--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2010/07/12 20:08:18 1.6 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2013/10/06 15:40:54 1.21 @@ -1,48 +1,16 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Beta 6 Release Notes -=================================== +SME Server 8.1Beta2 Release Notes +============================ -July 18 2010 +10 October 2013 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.0beta6 which is based on CentOS 5.5 and will be the next -major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8. +SME Server 8.1 Beta 2 which is based on CentOS 5.9 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. 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. - -2. 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. - -3. 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. - -4. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at - http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - -5. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, - during this time you may experience problems. - You can download SME8.0 Beta 6 from - http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ - or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 - -*************************** - About SME Server ================ @@ -63,118 +31,172 @@ Thanks and a plea for help ========================== 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. +themselves with this release. + +Notes +===== + +1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1 + 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 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at + http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 + +3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, + during this time you may experience problems. + You can download SME8.1 from + http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ + or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 + + +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. -Major changes in beta 6 -======================= -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 3x: -The Samba packages have reverted to those provided by CentOS to simplify -the support needed. This version of samba provides support for Windows 7 -domain logins. Changes in this release ======================= -This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out -by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 5. +Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are +not included. -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. Backups ------- -- Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure. -- Workstation Backup emails now include a To: header and includes the - system name in the subject line. -- Update backup instructions in server-manager. -- The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces - from the hostname. -- Fix removal of leading slash in storage location. -- The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks. +- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week. +- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft 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, be compatible with destinations that include spaces. +- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success . +- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup. File Server ----------- -- Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility. -- Remove require strong key part of regedit file. -- Backup all the samba tdb files. -- Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup. +- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. + /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg +- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'. + see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS + For example to enable samba Wide Links + # config setprop smb WideLinks yes +- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help 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 + + +LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental) +---- +- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled. +- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled. +- 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. + Localisation ------------ -- Add Hebrew language. -- Fix translation of local nic string in console. -- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. +- Latest translations included. + Mail Server ----------- -- Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from - sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be - transparently proxied. -- Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP - Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before - Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5). -- Update qpsmtpd to 0.84 -- Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses - enabled/disabled for clarity. -- Fix HeloHost patch. -- Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed. -- Update email addresses on domain change. +- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. +- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. +- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. +- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. + For example to remove CRAM-MD5: + # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 + # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy + More than one method can be removed: + # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" + # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy +- 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. + Server manager -------------- -- Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel. +- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise. +- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is now case-insensitive for %escapes. +- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm. +- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager + Webmail and Groupware --------------------- -- Updated to Horde 3.3.8 -- Updated to imp 4.3.7 -- Updated to Ingo 1.2.4 -- Updated to Turba 2.3.4 -- Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book. -- Templated attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email - values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space. -- Update to freebusy info in sources.php + +- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function. +- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface. + Web Server ---------- -No updates +- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder. +- PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default is ON. +- Change wording of Software Update button. + Other fixes and updates ----------------------- -- Handle no network interface scenario in console. -- Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups. -- The LDAP information for admin was not being updated. -- Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP. -- Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server. -- Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+ -- Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules. -- Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos. -- Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos. -- Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos. +- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB +- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. +- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds +- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. +- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file. +- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. +- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this. +- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time. +- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. +- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org +- Increase memory limit for ntpd . General features ================ -- Based on CentOS 5.5 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates + +$Id: README.txt,v 1.20 2013/09/27 14:47:02 wellsi Exp $ + + -$Id: README.txt,v 1.5 2010/07/11 16:09:26 wellsi Exp $