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1  SME Server 7.3 Release Notes  SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
2  ============================  ================================================
3    
4  January 1 2008  20 March 2012
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 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages  SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next
8  have been updated to the latest releases.  major release of SME Server.
9    
10    Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
11  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  tracker (and only there, please);
12    
13        http://bugs.contribs.org/
14  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  
15  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  ***************************
16    Testers Please Note the following...
17      http://bugs.contribs.org/  
18    1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this
19       release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a
20  About SME Server     dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.
21  ================  
22    2. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
23  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
24  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
25  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
26  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
27       Athlon XP and later.
28  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  
29  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  3. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
30  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
31  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  
32    4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
33  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further     machines without contribs or other modifications.
34  development.  
35    5. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing
36  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.     contribs. Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker.
37    
38    6. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
39  Thanks     during this time you may experience problems.
40  ------     You can download SME8.0 RC 1 from
41  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
42  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
43  current level of support. More people are required to help with  
44  bug triage and verification testing.  ***************************
45    
46    About SME Server
47  This release contains many new features, all released updates for  ================
48  SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades  
49  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
50    enterprises.
51    
52  Upgrades  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
53  ========  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
54    However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
55  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
56    
57  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
58    development.
59    
60  Changes in this release  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
61  =======================  
62    Thanks and a plea for help
63    ==========================
64  Installer Options  
65  -----------------  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
66  - Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role
67    see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files  of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and
68    quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all
69    levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw
70  Other mail system changes  the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design,
71  -------------------------  up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug
72  - Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin  triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;
73  - Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient  please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's
74    addresses  future.
75  - Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues  
76  - Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes  This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,
77    contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server
78    Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
79  Console  latest stage of development.
80  -------  
81  - Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting  Major changes in RC 1
82  - Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install  =====================
83    time  * No major changes were introduced for RC 1
84    
85    Changes in this release
86  Backups  =======================
87  -------  
88  - Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
89  - Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore  by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 7.
90    
91    The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes
92  Localisation  carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to
93  ------------  shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and
94  - The fr-fr browser language is now supported  Fedora-associated developers are not included.
95  - Italian translation minor update  
96    Backups
97    -------
98  Software Installer  - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
99  ------------------  - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
100  - The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror  - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
101    location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors    for Workstation Backups
102  - Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months  
103  - Added smecontribs repository to smeserver  File Server
104    -----------
105    - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
106  Webmail  
107  -------  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
108  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions  ----
109    None
110    
111  Server manager  Localisation
112  --------------  ------------
113  - Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in  None
114    serveronly mode  
115  - Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel  Mail Server
116  - Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files  -----------
117  - Convert squid timestamp in view log files  - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5
118  - Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
119    longer invalidate access to server manager       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
120  - Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip  - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
121    address  - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
122    
123    Server manager
124  Other fixes and updates  --------------
125  -----------------------  None
126  - More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5  
127  - Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package  Webmail and Groupware
128  - Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable  ---------------------
129  - Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly  None
130  - Fixed various log noise issues  
131  - Allow root to be key based login only  Web Server
132  - Increased dnscache forwarder cache size  ----------
133  - Freshclam permissions now corrected  - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
134  - Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear  
135  - Added WPAD feature in DHCP  Other fixes and updates
136  - Fixed various perl issues  -----------------------
137  - Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day  - Add MAC address into console network selection
138    - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
139    - Improve error message for quota
140  General features  - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
141  ================  
142    General features
143  - Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates  ================
144    
145    - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates
146  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2  
147  ======================================================================  $Id: README.txt,v 1.12 2011/11/23 16:42:09 wellsi Exp $
148    
149    
 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 $  


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