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1  SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes
2  ===================================  =================================
3    
4  June 2009  23 February 2014
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7  SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 which will be the next major release of SME Server.  SME Server 8.1 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 5.10
 This release is based on CentOS 5.3 and all packages have been updated  
 to the latest releases.  
   
 ***************************  
 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.  
 ***************************  
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    
 Please be sure to choose 'SME Server Release 8.X'  
   
 ***************************  
 Testers Please Note the following...  
   
 1. 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.  
   
 2. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean  
    machines without contribs or other modifications. Issues with  
    upgrading from clean SME machines can be reported in the bug  
    tracker, but detailed reviews of upgrading paths will not start  
    until Release Candidate versions are made available.  
   
    Some notes on upgrading from Release 7 can be found  
    at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8  
 ***************************  
   
14  About SME Server  About SME Server
15  ================  ================
16    
17  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
18  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
19  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
20  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  for SME Server.
21    
22  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
23  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
24  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
25  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
26    
27  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.
28    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
29    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
30    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
31  development.  development.
32    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
33    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
34    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
35    your have in the field. Please, help the project
36    
37  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
38    
39    Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
40    simply email treasurer@koozali.org
41    
42  Thanks and a plea for help  Thanks
43  ==========================  ======
44    
45  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
46  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role  themselves with this release.
47  of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and quality  
48  of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all levels of  Notes
49  users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw the developers  =====
50  attention to, insufficiently transparent system design, up to seasoned  
51  and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug triage and  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1
52  verification testing needs lots of community involvement; please try to     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
53  spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's future.     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
54       AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
55  This release, which is based on a major update of CentOS, contains     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
56  many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server Manager     Athlon XP and later.
57  regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the latest stage  
58  of development.  2. Some notes on SME Server 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
59       http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
60    
61    3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
62       during this time you may experience problems.
63       You can download SME Server 8.1 from
64       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
65       or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
66    
67    Changes from Beta 4
68    ===================
69    
70    There are no major changes.
71    
72    Changes from Beta 3
73    ===================
74    
75    Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
76    new installations.
77    Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
78    Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
79    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
80    Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
81    Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
82    
83    Changes from Beta 2
84    ===================
85    
86    Update to CentOS 5.10
87    Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
88    Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
89    Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
90    from CGI.pm
91    Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
92    when using dar 2.4
93    
94    Changes from Beta 1
95    ===================
96    
97    nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
98    dmraid.
99    Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
100    SME Server changes to initscripts included.
101    Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
102    Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
103    Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
104    Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
105    
106  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
107  =======================  =======================
108    
109  e-smith-apache  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
110  - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]  not included.
111  - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]  
112  - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]  
113  - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]  Backups
114  - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  -------
115  - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
116    - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
117  e-smith-backup    full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
118  - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579]  - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
119  - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]    delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
120      OS.
121  e-smith-base  - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
122  - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336]    For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
123  - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230]    The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
124  - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]  - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
125      device.
126  e-smith-horde  - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
127  - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request    performed.
128  information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7 and sme8 [SME: 4821]  - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
129  - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860]  - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
130  - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN  - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
131  - access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787]  - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
132  - Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.2 [SME: 4831]    backup.
133    - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
134  e-smith-imap    to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
135  - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]  - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
136  - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]    when it goes out of scope.
137    - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
138  e-smith-imp  - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
139  - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) and remove obsolete    of results from CGI.pm
140  php-pear-HTTP-Request line. [SME: 4928]  - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
141  - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]    when using dar 2.4
142  - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832]  - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
143    - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
144  e-smith-ldap  - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
145  - Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018]  
146  - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem.  
147  [SME: 3018, 2859]  File Server
148    -----------
149  e-smith-manager  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
150  - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]  - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
151      file.
152  e-smith-mysql    /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
153  - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]  - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
154  - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]    The current samba default is 'no'.
155      see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
156  e-smith-nutUPS    For example to enable samba Wide Links
157  - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]    # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
158    - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
159  e-smith-openssh    Windows slow logons.
160  - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]    /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
161    - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
162  e-smith-qmail    smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
163  - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5257]    For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
164  - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a  - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
165  local ip [SME: 5171]    email to be sent to the admin every night.
166    - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
167  e-smith-quota    Auditing is enabled via
168  - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112]    # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
169      # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
170  e-smith-radiusd  - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
171  - Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317]  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
172    - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
173  e-smith-samba    lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
174  - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309]    large numbers of local networks were configured.
175  - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]  - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
176    - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
177  e-smith-turba    Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
178  - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]  
179  - Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910]  
180  - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]  LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
181  - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]  ----
182    - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
183  horde  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
184  - Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831]  - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
185      slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
186  imp-h3    corrected.
187  - Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832]  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
188    - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
189  initscripts    users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
190  - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration  
191  database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]  
192  - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only  Localisation
193  initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures  ------------
194  that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects  - Latest translations included.
195  against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]  
196    
197  mod_auth_external  Mail Server
198  - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318]  -----------
199    - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
200  qmail  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
201  - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
202    - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
203  qpsmtpd  - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
204  - Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108]    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
205      the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
206  smeserver-clamav    For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
207  - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319]    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
208  - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
209  - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]    More than one method can be removed:
210      # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
211  smeserver-locale    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
212  - apply locale 2009-05-27 patch  - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
213  - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]  - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
214  - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]    sometimes very slow.
215    - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
216  smeserver-release    database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
217  - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]    For example to increase the memory limit
218  - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]    # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
219  - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]    # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
220  - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]    # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
221  - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]    # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
222  - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]  - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
223      /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
224  smeserver-yum    For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
225  - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305]    # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
226  - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242]  - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
227  - Require mailx [SME: 5131]  - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
228  - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of  - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
229  needed pacakges [SME: 3133]    qpsmtpd.
230    - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
231  turba-h3    spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
232  - Updated to Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]    For example to also scan larger files
233      # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
234    - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
235  The following files are no longer in the ISO    SSLv2.
236  - libdhcp  - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
237  - qmail-workaround  - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
238  - rkhunter    and SSMTP transactions
239    - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
240  The following files were added to the ISO  - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
241  - aspell-ru  - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
242  - dbus-libs    size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
243  - perl-Package-Constants  - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
244  - smeserver-locale-et  - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
245  - smeserver-locale-nb  - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
246  - smeserver-locale-ro  - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
247  - smeserver-locale-ru  
248  - smeserver-locale-zh_CN  Server manager
249  - yum-protect-packages  --------------
250    - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
251    - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
252    - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
253      noise.
254    - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
255      %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
256      now case-insensitive for %escapes.
257    - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
258    - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
259      Web panel in server-manager.
260    
261    
262    Webmail and Groupware
263    ---------------------
264    - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
265      to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
266    - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
267    - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
268    
269    
270    Web Server
271    ----------
272    - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
273    - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
274    - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
275      will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
276      is ON.
277    - Change wording of Software Update button.
278    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
279    
280    
281    Other fixes and updates
282    -----------------------
283    - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
284    - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
285      variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
286    - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
287      to take only seconds
288    - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
289    - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
290      admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
291      ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
292    - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
293      3rd of January 2013.
294    - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
295      servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
296      prevents this.
297    - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
298      running at any particular time.
299    - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
300    - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
301    - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
302    - Add an audit for groups.
303    - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
304      new installations.
305    - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
306    - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
307    - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
308      other than 443,563
309    - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
310    
311    
312  General features  General features
313  ================  ================
314    
315  - Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
316    
317  $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/06/14 21:31:08 wellsi Exp $  $Id: README.txt,v 1.27 2014/02/15 04:11:53 wellsi Exp $


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