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1  SME Server 8.0 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1Beta3 Release Notes
2  ============================  =================================
3    
4  21 May 2012  15 January 2014
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 Beta 3 which is based on CentOS 5.10
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);
# Line 15  About SME Server Line 15  About SME Server
15  ================  ================
16    
17  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
18  enterprises.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
19    a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
20    for SME Server.
21    
22  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
23  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
24  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
25  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
26    
27  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.
28    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
29    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
30    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
31  development.  development.
32    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
33    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
34    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
35    your have in the field. Please, help the project
36    
37  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
38    
39    Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
40    simply email treasurer@koozali.org
41    
42  Thanks  Thanks
43  ======  ======
44    
# Line 36  themselves with this release. Line 48  themselves with this release.
48  Notes  Notes
49  =====  =====
50    
51  1. 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
52     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
53     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
54     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
55     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
56     Athlon XP and later.     Athlon XP and later.
57    
58  2. 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
59     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
60    
61  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,
62     during this time you may experience problems.     during this time you may experience problems.
63     You can download SME8.0 from     You can download SME8.1 from
64     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
65     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
66    
67  Major changes since beta 7  Changes from Beta 2
68  ==========================  ===================
 * 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  
 =======================  
 The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling  
 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.  
69    
70    Update to CentOS 5.10
71    Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
72    Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
73    Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
74    from CGI.pm
75    Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
76    when using dar 2.4
77    
78    Changes from Beta 1
79    ===================
80    
81    nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
82    dmraid.
83    Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
84    SME Server changes to initscripts included.
85    Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
86    Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
87    Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
88    Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
89    
90  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
91  =======================  =======================
92    
93  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  
94  not included.  not included.
95    
96    
97  Backups  Backups
98  -------  -------
99  - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers  - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
100  - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore  - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
101  - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin    full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
102    for Workstation Backups  - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
103  - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.    delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
104  - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.    OS.
105  - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup  - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
106    destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.    For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
107  - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.    The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
108    Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not  - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
109    restricted to only USB disks.    device.
110  - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.  - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
111  - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during    performed.
112    software update.  - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
113  - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.  - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
114  - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of  - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
115    open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed  - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
116    if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables.    backup.
117  - Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure.  - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
118  - Workstation Backup emails include a To: header.    to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
119  - Workstation Backup includes the system name and also indicates failure  - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
120    if applicable in the subject line of the email.    when it goes out of scope.
121  - Update backup instructions in server-manager.  - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
122  - The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces  - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
123    from the hostname.    of results from CGI.pm
124  - Fix removal of leading slash in storage location.  - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
125  - The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks.    when using dar 2.4
126  - 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  
127    
128  File Server  File Server
129  -----------  -----------
130  - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
131  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.  - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
132  - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).    file.
133  - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility.    /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
134  - Remove require strong key part of regedit file.  - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
135  - Backup all the samba tdb files.    The current samba default is 'no'.
136  - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup.    see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
137  - Create/remove V2 profile directories    For example to enable samba Wide Links
138  - Enable bindinterfaces by default    # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
139  - Set recyle bin permissions  - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
140  - Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to join Samba    Windows slow logons.
141    3.x domains    /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
142  - Fix warnings in template expansion  - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
143  - Fix migrate fragments for samba    smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
144      For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
145    - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
146      email to be sent to the admin every night.
147    - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
148      Auditing is enabled via
149      # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
150      # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
151    - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
152    - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
153    - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
154      lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
155      large numbers of local networks were configured.
156    - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
157    
158  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)  
159    LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
160  ----  ----
161  - Create samba account during event for machine  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
162  - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
163  - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account  - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
164  - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership    slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
165  - Fix cpu critical patch missing '    corrected.
166  - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
167  - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database  - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
168  - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed    users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
169  - 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  
170    
171  Localisation  Localisation
172  ------------  ------------
173  - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.  - Latest translations included.
174  - 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  
175    
176  Mail Server  Mail Server
177  -----------  -----------
178  - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5  - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
179       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
180       config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
181  - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
182  - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports  - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a
183  - Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections    blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
184  - Add template fragment for pyzor timeout    For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
185  - Remove spamd restart from bootstrap-console-save event    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
186  - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
187    address.    More than one method can be removed:
188  - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
189  - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
190  - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.  - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
191  - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.    sometimes very slow.
192  - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.  - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
193  - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work    database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
194  - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no    For example to increase the memory limit
195    headers.    # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
196  - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.    # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
197  - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.    # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
198  - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.    # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
199  - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of  - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
200    mail logfiles.    /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
201  - Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from    For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
202    sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be    # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
203    transparently proxied.  - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
204  - Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP  - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
205    Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before  - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
206    Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5).    qpsmtpd.
207  - Update qpsmtpd to 0.84  - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
208  - Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses    spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
209    enabled/disabled for clarity.    For example to also scan larger files
210  - Fix HeloHost patch.    # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
211  - Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed.  - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
212  - Update email addresses on domain change.    SSLv2.
213  - Work around how qpsmtpd tags spam email.  - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
214  - Use HeloHost (if present) in smtp-auth-proxy.pl  - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
215  - Allow for changing SPAM subject tag through server-manager    and SSMTP transactions
216  - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file  - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
217  - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use  - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
218  - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request)  - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
219  - SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups    size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
220  - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups  - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
221  - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0  - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
222    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  
223    
224  Server manager  Server manager
225  --------------  --------------
226  - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.  - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
227  - Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel.  - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
228  - Remove empty <p> tag from footer template.  - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
229  - Only display error messages intended for admin in server-manager    noise.
230  - Fix css validation errors.  - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
231  - display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes    %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
232  - Fix unitialized value errors in HTML.pm    now case-insensitive for %escapes.
233    - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
234    - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
235      Web panel in server-manager
236    
237    
238  Webmail and Groupware  Webmail and Groupware
239  ---------------------  ---------------------
240  - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5  
241  - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional  - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
242    identities.    to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
243  - Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book.  - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
244  - 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  
245    
246  Web Server  Web Server
247  ----------  ----------
248  - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources  - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
249  - Disable SSLv2 by default.  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
250  - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.  - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
251  - Default expose_php in php.ini to Off.    will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
252  - Add option to disable SSLv2    is ON.
253  - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types  - Change wording of Software Update button.
254  - Add OpenOffice MIME Types  
 - Add XML MIME Type  
 - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types  
255    
256  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
257  -----------------------  -----------------------
258  - Add MAC address into console network selection  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
259  - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel  - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
260  - Improve error message for quota    variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
261  - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt  - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
262  - Initialize ExternalInterface db structure so hwaddr in console works.    to take only seconds
263  - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt.  - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
264  - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.  - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
265  - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.    admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
266  - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.    ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
267  - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.  - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
268  - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.    3rd of January 2013.
269  - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.  - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
270  - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add    servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
271    FQDN).    prevents this.
272  - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks  - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
273  - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be    running at any particular time.
274    inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.  - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
275  - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.  - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
276  - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts  - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
277  - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be  - Add an audit for groups.
   configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.  
 - Set the TimeZone property earlier, so templates can rely on it.  
 - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and  
   ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by  
   network inactivity.  
 - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.  
 - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.  
 - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.  
 - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.  
 - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.  
 - Handle no network interface scenario in console.  
 - 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.  
 - Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos.  
 - Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos.  
 - 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  
278    
279  General features  General features
280  ================  ================
281    
282  - Based on CentOS 5.8 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
   
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