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1  SME Server 7.3 Release Notes  SME Server 8.0 Release Notes
2  ============================  ============================
3    
4  January 1 2008  21 May 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 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages  SME Server 8.0 which is based on CentOS 5.8
8  have been updated to the latest releases.  
9    Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
10    tracker (and only there, please);
11  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  
12        http://bugs.contribs.org/
13    
14  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  About SME Server
15  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  ================
16    
17      http://bugs.contribs.org/  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
18    enterprises.
19    
20  About SME Server  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
21  ================  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
22    However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
23  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
24  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  
25  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
26  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  development.
27    
28  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
29  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  
30  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  Thanks
31  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  ======
32    
33  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
34  development.  themselves with this release.
35    
36  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  Notes
37    =====
38    
39  Thanks  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
40  ------     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
41  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
42  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
43  current level of support. More people are required to help with     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
44  bug triage and verification testing.     Athlon XP and later.
45    
46    2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
47  This release contains many new features, all released updates for     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
48  SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades  
49  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.  3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
50       during this time you may experience problems.
51       You can download SME8.0 from
52  Upgrades     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/
53  ========     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
54    
55  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  Major changes since beta 7
56    ==========================
57  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data  * No major changes were introduced since beta 7
58    
59    Major changes in beta 7
60  Changes in this release  =======================
61  =======================  * Require authentication for all emails, including local.
62    * Optional - to use ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems
63      (except for /boot). At the boot prompt use "ext4" or "sme ext4".
64  Installer Options    *** ext4 is considered experimental, so use with caution ***
65  -----------------  * Optional - LDAP authentication can be enabled. Once enabled it cannot
66  - Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's    be disabled, so experiment with care.
67    see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files    To enable: db configuration setprop ldap Authentication enabled
68    
69    Major changes in beta 5
70  Other mail system changes  =======================
71  -------------------------  The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling
72  - Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin  reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they
73  - Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient  want because of the PHP version constituted a compelling reason.
74    addresses  
75  - Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues  PHP 5.2.10: is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2.
76  - Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes  5.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce.
77    
78    
79  Console  Changes in this release
80  -------  =======================
81  - Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting  
82  - Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
83    time  by SME-associated developers since 2009 where the most recent changes
84    to the package are dated after February 2010. The package changelogs
85    often included earlier changes and changes carried out by non-SME-
86  Backups  associated developers; these were removed to shorten the list. Packages
87  -------  recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
88  - Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media  not included.
89  - Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore  
90    Backups
91    -------
92  Localisation  - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
93  ------------  - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
94  - The fr-fr browser language is now supported  - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
95  - Italian translation minor update    for Workstation Backups
96    - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.
97    - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
98  Software Installer  - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup
99  ------------------    destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.
100  - The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror  - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.
101    location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors    Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not
102  - Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months    restricted to only USB disks.
103  - Added smecontribs repository to smeserver  - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.
104    - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during
105      software update.
106  Webmail  - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.
107  -------  - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of
108  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions    open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed
109      if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables.
110    - Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure.
111  Server manager  - Workstation Backup emails include a To: header.
112  --------------  - Workstation Backup includes the system name and also indicates failure
113  - Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in    if applicable in the subject line of the email.
114    serveronly mode  - Update backup instructions in server-manager.
115  - Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel  - The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces
116  - Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files    from the hostname.
117  - Convert squid timestamp in view log files  - Fix removal of leading slash in storage location.
118  - Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no  - The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks.
119    longer invalidate access to server manager  - Only define Workstation Backup temporary directory once.
120  - Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip  - Remove relocate_samba_file and all references to /etc/smbpasswd.
121    address  - Improved upgrade compatibility, remove .orig
122    - create mount point for verify
123    - remove comment re smbpasswd being last
124  Other fixes and updates  - Fix mounting usb disks
125  -----------------------  - Don't backup more than once per day
126  - More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5  - Fix full backup on Sunday diplayed as Everyday
127  - Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package  - Add more excludes for compressed filetypes
128  - Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable  - Porting Jean-Paul Leclere changes in the SME Server 7 tree to SME
129  - Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly    Server 8:
130  - Fixed various log noise issues  - using credentials file for cifs mount
131  - Allow root to be key based login only  - workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to
132  - Increased dnscache forwarder cache size    bootstrap-console-save
133  - Freshclam permissions now corrected  - workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day
134  - Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear  - workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before
135  - Added WPAD feature in DHCP    restore
136  - Fixed various perl issues  - workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in
137  - Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day    a full restore
138    - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups
139    - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level
140  General features  - Fix console backup from removable media
141  ================  - Fix console restore from removable media (Federico Simoncelli)
142    - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk
143  - Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates  
144    File Server
145    -----------
146  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2  - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
147  ======================================================================  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
148    - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
149    - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility.
