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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes
+ Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ====================================
+March 2015
+ The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
+ the release of SME Server 8.2 which is based on CentOS 5.11
- June 2009
- The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 which will be the next major release of SME Server.
- 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.
- ***************************
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  tracker (and only there, please);
      http://bugs.contribs.org/
- Please be sure to choose 'SME Server Release 8.X'
- ***************************
- Testers Please Note the following...
-. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
+ Download
-    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.
+ You can download SME Server 8.2 from
+ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/x86_64/
+ or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
+ Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
+ during this time you may experience problems.
-. 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
- ***************************
  About SME Server
  ================
  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
- enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
- ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
- provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
- SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
+ enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
- and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
+ a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
+ for SME Server.
+ SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
+ is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
  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.
- Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
- Thanks and a plea for help
+ 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.
+ Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
+ simply email treasurer@koozali.org
+ Thanks
+ ======
  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
+ themselves with this release.
- 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.
+ Notes
- This release, which is based on a major update of CentOS, 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.
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2
+    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.
+. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at
+    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
+. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those
+    security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
+    (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
+    workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
+    Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
+. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
+    during this time you may experience problems.
+    You can download SME Server 8.2 from
+    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/i386/
+    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
  Changes in this release
  =======================
- e-smith-apache
- - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]
- - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]
+ Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
- - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]
- - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]
+ not included.
- - 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]
+ Backups
- e-smith-base
+ -------
- - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336]
- - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230]
+  - Add pkgconfig dar
- - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]
+  - New Upstream Version dar
- e-smith-horde
- - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request
+  - Add requires nfs-utils
- 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]
+  - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
- - 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]
+  - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
- - 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]
+ LDAP
- 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]
+  - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
- - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832]
+    parsed
- e-smith-ldap
- - Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018]
- - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem.
- [SME: 3018, 2859]
+ Localisation
- e-smith-manager
+ ------------
- - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]
+  - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
- e-smith-mysql
- - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]
+  - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
- - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]
+  - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
- e-smith-nutUPS
- - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]
- e-smith-openssh
+ Mail Server
- - 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]
+  - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6
- - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a
- local ip [SME: 5171]
+  - Updated to release ClamAV 0.98.5
- e-smith-quota
+  - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
- - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112]
+  - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
- e-smith-radiusd
- - Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317]
+  - Updates to release ClamAV 0.98.4.
- e-smith-samba
+  - Updated to release ClamAV 0.98.3.
- - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309]
- - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]
+  - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
- e-smith-turba
+  - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database :
- - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]
+    UEsDBBQDAAAIA
- - Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910]
- - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]
+  - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX &
- - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]
+    ZIPV3
- horde
+  - Fix stunnel path
- - Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831]
+  - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
- imp-h3
- - Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832]
+  - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
- initscripts
+    by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
- - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration
- database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]
+  - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
- - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only
- initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures
+  - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
- that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects
- against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]
+  - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
- mod_auth_external
- - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318]
+ Server manager
- qmail
- - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]
+ --------------
- qpsmtpd
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
- - Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108]
+     fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
- smeserver-clamav
- - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319]
+     xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
- - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]
- - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]
+     core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
- smeserver-locale
+     exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
- - apply locale 2009-05-27 patch
- - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
- - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]
+     spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
- smeserver-release
- - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]
+     change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
- - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]
- - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]
+     spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
- - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]
- - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]
+     gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
- - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]
+     CVE-2014-2497
- smeserver-yum
- - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305]
+     fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
- - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242]
- - Require mailx [SME: 5131]
+     cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
- - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of
- needed pacakges [SME: 3133]
+     core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
- turba-h3
+     record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
- - Updated to Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
- The following files are no longer in the ISO
+     core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
- - libdhcp
- - qmail-workaround
+     date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
- - rkhunter
+     core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
- The following files were added to the ISO
- - aspell-ru
+     CVE-2014-4049
- - dbus-libs
- - perl-Package-Constants
+     core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
- - smeserver-locale-et
- - smeserver-locale-nb
+     confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
- - smeserver-locale-ro
- - smeserver-locale-ru
+     fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
- - smeserver-locale-zh_CN
- - yum-protect-packages
+     fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
+     rules. CVE-2014-1943
+     fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
+     fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
+     fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
+     fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
+     DoS. CVE-2014-0237
+     fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
+     loop. CVE-2014-0238
+ Web Server
+ ----------
+  - Disable SSLv3
+  - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
+  - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
+ Other fixes and updates
+ -----------------------
+  - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
+    answer to NO
+  - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip
+    allowed in dhcpd
+  - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against
+    ip allowed in dhcpd
+  - Reset primary ibay default type
+  - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters
+    in the server-manager.
+    Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the
+ hostname field
+    Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
+    and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
+  - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
+  - Move mysql logging to multilog
+  - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
+  - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
+  - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
+  - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and
+    CVE-2012-2252
+  - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of
+    the
+    CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
+  - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
+  - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
+    generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
+    regression).
+  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+  - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
+  - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
+  - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
+  - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
+  - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/06/14 21:31:08 wellsi Exp $
+ - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
+ Terry Fage
+ On behalf of the SME Server development team

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