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1  SME Server 8.1 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Announcement
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2    
3  28 February 2014  Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
4    ==========================================
5    22 Oct 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 5.10  the release of SME Server 8.2 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 8.2  from
18    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/
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. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
28  a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support  a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
# Line 25  However, the availability and quality of Line 34  However, the availability and quality of
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 donation to offset costs and fund further development.  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  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  using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
40  within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and  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  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  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  commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
# Line 41  simply email treasurer@koozali.org Line 52  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  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 Server 8.1 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       security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
73       (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
74       workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
75       Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
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.     during this time you may experience problems.
79     You can download SME Server 8.1 from     You can download SME Server 8.2 from
80     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.1/iso/i386/     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc/
81     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8    
82    Major changes in this release
83  Changes from RC 1  =============================
84  ===================  Switch back to upstream openssl builds
85    Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
86  There are no major changes.  Added Windows 10 support to SME Domain
   
 Changes from Beta 4  
 ===================  
   
 There are no major changes.  
 Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9.  
   
 Changes from Beta 3  
 ===================  
   
 Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for  
 new installations.  
 Remove insecure SSL ciphers.  
 Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present  
 one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.  
 Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.  
 Provide the ability to force https per ibay.  
   
 Changes from Beta 2  
 ===================  
   
 Update to CentOS 5.10  
 Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.  
 Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.  
 Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results  
 from CGI.pm  
 Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed  
 when using dar 2.4  
   
 Changes from Beta 1  
 ===================  
   
 nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with  
 dmraid.  
 Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.  
 SME Server changes to initscripts included.  
 Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.  
 Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.  
 Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.  
 Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.  
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  - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.   - Add pkgconfig dar
96  - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a   - New Upstream Version of dar
97    full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.   - Add requires nfs-utils
98  - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second   - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
99    delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft   - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
   OS.  
 - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.  
   For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6  
   The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.  
 - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB  
   device.  
 - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being  
   performed.  
 - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.  
 - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.  
 - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .  
 - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after  
   backup.  
 - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted  
   to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.  
 - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0  
   when it goes out of scope.  
 - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch  
 - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array  
   of results from CGI.pm  
 - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed  
   when using dar 2.4  
 - Don't remove the apache group during restore.  
 - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.  
 - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.  
   
100    
101  File Server  File Server
102  -----------  -----------
103  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.   - The samba performance registry is now added in the win10samba.reg
104  - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry   - Corrected typo in patch of bad character '“', relative to roaming profile
105    file.   - e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9049.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
106    /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg     Added e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9049.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
107  - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.     Modified the registry file for roaming profile with W8
108    The current samba default is 'no'.   - Roaming profiles follow Windows version (.V2,.V3,.V4,.V5)
109    see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS     added W10 support to SME Domain
110    For example to enable samba Wide Links     e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch
111    # config setprop smb WideLinks yes     e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch  
112  - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help   - Fix samba audit parameters Patch from Jorge Gonzalez
   Windows slow logons.  
   /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg  
 - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &  
   smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.  
   For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1  
 - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an  
   email to be sent to the admin every night.  
 - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.  
   Auditing is enabled via  
   # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled  
   # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname  
 - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays  
 - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated  
 - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long  
   lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when  
   large numbers of local networks were configured.  
 - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN  
 - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default  
   Workgroup and Domain to sme-server  
113    
114    
115  LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)  LDAP
116  ----  ----
117  - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.   - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
118  - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.     parsed
 - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for  
   slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was  
   corrected.  
 - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.  
 - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of  
   users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.  
   
119    
120  Localisation  Localisation
121  ------------  ------------
122  - Latest translations included.   - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
123     - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
124     - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
125    
126  Mail Server  Mail Server
127  -----------  -----------
128  - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1   - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7
129  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.   - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
130  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.   - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
131  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.   - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
132  - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA
133    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
134    the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.   - Fix stunnel path
135    For example to remove CRAM-MD5:   - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
136    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5   - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
137    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy     by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
138    More than one method can be removed:   - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
139    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"   - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
140    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy   - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
 - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.  
 - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was  
   sometimes very slow.  
 - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional  
   database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}  
   For example to increase the memory limit  
   # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000  
   # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT  
   # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000  
   # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT  
 - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for  
   /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.  
   For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit  
   # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6  
 - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.  
 - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.  
 - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and  
   qpsmtpd.  
 - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for  
   spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.  
   For example to also scan larger files  
   # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000  
 - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow  
   SSLv2.  
 - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.  
 - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP  
   and SSMTP transactions  
 - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.  
 - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.  
 - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message  
   size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size  
 - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam  
 - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.  
 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.  
 - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.  
 - Use stunnel-tls instead of sslio to wrap imaps service.  
141    
142  Server manager  Server manager
143  --------------  --------------
144  - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
145  - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.      fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
146  - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log      xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
147    noise.      core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
148  - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for      exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
149    %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
150    now case-insensitive for %escapes.      spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
151  - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.      change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
152  - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter      spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
153    Web panel in server-manager.      gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
154        CVE-2014-2497
155        fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
156  Webmail and Groupware      cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
157  ---------------------      core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
158  - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen      record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
159    to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
160  - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.      core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
161  - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.      date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
162        core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
163        CVE-2014-4049
164        core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
165        confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
166        fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
167        fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
168        rules. CVE-2014-1943
169        fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
170        fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
171        fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
172        fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
173        DoS. CVE-2014-0237
174        fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
175        loop. CVE-2014-0238
176    
177  Web Server  Web Server
178  ----------  ----------
179  - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.   - Disable SSLv3
180  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.   - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
181  - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini   - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
   will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default  
   is ON.  
 - Change wording of Software Update button.  
 - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.  
   
182    
183  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
184  -----------------------  -----------------------
185  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB   - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic
186  - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant     (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp)  
187    variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.   - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
188  - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised     answer to NO
189    to take only seconds   - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
190  - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.   - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
191  - On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the   - Reset primary ibay default type
192    admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update   - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager.
193    ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.     Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field
194  - Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the     Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
195    3rd of January 2013.     and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
196  - The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in   - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
197    servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()   - Move mysql logging to multilog
198    prevents this.   - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
199  - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is   - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
200    running at any particular time.   - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
201  - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.   - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
202  - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org   - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
203  - Increase memory limit for ntpd.     CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
204  - Add an audit for groups.   - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
205  - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for   - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
206    new installations.     generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
207  - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.     regression).
208  - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.   - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
209  - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports   - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
210    other than 443,563   - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
211  - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.   - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
212  - Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore.   - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
213  - Remove old images.   - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
 - Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9  
214    
215    
216  General features  General features
217  ================  ================
218    
219  - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
220    
221  $Id: README.txt,v 1.30 2014/02/23 19:43:20 wellsi Exp $  Terry Fage
222    On behalf of the SME Server development team

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