SME Server 8.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes ================================================ 20 March 2012 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next major release of SME Server. 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. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 4. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean machines without contribs or other modifications. 5. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing contribs. Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker. 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 RC 1 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 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://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 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 RC 1 ===================== * No major changes were introduced for RC 1 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 7. 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 ------- - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin for Workstation Backups File Server ----------- - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM) LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) ---- None Localisation ------------ None Mail Server ----------- - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5 config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports Server manager -------------- None Webmail and Groupware --------------------- None Web Server ---------- - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources Other fixes and updates ----------------------- - Add MAC address into console network selection - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel - Improve error message for quota - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt General features ================ - Based on CentOS 5.7 and all available updates $Id: README.txt,v 1.12 2011/11/23 16:42:09 wellsi Exp $