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+Revision 1.13 by wellsi,
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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 6 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ================================================
- July 18 2010
+March 2012
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 8.0beta6 which is based on CentOS 5.5 and will be the next
+ 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...
     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
     Athlon XP and later.
-. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
+. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
-    machines without contribs or other modifications. Issues with
-    upgrading from clean SME machines can be reported in the bug
-    tracker, but detailed reviews of upgrading paths will not start
-    until Release Candidate versions are made available.
-. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
-. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
+. 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 Beta 6 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
  Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
  latest stage of development.
- Major changes in beta 6
+ Major changes in RC 1
- =======================
+ =====================
- The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling
+ * No major changes were introduced for RC 1
- reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they
- want because of the Samba and PHP versions constituted a compelling
- reason.
- Samba 3x:
- The Samba packages have reverted to those provided by CentOS to simplify
- the support needed. This version of samba provides support for Windows 7
- domain logins.
  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 5.
+ 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
  -------
- - Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure.
+ - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
- - Workstation Backup emails now include a To: header and includes the
+ - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
-   system name in the subject line.
+ - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
- - Update backup instructions in server-manager.
+   for Workstation Backups
- - The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces
-   from the hostname.
- - Fix removal of leading slash in storage location.
- - The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks.
  File Server
  -----------
- - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility.
+ - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
- - Remove require strong key part of regedit file.
- - Backup all the samba tdb files.
+ LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
- - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup.
+ ----
+ None
  Localisation
  ------------
- - Add Hebrew language.
+ None
- - Fix translation of local nic string in console.
- - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
  Mail Server
  -----------
- - Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from
+ - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5
-   sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be
+      config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
-   transparently proxied.
+      config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
- - Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP
+ - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
-   Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before
+ - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
-   Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5).
- - Update qpsmtpd to 0.84
- - Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses
-   enabled/disabled for clarity.
- - Fix HeloHost patch.
- - Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed.
- - Update email addresses on domain change.
  Server manager
  --------------
- - Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel.
+ None
  Webmail and Groupware
  ---------------------
- - Updated to Horde 3.3.8
+ None
- - Updated to imp 4.3.7
- - Updated to Ingo 1.2.4
- - Updated to Turba 2.3.4
- - Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book.
- - Templated attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email
-   values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space.
- - Update to freebusy info in sources.php
  Web Server
  ----------
- No updates
+ - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
- - Handle no network interface scenario in console.
+ - Add MAC address into console network selection
- - Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups.
+ - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
- - The LDAP information for admin was not being updated.
+ - Improve error message for quota
- - Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP.
+ - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
- - Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server.
- - Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+
- - Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules.
- - Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos.
- - Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos.
- - Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos.
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 5.5 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.12 2011/11/23 16:42:09 wellsi Exp $
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.5 2010/07/11 16:09:26 wellsi Exp $

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