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1  SME Server 8.0 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1 Release Notes
2  ============================  ============================
3    
4  21 May 2012  04 July 2013
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 8.0 which is based on CentOS 5.8  SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9
8    
9  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
10  tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
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48    
49  3. 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,
50     during this time you may experience problems.     during this time you may experience problems.
51     You can download SME8.0 from     You can download SME8.1 from
52     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/
53     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
54    
55  Major changes since beta 7  Major changes since 8.0
 ==========================  
 * No major changes were introduced since beta 7  
   
 Major changes in beta 7  
 =======================  
 * Require authentication for all emails, including local.  
 * Optional - to use ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems  
   (except for /boot). At the boot prompt use "ext4" or "sme ext4".  
   *** ext4 is considered experimental, so use with caution ***  
 * Optional - LDAP authentication can be enabled. Once enabled it cannot  
   be disabled, so experiment with care.  
   To enable: db configuration setprop ldap Authentication enabled  
   
 Major changes in beta 5  
56  =======================  =======================
57  The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling  * TBD
 reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they  
 want because of the PHP version constituted a compelling reason.  
   
 PHP 5.2.10: is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2.  
 5.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce.  
58    
59    
60  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
61  =======================  =======================
62    
63  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
 by SME-associated developers since 2009 where the most recent changes  
 to the package are dated after February 2010. 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  
64  not included.  not included.
65    
66  Backups  Backups
67  -------  -------
68  - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers  - Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage
69  - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore  - Allow full backup to occur on Sunday
70  - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level
   for Workstation Backups  
 - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.  
 - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.  
 - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup  
   destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.  
 - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.  
   Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not  
   restricted to only USB disks.  
 - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.  
 - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during  
   software update.  
 - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.  
 - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of  
   open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed  
   if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables.  
 - Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure.  
 - Workstation Backup emails include a To: header.  
 - Workstation Backup includes the system name and also indicates failure  
   if applicable in the subject line of the email.  
 - Update backup instructions in server-manager.  
 - 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.  
 - Only define Workstation Backup temporary directory once.  
 - Remove relocate_samba_file and all references to /etc/smbpasswd.  
 - Improved upgrade compatibility, remove .orig  
 - create mount point for verify  
 - remove comment re smbpasswd being last  
 - Fix mounting usb disks  
 - Don't backup more than once per day  
 - Fix full backup on Sunday diplayed as Everyday  
 - Add more excludes for compressed filetypes  
 - Porting Jean-Paul Leclere changes in the SME Server 7 tree to SME  
   Server 8:  
 - using credentials file for cifs mount  
 - workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to  
   bootstrap-console-save  
 - workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day  
 - workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before  
   restore  
 - workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in  
   a full restore  
 - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups  
 - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level  
 - Fix console backup from removable media  
 - Fix console restore from removable media (Federico Simoncelli)  
 - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk  
71    
72  File Server  File Server
73  -----------  -----------
74  - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)  - Revert previous change.
75  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.  - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option
76  - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).  - Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration
77  - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility.  - Enable smb auditing per ibay
78  - Remove require strong key part of regedit file.  - Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12
 - Backup all the samba tdb files.  
 - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup.  
 - Create/remove V2 profile directories  
 - Enable bindinterfaces by default  
 - Set recyle bin permissions  
 - Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to join Samba  
   3.x domains  
 - Fix warnings in template expansion  
 - Fix migrate fragments for samba  
79    
80  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
81  ----  ----
 - Create samba account during event for machine  
 - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP  
 - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account  
 - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership  
 - Fix cpu critical patch missing '  
 - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb  
 - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database  
 - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed  
 - Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with  
   regards to LDAP  
 - Fix create user gid parameter  
 - Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script  
 - All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP  
 - Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP  
 - Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master  
 - Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled  
 - Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database  
 - Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix  
 - Change script order: ldap-update should be called after  
   domain-group-maps  
 - LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department  
 - LDAP changes: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config  
 - Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype  
 - Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates  
 - Change startup order for ldap  
 - ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords  
 - Add ldap as an auth type to radius  
 - Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled)  
 - Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups.  
