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1  SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes  SME Server 8.1Beta4 Release Notes
2  ===================================  =================================
3    
4  DATE TBD  17 February 2014!
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7  SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.6 and will be the next  SME Server 8.1 Beta 4 which is based on CentOS 5.10
 major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8.  
8    
9  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
10  tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
11    
12      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
13    
 ***************************  
 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.  
   
 4. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing  
    contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers.  
    Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker.  
   
 5. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at  
    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8  
   
 6. 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 7 from  
    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/  
    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8  
   
 ***************************  
   
14  About SME Server  About SME Server
15  ================  ================
16    
17  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
18  enterprises.  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
19    a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
20    for SME Server.
21    
22  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
23  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
24  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
25  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
26    
27  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.
28    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
29    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
30    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
31  development.  development.
32    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
33    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
34    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
35    your have in the field. Please, help the project
36    
37  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
38    
39  Thanks and a plea for help  Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
40  ==========================  simply email treasurer@koozali.org
41    
42    Thanks
43    ======
44    
45  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
46  themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role  themselves with this release.
 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.  
47    
48  Major changes in beta 7  Notes
49  =======================  =====
50  * Require authentication for all emails, including local.  
51  * 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
52  * 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
53    once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care.     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
54       AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
55       are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
56       Athlon XP and later.
57    
58    2. Some notes on SME Server 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at
59       http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
60    
61    3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
62       during this time you may experience problems.
63       You can download SME Server 8.1 from
64       http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/
65       or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
66    
67    Changes from Beta 3
68    ===================
69    
70    Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
71    new installations.
72    Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
73    Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
74    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
75    Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
76    Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
77    
78    Changes from Beta 2
79    ===================
80    
81    Update to CentOS 5.10
82    Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
83    Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
84    Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
85    from CGI.pm
86    Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
87    when using dar 2.4
88    
89    Changes from Beta 1
90    ===================
91    
92    nodmraid is now the default install option as many issues have been seen with
93    dmraid.
94    Installer warning updated to clarify all attached disks will be reformatted.
95    SME Server changes to initscripts included.
96    Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
97    Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
98    Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
99    Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
100    
101  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
102  =======================  =======================
103    
104  This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
105  by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6.  not included.
106    
 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.  
107    
108  Backups  Backups
109  -------  -------
110  - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.  - Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
111  - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in  - Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a
112    the Configure Workstation Backup panel    full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
113  - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.  - To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second
114    Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted    delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft
115    to only USB disks.    OS.
116  - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.    - Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
117  - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update    For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6
118  - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.    The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
119  - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of  - In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB
120    open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL    device.
121    database has a very large number of tables.  - After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being
122      performed.
123    - Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
124    - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
125    - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
126    - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
127      backup.
128    - Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted
129      to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
130    - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0
131      when it goes out of scope.
132    - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
133    - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
134      of results from CGI.pm
135    - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
136      when using dar 2.4
137    - Don't remove the apache group during restore.
138    - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
139    - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
140    
141    
142  File Server  File Server
143  -----------  -----------
144  - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
145  - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).  - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry
146  - Create samba account during event for machine.    file.
147  - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP.    /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
148  - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account.  - New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'.
149  - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership.    The current samba default is 'no'.
150  - Fix cpu critical patch missing '    see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS
151  - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb    For example to enable samba Wide Links
152      # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
153    - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help
154      Windows slow logons.
155      /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
156    - Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} &
157      smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
158      For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
159    - Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an
160      email to be sent to the admin every night.
161    - Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default.
162      Auditing is enabled via
163      # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled
164      # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
165    - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
166    - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
167    - Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long
168      lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when
169      large numbers of local networks were configured.
170    - Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
171    - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default
172      Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
173    
174    
175    LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental)
176    ----
177    - Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
178    - Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
179    - The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for
180      slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was
181      corrected.
182    - Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
183    - The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of
184      users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
185    
186    
187  Localisation  Localisation
188  ------------  ------------
189  - Latest localisation updates applied.  - Latest translations included.
190    
191    
192  Mail Server  Mail Server
193  -----------  -----------
194  - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address.  - Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
195  - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
196  - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
197  - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.  - Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
198  - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.    - Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present
199  - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.    one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable
200  - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work    the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
201  - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers.    For example to remove CRAM-MD5:
202  - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5
203  - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database.    # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
204  - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of qmail    More than one method can be removed:
205    logfiles.    # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5"
206      # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
207    - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
208    - imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was
209      sometimes very slow.
210    - The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional
211      database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
212      For example to increase the memory limit
213      # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000
214      # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT
215      # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000
216      # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
217    - New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for
218      /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
219      For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit
220      # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
221    - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
222    - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
223    - Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and
224      qpsmtpd.
225    - New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for
226      spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
227      For example to also scan larger files
228      # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
229    - Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow
230      SSLv2.
231    - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
232    - Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP
233      and SSMTP transactions
234    - Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
235    - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
236    - Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message
237      size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
238    - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
239    - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
240    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
241    - Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
242    
243  Server manager  Server manager
244  --------------  --------------
245  - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.  - Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
246    - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
247    - Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log
248      noise.
249    - If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for
250      %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is
251      now case-insensitive for %escapes.
252    - Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
253    - Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter
254      Web panel in server-manager.
255    
256    
257  Webmail and Groupware  Webmail and Groupware
258  ---------------------  ---------------------
259  - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5  - If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen
260  - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional    to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
261    identities.  - Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
262  - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed.  - Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
263    
264    
265  Web Server  Web Server
266  ----------  ----------
267  - Disable SSLv2 by default.  - Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
268  - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.  - Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
269    - PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini
270      will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default
271      is ON.
272    - Change wording of Software Update button.
273    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
274    
275    
276  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
277  -----------------------  -----------------------
278  - Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot)  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
279  - Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP.  - Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant
280  - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.    variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
281  - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.  - user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised
282  - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.    to take only seconds
283  - Fix create user gid parameter.  - The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
284  - 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
285  - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.    admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update
286  - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.    ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
287  - 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
288  - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks    3rd of January 2013.
289  - 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
290    in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.    servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP()
291  - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.    prevents this.
292  - All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP.  - Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is
293  - Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP.    running at any particular time.
294  - Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master.  - Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
295  - Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled.  - Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
296  - Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database.  - Increase memory limit for ntpd.
297  - Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix  - Add an audit for groups.
298  - Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps.  - Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for
299  - LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department.    new installations.
300  - LDAP chnages: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config.  - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
301  - Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype.  - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
302  - Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates.  - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports
303  - Change startup order for ldap.    other than 443,563
304  - ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords.  - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
305  - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts  
 - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured  
   by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.  
 - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax  
   to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity.  
 - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.  
 - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.  
 - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.  
 - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.  
 - Add ldap as an auth type to radius  
 - Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled).  
306    
307  General features  General features
308  ================  ================
309    
310  - Based on CentOS 5.6 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
   
 $Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2010/07/15 07:58:07 wellsi Exp $  
311    
312    $Id: README.txt,v 1.26 2014/02/08 03:53:05 wellsi Exp $


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