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1  SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes  SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
2  ===================================  ================================================
3    
4  June 2009  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 8.0 Beta 4 which will be the next major release of SME Server.  SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next
8  This release is based on CentOS 5.3 and all packages have been updated  major release of SME Server.
 to the latest releases.  
   
 ***************************  
 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.  
 ***************************  
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    
 Please be sure to choose 'SME Server Release 8.X'  
   
15  ***************************  ***************************
16  Testers Please Note the following...  Testers Please Note the following...
17    
18  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8  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       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     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
24     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
25     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
26     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
27     Athlon XP and later.     Athlon XP and later.
28    
29  2. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean  3. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
30     machines without contribs or other modifications. Issues with     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
31     upgrading from clean SME machines can be reported in the bug  
32     tracker, but detailed reviews of upgrading paths will not start  4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
33     until Release Candidate versions are made available.     machines without contribs or other modifications.
34    
35    5. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing
36       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       during this time you may experience problems.
40       You can download SME8.0 RC 1 from
41       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
42       or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
43    
    Some notes on upgrading from Release 7 can be found  
    at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8  
44  ***************************  ***************************
45    
46  About SME Server  About SME Server
47  ================  ================
48    
49  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
50  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  enterprises.
 ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  
 provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  
51    
52  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
53  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
54  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
55  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
56    
57  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
58  development.  development.
59    
60  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
   
61    
62  Thanks and a plea for help  Thanks and a plea for help
63  ==========================  ==========================
64    
65  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
66  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role
67  of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and quality  of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and
68  of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all levels of  quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all
69  users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw the developers  levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw
70  attention to, insufficiently transparent system design, up to seasoned  the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design,
71  and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug triage and  up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug
72  verification testing needs lots of community involvement; please try to  triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;
73  spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's future.  please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's
74    future.
75  This release, which is based on a major update of CentOS, contains  
76  many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server Manager  This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,
77  regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the latest stage  contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server
78  of development.  Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
79    latest stage of development.
80    
81    Major changes in RC 1
82    =====================
83    * No major changes were introduced for RC 1
84    
85  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
86  =======================  =======================
87    
88  e-smith-apache  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
89  - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]  by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 7.
 - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]  
 - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]  
 - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]  
 - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  
 - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  
   
 e-smith-backup  
 - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579]  
 - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]  
   
 e-smith-base  
 - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336]  
 - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230]  
 - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]  
   
 e-smith-horde  
 - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request  
 information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7 and sme8 [SME: 4821]  
 - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860]  
 - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN  
 - access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787]  
 - Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.2 [SME: 4831]  
   
 e-smith-imap  
 - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]  
 - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]  
   
 e-smith-imp  
 - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) and remove obsolete  
 php-pear-HTTP-Request line. [SME: 4928]  
 - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]  
 - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832]  
   
 e-smith-ldap  
 - Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018]  
 - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem.  
 [SME: 3018, 2859]  
   
 e-smith-manager  
 - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]  
   
 e-smith-mysql  
 - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]  
 - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]  
   
 e-smith-nutUPS  
 - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]  
   
 e-smith-openssh  
 - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]  
   
 e-smith-qmail  
 - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5257]  
 - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a  
 local ip [SME: 5171]  
   
 e-smith-quota  
 - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112]  
   
 e-smith-radiusd  
 - Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317]  
   
 e-smith-samba  
 - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309]  
 - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]  
   
 e-smith-turba  
 - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]  
 - Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910]  
 - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]  
 - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]  
   
 horde  
 - Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831]  
   
 imp-h3  
 - Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832]  
   
 initscripts  
 - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration  
 database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]  
 - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only  
 initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures  
 that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects  
 against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]  
   
 mod_auth_external  
 - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318]  
   
 qmail  
 - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]  
   
 qpsmtpd  
 - Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108]  
   
 smeserver-clamav  
 - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319]  
 - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]  
 - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]  
   
 smeserver-locale  
 - apply locale 2009-05-27 patch  
 - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]  
 - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]  
   
 smeserver-release  
 - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]  
 - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]  
 - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]  
 - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]  
 - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]  
 - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]  
   
 smeserver-yum  
 - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305]  
 - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242]  
 - Require mailx [SME: 5131]  
 - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of  
 needed pacakges [SME: 3133]  
   
 turba-h3  
 - Updated to Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]  
   
   
 The following files are no longer in the ISO  
 - libdhcp  
 - qmail-workaround  
 - rkhunter  
   
 The following files were added to the ISO  
 - aspell-ru  
 - dbus-libs  
 - perl-Package-Constants  
 - smeserver-locale-et  
 - smeserver-locale-nb  
 - smeserver-locale-ro  
 - smeserver-locale-ru  
 - smeserver-locale-zh_CN  
 - yum-protect-packages  
90    
91    The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes
92    carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to
93    shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and
94    Fedora-associated developers are not included.
95    
96    Backups
97    -------
98    - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
99    - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
100    - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
101      for Workstation Backups
102    
103    File Server
104    -----------
105    - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
106    
107    LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
108    ----
109    None
110    
111    Localisation
112    ------------
113    None
114    
115    Mail Server
116    -----------
117    - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5
118         config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
119         config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
120    - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
121    - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
122    
123    Server manager
124    --------------
125    None
126    
127    Webmail and Groupware
128    ---------------------
129    None
130    
131    Web Server
132    ----------
133    - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
134    
135    Other fixes and updates
136    -----------------------
137    - Add MAC address into console network selection
138    - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
139    - Improve error message for quota
140    - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
141    
142  General features  General features
143  ================  ================
144    
145  - Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates
146    
147    $Id: README.txt,v 1.12 2011/11/23 16:42:09 wellsi Exp $
148    
149    
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