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- SME Server 8.1 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.1Beta3 Release Notes
- ============================
+ =================================
-July 2013
+November 2013
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9
+ SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 which is based on CentOS 5.10
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  tracker (and only there, please);
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 About SME Server
  ================
  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
- enterprises.
+ enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
+ a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
+ for SME Server.
  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
- 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.
+ a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
+ using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
+ within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
  development.
+ b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
+ the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
+ commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
+ your have in the field. Please, help the project
  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
+ Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
+ simply email treasurer@koozali.org
  Thanks
  ======
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 themselves with this release.
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 themselves with this release.
  Notes
  =====
-. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
     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.
-. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
+. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
 . Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
     during this time you may experience problems.
     You can download SME8.1 from
-    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/
+    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
- Major changes since 8.0
+ Changes from Beta 2
- =======================
+ ===================
- * TBD
+ Update to CentOS 5.10
+ Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
+ Changes from Beta 1
+ ===================
+ nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
+ dmraid.
+ Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
+ SME Server changes to initscripts included.
+ Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
+ Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
+ Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
+ Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
  Changes in this release
  =======================
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 Changes in this release
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 Changes in this release
  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
  not included.
  Backups
  -------
- - Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage
+ - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
- - Allow full backup to occur on Sunday
+   full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
- - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level
+ - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
+   delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
+   OS.
+ - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
+   For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
+   The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
+ - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
+   device.
+ - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
+   performed.
+ - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
+ - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
+ - Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces.
+ - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
+ - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
+ backup.
  File Server
  -----------
- - Revert previous change.
+ - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
- - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option
+ - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
- - Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration
+   file.
- - Enable smb auditing per ibay
+   /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
- - Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12
+ - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
+   The current samba default is 'no'.
+   see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
+   For example to enable samba Wide Links
+   # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
+ - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
+   Windows slow logons.
+   /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
+ - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
+   smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
+   For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
+ - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
+   email to be sent to the admin every night.
+ - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
+   Auditing is enabled via
+   # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
+   # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
+ - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
+ - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
+ - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
+   lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
+   large numbers of local networks were configured.
+ - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
- LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
+ LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
  ----
+ - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
+ - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
+ - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
+   slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
+   corrected.
+ - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
+ - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
+   users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
  Localisation
  ------------
- *** NONE ***
+ - Latest translations included.
  Mail Server
  -----------
- - Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled
+ - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
- - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments
+ - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
- - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady
+ - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
- - Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch
+ - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
- - Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow
+ - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a
- - Don't use SSL over loopback
+   blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
- - Easier to read version of softlimit patch
+   For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
- - More robust version of softlimit patch
+   # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
- - Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s
+   # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
- - Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
+   More than one method can be removed:
- - modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti
+   # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
- - Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
+   # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
- - smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it
+ - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
- to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel
+   sometimes very slow.
- - Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base
+ - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
- - tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2
+   database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
- - Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady
+   For example to increase the memory limit
+   # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
+   # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
+   # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
+   # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
+ - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
+   /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
+   For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
+   # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
+ - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
+ - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
+ - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
+   qpsmtpd.
+ - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
+   spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
+   For example to also scan larger files
+   # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
+ - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
+   SSLv2.
+ - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
+ - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
+   and SSMTP transactions
+ - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
+ - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
+ - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
+   size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
  Server manager
  --------------
- - Do not load mod_ssl
+ - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
- - Correct processing of server-manager URL
+ - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
- - Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady
+ - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
- - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel
+   noise.
+ - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
+   %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
+   now case-insensitive for %escapes.
+ - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
+ - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
+   Web panel in server-manager
  Webmail and Groupware
  ---------------------
+ - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
+   to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
+ - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
  Web Server
  ----------
- - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder
+ - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
+ - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
+ - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
+   will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
+   is ON.
+ - Change wording of Software Update button.
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
- - Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud
+ - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
- - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
+ - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
- - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady
+   variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
- - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays,
+ - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
- by Mark Casey
+   to take only seconds
- - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled
+ - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
- - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled
+ - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
- - Add_template_to_ssl.pem
+   admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
- - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized
+   ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
- - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk
+ - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
- - Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save
+rd of January 2013.
- - Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console
+ - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
- - Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT
+   servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
- - Simplified patch after review comments
+   prevents this.
- - Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment
+ - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
- - Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb
+   running at any particular time.
- - Template /etc/updatedb.conf
+ - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
- - Make CipherSuite secure by default
+ - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
- - D-root is changing its IPv4 address
+ - Increase memory limit for ntpd .
- - Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save
- - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers
- - Fix removing old BDB log files
- - Remove unused BDB log files
- - Improve error checking in isValidIP
- - Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running,
- patch by Charlie Brady
- - Force magic_quotes Off
- - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
- - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't
- handle long lines correctly in its configuration file.
- Fix submitted by Charlie Brady
- - Remove previous change
- - Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error
- - Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility
- - Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom
- - Update Obsoletes and Conflicts
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.22 2013/10/12 05:51:47 wellsi Exp $

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