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1  SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Announcement
 ===================================  
2    
3  8 October 2011  Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
4    ==========================================
5    22 Oct 2015
6    
7  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
8  SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next  the release of SME Server 8.2 which is based on CentOS 5.11
 major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8.  
9    
10  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
11  tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
12    
13      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
14    
15  ***************************  Download
16  Testers Please Note the following...  ========
17    You can download SME Server 8.2  from
18    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/
19    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
20    
21  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,
22     release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a  during this time you may experience problems.
    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  
   
 ***************************  
23    
24  About SME Server  About SME Server
25  ================  ================
   
26  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
27  enterprises.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
28    a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
29    for SME Server.
30    
31  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
32  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
33  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
34  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
35    
36  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.
37    
38    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
39    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
40    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
41  development.  development.
42    
43    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
44    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
45    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
46    your have in the field. Please, help the project
47    
48  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
49    
50  Thanks and a plea for help  Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
51  ==========================  simply email treasurer@koozali.org
52    
53    Thanks
54    ======
55  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
56  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.  
57    
58  Major changes in beta 7  Notes
59  =======================  =====
 * 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  
60    
61  Changes in this release  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2
62  =======================     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
63       means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
64       AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
65       are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
66       Athlon XP and later.
67    
68    2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at
69       http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
70    
71  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
72  by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6.     security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
73       (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
74       workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
75       Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
76    
77  The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes  4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
78  carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to     during this time you may experience problems.
79  shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and     You can download SME Server 8.2 from
80  Fedora-associated developers are not included.     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc/
81      
82    Major changes in this release
83    =============================
84    Switch back to upstream openssl builds
85    Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
86    Added Windows 10 support to SME Domain
87    
88    Changes in this release
89    =======================
90    Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
91    not included.
92    
93  Backups  Backups
94  -------  -------
95  - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.   - Add pkgconfig dar
96  - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.   - New Upstream Version of dar
97  - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup   - Add requires nfs-utils
98    destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.   - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
99  - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.   - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
   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.  
100    
101  File Server  File Server
102  -----------  -----------
103  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.   - The samba performance registry is now added in the win10samba.reg
104  - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).   - Corrected typo in patch of bad character '“', relative to roaming profile
105     - e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9049.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
106       Added e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9049.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
107       Modified the registry file for roaming profile with W8
108     - Roaming profiles follow Windows version (.V2,.V3,.V4,.V5)
109       added W10 support to SME Domain
110       e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch
111       e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch  
112     - Fix samba audit parameters Patch from Jorge Gonzalez
113    
114    
115  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)  LDAP
116  ----  ----
117  - Create samba account during event for machine.   - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
118  - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP.     parsed
 - 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).  
119    
120  Localisation  Localisation
121  ------------  ------------
122  - Latest localisation updates applied.   - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
123     - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
124     - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
125    
126  Mail Server  Mail Server
127  -----------  -----------
128  - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external   - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7
129    address.   - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
130  - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.   - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
131  - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.   - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
132  - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA
133  - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
134  - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.   - Fix stunnel path
135  - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work   - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
136  - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no   - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
137    headers.     by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
138  - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.   - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
139  - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.   - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
140  - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.   - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
 - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of  
   mail logfiles.  
141    
142  Server manager  Server manager
143  --------------  --------------
144  - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
145        fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
146  Webmail and Groupware      xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
147  ---------------------      core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
148  - 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
149  - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
150    identities.      spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
151        change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
152        spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
153        gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
154        CVE-2014-2497
155        fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
156        cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
157        core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
158        record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
159     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
160        core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
161        date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
162        core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
163        CVE-2014-4049
164        core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
165        confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
166        fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
167        fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
168        rules. CVE-2014-1943
169        fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
170        fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
171        fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
172        fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
173        DoS. CVE-2014-0237
174        fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
175        loop. CVE-2014-0238
176    
177  Web Server  Web Server
178  ----------  ----------
179  - Disable SSLv2 by default.   - Disable SSLv3
180  - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.   - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
181     - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
182    
183  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
184  -----------------------  -----------------------
185  - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt   - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic
186  - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.     (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp)  
187  - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.   - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
188  - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.     answer to NO
189  - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.   - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
190  - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.   - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
191  - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.   - Reset primary ibay default type
192  - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add   - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager.
193    FQDN).     Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field
194  - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks     Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
195  - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be     and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
196    inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.   - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
197  - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.   - Move mysql logging to multilog
198  - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts   - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
199  - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be   - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
200    configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.   - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
201  - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and   - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
202    ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by   - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
203    network inactivity.     CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
204  - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.   - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
205  - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.   - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
206  - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.     generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
207  - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.     regression).
208  - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.   - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
209     - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
210     - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
211     - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
212     - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
213     - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
214    
215    
216  General features  General features
217  ================  ================
218    
219  - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
   
 $Id: README.txt,v 1.10 2011/09/29 06:11:45 wellsi Exp $  
   
220    
221    Terry Fage
222    On behalf of the SME Server development team

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