--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2011/09/25 17:53:32 1.9 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/09/27 14:47:02 1.20 @@ -1,49 +1,16 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes -=================================== +SME Server 8.1Beta1 Release Notes +============================ -DATE TBD +30 September 2013 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.6 and will be the next -major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8. +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. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean - machines without contribs or other modifications. - -4. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing - contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers. - Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker. - -5. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at - http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - -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 Beta 7 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 ================ @@ -64,145 +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. +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 -Major changes in beta 7 -======================= -* Require authentication for all emails, including local. -* Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot). UNDER DISCUSSION -* LDAP authentication can be enabled, but is not on by default in this version, - once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care. 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 6. +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 ------- -- Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks. -- Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in - the Configure Workstation Backup panel -- Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel. - Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted - to only USB disks. -- Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number. -- Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update -- Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email. -- A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of - open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL - database has a very large number of tables. +- 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 ----------- -- Change separator character in general Samba configuration file. -- Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays). -- Create samba account during event for machine. -- Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP. -- Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account. -- Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership. -- Fix cpu critical patch missing ' -- LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb +- 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 8.1, and considered experimental) +---- +- 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 ------------ -- Latest localisation updates applied. +- Latest translations included. + Mail Server ----------- -- Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address. -- Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured. -- Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy. -- Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary. -- Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts. -- Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled. -- Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work -- Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers. -- Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors. -- Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database. -- New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of qmail - logfiles. +- 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 -------------- -- Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel. +- 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 --------------------- -- Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5 -- Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional - identities. -- Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed. + +- 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 ---------- -- Disable SSLv2 by default. -- make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'. +- 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 ----------------------- -- Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot) -- Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP. -- Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only. -- Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC. -- Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories. -- Fix create user gid parameter. -- Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script. -- Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf. -- Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup. -- Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add FQDN). -- Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks -- Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be inserted - in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address. -- Add validator back for ip or cname entry. -- All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP. -- Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP. -- Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master. -- Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled. -- Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database. -- Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix -- Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps. -- LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department. -- LDAP chnages: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config. -- Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype. -- Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates. -- Change startup order for ldap. -- ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords. -- Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts -- Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured - by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift. -- Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax - to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity. -- New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration. -- Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration. -- Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units. -- Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well. -- Add ldap as an auth type to radius -- Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled). +- 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 5.6 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates + +$Id: README.txt,v 1.19 2013/09/14 19:21:18 wellsi Exp $ + -$Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2010/07/15 07:58:07 wellsi Exp $