Thanks and a plea for help  Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
40  ==========================  simply email treasurer@koozali.org
41    
42    Thanks
43    ======
44    
45  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
46  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role  themselves with this release.
 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.  
47    
48  Major changes in beta 7  Notes
49  =======================  =====
50  * Require authentication for all emails, including local.  
51  * Optional - to use ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
52    (except for /boot). At the boot prompt use "ext4" or "sme ext4".     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
53    *** ext4 is considered experimental, so use with caution ***     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
54  * Optional - LDAP authentication can be enabled. Once enabled it cannot     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
55    be disabled, so experiment with care.     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
56    To enable: db configuration setprop ldap Authentication enabled     Athlon XP and later.
57    
58    2. Some notes on SME Server 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
59       http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
60    
61    3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
62       during this time you may experience problems.
63       You can download SME Server 8.1 from
64       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
65       or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
66    
67    Changes from RC 1
68    ===================
69    
70    There are no major changes.
71    
72    Changes from Beta 4
73    ===================
74    
75    There are no major changes.
76    Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9.
77    
78    Changes from Beta 3
79    ===================
80    
81    Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
82    new installations.
83    Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
84    Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
85    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
86    Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
87    Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
88    
89    Changes from Beta 2
90    ===================
91    
92    Update to CentOS 5.10
93    Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
94    Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
95    Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
96    from CGI.pm
97    Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
98    when using dar 2.4
99    
100    Changes from Beta 1
101    ===================
102    
103    nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
104    dmraid.
105    Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
106    SME Server changes to initscripts included.
107    Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
108    Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
109    Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
110    Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
111    
112  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
113  =======================  =======================
114    
115  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
116  by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6.  not included.
117    
 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.  
118    
119  Backups  Backups
120  -------  -------
121  - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.  - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
122  - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.  - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
123  - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup    full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
124    destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.  - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
125  - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.    delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
126    Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not    OS.
127    restricted to only USB disks.  - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
128  - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.    For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
129  - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during    The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
130    software update.  - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
131  - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.    device.
132  - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of  - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
133    open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed    performed.
134    if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables.  - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
135    - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
136    - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
137    - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
138      backup.
139    - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
140      to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
141    - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
142      when it goes out of scope.
143    - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
144    - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
145      of results from CGI.pm
146    - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
147      when using dar 2.4
148    - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
149    - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
150    - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
151    
152    
153  File Server  File Server
154  -----------  -----------
155  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
156  - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).  - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
157      file.
158      /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
159    - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
160      The current samba default is 'no'.
161      see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
162      For example to enable samba Wide Links
163      # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
164    - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
165      Windows slow logons.
166      /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
167    - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
168      smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
169      For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
170    - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
171      email to be sent to the admin every night.
172    - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
173      Auditing is enabled via
174      # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
175      # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
176    - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
177    - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
178    - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
179      lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
180      large numbers of local networks were configured.
181    - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
182    - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
183      Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
184    
185    
186  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)  LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
187  ----  ----
188  - Create samba account during event for machine.  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
189  - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP.  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
190  - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account.  - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
191  - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership.    slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
192  - Fix cpu critical patch missing '    corrected.
193  - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
194  - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database.  - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
195  - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed.    users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
196  - 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).  
197    
198  Localisation  Localisation
199  ------------  ------------
200  - Latest localisation updates applied.  - Latest translations included.
201    
202    
203  Mail Server  Mail Server
204  -----------  -----------
205  - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external  - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
206    address.  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
207  - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
208  - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
209  - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.  - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
210  - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
211  - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.    the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
212  - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work    For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
213  - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
214    headers.    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
215  - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.    More than one method can be removed:
216  - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
217  - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
218  - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of  - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
219    mail logfiles.  - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
220      sometimes very slow.
221    - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
222      database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
223      For example to increase the memory limit
224      # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
225      # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
226      # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
227      # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
228    - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
229      /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
230      For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
231      # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
232    - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
233    - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
234    - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
235      qpsmtpd.
236    - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
237      spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
238      For example to also scan larger files
239      # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
240    - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
241      SSLv2.
242    - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
243    - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
244      and SSMTP transactions
245    - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
246    - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
247    - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
248      size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
249    - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
250    - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
251    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
252    - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
253    - Use stunnel-tls instead of sslio to wrap imaps service.
254    
255  Server manager  Server manager
256  --------------  --------------
257  - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.  - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
258    - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
259    - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
260      noise.
261    - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
262      %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
263      now case-insensitive for %escapes.
264    - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
265    - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
266      Web panel in server-manager.
267    
268    
269  Webmail and Groupware  Webmail and Groupware
270  ---------------------  ---------------------
271  - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5  - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
272  - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional    to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
273    identities.  - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
274    - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
275    
276    
277  Web Server  Web Server
278  ----------  ----------
279  - Disable SSLv2 by default.  - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
280  - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
281    - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
282      will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
283      is ON.
284    - Change wording of Software Update button.
285    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
286    
287    
288  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
289  -----------------------  -----------------------
290  - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
291  - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.  - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
292  - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.    variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
293  - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.  - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
294  - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.    to take only seconds
295  - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.  - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
296  - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.  - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
297  - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add    admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
298    FQDN).    ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
299  - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks  - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
300  - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be    3rd of January 2013.
301    inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.  - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
302  - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.    servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
303  - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts    prevents this.
304  - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be  - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
305    configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.    running at any particular time.
306  - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and  - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
307    ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by  - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
308    network inactivity.  - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
309  - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.  - Add an audit for groups.
310  - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.  - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
311  - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.    new installations.
312  - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.  - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
313  - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.  - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
314    - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
315      other than 443,563
316    - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
317    - Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore.
318    - Remove old images.
319    - Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9
320    
321    
322  General features  General features
323  ================  ================
324    
325  - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
   
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