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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes
+ SME Server 8.1 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ============================
- June 2009
+July 2013
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 which will be the next major release of SME Server.
+ SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9
- This release is based on CentOS 5.3 and all packages have been updated
- to the latest releases.
- ***************************
- 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.
- ***************************
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  tracker (and only there, please);
      http://bugs.contribs.org/
- Please be sure to choose 'SME Server Release 8.X'
- ***************************
- Testers Please Note the following...
-. 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.
-. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
-    machines without contribs or other modifications. Issues with
-    upgrading from clean SME machines can be reported in the bug
-    tracker, but detailed reviews of upgrading paths will not start
-    until Release Candidate versions are made available.
-    Some notes on upgrading from Release 7 can be found
-    at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
- ***************************
  About SME Server
  ================
  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
- enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
+ enterprises.
- ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), 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
+ SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
- and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
+ 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
  development.
- Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
+ Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
- Thanks and a plea for help
+ Thanks
- ==========================
+ ======
  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
- 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
+ Notes
- 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
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
- verification testing needs lots of community involvement; please try to
+    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
- spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's future.
+    means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
+    AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
- This release, which is based on a major update of CentOS, contains
+    are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
- many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server Manager
+    Athlon XP and later.
- regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the latest stage
- of development.
+. Some notes on SME 8 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/
+    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
+ Major changes since 8.0
+ =======================
+ * TBD
  Changes in this release
  =======================
- e-smith-apache
+ Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
- - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]
+ not included.
- - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]
- - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]
- - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]
- - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]
- - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]
- e-smith-backup
- - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579]
- - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]
- e-smith-base
- - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336]
- - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230]
- - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]
- e-smith-horde
- - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request
- information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7 and sme8 [SME: 4821]
- - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860]
- - 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 [SME: 4787]
- - Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.2 [SME: 4831]
- e-smith-imap
- - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]
- - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]
- e-smith-imp
- - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) and remove obsolete
- php-pear-HTTP-Request line. [SME: 4928]
- - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]
- - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832]
- e-smith-ldap
- - Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018]
- - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem.
- [SME: 3018, 2859]
- e-smith-manager
- - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]
- e-smith-mysql
- - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]
- - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]
- e-smith-nutUPS
- - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]
- e-smith-openssh
- - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]
- e-smith-qmail
- - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5257]
- - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a
- local ip [SME: 5171]
- e-smith-quota
- - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112]
- e-smith-radiusd
- - Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317]
- e-smith-samba
- - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309]
- - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]
- e-smith-turba
- - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]
- - Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910]
- - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]
- - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]
- horde
- - Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831]
- imp-h3
- - Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832]
- initscripts
- - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration
- database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]
- - 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" [SME: 61, 1495]
- mod_auth_external
- - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318]
- qmail
- - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]
- qpsmtpd
- - Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108]
- smeserver-clamav
- - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319]
- - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]
- - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]
- smeserver-locale
- - apply locale 2009-05-27 patch
- - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]
- - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]
- smeserver-release
- - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]
- - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]
- - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]
- - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]
- - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]
- - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]
- smeserver-yum
- - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305]
- - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242]
- - Require mailx [SME: 5131]
- - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of
- needed pacakges [SME: 3133]
- turba-h3
- - Updated to Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]
- The following files are no longer in the ISO
- - libdhcp
- - qmail-workaround
- - rkhunter
- The following files were added to the ISO
- - aspell-ru
- - dbus-libs
- - perl-Package-Constants
- - smeserver-locale-et
- - smeserver-locale-nb
- - smeserver-locale-ro
- - smeserver-locale-ru
- - smeserver-locale-zh_CN
- - yum-protect-packages
+ Backups
+ -------
+ - Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage
+ - Allow full backup to occur on Sunday
+ - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level
+ File Server
+ -----------
+ - Revert previous change.
+ - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option
+ - Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration
+ - Enable smb auditing per ibay
+ - Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12
+ LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
+ ----
+ Localisation
+ ------------
+ *** NONE ***
+ Mail Server
+ -----------
+ - Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled
+ - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments
+ - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady
+ - Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch
+ - Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow
+ - Don't use SSL over loopback
+ - Easier to read version of softlimit patch
+ - More robust version of softlimit patch
+ - Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s
+ - Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
+ - modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti
+ - Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
+ - smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it
+ to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel
+ - Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base
+ - tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2
+ - Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady
+ Server manager
+ --------------
+ - Do not load mod_ssl
+ - Correct processing of server-manager URL
+ - Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady
+ - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel
+ Webmail and Groupware
+ ---------------------
+ Web Server
+ ----------
+ - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder
+ Other fixes and updates
+ -----------------------
+ - Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud
+ - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
+ - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady
+ - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays,
+ by Mark Casey
+ - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled
+ - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled
+ - Add_template_to_ssl.pem
+ - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized
+ - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk
+ - Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save
+ - Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console
+ - Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT
+ - Simplified patch after review comments
+ - Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment
+ - Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb
+ - Template /etc/updatedb.conf
+ - Make CipherSuite secure by default
+ - D-root is changing its IPv4 address
+ - 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 5.3 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/06/14 21:31:08 wellsi Exp $

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