--- cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2009/06/16 07:29:58 1.3 +++ cdrom.image/sme8/README.txt 2010/07/12 20:08:18 1.6 @@ -1,232 +1,180 @@ -SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 Release Notes +SME Server 8.0 Beta 6 Release Notes =================================== -June 2009 +July 18 2010 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of -SME Server 8.0 Beta 4 which will be the next major release of SME Server. -This release is based on CentOS 5.3 and all packages have been updated -to the latest releases. - -*************************** -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. -*************************** +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. Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug tracker (and only there, please); http://bugs.contribs.org/ -Please be sure to choose 'SME Server Release 8.X' - *************************** Testers Please Note the following... -1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 +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. -2. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean +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. - Some notes on upgrading from Release 7 can be found - at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 +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 ================ SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium -enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc. -( http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to -provide marketing and legal support for SME Server. +enterprises. -SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License -and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. +SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and +is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further development. -Please visit http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate. - +Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. 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 CentOS, 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. +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. + +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 ======================= -e-smith-apache -- Add option to disable SSLv2 [SME: 5034] -- Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types [SME: 5112] -- Add OpenOffice MIME Types [SME: 4848] -- Add XML MIME Type [SME: 5035] -- Fix issues in patch that adds Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548] -- Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types [SME: 4548] - -e-smith-backup -- Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups [SME: 4579] -- Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level [SME: 4841] - -e-smith-base -- Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod [SME: 5336] -- Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize. [SME: 5230] -- Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk [SME: 5006] - -e-smith-horde -- Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request -information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7 and sme8 [SME: 4821] -- Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 [SME: 4860] -- Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN -- access to webmail will work. Remove klutz template from registry.php [SME: 4787] -- Upgrade to horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.2 [SME: 4831] - -e-smith-imap -- Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file [SME: 1105] -- Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use [SME: 1105] - -e-smith-imp -- Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) and remove obsolete -php-pear-HTTP-Request line. [SME: 4928] -- Updated spec file to require php-pear-HTTP-Request to accomodate HTML composition [SME: 4821] -- Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3 [SME: 4832] - -e-smith-ldap -- Create bdb log directory. [SME: 3018] -- Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem. -[SME: 3018, 2859] - -e-smith-manager -- Fix misinterpretation of display string [SME: 5022] - -e-smith-mysql -- Rework log-error logic [SME: 4807] -- Fix log-error detection algorithm [SME: 4807] - -e-smith-nutUPS -- Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut [SME: 4750] - -e-smith-openssh -- Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s [SME: 4903] - -e-smith-qmail -- smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups. [SME: 5257] -- Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a -local ip [SME: 5171] - -e-smith-quota -- Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line. [SME: 4112] - -e-smith-radiusd -- Fix owner/perms for radius files [SME: 5317] - -e-smith-samba -- Fix warnings in template expansion [SME: 5309] -- Fix migrate fragments for samba [SME: 4777] - -e-smith-turba -- Remove redundant 49turba_migrate_contacts template fragments [SME: 5148] -- Fix date in previous changelog entry [SME: 4910] -- Fix turba.sql patch to prevent creating a .orig file [SME: 4910] -- Updated template files to reflect changes in Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833] - -horde -- Updated to Horde 3.3.3 [SME: 4831] - -imp-h3 -- Updated to Imp 4.3.3 [SME: 4832] - -initscripts -- Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration -database to avoid failures in post scriptlets [SME: 1653] -- Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only -initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures -that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects -against running "service httpd restart" [SME: 61, 1495] - -mod_auth_external -- Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first [SME: 5318] - -qmail -- Add Scott Gifford patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip [SME: 5171] - -qpsmtpd -- Adapt to Clamscan parameter change, fixing a log noice issue [SME: 5108] - -smeserver-clamav -- Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file [SME: 5319] -- Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default disabled [SME: 4598] -- Obsolete e-smith-antivirus [SME: 4786] - -smeserver-locale -- apply locale 2009-05-27 patch -- Add Romanian language [SME: 5268] -- Add Estonian language [SME: 5199] - -smeserver-release -- Add support for Romanian (ro). [SME: 5268] -- Obsoletes: rkhunter to remove from default install [SME: 5172] -- Add support for Estonian (et). [SME: 5203] -- Add support for Norwegian Bokmal (nb) [SME: 5002 ] -- Add support for Russian (ru) [SME: 5002] -- Add support for Chinese China (zh_CN) [SME: 5002] - -smeserver-yum -- Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package [SME: 5305] -- Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio [SME: 5242] -- Require mailx [SME: 5131] -- Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of -needed pacakges [SME: 3133] - -turba-h3 -- Updated to Turba 2.3.1 [SME: 4833] - - -The following files are no longer in the ISO -- libdhcp -- qmail-workaround -- rkhunter - -The following files were added to the ISO -- aspell-ru -- dbus-libs -- perl-Package-Constants -- smeserver-locale-et -- smeserver-locale-nb -- smeserver-locale-ro -- smeserver-locale-ru -- smeserver-locale-zh_CN -- yum-protect-packages +This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out +by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 5. +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. + +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. + +Localisation +------------ +- Add Hebrew language. +- Fix translation of local nic string in console. +- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. + +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. + +Server manager +-------------- +- Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel. + +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 + +Web Server +---------- +No updates + +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. General features ================ -- Based on CentOS 5.3 and all available updates +- Based on CentOS 5.5 and all available updates -$Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2009/06/14 21:31:08 wellsi Exp $ +$Id: README.txt,v 1.5 2010/07/11 16:09:26 wellsi Exp $