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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 6 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ================================================
- July 11 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 8.0RC1 which is based on CentOS 5.8 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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 tracker (and only there, please);
  Testers Please Note the following...
 . SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this
-    release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a
+    release but those who can are encouraged to load the
-    dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.
+    Release Candidate to a dedicated test machine and take part
+    in the final testing phase.
 . CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
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 Testers Please Note the following...
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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 5 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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 Thanks and a plea for help
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 Thanks and a plea for help
  ==========================
  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
- themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role
+ 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
+ the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design,
- attention to, insufficiently transparent system design, up to seasoned
+ up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug
- and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug triage and
+ triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;
- verification testing needs lots of community involvement; please try to
+ please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's
- spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's future.
+ 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 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
  -------
- - Update backup instructions in server-manager
+ - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
- - Strip spaces from Workstation Backup hostname
+ - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
- - Fix error causing restore to report failed where it was complete
+ - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
- - Check if local USB disk is mounted in backup panel
+   for Workstation Backups
- - Fix removal of leading slash in storage location
- - Add system name in Workstation Backups email
- - To: field missing from header in Workstation Backups email
  File Server
  -----------
- - Remove require strong key part of regedit file
+ - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
- - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility
- - Backup all the tdb files (thanks Daniel)
+ LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
- - Post scriptlet fix
+ ----
- - Explicitly declare samba private dir
+ None
- - Fix tdb file paths to backup in run script
- - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup
  Localisation
  ------------
- - Add Hebrew language
+ None
- - Fix translation of local nic string in console
- - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
  Mail Server
  -----------
- - Fix migrate fragment
+ - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5
- - Set smtp-auth-proxy Debug property to disabled instead of 0
+      config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
- - Fix HeloHost patch.
+      config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
- - Block by default the SMTP transparent proxy
+ - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
- - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3.7
+ - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
- - Update to 0.84
- - add sme specific patches
- - Add qpsmtpd template fragment for tls_before_auth
- - Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed
- - Newer spamassassin imports keys on install
- - Update email addresses on domain change (thanks Daniel)
- - New option to block outgoing SMTP connections
  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
- - Update to Ingo 1.2.4
- - Updated to Turba 2.3.4
- - Upgrade horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.8
- - Update e-smith-ingo templates to reflect changes in Ingo 1.2.4
- - Patch that adds the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book.
- - Patch to template 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
  -----------------------
- - FreeBusy patch fix (save account changes)
+ - Add MAC address into console network selection
- - Handle no network interface scenario in console
+ - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
- - Patch that will remove all FreeBusy references from e-smith-base.
+ - Improve error message for quota
- - Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups
+ - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
- - Update admin information (thanks Daniel)
- - Fix indentation in S25ldap-update script
- - Don't try to save ibay password to ldap
- - Fix %postun typo
- - 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
- - Rework 91adjustPortForward template fragment
- - Add migrate fragment for centos excludes
- - Fix migrate fragment to not throw warnings
- - Fix yum database removal (missing one)
- - 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 5.8 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.4 2010/03/05 22:02:58 wellsi Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.13 2012/03/19 06:01:41 wellsi Exp $

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