--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2010/03/05 22:02:58 1.4 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2015/03/22 08:37:02 1.32 @@ -1,355 +1,435 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Beta 5 Release Notes -=================================== +Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes + +==================================== + + + +18 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 -March 7 2010 -The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.0beta5 which is based on CentOS 5.4 and will be the next -major release of SME Server. - -*************************** -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/ -*************************** -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. +Download + +======== + + + +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. + - Some notes on upgrading from Release 7.4 and release 7.0, 7.1, and - 7.2 versions can be found at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - You can download SME8.0 Beta 5 from - http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ -*************************** About SME Server + ================ + + SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium -enterprises. -SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License -and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. +enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., + +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. + + +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. -Thanks and a plea for help -========================== + +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 -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 5 -======================= -The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling reasons -not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they want because of -the Samba and PHP versions constituted a compelling reason. - -Samba 3.4.3: has been updated from sources provided by ClearOS. -This version of samba provides support for Windows 7 domain logins. - -PHP 5.2.10: is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2. -5.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce. - -LDAP authentication: third party applications can authenticate against -SME Users passwords. LDAP is still read only, built automatically -from SME databases. +themselves with this release. + + + + + +Notes + +===== + + + +1. 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. + + + +2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at + + http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 + + + +3. 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 + + + +4. 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 + ======================= -This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out by -SME-associated developers in 2009 and 2010 where the most recent changes -to the package are dated after February 2010. 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. - -e-smith-backup -- Improved upgrade compatibility, remove .orig [SME: 4809] -- fix mount point for verify [SME: 5765] -- create mount point for verify [SME: 5765] -- remove comment re smbpasswd being last [SME: 5600] -- Fix mounting usb disks [SME: 4809] -- Don't backup more than once per day [SME: 5445] -- Fix full backup on Sunday diplayed as Everyday [SME: 5623] -- Add more excludes for compressed filetypes [SME: 4765] -- Porting Jean-Paul Leclere changes in the SME Server 7 tree to SME Server 8: -- using credentials file for cifs mount [SME: 5442] -- workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to bootstrap-console-save [SME: 5442] -- workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day [SME: 5411] -- workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before restore [SME: 5397] -- workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in a full restore [SME: 5405] -- minor fix in translation [SME: 5407] - -e-smith-base -- Restate smartd dependency. [SME: 5814] -- Fix gettext errors in WAN/LAN subnet error message [SME: 5501] -- Really fix template expansion error [SME: 4528] -- Fix template expansion error [SME: 4528] -- Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing [SME: 5737] -- Fix eth? swapping [SME: 4528] -- Fix console backup from removable media [SME: 4809] -- Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits [SME: 5735] -- Fix console restore from removable media (Federico Simoncelli) [SME: 4809] -- Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console configuration pages. [SME: 5571] -- Translate $ifName in console configuration pages [SME: 5571] -- Prevent IP conflicts between local and external interface in server gateway mode [SME: 5501] -- Clean up: remove unused nonetworkdrivers [SME: 5521] - -e-smith-devtools -- Fix previous patch [SME: 5538] -- Add compiled python files to the packaged files list [SME: 5538] - -e-smith-email -- Use HeloHost (if present) in smtp-auth-proxy.pl [SME: 5680] -- Allow for changing SPAM subject tag through server-manager - -e-smith-formmagick -- Update path for 64-bit compatibility [SME: 5756] - -e-smith-grub -- Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf [SME: 5546] - -e-smith-horde -- Patch to change horde's templated mime_drivers.php file so some additional -settings can be customized [SME: 5224] -- config setprop horde inlineMSWord true|false <-- default is