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1  SME Server 7.3 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Announcement
2  ============================  
3    Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
4  January 1 2008  ==========================================
5    22 Oct 2015
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  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
8  have been updated to the latest releases.  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
11  All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.  tracker (and only there, please);
12    
13        http://bugs.contribs.org/
14  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised  
15  in the bug tracker (and only there, please);  Download
16    ========
17      http://bugs.contribs.org/  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  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.  About SME Server
25  ( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to  ================
26  provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
27    enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
28  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License  a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
29  and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  for SME Server.
30  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  
31  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
32    is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
33  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
34  development.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
35    
36  Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.  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  Thanks  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  The development team would like to thank all of those involved in  development.
42  this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the  
43  current level of support. More people are required to help with  b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
44  bug triage and verification testing.  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  This release contains many new features, all released updates for  
48  SME Server 7.2 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
49  will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.  
50    Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
51    simply email treasurer@koozali.org
52  Upgrades  
53  ========  Thanks
54    ======
55  - Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
56    themselves with this release.
57  - An upgrade will preserve the existing data  
58    Notes
59    =====
60  Changes in this release  
61  =======================  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
63       means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
64  Installer Options     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
65  -----------------     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
66  - Using "sme multipart" boot parameter now enables quotas on all LVM's     Athlon XP and later.
67    see bug 3651 on how to create your quota files  
68    2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at
69       http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
70  Other mail system changes  
71  -------------------------  3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those
72  - Support for disconnect option in rhsbl plugin     security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
73  - Support for disconnect immediately if dnsbl plugin rejects recipient     (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
74    addresses     workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
75  - Newer version of ipsvd to resolve a few Thunderbird issues     Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
76  - Support for configurable timeouts which by default is set to two minutes  
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  Console     You can download SME Server 8.2 from
80  -------     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2rc/
81  - Now able to remove Corporate DNS setting    
82  - Raid reconstruction now finishes after using "sme nolvm" passed at install  Major changes in this release
83    time  =============================
84    Switch back to upstream openssl builds
85    Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
86  Backups  Added Windows 10 support to SME Domain
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    Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
91    not included.
92  Localisation  
93  ------------  Backups
94  - The fr-fr browser language is now supported  -------
95  - Italian translation minor update   - Add pkgconfig dar
96     - New Upstream Version of dar
97     - Add requires nfs-utils
98  Software Installer   - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
99  ------------------   - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
100  - The voxteneo.com and fullnet.co.uk mirrors has been added as a mirror  
101    location. Many thanks to all of our mirrors  File Server
102  - Removed planetmirror mirror due to being unstable for a number of months  -----------
103  - Added smecontribs repository to smeserver   - The samba performance registry is now added in the win10samba.reg
104     - Corrected typo in patch of bad character '“', relative to roaming profile
105     - e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9049.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
106  Webmail     Added e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9049.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
107  -------     Modified the registry file for roaming profile with W8
108  - Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions   - Roaming profiles follow Windows version (.V2,.V3,.V4,.V5)
109       added W10 support to SME Domain
110       e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch
111  Server manager     e-smith-samba-2.2.0.bz9028.W10_registry.patch  
112  --------------   - Fix samba audit parameters Patch from Jorge Gonzalez
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  LDAP
116  - Make qpsmtpd/state visible in the view log files  ----
117  - Convert squid timestamp in view log files   - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
118  - Since we moved to session-based login changing admin password does no     parsed
119    longer invalidate access to server manager  
120  - Added support if you use port-forwarding with an external dynamic ip  Localisation
121    address  ------------
122     - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
123     - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
124  Other fixes and updates   - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
125  -----------------------  
126  - More changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5  Mail Server
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   - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.7
129  - Import of spamassassin keys are now processed correctly   - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
130  - Fixed various log noise issues   - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
131  - Allow root to be key based login only   - Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.2.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
132  - Increased dnscache forwarder cache size   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA
133  - Freshclam permissions now corrected   - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
134  - Unwanted symlinks in httpd log directory no longer appear   - Fix stunnel path
135  - Added WPAD feature in DHCP   - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
136  - Fixed various perl issues   - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
137  - Using long email address now stops regeneration email every day     by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
138     - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
139     - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
140  General features   - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
141  ================  
142    Server manager
143  - Based on CentOS 4.6 and all available updates  --------------
144     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
145        fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
146  There are a few differnces from previous releases <=7.2      xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
147  ======================================================================      core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
148        exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
149     - Resync with upstream php53, which include
150  After installing for the very first time:      spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
151  -----------------------------------------      change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
152  - First night you should receive an email from cron about sa_updates.      spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
153  - First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of      gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
154    groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification).      CVE-2014-2497
155  - Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day      fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
156    about those changes (rkhunter email notification).      cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
157        core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
158        record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
159  Taking the upgrade path from a 7.x to 7.3   - Resync with upstream php53, which include
160  -----------------------------------------      core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
161  - First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates      date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
162  - First night you may receive a email saying missing passwd/group files      core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
163    (rkhunter email notification).      CVE-2014-4049
164        core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
165  $Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2008/01/01 17:18:13 slords Exp $      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
178    ----------
179     - Disable SSLv3
180     - Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
181     - Mitigate CRIME, CVE-2012-4929
182    
183    Other fixes and updates
184    -----------------------
185     - Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic
186       (Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp)  
187     - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
188       answer to NO
189     - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
190     - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
191     - Reset primary ibay default type
192     - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters in the server-manager.
193       Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the hostname field
194       Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
195       and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
196     - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
197     - Move mysql logging to multilog
198     - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
199     - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
200     - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
201     - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
202     - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
203       CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
204     - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
205     - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
206       generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
207       regression).
208     - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
209     - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
210     - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
211     - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
212     - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
213     - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
214    
215    
216    General features
217    ================
218    
219    - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
220    
221    Terry Fage
222    On behalf of the SME Server development team


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