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1  SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
2  ================================================  =================================
3    
4  20 March 2012  23 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 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 5.10
 major release of SME Server.  
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    
14  ***************************  About SME Server
15  Testers Please Note the following...  ================
16    
17    SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
18    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
23    is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
24    However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
25    meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
26    
27    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.
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  1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
38     release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a  
39     dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.  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
46    themselves with this release.
47    
48    Notes
49    =====
50    
51  2. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
52     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
53     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
54     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
55     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
56     Athlon XP and later.     Athlon XP and later.
57    
58  3. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at  2. Some notes on SME Server 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
59     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
60    
61  4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean  3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
    machines without contribs or other modifications.  
   
 5. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing  
    contribs. Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker.  
   
 6. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,  
62     during this time you may experience problems.     during this time you may experience problems.
63     You can download SME8.0 RC 1 from     You can download SME Server 8.1 from
64     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
65     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
66    
67  ***************************  Changes from Beta 4
68    ===================
69    
70  About SME Server  There are no major changes.
71  ================  Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9.
72    
73  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  Changes from Beta 3
74  enterprises.  ===================
75    
76  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
77  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  new installations.
78  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
79  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
80    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
81  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
82  development.  Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
83    
84  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Changes from Beta 2
85    ===================
86  Thanks and a plea for help  
87  ==========================  Update to CentOS 5.10
88    Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
89  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved  Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
90  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role  Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
91  of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and  from CGI.pm
92  quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all  Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
93  levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw  when using dar 2.4
94  the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design,  
95  up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug  Changes from Beta 1
96  triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;  ===================
97  please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's  
98  future.  nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
99    dmraid.
100  This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,  Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
101  contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server  SME Server changes to initscripts included.
102  Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the  Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
103  latest stage of development.  Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
104    Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
105  Major changes in RC 1  Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
 =====================  
 * No major changes were introduced for RC 1  
106    
107  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
108  =======================  =======================
109    
110  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
111  by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 7.  not included.
112    
 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.  
113    
114  Backups  Backups
115  -------  -------
116  - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers  - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
117  - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore  - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
118  - 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.
119    for Workstation Backups  - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
120      delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
121      OS.
122    - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
123      For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
124      The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
125    - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
126      device.
127    - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
128      performed.
129    - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
130    - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
131    - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
132    - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
133      backup.
134    - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
135      to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
136    - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
137      when it goes out of scope.
138    - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
139    - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
140      of results from CGI.pm
141    - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
142      when using dar 2.4
143    - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
144    - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
145    - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
146    
147    
148  File Server  File Server
149  -----------  -----------
150  - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
151    - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
152      file.
153      /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
154    - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
155      The current samba default is 'no'.
156      see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
157      For example to enable samba Wide Links
158      # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
159    - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
160      Windows slow logons.
161      /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
162    - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
163      smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
164      For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
165    - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
166      email to be sent to the admin every night.
167    - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
168      Auditing is enabled via
169      # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
170      # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
171    - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
172    - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
173    - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
174      lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
175      large numbers of local networks were configured.
176    - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
177    - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
178      Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
179    
180    
181  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)  LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
182  ----  ----
183  None  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
184    - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
185    - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
186      slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
187      corrected.
188    - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
189    - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
190      users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
191    
192    
193  Localisation  Localisation
194  ------------  ------------
195  None  - Latest translations included.
196    
197    
198  Mail Server  Mail Server
199  -----------  -----------
200  - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5  - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
201       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
202       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
203  - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
204  - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports  - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
205      one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
206      the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
207      For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
208      # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
209      # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
210      More than one method can be removed:
211      # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
212      # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
213    - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
214    - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
215      sometimes very slow.
216    - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
217      database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
218      For example to increase the memory limit
219      # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
220      # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
221      # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
222      # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
223    - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
224      /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
225      For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
226      # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
227    - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
228    - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
229    - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
230      qpsmtpd.
231    - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
232      spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
233      For example to also scan larger files
234      # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
235    - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
236      SSLv2.
237    - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
238    - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
239      and SSMTP transactions
240    - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
241    - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
242    - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
243      size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
244    - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
245    - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
246    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
247    - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
248    - Use stunnel-tls instead of sslio to wrap imaps service.
249    
250  Server manager  Server manager
251  --------------  --------------
252  None  - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
253    - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
254    - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
255      noise.
256    - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
257      %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
258      now case-insensitive for %escapes.
259    - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
260    - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
261      Web panel in server-manager.
262    
263    
264  Webmail and Groupware  Webmail and Groupware
265  ---------------------  ---------------------
266  None  - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
267      to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
268    - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
269    - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
270    
271    
272  Web Server  Web Server
273  ----------  ----------
274  - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources  - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
275    - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
276    - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
277      will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
278      is ON.
279    - Change wording of Software Update button.
280    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
281    
282    
283  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
284  -----------------------  -----------------------
285  - Add MAC address into console network selection  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
286  - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel  - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
287  - Improve error message for quota    variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
288  - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt  - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
289      to take only seconds
290    - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
291    - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
292      admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
293      ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
294    - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
295      3rd of January 2013.
296    - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
297      servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
298      prevents this.
299    - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
300      running at any particular time.
301    - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
302    - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
303    - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
304    - Add an audit for groups.
305    - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
306      new installations.
307    - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
308    - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
309    - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
310      other than 443,563
311    - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
312    - Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore.
313    - Remove old images.
314    - Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9
315    
316    
317  General features  General features
318  ================  ================
319    
320  - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
   
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