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1  SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1Beta1 Release Notes
2  ===================================  ============================
3    
4  June 2009  16 September 2013
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 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 5.9
 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.
 ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  
 provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  
19    
20  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
21  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
22  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
23  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
24    
25  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
26  development.  development.
27    
28  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
   
29    
30  Thanks and a plea for help  Thanks and a plea for help
31  ==========================  ==========================
32    
33  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
34  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role  themselves with this release.
35  of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and quality  
36  of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all levels of  Notes
37  users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw the developers  =====
38  attention to, insufficiently transparent system design, up to seasoned  
39  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
40  verification testing needs lots of community involvement; please try to     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
41  spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's future.     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
42       AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
43  This release, which is based on a major update of CentOS, contains     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
44  many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server Manager     Athlon XP and later.
45  regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the latest stage  
46  of development.  2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
47       http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
48    
49    3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
50       during this time you may experience problems.
51       You can download SME8.1 from
52       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/
53       or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
54    
55    
56  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
57  =======================  =======================
58    
59  e-smith-apache  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
60  - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]  not included.
61  - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]  
 - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]  
 - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]  
 - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  
 - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  
   
 e-smith-backup  
 - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579]  
 - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]  
   
 e-smith-base  
 - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336]  
 - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230]  
 - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]  
   
 e-smith-horde  
 - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request  
 information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7 and sme8 [SME: 4821]  
 - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860]  
 - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN  
 - access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787]  
 - Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.2 [SME: 4831]  
   
 e-smith-imap  
 - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]  
 - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]  
   
 e-smith-imp  
 - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) and remove obsolete  
 php-pear-HTTP-Request line. [SME: 4928]  
 - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]  
 - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832]  
   
 e-smith-ldap  
 - Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018]  
 - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem.  
 [SME: 3018, 2859]  
   
 e-smith-manager  
 - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]  
   
 e-smith-mysql  
 - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]  
 - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]  
   
 e-smith-nutUPS  
 - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]  
   
 e-smith-openssh  
 - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]  
   
 e-smith-qmail  
 - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5257]  
 - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a  
 local ip [SME: 5171]  
   
 e-smith-quota  
 - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112]  
   
 e-smith-radiusd  
 - Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317]  
   
 e-smith-samba  
 - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309]  
 - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]  
   
 e-smith-turba  
 - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]  
 - Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910]  
 - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]  
 - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]  
   
 horde  
 - Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831]  
   
 imp-h3  
 - Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832]  
   
 initscripts  
 - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration  
 database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]  
 - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only  
 initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures  
 that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects  
 against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]  
   
 mod_auth_external  
 - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318]  
   
 qmail  
 - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]  
   
 qpsmtpd  
 - Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108]  
   
 smeserver-clamav  
 - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319]  
 - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]  
 - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]  
   
 smeserver-locale  
 - apply locale 2009-05-27 patch  
 - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]  
 - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]  
   
 smeserver-release  
 - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]  
 - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]  
 - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]  
 - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]  
 - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]  
 - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]  
   
 smeserver-yum  
 - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305]  
 - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242]  
 - Require mailx [SME: 5131]  
 - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of  
 needed pacakges [SME: 3133]  
   
 turba-h3  
 - Updated to Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]  
   
   
 The following files are no longer in the ISO  
 - libdhcp  
 - qmail-workaround  
 - rkhunter  
   
 The following files were added to the ISO  
 - aspell-ru  
 - dbus-libs  
 - perl-Package-Constants  
 - smeserver-locale-et  
 - smeserver-locale-nb  
 - smeserver-locale-ro  
 - smeserver-locale-ru  
 - smeserver-locale-zh_CN  
 - yum-protect-packages  
62    
63    Backups
64    -------
65    - 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.
66    - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup.
67    - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
68      For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
69      The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
70    - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device.
71    - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed.
72    - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
73    - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
74    - Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces.
75    - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
76    - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
77    
78    File Server
79    -----------
80    - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file.
81      /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
82    - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'.  
83      see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
84      For example to enable samba Wide Links
85      # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
86    - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons.
87      /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
88    - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
89      For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
90    - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an email to be sent to the admin every night.
91    - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
92      Auditing is enabled via
93      # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
94      # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
95    - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
96    - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
97    - 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.
98    - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
99    
100    
101    LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
102    ----
103    - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
104    - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
105    - 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.
106    - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
107    - 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.
108    
109    
110    Localisation
111    ------------
112    - Latest translations included.
113    
114    
115    Mail Server
116    -----------
117    - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
118    - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
119    - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
120    - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
121      For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
122      # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
123      # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
124      More than one method can be removed:
125      # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
126      # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
127    - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow.
128    - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
129      For example to increase the memory limit
130      # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
131      # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
132      # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
133      # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
134    - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
135      For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
136      # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
137    - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
138    - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
139    - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd.
140    - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
141      For example to also scan larger files
142      # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
143    - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2.
144    - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
145    - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP and SSMTP transactions
146    - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
147    - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
148    
149    
150    Server manager
151    --------------
152    - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise.
153    - 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.
154    - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
155    - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager
156    
157    
158    Webmail and Groupware
159    ---------------------
160    
161    - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
162    - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
163    
164    
165    Web Server
166    ----------
167    - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
168    - 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.
169    - Change wording of Software Update button.
170    
171    
172    Other fixes and updates
173    -----------------------
174    - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
175    - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
176    - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds
177    - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
178    - 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.
179    - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.
180    - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this.
181    - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time.
182    - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
183    - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
184    - Increase memory limit for ntpd .
185    
186  General features  General features
187  ================  ================
188    
189  - Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates
190    
191    $Id: README.txt,v 1.18 2013/09/11 04:35:48 wellsi Exp $
192    
193    
194    
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