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- SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes
+ Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ====================================
- DATE TBD
+March 2015
- The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
+ The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
- SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.6 and will be the next
+ the release of SME Server 8.2 beta2 which is based on CentOS 5.11
- 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/
- ***************************
+ Download
- Testers Please Note the following...
+ ========
-. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this
+ You can download SME Server 8.2 beta2 from
-    release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a
+ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2.beta2/
-    dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.
+ or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
-. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
+ Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
-    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
+ during this time you may experience problems.
-    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.
-. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean
-    machines without contribs or other modifications.
-. 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.
-. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
-    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
-. 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
- ***************************
  About SME Server
  ================
  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
- enterprises.
+ enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
+ a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
+ for SME Server.
  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
+ As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
+ a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
+ using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
+ within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
  development.
+ b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
+ the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
+ commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
+ your have in the field. Please, help the project
  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
- Thanks and a plea for help
+ Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
- ==========================
+ simply email treasurer@koozali.org
+ Thanks
+ ======
  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
+ 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
+ Notes
- 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;
+. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2
- please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's
+    will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
- future.
+    means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
+    AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
- This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core,
+    are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
- contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server
+    Athlon XP and later.
- Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the
- latest stage of development.
+. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at
+    http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
+. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those
+    security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5
+    (so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving
+    workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9.
+    Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017
+. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
+    during this time you may experience problems.
+    You can download SME Server 8.2 from
+    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/i386/
+    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
- Major changes in beta 7
- =======================
- * Require authentication for all emails, including local.
- * Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot). UNDER DISCUSSION
- * LDAP authentication can be enabled, but is not on by default in this version,
-   once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care.
  Changes in this release
  =======================
- This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
+ Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
- by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6.
+ 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
  -------
- - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.
+  - Add pkgconfig dar
- - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in
+  - New Upstream Version dar
-   the Configure Workstation Backup panel
+  - Add requires nfs-utils
- - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.
+  - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
-   Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted
+  - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
-   to only USB disks.
- - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.
- - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update
+ LDAP
- - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.
+ ----
- - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of
+  - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
-   open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL
+    parsed
-   database has a very large number of tables.
- File Server
- -----------
- - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
- - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
- - Create samba account during event for machine.
- - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP.
- - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account.
- - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership.
- - Fix cpu critical patch missing '
- - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb
  Localisation
  ------------
- - Latest localisation updates applied.
+  - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
+  - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
+  - apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle
  Mail Server
  -----------
- - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address.
+  - Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6
- - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
+  - Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel
- - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.
+  - Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file.
- - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.
+  - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX &
- - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.
+    ZIPV3
- - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.
+  - Fix stunnel path
- - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work
+  - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
- - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers.
+  - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
- - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.
+    by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
- - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database.
+  - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd
- - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of qmail
+  - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
-   logfiles.
+  - Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List
- Server manager
+ PHP
  --------------
- - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
+     fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
+     xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
+     core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
+     exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
+     spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
+     change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
+     spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
+     gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
+     CVE-2014-2497
+     fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
+     cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
+     core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
+     record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
+  - Resync with upstream php53, which include
+     core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
+     date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
+     core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
+     CVE-2014-4049
+     core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
+     confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
+     fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
+     fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
+     rules. CVE-2014-1943
+     fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
+     fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
+     fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
+     fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
+     DoS. CVE-2014-0237
+     fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
+     loop. CVE-2014-0238
- Webmail and Groupware
- ---------------------
- - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5
- - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
-   identities.
- - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed.
  Web Server
  ----------
- - Disable SSLv2 by default.
+  - Disable SSLv3
- - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
- - Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot)
+  - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
- - Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP.
+    answer to NO
- - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.
+  - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip
- - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.
+    allowed in dhcpd
- - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.
+  - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against
- - Fix create user gid parameter.
+    ip allowed in dhcpd
- - Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script.
+  - Reset primary ibay default type
- - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.
+  - Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters
- - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
+    in the server-manager.
- - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add FQDN).
+    Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the
- - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks
+    hostname field
- - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be inserted
+    Code done by Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
-   in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.
+    and Huib <sme@artixdesign.com>
- - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.
+  - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
- - All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP.
+  - Move mysql logging to multilog
- - Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP.
+  - Allow ntp status queries from localhost.
- - Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master.
+  - Avoid uninitialized variable warning from last update.
- - Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled.
+  - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby
- - Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database.
+  - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and
- - Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix
+    CVE-2012-2252
- - Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps.
+  - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of
- - LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department.
+    the
- - LDAP chnages: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config.
+    CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
- - Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype.
+  - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
- - Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates.
+  - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
- - Change startup order for ldap.
+    generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
- - ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords.
+    regression).
- - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts
+  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
- - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured
+  - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
-   by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.
+  - Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2
- - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax
+  - Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager
-   to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity.
+  - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
- - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.
+  - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
- - 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).
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 5.6 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2010/07/15 07:58:07 wellsi Exp $
+ Terry Fage
+ On behalf of the SME Server development team

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