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- SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.1Beta4 Release Notes
- ================================================
+ =================================
-March 2012
+February 2014
  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
+ SME Server 8.1 Beta 4 which is based on CentOS 5.10
- major release of SME Server.
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  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. 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 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
- ***************************
  About SME Server
  ================
  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
- enterprises.
+ enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
+ 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 and
  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
+ As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
+ a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
+ using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
+ within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
  development.
+ b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
+ the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
+ commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
+ your have in the field. Please, help the project
  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
- Thanks and a plea for help
+ Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
- ==========================
+ simply email treasurer@koozali.org
+ Thanks
+ ======
  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
+ 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
+ Notes
- 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
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
- triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;
+    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
- please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's
+    means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
- future.
+    AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
+    are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
- This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,
+    Athlon XP and later.
- contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server
- Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
+. Some notes on SME Server 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
- latest stage of development.
+    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
- Major changes in RC 1
+. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
- =====================
+    during this time you may experience problems.
- * No major changes were introduced for RC 1
+    You can download SME Server 8.1 from
+    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
+    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
+ Changes from Beta 3
+ ===================
+ Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
+ new installations.
+ Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
+ Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
+ one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
+ Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
+ Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
+ Changes from Beta 2
+ ===================
+ Update to CentOS 5.10
+ Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
+ Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
+ Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
+ from CGI.pm
+ Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
+ when using dar 2.4
+ Changes from Beta 1
+ ===================
+ nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
+ dmraid.
+ Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
+ SME Server changes to initscripts included.
+ Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
+ Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
+ Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
+ Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
  Changes in this release
  =======================
- This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
+ Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
- by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 7.
+ not included.
- 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
  -------
- - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
+ - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
- - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
+ - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
- - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
+   full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
-   for Workstation Backups
+ - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
+   delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
+   OS.
+ - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
+   For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
+   The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
+ - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
+   device.
+ - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
+   performed.
+ - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
+ - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
+ - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
+ - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
+   backup.
+ - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
+   to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
+ - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
+   when it goes out of scope.
+ - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
+ - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
+   of results from CGI.pm
+ - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
+   when using dar 2.4
+ - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
+ - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
  File Server
  -----------
- - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
+ - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
+ - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
+   file.
+   /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
+ - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
+   The current samba default is 'no'.
+   see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
+   For example to enable samba Wide Links
+   # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
+ - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
+   Windows slow logons.
+   /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
+ - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
+   smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
+   For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
+ - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
+   email to be sent to the admin every night.
+ - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
+   Auditing is enabled via
+   # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
+   # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
+ - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
+ - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
+ - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
+   lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
+   large numbers of local networks were configured.
+ - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
+ - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
+   Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
- LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
+ LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
  ----
- None
+ - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
+ - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
+ - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
+   slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
+   corrected.
+ - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
+ - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
+   users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
  Localisation
  ------------
- None
+ - Latest translations included.
  Mail Server
  -----------
- - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5
+ - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
-      config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
+ - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
-      config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
+ - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
- - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
+ - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
- - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
+ - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
+   one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
+   the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
+   For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
+   # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
+   # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
+   More than one method can be removed:
+   # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
+   # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
+ - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
+   sometimes very slow.
+ - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
+   database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
+   For example to increase the memory limit
+   # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
+   # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
+   # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
+   # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
+ - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
+   /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
+   For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
+   # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
+ - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
+ - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
+ - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
+   qpsmtpd.
+ - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
+   spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
+   For example to also scan larger files
+   # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
+ - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
+   SSLv2.
+ - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
+ - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
+   and SSMTP transactions
+ - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
+ - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
+ - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
+   size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
+ - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
+ - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
+ - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
  Server manager
  --------------
- None
+ - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
+ - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
+ - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
+   noise.
+ - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
+   %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
+   now case-insensitive for %escapes.
+ - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
+ - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
+   Web panel in server-manager.
  Webmail and Groupware
  ---------------------
- None
+ - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
+   to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
+ - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
+ - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
  Web Server
  ----------
- - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
+ - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
+ - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
+ - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
+   will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
+   is ON.
+ - Change wording of Software Update button.
+ - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
- - Add MAC address into console network selection
+ - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
- - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
+ - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
- - Improve error message for quota
+   variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
- - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
+ - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
+   to take only seconds
+ - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
+ - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
+   admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
+   ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
+ - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
+rd of January 2013.
+ - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
+   servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
+   prevents this.
+ - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
+   running at any particular time.
+ - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
+ - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
+ - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
+ - Add an audit for groups.
+ - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
+   new installations.
+ - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
+ - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
+ - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
+   other than 443,563
+ - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.12 2011/11/23 16:42:09 wellsi Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.25 2014/02/05 19:16:15 wellsi Exp $

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