--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/10/06 15:40:54 1.21 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/10/12 05:51:47 1.22 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ SME Server 8.1Beta2 Release Notes -============================ +================================= -10 October 2013 +14 October 2013 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.1 Beta 2 which is based on CentOS 5.9 @@ -22,16 +22,24 @@ is only possible through the efforts of 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. -Thanks and a plea for help -========================== + +Thanks +====== The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved -themselves with this release. +themselves with this release. Notes ===== @@ -56,10 +64,14 @@ Notes Changes from Beta 1 =================== -nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with dmraid. +nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with +dmraid. Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted. SME Server changes to initscripts included. - +Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. +Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. +Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. +Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default. Changes in this release ======================= @@ -70,49 +82,66 @@ not included. 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. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft OS. +- 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. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft + OS. - 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. +- 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, 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. +- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after +backup. File Server ----------- -- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. +- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. +- 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'. +- 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 + 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. +- 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}. +- 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. +- 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 +- 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. +- 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. +- 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 @@ -122,73 +151,99 @@ Localisation Mail Server ----------- +- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. - 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. +- 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} +- 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. +- 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. +- 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. +- 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 +- 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 -------------- -- 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. +- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. +- 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 +- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter + Web panel in server-manager Webmail and Groupware --------------------- -- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function. +- 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 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. +- Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default. +- 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 ----------------------- - 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 +- 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. +- 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 2013. +- 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 +- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org - Increase memory limit for ntpd . General features @@ -196,7 +251,9 @@ General features - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates -$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2013/09/27 14:47:02 wellsi Exp $ +$Id: README.txt,v 1.21 2013/10/06 15:40:54 wellsi Exp $ + +