false -- config setprop horde inlineMSExcel true|false <-- default is false -- config setprop horde inlineMSPowerpoint true|false <-- default is false -- config setprop horde inlineWordperfect true|false <-- default is false -- config setprop horde inlineAudio true|false <-- default is true -- Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's [SME:5775] -- Upgrade horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.6 [SME: 5774] -- Really apply patch from previous attempt [SME: 5509] -- Upgrade horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.5 [SME: 5509] -- Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.4 [SME: 5372] - -e-smith-imp -- Patch to template imp's mime_drivers.php file so some settings can be customized [SME: 5224] -- config setprop horde Limitinlinesize <--default is 1048576 -- config setprop horde inlineHTML true|false <--default is true -- config setprop horde inlineImages true|false <--default is true -- Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3.6 [SME: 5776] -- Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3.5 [SME: 5510] -- Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3.4 [SME: 5371] - -e-smith-ingo -- Update e-smith-ingo templates to reflect changes in Ingo 1.2.3 [SME: 5777] -- Update e-smith-ingo templates to reflect changes in Ingo 1.2.2 [SME: 5511] - -e-smith-ldap -- Fix bug reference in spec file -- Fix admin user password change (Daniel B.) [SME: 5810] -- Init database if the ldif dump is empty (ie from sme8b) [SME: 5747] -- revert re-init database [SME:5747] -- re-init readonly database on post-upgrade [SME:5747] -- Force SSL/TLS for remote authentication [SME: 5748] -- reuse users_groups_ous.patch2 [SME: 5743] -- Separate groups and users with mailboxRelatedObject [SME:5749] -- Set readonly access [SME:5752] -- Fix ldap-update action script to user-lock event [SME: 5720] -- Fix Groups entries [SME: 5743] -- Add Groups entries [SME: 5743] -- Add admin user as a standard user [SME: 5742] -- Add ldap-update action script to user-lock event [SME: 5720] -- Add ldap authentication and tls support [SME: 5720] -- Update schema for newer openldap and remove calFBurl [SME: 5159] -- Convert ldif dump [SME: 5446] - -e-smith-lib -- adds the hwaddr parameter to probeAdapters() [SME: 4528] -- Update path for 64-bit compatibility [SME: 5756] -- Really apply previous patch in the spec file. [SME: 5659] -- Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids. [SME: 5659] - -e-smith-manager -- Only display error messages intended for admin in server-manager [SME: 5700] -- Fix css validation errors. [SME: 5656] -- display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes [SME: 5475] -- display reconfigure warning if UnsavedChanges=yes [SME: 5475] - -e-smith-portforwarding -- Enable port forwards to localhost if mode is serveronly [SME: 1003] -- Adjust xml entry in locale [SME: 2379] -- Add option to limit port forwards from source ip [SME: 2379] - -e-smith-qmail -- SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5456] - -e-smith-samba -- Create/remove V2 profile directories [SME: 3666] -- Enable bindinterfaces by default [SME: 3325] -- Set recyle bin permissions [SME: 1734] -- Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to -join Samba 3.x domains [SME: 5425] - -e-smith-turba -- Update to fix turbatype error when using turba LDAP address search [SME: 5772] -- Update LDAP for changed scope [SME: 2939] -- Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.3 [SME: 5778] -- Remove previous patch. Will add new partial patch for bug 2939 -- Update LDAP for changed schema [SME: 2939] -- Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.2 [SME: 5512] - -horde -- Updated to Horde 3.3.6 [SME: 5774] -- Updated to Horde 3.3.5 [SME: 5509] -- Updated to Horde 3.3.4 [SME: 5372] - -imp-h3 -- Updated to imp 4.3.6 [SME: 5776] -- Updated to Imp 4.3.5 [SME: 5510] -- Updated to Imp 4.3.4 [SME: 5371] - -ingo-h3 -- Update to Ingo 1.2.3 [SME: 5777] -- Update to Ingo 1.2.2 [SME: 5511] - -initscripts -- Fix typo in /sbin/service patch (Federico Simoncelli) [SME: 5674] -- 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] - -perl-CGI-FormMagick -- Fix year in previous changelog entry [SME: 3144] -- Fix unitialized value errors in HTML.pm [SME: 3144] - -php -- update to 5.2.10 - -qpsmtpd -- Remove spool and log dir from package (in smeserver-qpsmtpd) -- Don't create smtpd user (unused in sme) [SME: 5815] -- Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM -subject prefix [SME: 5031] -- Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install [SME: 5558] -- Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file [SME: 5548] -- Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings [SME: 5551] -- Only run/initialize plugins once [SME: 5533] -- Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav -- Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog -- add sme specific patches -- Update to 0.83 -- Update to latest release -- don't add qpsmtpd to start-up by default -- add apache config file to qpsmtpd-apache package -- remove all patches -- use rpm macros for dirs -- use a filelist for main package instead of a long list of files - -smeserver-audittools -- Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot [SME: 5572] -- Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms [SME: 5562] - -smeserver-clamav -- Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log [SME: 