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1  SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1Beta4 Release Notes
2  ===================================  =================================
3    
4  June 2009  10 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 Beta 4 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 3
68    ===================
69    
70    Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
71    new installations.
72    Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
73    Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
74    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
75    Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
76    Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
77    
78    Changes from Beta 2
79    ===================
80    
81    Update to CentOS 5.10
82    Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
83    Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
84    Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
85    from CGI.pm
86    Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
87    when using dar 2.4
88    
89    Changes from Beta 1
90    ===================
91    
92    nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
93    dmraid.
94    Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
95    SME Server changes to initscripts included.
96    Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
97    Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
98    Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
99    Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
100    
101  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
102  =======================  =======================
103    
104  e-smith-apache  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
105  - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]  not included.
106  - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]  
107  - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]  
108  - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]  Backups
109  - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  -------
110  - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]  - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
111    - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
112  e-smith-backup    full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
113  - 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
114  - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]    delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
115      OS.
116  e-smith-base  - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
117  - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336]    For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
118  - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230]    The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
119  - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]  - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
120      device.
121  e-smith-horde  - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
122  - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request    performed.
123  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.
124  - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860]  - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
125  - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN  - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
126  - 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
127  - Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.2 [SME: 4831]    backup.
128    - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
129  e-smith-imap    to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
130  - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]  - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
131  - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]    when it goes out of scope.
132    - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
133  e-smith-imp  - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
134  - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) and remove obsolete    of results from CGI.pm
135  php-pear-HTTP-Request line. [SME: 4928]  - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
136  - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]    when using dar 2.4
137  - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832]  - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
138    - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
139  e-smith-ldap  
140  - Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018]  
141  - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem.  File Server
142  [SME: 3018, 2859]  -----------
143    - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
144  e-smith-manager  - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
145  - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]    file.
146      /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
147  e-smith-mysql  - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
148  - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]    The current samba default is 'no'.
149  - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]    see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
150      For example to enable samba Wide Links
151  e-smith-nutUPS    # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
152  - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]  - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
153      Windows slow logons.
154  e-smith-openssh    /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
155  - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]  - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
156      smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
157  e-smith-qmail    For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
158  - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5257]  - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
159  - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a    email to be sent to the admin every night.
160  local ip [SME: 5171]  - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
161      Auditing is enabled via
162  e-smith-quota    # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
163  - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112]    # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
164    - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
165  e-smith-radiusd  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
166  - Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317]  - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
167      lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
168  e-smith-samba    large numbers of local networks were configured.
169  - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309]  - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
170  - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]  - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
171      Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
172  e-smith-turba  
173  - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]  
174  - Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910]  LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
175  - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]  ----
176  - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
177    - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
178  horde  - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
179  - Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831]    slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
180      corrected.
181  imp-h3  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
182  - Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832]  - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
183      users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
184  initscripts  
185  - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration  
186  database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]  Localisation
187  - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only  ------------
188  initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures  - Latest translations included.
189  that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects  
190  against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]  
191    Mail Server
192  mod_auth_external  -----------
193  - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318]  - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
194    - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
195  qmail  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
196  - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
197    - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
198  qpsmtpd    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
199  - Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108]    the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
200      For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
201  smeserver-clamav    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
202  - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319]    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
203  - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]    More than one method can be removed:
204  - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
205      # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
206  smeserver-locale  - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
207  - apply locale 2009-05-27 patch    sometimes very slow.
208  - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]  - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
209  - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]    database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
210      For example to increase the memory limit
211  smeserver-release    # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
212  - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]    # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
213  - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]    # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
214  - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]    # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
215  - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]  - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
216  - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]    /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
217  - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]    For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
218      # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
219  smeserver-yum  - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
220  - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305]  - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
221  - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242]  - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
222  - Require mailx [SME: 5131]    qpsmtpd.
223  - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of  - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
224  needed pacakges [SME: 3133]    spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
225      For example to also scan larger files
226  turba-h3    # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
227  - Updated to Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]  - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
228      SSLv2.
229    - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
230  The following files are no longer in the ISO  - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
231  - libdhcp    and SSMTP transactions
232  - qmail-workaround  - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
233  - rkhunter  - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
234    - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
235  The following files were added to the ISO    size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
236  - aspell-ru  - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
237  - dbus-libs  - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
238  - perl-Package-Constants  - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
239  - smeserver-locale-et  
240  - smeserver-locale-nb  
241  - smeserver-locale-ro  Server manager
242  - smeserver-locale-ru  --------------
243  - smeserver-locale-zh_CN  - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
244  - yum-protect-packages  - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
245    - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
246      noise.
247    - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
248      %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
249      now case-insensitive for %escapes.
250    - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
251    - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
252      Web panel in server-manager.
253    
254    
255    Webmail and Groupware
256    ---------------------
257    - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
258      to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
259    - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
260    - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
261    
262    
263    Web Server
264    ----------
265    - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
266    - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
267    - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
268      will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
269      is ON.
270    - Change wording of Software Update button.
271    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
272    
273    
274    Other fixes and updates
275    -----------------------
276    - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
277    - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
278      variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
279    - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
280      to take only seconds
281    - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
282    - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the
283      admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
284      ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
285    - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the
286      3rd of January 2013.
287    - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
288      servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
289      prevents this.
290    - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
291      running at any particular time.
292    - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
293    - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
294    - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
295    - Add an audit for groups.
296    - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
297      new installations.
298    - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
299    - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
300    - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
301      other than 443,563
302    - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
303    
304    
305  General features  General features
306  ================  ================
307    
308  - Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
309    
310  $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/06/14 21:31:08 wellsi Exp $  $Id: README.txt,v 1.24 2014/01/13 01:15:33 wellsi Exp $


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