--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2012/03/19 15:13:47 1.14 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2015/06/25 14:28:43 1.35 @@ -1,150 +1,212 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes -================================================ +Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC1 Release Notes +========================================== -20 March 2012 +25 June 2015 -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. +The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce +the release of SME Server 8.2 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 5.11 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... +Download +======== -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. +You can download SME Server 8.2rc1 from +http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc1/ +or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download -2. 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. - -3. Some notes on SME 8 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. +Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, +during this time you may experience problems. -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, - 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 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 +themselves with this release. + + +Notes +===== + +1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2 + 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. + +2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at + http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 + +3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those + security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 + (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving + workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. + Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017 + +4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, + during this time you may experience problems. + You can download SME Server 8.2 from + http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2.rc1/ + 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 + - Add pkgconfig dar + - New Upstream Version of dar + - Add requires nfs-utils + - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start + - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / -File Server ------------ -- Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM) -LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) +LDAP ---- -None + - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be + parsed Localisation ------------ -None + - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle + - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle + - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle 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 ClamAV release 0.98.7 + - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel + - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file. + - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch + - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA + - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3 + - Fix stunnel path + - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS + - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter + by John Crisp + - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd + - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 + - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List Server manager -------------- -None + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710 + xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 + core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669 + exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object + change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698 + spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670 + gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm. + CVE-2014-2497 + fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in + cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587 + core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT + record parsing. CVE-2014-3597 + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 + date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712 + core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing. + CVE-2014-4049 + core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type + confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 + fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270 + fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type + rules. CVE-2014-1943 + fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571 + fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479 + fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480 + fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping + DoS. CVE-2014-0237 + fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite + loop. CVE-2014-0238 -Webmail and Groupware ---------------------- -None Web Server ---------- -- Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources + - Disable SSLv3 + - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed + - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929 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 + - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic + (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp) + - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected + answer to NO + - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd + - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd + - Reset primary ibay default type + - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager. + Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field + Code done by Charlie Brady + and Huib + - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain + - Move mysql logging to multilog + - Allow ntp status queries from localhost. + - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update. + - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby + - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 + - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the + CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes. + - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS. + - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message + generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix + regression). + - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild + - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946) + - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2 + - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager + - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates + - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository + 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 5.11 and all available updates +Terry Fage +On behalf of the SME Server development team