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SME Server 8.1Beta1 Release Notes |
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16 September 2013 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 8.1 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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About SME Server |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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enterprises. |
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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. |
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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. |
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As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further |
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development. |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Thanks and a plea for help |
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The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
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themselves with this release. |
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Notes |
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1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1 |
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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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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/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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Changes in this release |
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Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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not included. |
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Backups |
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- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week. |
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- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup. |
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- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. |
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For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 |
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The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression. |
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- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device. |
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- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed. |
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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 backup. |
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File Server |
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- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. |
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/server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg |
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- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'. |
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see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS |
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For example to enable samba Wide Links |
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# config setprop smb WideLinks yes |
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- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help 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} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. |
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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 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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Auditing is enabled via |
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# db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled |
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# signal-event ibay-modify ibayname |
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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 lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when 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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LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental) |
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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 slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was corrected. |
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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 users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed. |
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Localisation |
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- Latest translations included. |
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Mail Server |
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- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. |
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- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. |
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- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. |
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- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. |
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For example to remove CRAM-MD5: |
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# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 |
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# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
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More than one method can be removed: |
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# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" |
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# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
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- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow. |
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- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} |
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For example to increase the memory limit |
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# config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000 |
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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 /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. |
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For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit |
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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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- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd. |
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- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. |
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For example to also scan larger files |
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# config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000 |
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- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2. |
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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 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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Server manager |
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- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise. |
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- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is 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 Web panel in server-manager |
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Webmail and Groupware |
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- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function. |
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- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface. |
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Web Server |
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- 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 will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default is ON. |
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- Change wording of Software Update button. |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB |
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- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. |
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- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds |
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- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. |
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- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file. |
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- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. |
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- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this. |
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- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time. |
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- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. |
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- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org |
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- Increase memory limit for ntpd . |
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General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.18 2013/09/11 04:35:48 wellsi Exp $ |
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