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1  SME Server 8.1 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Announcement
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2    
3  04 July 2013  Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
4    ==========================================
5    22 Oct 2015
6    
7  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
8  SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9  the release of SME Server 8.2 which is based on CentOS 5.11
9    
10  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
11  tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
12    
13      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
14    
15    Download
16    ========
17    You can download SME Server 8.2  from
18    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/
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  About SME Server  About SME Server
25  ================  ================
   
26  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
27  enterprises.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
28    a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
29    for SME Server.
30    
31  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
32  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
33  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
34  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
35    
36  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.
37    
38    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
39    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
40    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
41  development.  development.
42    
43    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
44    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
45    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
46    your have in the field. Please, help the project
47    
48  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
49    
50    Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
51    simply email treasurer@koozali.org
52    
53  Thanks  Thanks
54  ======  ======
   
55  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
56  themselves with this release.  themselves with this release.
57    
58  Notes  Notes
59  =====  =====
60    
61  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
62     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
63     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
64     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
65     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
66     Athlon XP and later.     Athlon XP and later.
67    
68  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
69     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
70    
71  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
72     during this time you may experience problems.     security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
73     You can download SME8.1 from     (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
74     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/     workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
75     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  
76    
77    4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
78       during this time you may experience problems.
79       You can download SME Server 8.2 from
80       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc/
81      
82    Major changes in this release
83    =============================
84    Switch back to upstream openssl builds
85    Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
86    Added Windows 10 support to SME Domain
87    
88  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
89  =======================  =======================
   
90  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
91  not included.  not included.
92    
93  Backups  Backups
94  -------  -------
95  - Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage   - Add pkgconfig dar
96  - Allow full backup to occur on Sunday   - New Upstream Version of dar
97  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level   - Add requires nfs-utils
98     - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
99     - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
100    
101  File Server  File Server
102  -----------  -----------
103  - Revert previous change.   - The samba performance registry is now added in the win10samba.reg
104  - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option   - Corrected typo in patch of bad character '“', relative to roaming profile
105  - Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration   - e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9049.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
106  - Enable smb auditing per ibay     Added e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9049.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
107  - Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12     Modified the registry file for roaming profile with W8
108     - Roaming profiles follow Windows version (.V2,.V3,.V4,.V5)
109       added W10 support to SME Domain
110       e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch
111       e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch  
112     - Fix samba audit parameters Patch from Jorge Gonzalez
113    
114    
115  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)  LDAP
116  ----  ----
117     - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
118       parsed
119    
120  Localisation  Localisation
121  ------------  ------------
122  *** NONE ***   - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
123     - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
124     - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
125    
126  Mail Server  Mail Server
127  -----------  -----------
128  - Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled   - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7
129  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments   - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
130  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady   - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
131  - Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch   - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
132  - Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA
133  - Don't use SSL over loopback   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
134  - Easier to read version of softlimit patch   - Fix stunnel path
135  - More robust version of softlimit patch   - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
136  - Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s   - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
137  - Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize     by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
138  - modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti   - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
139  - Template Qmail MaxMessageSize   - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
140  - 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  
141    
142  Server manager  Server manager
143  --------------  --------------
144  - Do not load mod_ssl   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
145  - Correct processing of server-manager URL      fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
146  - Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady      xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
147  - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel      core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
148        exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
149  Webmail and Groupware   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
150  ---------------------      spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
151        change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
152        spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
153        gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
154        CVE-2014-2497
155        fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
156        cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
157        core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
158        record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
159     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
160        core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
161        date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
162        core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
163        CVE-2014-4049
164        core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
165        confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
166        fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
167        fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
168        rules. CVE-2014-1943
169        fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
170        fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
171        fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
172        fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
173        DoS. CVE-2014-0237
174        fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
175        loop. CVE-2014-0238
176    
177  Web Server  Web Server
178  ----------  ----------
179  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder   - Disable SSLv3
180     - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
181     - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
182    
183  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
184  -----------------------  -----------------------
185  - Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud   - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic
186  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated     (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp)  
187  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady   - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
188  - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays,     answer to NO
189  by Mark Casey   - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
190  - 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
191  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled   - Reset primary ibay default type
192  - Add_template_to_ssl.pem   - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager.
193  - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized     Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field
194  - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk     Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
195  - Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save     and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
196  - Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console   - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
197  - Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT   - Move mysql logging to multilog
198  - Simplified patch after review comments   - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
199  - Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment   - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
200  - Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb   - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
201  - Template /etc/updatedb.conf   - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
202  - Make CipherSuite secure by default   - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
203  - D-root is changing its IPv4 address     CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
204  - Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save   - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
205  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers   - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
206  - Fix removing old BDB log files     generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
207  - Remove unused BDB log files     regression).
208  - Improve error checking in isValidIP   - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
209  - Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running,   - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
210  patch by Charlie Brady   - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
211  - Force magic_quotes Off   - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
212  - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN   - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
213  - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't   - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
214  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  
215    
216  General features  General features
217  ================  ================
218    
219  - 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 $  
   
   
220    
221    Terry Fage
222    On behalf of the SME Server development team

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