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1  SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1 Release Notes
2  ===================================  ============================
3    
4  8 October 2011  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 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next  SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9
 major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8.  
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);
11    
12      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
13    
 ***************************  
 Testers Please Note the following...  
   
 1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this  
    release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a  
    dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.  
   
 2. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8  
    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware  
    means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;  
    AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors  
    are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,  
    Athlon XP and later.  
   
 3. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at  
    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8  
   
 4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean  
    machines without contribs or other modifications.  
   
 5. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing  
    contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers.  
    Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker.  
   
 6. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,  
    during this time you may experience problems.  
    You can download SME8.0 Beta 7 from  
    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/  
    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8  
   
 ***************************  
   
14  About SME Server  About SME Server
15  ================  ================
16    
# Line 60  development. Line 27  development.
27    
28  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
29    
30  Thanks and a plea for help  Thanks
31  ==========================  ======
32    
33  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
34  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role  themselves with this release.
 of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and  
 quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all  
 levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw  
 the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design,  
 up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug  
 triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement;  
 please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's  
 future.  
   
 This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,  
 contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server  
 Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the  
 latest stage of development.  
35    
36  Major changes in beta 7  Notes
37    =====
38    
39    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       means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
42       AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
43       are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
44       Athlon XP and later.
45    
46    2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
47       http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
48    
49    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 SME8.1 from
52       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/
53       or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
54    
55    Major changes since 8.0
56  =======================  =======================
57  * Require authentication for all emails, including local.  * TBD
58  * 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  
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
64  by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6.  not included.
   
 The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes  
 carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to  
 shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and  
 Fedora-associated developers are not included.  
65    
66  Backups  Backups
67  -------  -------
68  - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.  - Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage
69  - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.  - Allow full backup to occur on Sunday
70  - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level
   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.  
71    
72  File Server  File Server
73  -----------  -----------
74  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.  - Revert previous change.
75  - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).  - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option
76    - Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration
77    - Enable smb auditing per ibay
78    - Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12
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).  
82    
83  Localisation  Localisation
84  ------------  ------------
85  - Latest localisation updates applied.  *** NONE ***
86    
87  Mail Server  Mail Server
88  -----------  -----------
89  - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external  - Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled
90    address.  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments
91  - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady
92  - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.  - Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch
93  - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.  - Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow
94  - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.  - Don't use SSL over loopback
95  - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.  - Easier to read version of softlimit patch
96  - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work  - More robust version of softlimit patch
97  - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no  - Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s
98    headers.  - Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
99  - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.  - modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti
100  - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.  - Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
101  - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.  - smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it
102  - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of  to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel
103    mail logfiles.  - Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base
104    - tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2
105    - Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady
106    
107  Server manager  Server manager
108  --------------  --------------
109  - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.  - Do not load mod_ssl
110    - Correct processing of server-manager URL
111    - Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady
112    - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel
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.  
117    
118  Web Server  Web Server
119  ----------  ----------
120  - Disable SSLv2 by default.  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder
 - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.  
121    
122  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
123  -----------------------  -----------------------
124  - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt  - Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud
125  - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
126  - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady
127  - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.  - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays,
128  - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.  by Mark Casey
129  - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled
130  - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled
131  - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add  - Add_template_to_ssl.pem
132    FQDN).  - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized
133  - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks  - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk
134  - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be  - Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save
135    inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.  - Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console
136  - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.  - Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT
137  - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts  - Simplified patch after review comments
138  - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be  - Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment
139    configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.  - Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb
140  - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and  - Template /etc/updatedb.conf
141    ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by  - Make CipherSuite secure by default
142    network inactivity.  - D-root is changing its IPv4 address
143  - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.  - Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save
144  - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers
145  - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.  - Fix removing old BDB log files
146  - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.  - Remove unused BDB log files
147  - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.  - Improve error checking in isValidIP
148    - Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running,
149    patch by Charlie Brady
150    - Force magic_quotes Off
151    - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
152    - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't
153    handle long lines correctly in its configuration file.
154    Fix submitted by Charlie Brady
155    - Remove previous change
156    - Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error
157    - Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility
158    - Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom
159    - Update Obsoletes and Conflicts
160    
161  General features  General features
162  ================  ================
163    
164  - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
165    
166    $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $
167    
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