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1  SME Server 8.1 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC1 Release Notes
2  ============================  ==========================================
3    
4  04 July 2013  25 June 2015
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
7  SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9  the release of SME Server 8.2 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 5.11
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    
14    Download
15    ========
16    
17    You can download SME Server 8.2rc1  from
18    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc1/
19    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
20    
21    Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
22    during this time you may experience problems.
23    
24    
25  About SME Server  About SME Server
26  ================  ================
27    
28  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
29  enterprises.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
30    a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
31    for SME Server.
32    
33  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
34  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
35  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
36  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
37    
38  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.
39    
40    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
41    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
42    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
43  development.  development.
44    
45    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
46    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
47    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
48    your have in the field. Please, help the project
49    
50  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
51    
52    Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
53    simply email treasurer@koozali.org
54    
55    
56  Thanks  Thanks
57  ======  ======
58    
59  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
60  themselves with this release.  themselves with this release.
61    
62    
63  Notes  Notes
64  =====  =====
65    
66  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 8.2
67     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
68     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
69     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
70     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
71     Athlon XP and later.     Athlon XP and later.
72    
73  2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at  2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at
74     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
75    
76  3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,  3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those
77     during this time you may experience problems.     security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
78     You can download SME8.1 from     (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
79     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/     workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
80     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
   
 Major changes since 8.0  
 =======================  
 * TBD  
81    
82    4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
83       during this time you may experience problems.
84       You can download SME Server 8.2 from
85       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2.rc1/
86      
87    
88  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
89  =======================  =======================
# Line 63  Changes in this release Line 91  Changes in this release
91  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
92  not included.  not included.
93    
94    
95  Backups  Backups
96  -------  -------
97  - Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage   - Add pkgconfig dar
98  - Allow full backup to occur on Sunday   - New Upstream Version of dar
99  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level   - Add requires nfs-utils
100     - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
101     - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
102    
 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  
103    
104  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)  LDAP
105  ----  ----
106     - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
107       parsed
108    
109  Localisation  Localisation
110  ------------  ------------
111  *** NONE ***   - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
112     - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
113     - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
114    
115  Mail Server  Mail Server
116  -----------  -----------
117  - Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled   - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7
118  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments   - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
119  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady   - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
120  - Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch   - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
121  - Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA
122  - Don't use SSL over loopback   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
123  - Easier to read version of softlimit patch   - Fix stunnel path
124  - More robust version of softlimit patch   - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
125  - Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s   - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
126  - Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize     by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
127  - modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti   - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
128  - Template Qmail MaxMessageSize   - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
129  - smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it   - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
 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  
130    
131  Server manager  Server manager
132  --------------  --------------
133  - Do not load mod_ssl   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
134  - Correct processing of server-manager URL      fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
135  - Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady      xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
136  - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel      core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
137        exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
138  Webmail and Groupware   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
139  ---------------------      spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
140        change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
141        spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
142        gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
143        CVE-2014-2497
144        fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
145        cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
146        core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
147        record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
148     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
149        core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
150        date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
151        core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
152        CVE-2014-4049
153        core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
154        confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
155        fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
156        fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
157        rules. CVE-2014-1943
158        fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
159        fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
160        fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
161        fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
162        DoS. CVE-2014-0237
163        fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
164        loop. CVE-2014-0238
165    
166    
167  Web Server  Web Server
168  ----------  ----------
169  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder   - Disable SSLv3
170     - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
171     - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
172    
173  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
174  -----------------------  -----------------------
175  - Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud   - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic
176  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated   (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp)  
177  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady   - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
178  - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays,     answer to NO
179  by Mark Casey   - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
180  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled   - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
181  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled   - Reset primary ibay default type
182  - Add_template_to_ssl.pem   - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager.
183  - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized     Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field
184  - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk     Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
185  - Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save     and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
186  - Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console   - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
187  - Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT   - Move mysql logging to multilog
188  - Simplified patch after review comments   - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
189  - Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment   - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
190  - Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb   - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
191  - Template /etc/updatedb.conf   - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
192  - Make CipherSuite secure by default   - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
193  - D-root is changing its IPv4 address     CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
194  - Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save   - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
195  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers   - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
196  - Fix removing old BDB log files     generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
197  - Remove unused BDB log files     regression).
198  - Improve error checking in isValidIP   - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
199  - Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running,   - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
200  patch by Charlie Brady   - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
201  - Force magic_quotes Off   - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
202  - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN   - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
203  - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't   - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
204  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  
205    
206  General features  General features
207  ================  ================
208    
209  - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
   
 $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $  
   
   
210    
211    Terry Fage
212    On behalf of the SME Server development team

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