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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ================================================
-November 2011
+March 2012
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
  SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next
- major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8.
+ major release of SME Server.
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  tracker (and only there, please);
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 Testers Please Note the following...
     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.
+    contribs. Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker.
-    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
+    You can download SME8.0 RC 1 from
     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
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 contains many new features. Please run S
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 contains many new features. Please run S
  Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
  latest stage of development.
- Major changes in beta 7
+ Major changes in RC 1
- =======================
+ =====================
- * Require authentication for all emails, including local.
+ * No major changes were introduced for RC 1
- * 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
  =======================
  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
- by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6.
+ by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 7.
  The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes
  carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to
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 Fedora-associated developers are not inc
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 Fedora-associated developers are not inc
  Backups
  -------
- - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.
+ - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
- - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
+ - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
- - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup
+ - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
-   destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.
+   for Workstation Backups
- - 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.
+ - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
- - 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.
+ None
- - 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.
+ None
  Mail Server
  -----------
- - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external
+ - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5
-   address.
+      config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
- - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
+      config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
- - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.
+ - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
- - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.
+ - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
- - 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.
+ None
  Webmail and Groupware
  ---------------------
- - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5
+ None
- - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
-   identities.
  Web Server
  ----------
- - Disable SSLv2 by default.
+ - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
- - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
- - Initialize ExternalInterface db structure so hwaddr in console works.
+ - Add MAC address into console network selection
- - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt.
+ - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
- - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.
+ - Improve error message for quota
- - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.
+ - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
- - 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.
- - Set the TimeZone property earlier, so templates can rely on it.
- - 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 5.7 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.11 2011/10/04 19:45:56 slords Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.12 2011/11/23 16:42:09 wellsi Exp $

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