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1  SME Server 7.3 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC1 Release Notes
2  ============================  ==========================================
3    
4  January 1 2008  25 June 2015
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
7  SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages  the release of SME Server 8.2 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 5.11
8  have been updated to the latest releases.  
9    Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
10    tracker (and only there, please);
11  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  
12        http://bugs.contribs.org/
13    
14  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  Download
15  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  ========
16    
17      http://bugs.contribs.org/  You can download SME Server 8.2rc1  from
18    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc1/
19    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
20  About SME Server  
21  ================  Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
22    during this time you may experience problems.
23  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  
24  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.  
25  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  About SME Server
26  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  ================
27    
28  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
29  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
30  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
31  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  for SME Server.
32    
33  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
34  development.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
35    However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
36  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
37    
38    As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
39  Thanks  
40  ------  a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
41  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in  using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
42  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the  within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
43  current level of support. More people are required to help with  development.
44  bug triage and verification testing.  
45    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
46    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
47  This release contains many new features, all released updates for  commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
48  SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades  your have in the field. Please, help the project
49  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.  
50    Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
51    
52  Upgrades  Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
53  ========  simply email treasurer@koozali.org
54    
55  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  
56    Thanks
57  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data  ======
58    
59    The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
60  Changes in this release  themselves with this release.
61  =======================  
62    
63    Notes
64  Installer Options  =====
65  -----------------  
66  - Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2
67    see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
68       means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
69       AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
70  Other mail system changes     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
71  -------------------------     Athlon XP and later.
72  - Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin  
73  - Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient  2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at
74    addresses     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
75  - Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues  
76  - Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes  3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those
77       security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
78       (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
79  Console     workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
80  -------     Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
81  - Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting  
82  - Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install  4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
83    time     during this time you may experience problems.
84       You can download SME Server 8.2 from
85       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc/
86  Backups    
87  -------  
88  - Ability to use console restore with CD or DVD recordable media  Changes in this release
89  - Remove smbpasswd file prior to restore  =======================
90    
91    Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
92  Localisation  not included.
93  ------------  
94  - The fr-fr browser language is now supported  
95  - Italian translation minor update  Backups
96    -------
97     - Add pkgconfig dar
98  Software Installer   - New Upstream Version of dar
99  ------------------   - Add requires nfs-utils
100  - The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror   - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
101    location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors   - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
102  - Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months  
103  - Added smecontribs repository to smeserver  
104    LDAP
105    ----
106  Webmail   - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
107  -------     parsed
108  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions  
109    Localisation
110    ------------
111  Server manager   - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
112  --------------   - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
113  - Updated wording in Server manager > proxy to be correct when running in   - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
114    serveronly mode  
115  - Now able to remove settings in the Corporate DNS panel  Mail Server
116  - Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files  -----------
117  - Convert squid timestamp in view log files   - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7
118  - Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no   - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
119    longer invalidate access to server manager   - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
120  - Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip   - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
121    address   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA
122     - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
123     - Fix stunnel path
124  Other fixes and updates   - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
125  -----------------------   - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
126  - More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5     by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
127  - Various samba issues fixed with new samba 3.0.25b package   - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
128  - Smartd is disabled by default but has built in templates to enable   - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
129  - Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly   - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
130  - Fixed various log noise issues  
131  - Allow root to be key based login only  Server manager
132  - Increased dnscache forwarder cache size  --------------
133  - Freshclam permissions now corrected   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
134  - Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear      fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
135  - Added WPAD feature in DHCP      xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
136  - Fixed various perl issues      core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
137  - Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day      exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
138     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
139        spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
140  General features      change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
141  ================      spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
142        gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
143  - Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates      CVE-2014-2497
144        fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
145        cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
146  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2      core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
147  ======================================================================      record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
148     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
149        core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
150  After installing for the very first time:      date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
151  -----------------------------------------      core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
152  - First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates.      CVE-2014-4049
153  - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of      core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
154    groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).      confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
155  - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day      fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
156    about those changes (rkhunter email notification).      fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
157        rules. CVE-2014-1943
158        fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
159  Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3      fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
160  -----------------------------------------      fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
161  - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates      fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
162  - First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files      DoS. CVE-2014-0237
163    (rkhunter email notification).      fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
164        loop. CVE-2014-0238
165  $Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $  
166    
167    Web Server
168    ----------
169     - Disable SSLv3
170     - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
171     - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
172    
173    Other fixes and updates
174    -----------------------
175     - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic
176     (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp)  
177     - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
178       answer to NO
179     - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
180     - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
181     - Reset primary ibay default type
182     - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager.
183       Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field
184       Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
185       and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
186     - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
187     - Move mysql logging to multilog
188     - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
189     - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
190     - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
191     - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
192     - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
193       CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
194     - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
195     - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
196       generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
197       regression).
198     - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
199     - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
200     - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
201     - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
202     - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
203     - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
204    
205    
206    General features
207    ================
208    
209    - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
210    
211    Terry Fage
212    On behalf of the SME Server development team


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