150  After installing for the very first time:  - Remove require strong key part of regedit file.
151  -----------------------------------------  - Backup all the samba tdb files.
152  - First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates.  - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup.
153  - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of  - Create/remove V2 profile directories
154    groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).  - Enable bindinterfaces by default
155  - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day  - Set recyle bin permissions
156    about those changes (rkhunter email notification).  - Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to join Samba
157      3.x domains
158    - Fix warnings in template expansion
159  Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3  - Fix migrate fragments for samba
160  -----------------------------------------  
161  - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
162  - First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files  ----
163    (rkhunter email notification).  - Create samba account during event for machine
164    - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP
165  $Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $  - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account
166    - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership
167    - Fix cpu critical patch missing '
168    - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb
169    - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database
170    - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed
171    - Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with
172      regards to LDAP
173    - Fix create user gid parameter
174    - Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script
175    - All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP
176    - Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP
177    - Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master
178    - Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled
179    - Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database
180    - Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix
181    - Change script order: ldap-update should be called after
182      domain-group-maps
183    - LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department
184    - LDAP changes: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config
185    - Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype
186    - Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates
187    - Change startup order for ldap
188    - ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords
189    - Add ldap as an auth type to radius
190    - Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled)
191    - Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups.
192    - The LDAP information for admin was not being updated.
193    - Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP.
194    - Fix admin user password change (Daniel B.)
195    - Init database if the ldif dump is empty (ie from sme8b)
196    - revert re-init database
197    - re-init readonly database on post-upgrade
198    - Force SSL/TLS for remote authentication
199    - reuse users_groups_ous.patch2
200    - Separate groups and users with mailboxRelatedObject
201    - Set readonly access
202    - Fix ldap-update action script to user-lock event
203    - Add Groups entries
204    - Add admin user as a standard user
205    - Add ldap-update action script to user-lock event
206    - Add ldap authentication and tls support
207    - Update schema for newer openldap and remove calFBurl
208    - Convert ldif dump
209    - Create bdb log directory
210    - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem
211    
212    Localisation
213    ------------
214    - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
215    - Add Chinese (Taiwan) language (zh_TW).
216    - Add Hebrew language (he).
217    - Fix translation of local nic string in console.
218    - Add Thai language
219    - Add Polish language
220    - Add Romanian language
221    - Add Estonian language
222    
223    Mail Server
224    -----------
225    - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5
226         config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
227         config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
228    - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
229    - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
230    - Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections
231    - Add template fragment for pyzor timeout
232    - Remove spamd restart from bootstrap-console-save event
233    - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external
234      address.
235    - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
236    - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.
237    - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.
238    - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.
239    - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.
240    - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work
241    - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no
242      headers.
243    - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.
244    - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.
245    - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.
246    - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of
247      mail logfiles.
248    - Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from
249      sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be
250      transparently proxied.
251    - Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP
252      Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before
253      Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5).
254    - Update qpsmtpd to 0.84
255    - Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses
256      enabled/disabled for clarity.
257    - Fix HeloHost patch.
258    - Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed.
259    - Update email addresses on domain change.
260    - Work around how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
261    - Use HeloHost (if present) in smtp-auth-proxy.pl
262    - Allow for changing SPAM subject tag through server-manager
263    - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file
264    - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use
265    - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request)
266    - SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups
267    - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups
268    - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0
269      as a local ip
270    - Remove spool and log dir from package (in smeserver-qpsmtpd)
271    - Don't create smtpd user (unused in sme)
272    - Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM subject prefix
273    - Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install
274    - Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file
275    - Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings
276    - Only run/initialize plugins once
277    - Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav
278    - Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog
279    - don't add qpsmtpd to start-up by default
280    - add apache config file to qpsmtpd-apache package
281    - use rpm macros for dirs
282    - use a filelist for main package instead of a long list of files
283    - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log
284    - Remove create option from logrotate configuration
285    - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log
286    - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file
287    - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default to yes
288    - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus
289    - Enable qpsmtpd RequireResolvableFromHost plugin by default, remove
290      database entry and the database default value
291    - Tie template fragment into event system to have it expanded
292    - Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix
293    - Remove FuzzyOcr
294    - Run sa-update every two hours and check restart every hour
295    - Redirect cron job output to logfile to avoid mail noise
296    - Fix invalid service name in sa-update
297    
298    Server manager
299    --------------
300    - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.
