--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2012/03/19 15:13:47 1.14 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/11/11 04:22:55 1.23 @@ -1,150 +1,266 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes -================================================ +SME Server 8.1Beta3 Release Notes +================================= -20 March 2012 +12 November 2013 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.0RC1 which is based on CentOS 5.8 and will be the next -major release of SME Server. +SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 which is based on CentOS 5.10 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... +About SME Server +================ + +SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium +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 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 -1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this - release but those who can are encouraged to load the - Release Candidate to a dedicated test machine and take part - in the final testing phase. +Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. + +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 release. + +Notes +===== -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 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. -3. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at +2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 -4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean - 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, +3. 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 + You can download SME8.1 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 2 +=================== -About SME Server -================ +Update to CentOS 5.10 +Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. -SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium -enterprises. +Changes from Beta 1 +=================== -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 -development. - -Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. - -Thanks and a plea for help -========================== - -The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved -themselves with this release. At this stage in development the role -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 -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 -triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement; -please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's -future. - -This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core, -contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server -Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the -latest stage of development. - -Major changes in RC 1 -===================== -* No major changes were introduced for RC 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 -by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 7. +Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are +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 -- Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore -- Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin - for Workstation Backups +- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a + full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week. +- 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, be compatible with destinations that include spaces. +- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success . +- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after +backup. 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 -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 - config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort - config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled -- Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name -- Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports +- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. +- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. +- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. +- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. +- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well 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 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. + 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. + Other fixes and updates ----------------------- -- Add MAC address into console network selection -- Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel -- Improve error message for quota -- Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt +- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB +- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant + variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. +- 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 + 3rd 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 . General features ================ -- Based on CentOS 5.8 and all available updates - -$Id: README.txt,v 1.13 2012/03/19 06:01:41 wellsi Exp $ - +- Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates +$Id: README.txt,v 1.22 2013/10/12 05:51:47 wellsi Exp $