 - The LDAP information for admin was not being updated.  
 - Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP.  
 - Fix admin user password change (Daniel B.)  
 - Init database if the ldif dump is empty (ie from sme8b)  
 - revert re-init database  
 - re-init readonly database on post-upgrade  
 - Force SSL/TLS for remote authentication  
 - reuse users_groups_ous.patch2  
 - Separate groups and users with mailboxRelatedObject  
 - Set readonly access  
 - Fix ldap-update action script to user-lock event  
 - Add Groups entries  
 - Add admin user as a standard user  
 - Add ldap-update action script to user-lock event  
 - Add ldap authentication and tls support  
 - Update schema for newer openldap and remove calFBurl  
 - Convert ldif dump  
 - Create bdb log directory  
 - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem  
82    
83  Localisation  Localisation
84  ------------  ------------
85  - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.  *** NONE ***
 - Add Chinese (Taiwan) language (zh_TW).  
 - Add Hebrew language (he).  
 - Fix translation of local nic string in console.  
 - Add Thai language  
 - Add Polish language  
 - Add Romanian language  
 - Add Estonian language  
86    
87  Mail Server  Mail Server
88  -----------  -----------
89  - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5  - Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled
90       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments
91       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady
92  - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name  - Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch
93  - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports  - Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow
94  - Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections  - Don't use SSL over loopback
95  - Add template fragment for pyzor timeout  - Easier to read version of softlimit patch
96  - Remove spamd restart from bootstrap-console-save event  - More robust version of softlimit patch
97  - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external  - Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s
98    address.  - Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
99  - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.  - modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti
100  - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.  - Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
101  - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.  - smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it
102  - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.  to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel
103  - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.  - Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base
104  - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work  - tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2
105  - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no  - Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady
   headers.  
 - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.  
 - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.  
 - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.  
 - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of  
   mail logfiles.  
 - Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from  
   sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be  
   transparently proxied.  
 - Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP  
   Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before  
   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.  
 - Work around how qpsmtpd tags spam email.  
 - Use HeloHost (if present) in smtp-auth-proxy.pl  
 - Allow for changing SPAM subject tag through server-manager  
 - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file  
 - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use  
 - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request)  
 - SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups  
 - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups  
 - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0  
   as a local ip  
 - Remove spool and log dir from package (in smeserver-qpsmtpd)  
 - Don't create smtpd user (unused in sme)  
 - Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM subject prefix  
 - Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install  
 - Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file  
 - Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings  
 - Only run/initialize plugins once  
 - Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav  
 - Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog  
 - don't add qpsmtpd to start-up by default  
 - add apache config file to qpsmtpd-apache package  
 - use rpm macros for dirs  
 - use a filelist for main package instead of a long list of files  
 - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log  
 - Remove create option from logrotate configuration  
 - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log  
 - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file  
 - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default to yes  
 - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus  
 - Enable qpsmtpd RequireResolvableFromHost plugin by default, remove  
   database entry and the database default value  
 - Tie template fragment into event system to have it expanded  
 - Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix  
 - Remove FuzzyOcr  
 - Run sa-update every two hours and check restart every hour  
 - Redirect cron job output to logfile to avoid mail noise  
 - Fix invalid service name in sa-update  
106    
107  Server manager  Server manager
108  --------------  --------------
109  - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.  - Do not load mod_ssl
110  - Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel.  - Correct processing of server-manager URL
111  - Remove empty <p> tag from footer template.  - Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady
112  - Only display error messages intended for admin in server-manager  - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel
 - Fix css validation errors.  
 - display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes  
 - Fix unitialized value errors in HTML.pm  
113    
114  Webmail and Groupware  Webmail and Groupware
115  ---------------------  ---------------------
116  - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5  
 - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional  
   identities.  
 - 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  
 - Update to remove turbaContact info that SME is not using.  
 - Change horde's templated mime_drivers.php file so some additional  
   settings can be customized  
 - Make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's  
 - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of  
   php-pear-HTTP-Request information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7  
   and sme8  
 - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8  
 - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN  
   and non-FQDN access to webmail will work.  
