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SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.6 and will be the next |
SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 which is based on CentOS 5.10 |
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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 |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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Testers Please Note the following... |
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1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this |
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release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a |
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dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase. |
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2. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 |
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will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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3. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean |
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machines without contribs or other modifications. |
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4. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing |
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contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers. |
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Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker. |
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5. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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6. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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You can download SME8.0 Beta 7 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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About SME Server |
About SME Server |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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enterprises. |
enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., |
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a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support |
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for SME Server. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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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. |
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a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual |
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using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute |
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within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and |
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development. |
development. |
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b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in |
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the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation |
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commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers |
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your have in the field. Please, help the project |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Thanks and a plea for help |
Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received, |
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simply email treasurer@koozali.org |
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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 |
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themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role |
themselves with this release. |
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of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and |
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quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all |
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levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw |
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the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design, |
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up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug |
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triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement; |
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please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's |
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future. |
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This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core, |
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contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server |
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Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the |
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latest stage of development. |
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Major changes in beta 7 |
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* Require authentication for all emails, including local. |
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* Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot). UNDER DISCUSSION |
1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1 |
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* LDAP authentication can be enabled, but is not on by default in this version, |
will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care. |
means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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You can download SME8.1 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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Changes from Beta 2 |
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Update to CentOS 5.10 |
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Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. |
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Changes from Beta 1 |
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nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with |
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dmraid. |
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Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted. |
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SME Server changes to initscripts included. |
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Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. |
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Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. |
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Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. |
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Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default. |
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Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
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This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out |
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6. |
not included. |
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The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes |
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carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to |
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shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and |
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Fedora-associated developers are not included. |
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Backups |
Backups |
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- Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks. |
- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a |
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- Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in |
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the Configure Workstation Backup panel |
- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second |
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- Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel. |
delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft |
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Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted |
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to only USB disks. |
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- Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number. |
For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 |
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- Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update |
The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression. |
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- Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email. |
- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB |
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- A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of |
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open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL |
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database has a very large number of tables. |
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- Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup. |
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- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors. |
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- Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces. |
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- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success . |
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- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after |
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backup. |
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File Server |
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- Change separator character in general Samba configuration file. |
- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. |
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- Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays). |
- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry |
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- Create samba account during event for machine. |
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- Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP. |
/server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg |
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- Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account. |
- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. |
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- Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership. |
The current samba default is 'no'. |
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- Fix cpu critical patch missing ' |
see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS |
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- LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb |
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# config setprop smb WideLinks yes |
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- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help |
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Windows slow logons. |
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/server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg |
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- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & |
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For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1 |
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- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an |
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email to be sent to the admin every night. |
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- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. |
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# db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled |
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- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays |
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- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
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- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long |
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lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when |
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large numbers of local networks were configured. |
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- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN |
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- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled. |
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- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled. |
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- The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for |
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slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was |
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- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers. |
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- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of |
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users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed. |
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Localisation |
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- Latest localisation updates applied. |
- Latest translations included. |
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Mail Server |
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- Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address. |
- Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98. |
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- Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured. |
- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. |
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- Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy. |
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. |
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- Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary. |
- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. |
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- Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts. |
- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a |
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- Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled. |
blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. |
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- Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work |
For example to remove CRAM-MD5: |
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- Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers. |
# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 |
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- Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors. |
# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
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- Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database. |
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- New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of qmail |
# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" |
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logfiles. |
# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
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- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional |
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database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} |
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# expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT |
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# config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000 |
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# expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT |
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- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for |
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/var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. |
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# config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6 |
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- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name. |
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- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers. |
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- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for |
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spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. |
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# config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000 |
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- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow |
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- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email. |
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- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP |
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and SSMTP transactions |
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- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8. |
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- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled. |
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- Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message |
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size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size |
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Server manager |
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- Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel. |
- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager. |
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- Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text. |
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- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log |
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- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for |
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%escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is |
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now case-insensitive for %escapes. |
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- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm. |
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- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter |
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Webmail and Groupware |
Webmail and Groupware |
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- Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5 |
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- Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional |
- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen |
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to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function. |
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- Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed. |
- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface. |
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Web Server |
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- Disable SSLv2 by default. |
- Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default. |
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- make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'. |
- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder. |
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- PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini |
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will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default |
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- Change wording of Software Update button. |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot) |
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB |
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- Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP. |
- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant |
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- Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only. |
variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. |
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- Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC. |
- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised |
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- Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories. |
to take only seconds |
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- Fix create user gid parameter. |
- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. |
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- Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script. |
- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the |
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- Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf. |
admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update |
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- Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup. |
ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file. |
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- Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add FQDN). |
- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the |
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- Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks |
3rd of January 2013. |
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- Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be inserted |
- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in |
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in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address. |
servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() |
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- Add validator back for ip or cname entry. |
prevents this. |
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- All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP. |
- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is |
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- Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP. |
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- Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master. |
- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. |
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- Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled. |
- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org |
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- Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database. |
- Increase memory limit for ntpd . |
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- Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps. |
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- LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department. |
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- LDAP chnages: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config. |
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- Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype. |
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- Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates. |
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- Change startup order for ldap. |
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- ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords. |
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- Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts |
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- Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured |
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by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift. |
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- Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax |
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to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity. |
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- New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration. |
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- Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration. |
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- Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units. |
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- Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well. |
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- Add ldap as an auth type to radius |
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- Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled). |
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General features |
General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.6 and all available updates |
- Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates |
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