--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2009/06/16 07:29:58 1.3 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2011/09/25 17:53:32 1.9 @@ -1,232 +1,208 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes +SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes =================================== -June 2009 +DATE TBD 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. -*************************** +SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.6 and will be the next +major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8. 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... -1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 +1. 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. + +2. 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. +3. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean + machines without contribs or other modifications. + +4. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing + contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers. + Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker. + +5. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at + http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 + +6. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, + during this time you may experience problems. + You can download SME8.0 Beta 7 from + http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ + or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - 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. +enterprises. -SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License -and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. +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 development. -Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. - +Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. Thanks and a plea for help ========================== 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 -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. - -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. +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 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. + +This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core, +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. + +Major changes in beta 7 +======================= +* Require authentication for all emails, including local. +* Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot). UNDER DISCUSSION +* LDAP authentication can be enabled, but is not on by default in this version, + once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care. Changes in this release ======================= -e-smith-apache -- Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034] -- 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 +This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out +by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6. +The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes +carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to +shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and +Fedora-associated developers are not included. + +Backups +------- +- Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks. +- Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in + the Configure Workstation Backup panel +- Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel. + Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted + to only USB disks. +- Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number. +- Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update +- Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email. +- A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of + open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL + database has a very large number of tables. + +File Server +----------- +- Change separator character in general Samba configuration file. +- Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays). +- Create samba account during event for machine. +- Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP. +- Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account. +- Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership. +- Fix cpu critical patch missing ' +- LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb + +Localisation +------------ +- Latest localisation updates applied. + +Mail Server +----------- +- Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address. +- Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured. +- Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy. +- Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary. +- Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts. +- Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled. +- Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work +- Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers. +- Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors. +- Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database. +- New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of qmail + logfiles. + +Server manager +-------------- +- Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel. + +Webmail and Groupware +--------------------- +- Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5 +- Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional + identities. +- Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed. + +Web Server +---------- +- Disable SSLv2 by default. +- make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'. + +Other fixes and updates +----------------------- +- Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot) +- Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP. +- Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only. +- Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC. +- Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories. +- Fix create user gid parameter. +- Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script. +- Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf. +- Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup. +- Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add FQDN). +- Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks +- Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be inserted + in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address. +- Add validator back for ip or cname entry. +- All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP. +- Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP. +- Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master. +- Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled. +- Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database. +- Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix +- Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps. +- LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department. +- LDAP chnages: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config. +- Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype. +- Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates. +- Change startup order for ldap. +- ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords. +- Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts +- Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured + by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift. +- Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax + to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity. +- New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration. +- Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration. +- Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units. +- Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well. +- Add ldap as an auth type to radius +- Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled). General features ================ -- Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 5.6 and all available updates + +$Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2010/07/15 07:58:07 wellsi Exp $ -$Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/06/14 21:31:08 wellsi Exp $