 - Remove klutz template from registry.php  
 - Template imp's mime_drivers.php file so some settings can be  
   customized  
117    
118  Web Server  Web Server
119  ----------  ----------
120  - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder
 - Disable SSLv2 by default.  
 - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.  
 - Default expose_php in php.ini to Off.  
 - Add option to disable SSLv2  
 - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types  
 - Add OpenOffice MIME Types  
 - Add XML MIME Type  
 - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types  
121    
122  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
123  -----------------------  -----------------------
124  - Add MAC address into console network selection  - Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud
125  - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
126  - Improve error message for quota  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady
127  - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt  - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays,
128  - Initialize ExternalInterface db structure so hwaddr in console works.  by Mark Casey
129  - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt.  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled
130  - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled
131  - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.  - Add_template_to_ssl.pem
132  - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.  - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized
133  - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.  - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk
134  - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.  - Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save
135  - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.  - Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console
136  - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add  - Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT
137    FQDN).  - Simplified patch after review comments
138  - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks  - Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment
139  - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be  - Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb
140    inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.  - Template /etc/updatedb.conf
141  - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.  - Make CipherSuite secure by default
142  - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts  - D-root is changing its IPv4 address
143  - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be  - Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save
144    configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers
145  - Set the TimeZone property earlier, so templates can rely on it.  - Fix removing old BDB log files
146  - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and  - Remove unused BDB log files
147    ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by  - Improve error checking in isValidIP
148    network inactivity.  - Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running,
149  - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.  patch by Charlie Brady
150  - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.  - Force magic_quotes Off
151  - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.  - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
152  - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.  - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't
153  - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.  handle long lines correctly in its configuration file.
154  - Handle no network interface scenario in console.  Fix submitted by Charlie Brady
155  - Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server.  - Remove previous change
156  - Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+  - Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error
157  - Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules.  - Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility
158  - Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos.  - Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom
159  - Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos.  - Update Obsoletes and Conflicts
 - Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos.  
 - Enable cpuspeed by default.  
 - Fix scriplet error in e-smith-service script when service is disabled.  
 - Allow use of CNAME in remote hosts.  
 - Add Obsoletes for php5-cgi-{imap,ldap,mysql,pear,xmlrpc}.  
 - Restate smartd dependency.  
 - Fix gettext errors in WAN/LAN subnet error message  
 - Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing  
 - Fix eth? swapping  
 - Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits  
 - Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console  
   configuration pages.  
 - Translate $ifName in console configuration pages  
 - Prevent IP conflicts between local and external interface in server  
   gateway mode  
 - Clean up: remove unused nonetworkdrivers  
 - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod  
 - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize  
 - Add compiled python files to the packaged files list  
 - Update path for 64-bit compatibility  
 - Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf  
 - adds the hwaddr parameter to probeAdapters()  
 - Update path for 64-bit compatibility  
 - Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids  
 - Fix log-error detection algorithm  
 - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut  
 - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s  
 - Enable port forwards to localhost if mode is serveronly  
 - Adjust xml entry in locale  
 - Add option to limit port forwards from source ip  
 - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line  
 - Fix owner/perms for radius files  
 - Fix typo in /sbin/service patch (Federico Simoncelli)  
 - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration  
   database to avoid failures in post scriptlets  
 - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only  
   initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures that  
   the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects against  
   running "service httpd restart"  
 - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first  
 - Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot  
 - Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms  
 - only unlink file if we created it  
 - Import only keys not already imported  
 - set unsaved changes in yum event  
 - move yum warming to sme yum plugin  
 - ensure file exists before unlinking  
 - remove semicolons from yum plugin  
 - Add frequency of updates toggle  
 - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package  
 - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio  
 - Require mailx  
 - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed pacakges  
160    
161  General features  General features
162  ================  ================
163    
164  - Based on CentOS 5.8 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
165    
166  $Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2012/03/19 15:13:47 wellsi Exp $  $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $
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