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- SME Server 8.1 Release Notes
+ Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
- ============================
+ ====================================
+March 2015
+ The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
+ the release of SME Server 8.2 which is based on CentOS 5.11
-July 2013
- The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  tracker (and only there, please);
      http://bugs.contribs.org/
+ Download
+ ========
+ You can download SME Server 8.2 from
+ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/x86_64/
+ or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
+ Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
+ during this time you may experience problems.
  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
  ======
  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
  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 8.2
     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 Server 8.2 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,
+. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those
+    security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
+    (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
+    workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
+    Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
+. 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/
+    You can download SME Server 8.2 from
+    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/i386/
     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
- Major changes since 8.0
- =======================
- * TBD
  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
- - Allow full backup to occur on Sunday
- - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level
- File Server
+  - Add pkgconfig dar
- -----------
- - Revert previous change.
+  - New Upstream Version dar
- - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option
- - Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration
+  - Add requires nfs-utils
- - Enable smb auditing per ibay
- - Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12
+  - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
+  - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
+ LDAP
- LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
  ----
+  - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
+    parsed
  Localisation
  ------------
- *** NONE ***
+  - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
+  - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
+  - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
  Mail Server
  -----------
- - Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled
- - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments
+  - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6
- - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady
- - Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch
+  - Updated to release ClamAV 0.98.5
- - Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow
- - Don't use SSL over loopback
+  - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
- - Easier to read version of softlimit patch
- - More robust version of softlimit patch
+  - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
- - Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s
- - Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
+  - Updates to release ClamAV 0.98.4.
- - modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti
- - Template Qmail MaxMessageSize
+  - Updated to release ClamAV 0.98.3.
- - smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it
- to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel
+  - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
- - Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base
- - tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2
+  - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database :
- - Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady
+    UEsDBBQDAAAIA
+  - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX &
+    ZIPV3
+  - Fix stunnel path
+  - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
+  - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
+    by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
+  - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
+  - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
+  - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
  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
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
- ---------------------
+     fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
+     xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
+     core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
+     exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
+     spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
+     change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
+     spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
+     gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
+     CVE-2014-2497
+     fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
+     cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
+     core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
+     record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
+     core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
+     date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
+     core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
+     CVE-2014-4049
+     core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
+     confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
+     fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
+     fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
+     rules. CVE-2014-1943
+     fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
+     fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
+     fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
+     fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
+     DoS. CVE-2014-0237
+     fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
+     loop. CVE-2014-0238
  Web Server
  ----------
- - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder
+  - Disable SSLv3
+  - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
+  - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
- - Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud
- - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
+  - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
- - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady
- - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays,
+    answer to NO
- by Mark Casey
- - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled
+  - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip
- - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled
+    allowed in dhcpd
- - Add_template_to_ssl.pem
- - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized
+  - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against
- - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk
+    ip allowed in dhcpd
- - Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save
- - Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console
+  - Reset primary ibay default type
- - Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT
- - Simplified patch after review comments
+  - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters
- - Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment
+    in the server-manager.
- - Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb
- - Template /etc/updatedb.conf
+    Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the
- - Make CipherSuite secure by default
+ hostname field
- - D-root is changing its IPv4 address
- - Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save
+    Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
- - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers
- - Fix removing old BDB log files
+    and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
- - Remove unused BDB log files
- - Improve error checking in isValidIP
+  - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
- - Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running,
- patch by Charlie Brady
+  - Move mysql logging to multilog
- - Force magic_quotes Off
- - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
+  - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
- - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't
- handle long lines correctly in its configuration file.
+  - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
- Fix submitted by Charlie Brady
- - Remove previous change
+  - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
- - Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error
- - Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility
+  - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and
- - Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom
+    CVE-2012-2252
- - Update Obsoletes and Conflicts
+  - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of
+    the
+    CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
+  - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
+  - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
+    generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
+    regression).
+  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+  - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
+  - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
+  - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
+  - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
+  - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $
+ - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
+ Terry Fage
+ On behalf of the SME Server development team

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