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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes
+ Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ====================================
- June 2009
+March 2015
- The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
+ The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
- SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 which will be the next major release of SME Server.
+ the release of SME Server 8.2 beta2 which is based on CentOS 5.11
- 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'
+ Download
+ ========
- ***************************
+ You can download SME Server 8.2 beta2 from
- Testers Please Note the following...
+ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2.beta2/
+ or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
-. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
+ Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
-    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
+ during this time you may experience problems.
-    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.
-. 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.
+ enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
- ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
+ a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
- provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
+ for SME Server.
- SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
+ SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
- and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
+ 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.
+ 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 and a plea for help
+ 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
+ themselves with this release.
- of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and quality
- 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
+ Notes
- 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
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2
- spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's future.
+    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
+    means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
- This release, which is based on a major update of CentOS, contains
+    AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
- many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server Manager
+    are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
- regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the latest stage
+    Athlon XP and later.
- of development.
+. 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
+ Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
- - Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034]
+ not included.
- - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112]
- - Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848]
+ Backups
- - Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035]
+ -------
- - Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]
+  - Add pkgconfig dar
- - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548]
+  - New Upstream Version dar
+  - Add requires nfs-utils
- e-smith-backup
+  - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
- - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579]
+  - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
- - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841]
- e-smith-base
+ LDAP
- - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336]
+ ----
- - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230]
+  - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
- - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006]
+    parsed
- e-smith-horde
- - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request
+ Localisation
- 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]
+  - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
- - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN
+  - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
- - access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787]
+  - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
- - Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.2 [SME: 4831]
- e-smith-imap
+ Mail Server
- - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105]
+ -----------
- - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105]
+  - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6
+  - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
- e-smith-imp
+  - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
- - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) and remove obsolete
+  - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX &
- php-pear-HTTP-Request line. [SME: 4928]
+    ZIPV3
- - Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821]
+  - Fix stunnel path
- - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832]
+  - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
+  - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
- e-smith-ldap
+    by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
- - Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018]
+  - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
- - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem.
+  - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
- [SME: 3018, 2859]
+  - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
- e-smith-manager
- - Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022]
+ PHP
+ --------------
- e-smith-mysql
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
- - Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807]
+     fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
- - Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807]
+     xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
+     core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
- e-smith-nutUPS
+     exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
- - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750]
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
+     spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
- e-smith-openssh
+     change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
- - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903]
+     spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
+     gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
- e-smith-qmail
+     CVE-2014-2497
- - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5257]
+     fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
- - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a
+     cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
- local ip [SME: 5171]
+     core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
+     record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
- e-smith-quota
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
- - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112]
+     core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
+     date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
- e-smith-radiusd
+     core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
- - Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317]
+     CVE-2014-4049
+     core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
- e-smith-samba
+     confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
- - Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309]
+     fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
- - Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777]
+     fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
+     rules. CVE-2014-1943
- e-smith-turba
+     fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
- - Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148]
+     fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
- - Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910]
+     fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
- - Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910]
+     fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
- - Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833]
+     DoS. CVE-2014-0237
+     fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
- horde
+     loop. CVE-2014-0238
- - Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831]
- imp-h3
+ Web Server
- - Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832]
+ ----------
+  - Disable SSLv3
- initscripts
- - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration
- database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653]
+ Other fixes and updates
- - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only
+ -----------------------
- initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures
+  - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
- that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects
+    answer to NO
- against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495]
+  - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip
+    allowed in dhcpd
- mod_auth_external
+  - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against
- - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318]
+    ip allowed in dhcpd
+  - Reset primary ibay default type
- qmail
+  - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters
- - Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171]
+    in the server-manager.
+    Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the
- qpsmtpd
+    hostname field
- - Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108]
+    Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
+    and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
- smeserver-clamav
+  - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
- - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319]
+  - Move mysql logging to multilog
- - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598]
+  - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
- - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786]
+  - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
+  - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
- smeserver-locale
+  - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and
- - apply locale 2009-05-27 patch
+    CVE-2012-2252
- - Add Romanian language [SME: 5268]
+  - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of
- - Add Estonian language [SME: 5199]
+    the
+    CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
- smeserver-release
+  - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
- - Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268]
+  - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
- - Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172]
+    generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
- - Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203]
+    regression).
- - Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ]
+  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
- - Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002]
+  - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
- - Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002]
+  - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
+  - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
- smeserver-yum
+  - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
- - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305]
+  - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
- - 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
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/06/14 21:31:08 wellsi Exp $
+ Terry Fage
+ On behalf of the SME Server development team

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