--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2012/03/19 06:01:41 1.13 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/09/14 19:21:18 1.19 @@ -1,48 +1,16 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes -================================================ +SME Server 8.1Beta1 Release Notes +============================ -20 March 2012 +16 September 2013 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next -major release of SME Server. +SME Server 8.1 Beta 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/ -*************************** -Testers Please Note the following... - -1. 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. - -2. 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. - -3. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at - http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - -4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean - machines without contribs or other modifications. - -5. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing - contribs. Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker. - -6. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, - during this time you may experience problems. - You can download SME8.0 RC 1 from - http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ - or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - -*************************** - About SME Server ================ @@ -63,87 +31,164 @@ Thanks and a plea for help ========================== 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 -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 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 verification testing needs lots of community involvement; -please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's -future. - -This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core, -contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server -Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the -latest stage of development. - -Major changes in RC 1 -===================== -* No major changes were introduced for RC 1 +themselves with this release. + +Notes +===== + +1. 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. + +2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at + http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 + +3. 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 + Changes in this release ======================= -This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out -by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 7. +Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are +not included. -The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes -carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to -shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and -Fedora-associated developers are not included. Backups ------- -- Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers -- Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore -- Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin - for Workstation Backups +- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week. +- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup. +- 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 ----------- -- Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM) +- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. + /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg +- 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) ---- -None +- 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 ----------- -- Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5 - config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort - config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled -- Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name -- Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports +- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. +- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. +- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. +- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. + For example to remove CRAM-MD5: + # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 + # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy + More than one method can be removed: + # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" + # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy +- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow. +- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} + 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. + Server manager -------------- -None +- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log 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 --------------------- -None + +- 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 ---------- -- Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources +- 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 ----------------------- -- Add MAC address into console network selection -- Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel -- Improve error message for quota -- Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt +- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB +- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. +- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds +- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. +- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file. +- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. +- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this. +- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time. +- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. +- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org +- Increase memory limit for ntpd . General features ================ -- Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates + +$Id: README.txt,v 1.18 2013/09/11 04:35:48 wellsi Exp $ -$Id: README.txt,v 1.12 2011/11/23 16:42:09 wellsi Exp $