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1  SME Server 8.1 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC2 Release Announcement
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2    
3  04 July 2013  Koozali SME Server 8.2 RC2 Release Notes
4    ==========================================
5    24 Sept 2015
6    
7  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
8  SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9  the release of SME Server 8.2 Release Candidate 2 which is based on CentOS 5.11
9    
10  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
11  tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
12    
13      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
14    
15    Download
16    ========
17    You can download SME Server 8.2rc2  from
18    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc2/
19    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
20    
21    Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
22    during this time you may experience problems.
23    
24  About SME Server  About SME Server
25  ================  ================
   
26  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
27  enterprises.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
28    a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
29    for SME Server.
30    
31  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
32  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
33  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
34  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
35    
36  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.
37    
38    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
39    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
40    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
41  development.  development.
42    
43    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
44    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
45    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
46    your have in the field. Please, help the project
47    
48  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
49    
50    Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
51    simply email treasurer@koozali.org
52    
53  Thanks  Thanks
54  ======  ======
   
55  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
56  themselves with this release.  themselves with this release.
57    
58  Notes  Notes
59  =====  =====
60    
61  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8  1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2
62     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
63     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
64     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
65     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
66     Athlon XP and later.     Athlon XP and later.
67    
68  2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at  2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at
69     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
70    
71  3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,  3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those
72     during this time you may experience problems.     security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
73     You can download SME8.1 from     (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
74     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/     workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
75     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8     Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
   
 Major changes since 8.0  
 =======================  
 * TBD  
76    
77    4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
78       during this time you may experience problems.
79       You can download SME Server 8.2 from
80       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc/
81      
82    Major changes in this release
83    =============================
84    Switch back to upstream openssl builds
85    Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
86    Added Windows 10 support to SME Domain
87    
88  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
89  =======================  =======================
   
90  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
91  not included.  not included.
92    
93  Backups  Backups
94  -------  -------
95  - Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage   - Add pkgconfig dar
96  - Allow full backup to occur on Sunday   - New Upstream Version of dar
97  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level   - Add requires nfs-utils
98     - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
99     - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
100    
101  File Server  File Server
102  -----------  -----------
103  - Revert previous change.   - added W10 support to SME Domain
104  - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option   - e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch
105  - Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration   - Fix samba audit parameters Patch from Jorge Gonzalez
106  - Enable smb auditing per ibay  
 - Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12  
107    
108  LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)  LDAP
109  ----  ----
110     - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
111       parsed
112    
113  Localisation  Localisation
114  ------------  ------------
115  *** NONE ***   - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
116     - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
117     - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
118    
119  Mail Server  Mail Server
120  -----------  -----------
121  - Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled   - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7
122  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments   - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
123  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS, by Charlie Brady   - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
124  - Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch   - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
125  - Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA
126  - Don't use SSL over loopback   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
127  - Easier to read version of softlimit patch   - Fix stunnel path
128  - More robust version of softlimit patch   - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
129  - Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s   - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
130  - Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize     by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
131  - modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti   - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
132  - Template Qmail MaxMessageSize   - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
133  - smeserver-qpsmtpd reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it   - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
 to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel  
 - Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base  
 - tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2  
 - Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady  
134    
135  Server manager  Server manager
136  --------------  --------------
137  - Do not load mod_ssl   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
138  - Correct processing of server-manager URL      fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
139  - Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady      xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
140  - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel      core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
141        exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
142  Webmail and Groupware   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
143  ---------------------      spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
144        change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
145        spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
146        gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
147        CVE-2014-2497
148        fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
149        cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
150        core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
151        record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
152     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
153        core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
154        date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
155        core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
156        CVE-2014-4049
157        core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
158        confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
159        fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
160        fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
161        rules. CVE-2014-1943
162        fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
163        fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
164        fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
165        fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
166        DoS. CVE-2014-0237
167        fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
168        loop. CVE-2014-0238
169    
170  Web Server  Web Server
171  ----------  ----------
172  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder   - Disable SSLv3
173     - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
174     - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
175    
176  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
177  -----------------------  -----------------------
178  - Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud   - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic
179  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated     (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp)  
180  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady   - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
181  - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays,     answer to NO
182  by Mark Casey   - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
183  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled   - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
184  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled   - Reset primary ibay default type
185  - Add_template_to_ssl.pem   - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager.
186  - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized     Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field
187  - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk     Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
188  - Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save     and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
189  - Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console   - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
190  - Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT   - Move mysql logging to multilog
191  - Simplified patch after review comments   - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
192  - Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment   - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
193  - Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb   - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
194  - Template /etc/updatedb.conf   - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
195  - Make CipherSuite secure by default   - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
196  - D-root is changing its IPv4 address     CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
197  - Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save   - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
198  - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers   - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
199  - Fix removing old BDB log files     generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
200  - Remove unused BDB log files     regression).
201  - Improve error checking in isValidIP   - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
202  - Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running,   - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
203  patch by Charlie Brady   - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
204  - Force magic_quotes Off   - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
205  - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN   - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
206  - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't   - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
207  handle long lines correctly in its configuration file.  
 Fix submitted by Charlie Brady  
 - Remove previous change  
 - Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error  
 - Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility  
 - Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom  
 - Update Obsoletes and Conflicts  
208    
209  General features  General features
210  ================  ================
211    
212  - Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
   
 $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $  
   
   
213    
214    Terry Fage
215    On behalf of the SME Server development team

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