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1  SME Server 7.3 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
2  ============================  
3    ====================================
4  January 1 2008  
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  
7  SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages  18 March 2015
8  have been updated to the latest releases.  
9    
10    
11  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
12    
13    the release of SME Server 8.2 which is based on CentOS 5.11
14  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  
15  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  
16    
17      http://bugs.contribs.org/  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
18    
19    tracker (and only there, please);
20  About SME Server  
21  ================  
22    
23  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium      http://bugs.contribs.org/
24  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  
25  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  
26  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  
27    Download
28  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  
29  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  ========
30  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  
31  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  
32    
33  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  You can download SME Server 8.2 from
34  development.  
35    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/x86_64/
36  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  
37    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
38    
39  Thanks  
40  ------  
41  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in  Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
42  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the  
43  current level of support. More people are required to help with  during this time you may experience problems.
44  bug triage and verification testing.  
45    
46    
47  This release contains many new features, all released updates for  
48  SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades  
49  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.  About SME Server
50    
51    ================
52  Upgrades  
53  ========  
54    
55  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
56    
57  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
58    
59    a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
60  Changes in this release  
61  =======================  for SME Server.
62    
63    
64  Installer Options  
65  -----------------  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
66  - Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's  
67    see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
68    
69    However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
70  Other mail system changes  
71  -------------------------  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
72  - Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin  
73  - Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient  
74    addresses  
75  - Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues  As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
76  - Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes  
77    
78    
79  Console  a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
80  -------  
81  - Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting  using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
82  - Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install  
83    time  within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
84    
85    development.
86  Backups  
87  -------  
88  - Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media  
89  - Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore  b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
90    
91    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
92  Localisation  
93  ------------  commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
94  - The fr-fr browser language is now supported  
95  - Italian translation minor update  your have in the field. Please, help the project
96    
97    
98  Software Installer  
99  ------------------  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
100  - The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror  
101    location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors  
102  - Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months  
103  - Added smecontribs repository to smeserver  Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
104    
105    simply email treasurer@koozali.org
106  Webmail  
107  -------  
108  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions  
109    
110    
111  Server manager  Thanks
112  --------------  
113  - Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in  ======
114    serveronly mode  
115  - Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel  
116  - Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files  
117  - Convert squid timestamp in view log files  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
118  - Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no  
119    longer invalidate access to server manager  themselves with this release.
120  - Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip  
121    address  
122    
123    
124  Other fixes and updates  
125  -----------------------  Notes
126  - More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5  
127  - Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package  =====
128  - Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable  
129  - Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly  
130  - Fixed various log noise issues  
131  - Allow root to be key based login only  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2
132  - Increased dnscache forwarder cache size  
133  - Freshclam permissions now corrected     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
134  - Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear  
135  - Added WPAD feature in DHCP     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
136  - Fixed various perl issues  
137  - Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
138    
139       are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
140  General features  
141  ================     Athlon XP and later.
142    
143  - Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates  
144    
145    2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at
146  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2  
147  ======================================================================     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
148    
149    
150  After installing for the very first time:  
151  -----------------------------------------  3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those
152  - First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates.  
153  - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of     security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
154    groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).  
155  - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day     (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
156    about those changes (rkhunter email notification).  
157       workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
158    
159  Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3     Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
160  -----------------------------------------  
161  - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates  
162  - First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files  
163    (rkhunter email notification).  4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
164    
165  $Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $     during this time you may experience problems.
166    
167       You can download SME Server 8.2 from
168    
169       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/i386/
170    
171       or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
172    
173    
174    
175    
176    
177    Changes in this release
178    
179    =======================
180    
181    
182    
183    Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
184    
185    not included.
186    
187    
188    
189    
190    
191    Backups
192    
193    -------
194    
195     - Add pkgconfig dar
196    
197     - New Upstream Version dar
198    
199     - Add requires nfs-utils
200    
201     - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
202    
203     - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
204    
205    
206    
207    
208    
209    LDAP
210    
211    ----
212    
213     - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
214    
215       parsed
216    
217    
218    
219    Localisation
220    
221    ------------
222    
223     - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
224    
225     - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
226    
227     - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
228    
229    
230    
231    Mail Server
232    
233    -----------
234    
235     - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6
236    
237     - Updated to release ClamAV 0.98.5
238    
239     - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
240    
241     - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
242    
243     - Updates to release ClamAV 0.98.4.
244    
245     - Updated to release ClamAV 0.98.3.
246    
247     - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
248    
249     - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database :
250       UEsDBBQDAAAIA
251    
252     - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX &
253       ZIPV3
254    
255     - Fix stunnel path
256    
257     - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
258    
259     - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
260    
261       by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
262    
263     - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
264    
265     - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
266    
267     - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
268    
269    
270    
271    Server manager
272    
273    --------------
274    
275     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
276    
277        fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
278    
279        xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
280    
281        core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
282    
283        exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
284    
285     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
286    
287        spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
288    
289        change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
290    
291        spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
292    
293        gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
294    
295        CVE-2014-2497
296    
297        fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
298    
299        cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
300    
301        core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
302    
303        record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
304    
305     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
306    
307        core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
308    
309        date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
310    
311        core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
312    
313        CVE-2014-4049
314    
315        core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
316    
317        confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
318    
319        fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
320    
321        fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
322    
323        rules. CVE-2014-1943
324    
325        fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
326    
327        fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
328    
329        fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
330    
331        fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
332    
333        DoS. CVE-2014-0237
334    
335        fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
336    
337        loop. CVE-2014-0238
338    
339    
340    
341    
342    
343    Web Server
344    
345    ----------
346    
347     - Disable SSLv3
348    
349     - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
350    
351     - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
352    
353    
354    
355    Other fixes and updates
356    
357    -----------------------
358    
359     - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
360    
361       answer to NO
362    
363     - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip
364       allowed in dhcpd
365    
366     - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against
367       ip allowed in dhcpd
368    
369     - Reset primary ibay default type
370    
371     - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters
372       in the server-manager.
373    
374       Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the
375    hostname field
376    
377       Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
378    
379       and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
380    
381     - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
382    
383     - Move mysql logging to multilog
384    
385     - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
386    
387     - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
388    
389     - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
390    
391     - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and
392       CVE-2012-2252
393    
394     - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of
395       the
396    
397       CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
398    
399     - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
400    
401     - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
402    
403       generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
404    
405       regression).
406    
407     - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
408    
409     - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
410    
411     - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
412    
413     - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
414    
415     - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
416    
417     - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
418    
419    
420    
421    
422    
423    General features
424    
425    ================
426    
427    
428    
429    - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
430    
431    
432    
433    Terry Fage
434    
435    On behalf of the SME Server development team


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