301    - Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel.
302    - Remove empty <p> tag from footer template.
303    - Only display error messages intended for admin in server-manager
304    - Fix css validation errors.
305    - display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes
306    - Fix unitialized value errors in HTML.pm
307    
308    Webmail and Groupware
309    ---------------------
310    - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5
311    - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
312      identities.
313    - Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book.
314    - Templated attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email
315      values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space.
316    - Update to freebusy info in sources.php
317    - Update to remove turbaContact info that SME is not using.
318    - Change horde's templated mime_drivers.php file so some additional
319      settings can be customized
320    - Make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
321    - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of
322      php-pear-HTTP-Request information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7
323      and sme8
324    - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8
325    - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN
326      and non-FQDN access to webmail will work.
327    - Remove klutz template from registry.php
328    - Template imp's mime_drivers.php file so some settings can be
329      customized
330    
331    Web Server
332    ----------
333    - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
334    - Disable SSLv2 by default.
335    - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.
336    - Default expose_php in php.ini to Off.
337    - Add option to disable SSLv2
338    - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types
339    - Add OpenOffice MIME Types
340    - Add XML MIME Type
341    - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types
342    
343    Other fixes and updates
344    -----------------------
345    - Add MAC address into console network selection
346    - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
347    - Improve error message for quota
348    - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
349    - Initialize ExternalInterface db structure so hwaddr in console works.
350    - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt.
351    - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.
352    - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.
353    - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.
354    - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.
355    - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.
356    - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
357    - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add
358      FQDN).
359    - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks
360    - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be
361      inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.
362    - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.
363    - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts
364    - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be
365      configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.
366    - Set the TimeZone property earlier, so templates can rely on it.
367    - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and
368      ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by
369      network inactivity.
370    - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.
371    - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.
372    - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.
373    - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.
374    - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.
375    - Handle no network interface scenario in console.
376    - Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server.
377    - Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+
378    - Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules.
379    - Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos.
380    - Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos.
381    - Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos.
382    - Enable cpuspeed by default.
383    - Fix scriplet error in e-smith-service script when service is disabled.
384    - Allow use of CNAME in remote hosts.
385    - Add Obsoletes for php5-cgi-{imap,ldap,mysql,pear,xmlrpc}.
386    - Restate smartd dependency.
387    - Fix gettext errors in WAN/LAN subnet error message
388    - Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing
389    - Fix eth? swapping
390    - Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits
391    - Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console
392      configuration pages.
393    - Translate $ifName in console configuration pages
394    - Prevent IP conflicts between local and external interface in server
395      gateway mode
396    - Clean up: remove unused nonetworkdrivers
397    - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod
398    - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize
399    - Add compiled python files to the packaged files list
400    - Update path for 64-bit compatibility
401    - Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf
402    - adds the hwaddr parameter to probeAdapters()
403    - Update path for 64-bit compatibility
404    - Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids
405    - Fix log-error detection algorithm
406    - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut
407    - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s
408    - Enable port forwards to localhost if mode is serveronly
409    - Adjust xml entry in locale
410    - Add option to limit port forwards from source ip
411    - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line
412    - Fix owner/perms for radius files
413    - Fix typo in /sbin/service patch (Federico Simoncelli)
414    - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration
415      database to avoid failures in post scriptlets
416    - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only
417      initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures that
418      the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects against
419      running "service httpd restart"
420    - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first
421    - Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot
422    - Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms
423    - only unlink file if we created it
424    - Import only keys not already imported
425    - set unsaved changes in yum event
426    - move yum warming to sme yum plugin
427    - ensure file exists before unlinking
428    - remove semicolons from yum plugin
429    - Add frequency of updates toggle
430    - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package
431    - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio
432    - Require mailx
433    - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed pacakges
434    
435    General features
436    ================
437    
438    - Based on CentOS 5.8 and all available updates
439    
440    $Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2012/03/19 15:13:47 wellsi Exp $
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