5570] -- Remove create option from logrotate configuration [SME: 5570] -- Fix version number in previous changelog entry -- Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log [SME: 5570] -- Minor changelog fixes in version number -- Change default value for HeuristicScanPrecedence to yes [SME: 5204] - -smeserver-locale -- Revert previous patch to resync with generated patches based on SME Server 7 [SME: 5803] -- Correct previous changelog entry -- Apply locale 2010-02-27 patch -- apply locale 2010-02-25 patch -- apply locale 2009-10-27 patch -- Add Thai language [SME: 5466] -- apply locale 2009-08-24 patch -- Add Polish language [SME: 5437] - -smeserver-qpsmtpd -- Enable qpsmtpd RequireResolvableFromHost plugin by default, remove -database entry and the database default value [SME: 5617] -- Tie template fragment into event system to have it expanded [SME: 5031] -- Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix [SME: 5031] - -smeserver-spamassassin -- Requires SpamAssassin 3.3.0 [SME: 5741] -- Remove FuzzyOcr [SME: 5771] -- Use ATrpm package (partially remove previous patch) -- Requires SpamAssassin 3.3.0 [SME: 5741] -- Remove FuzzyOcr [SME: 5771] -- Run sa-update every two hours and check restart every hour -- Redirect cron job output to logfile to avoid mail noise -- Fix invalid service name in sa-update [SME: 3304] - -smeserver-support -- Fix css validation errors. [SME: 5656] -- Add support for Polish (pl). [SME: 5434] -- Add support for Thai (th). [SME: 5466] -- obsoletes fonts-xorg-base to prevent dragging in unneeded -packages [SME: 5535] -- add VFlib2 to obsoletes list so upgrades work [SME: 5532] -- Add Obsoletes for kernel modules. [SME: 5386] - -smeserver-yum -- only unlink file if we created it [SME: 5476] -- Import only keys not already imported [SME: 5507] -- set unsaved changes in yum event [SME: 5475] -- move yum warming to sme yum plugin [SME: 5474] -- ensure file exists before unlinking [SME: 5476] -- remove semicolons from yum plugin -- Add frequency of updates toggle [SME: 3764] -- remove stray file - -smolt -- Apply patches so smolt will run under el5 -- Apply sme specific patches - -turba-h3 -- Updated to Turba 2.3.3 [SME: 5778] -- Updated to Turba 2.3.2 [SME: 5512] + + +Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are + +not included. + + + + + +Backups + +------- + + - Add pkgconfig dar + + - New Upstream Version dar + + - Add requires nfs-utils + + - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start + + - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / + + + + + +LDAP + +---- + + - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be + + parsed + + + +Localisation + +------------ + + - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle + + - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle + + - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle + + + +Mail Server + +----------- + + - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6 + + - Updated to release ClamAV 0.98.5 + + - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel + + - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file. + + - Updates to release ClamAV 0.98.4. + + - Updated to release ClamAV 0.98.3. + + - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch + + - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : + UEsDBBQDAAAIA + + - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & + ZIPV3 + + - Fix stunnel path + + - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS + + - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter + + by John Crisp + + - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd + + - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 + + - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List + + + +Server manager + +-------------- + + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + + fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710 + + xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 + + core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669 + + exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 + + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + + spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object + + change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698 + + spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670 + + gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm. + + CVE-2014-2497 + + fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in + + cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587 + + core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT + + record parsing. CVE-2014-3597 + + - Resync with upstream php53, which include + + core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 + + date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712 + + core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing. + + CVE-2014-4049 + + core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type + + confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 + + fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270 + + 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 + + and Huib + + - 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 5.4 and all available updates -$Id: README.txt,v 1.3 2009/06/16 07:29:58 wellsi Exp $ + +- Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates + + + +Terry Fage + +On behalf of the SME Server development team