SME Server 8.0 Beta 6 Release Notes =================================== July 11 2010 The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta6 which is based on CentOS 5.5 and will be the next 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/ *************************** 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. Issues with upgrading from clean SME machines can be reported in the bug tracker, but detailed reviews of upgrading paths will not start until Release Candidate versions are made available. 4. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 5. 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 5 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 beta 6 ======================= The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they want because of the Samba and PHP versions constituted a compelling reason. Samba 3x: The Samba packages have reverted to those provided by CentOS to simplify the support needed. This version of samba provides support for Windows 7 domain logins. 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 5. 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 ------- - Update backup instructions in server-manager - Strip spaces from Workstation Backup hostname - Fix error causing restore to report failed where it was complete - Check if local USB disk is mounted in backup panel - Fix removal of leading slash in storage location - Add system name in Workstation Backups email - To: field missing from header in Workstation Backups email File Server ----------- - Remove require strong key part of regedit file - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility - Backup all the tdb files (thanks Daniel) - Post scriptlet fix - Explicitly declare samba private dir - Fix tdb file paths to backup in run script - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup Localisation ------------ - Add Hebrew language - Fix translation of local nic string in console - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. Mail Server ----------- - Fix migrate fragment - Set smtp-auth-proxy Debug property to disabled instead of 0 - Fix HeloHost patch. - Block by default the SMTP transparent proxy - Updated templates to reflect changes in imp 4.3.7 - Update to 0.84 - add sme specific patches - Add qpsmtpd template fragment for tls_before_auth - Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed - Newer spamassassin imports keys on install - Update email addresses on domain change (thanks Daniel) - New option to block outgoing SMTP connections Server manager -------------- - Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel Webmail and Groupware --------------------- - Updated to Horde 3.3.8 - Updated to imp 4.3.7 - Update to Ingo 1.2.4 - Updated to Turba 2.3.4 - Upgrade horde templates to reflect changes in Horde 3.3.8 - Update e-smith-ingo templates to reflect changes in Ingo 1.2.4 - Patch that adds the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book. - Patch to template attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space - Update to freebusy info in sources.php Web Server ---------- No updates Other fixes and updates ----------------------- - FreeBusy patch fix (save account changes) - Handle no network interface scenario in console - Patch that will remove all FreeBusy references from e-smith-base. - Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups - Update admin information (thanks Daniel) - Fix indentation in S25ldap-update script - Don't try to save ibay password to ldap - Fix %postun typo - Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server - Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+ - Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules - Rework 91adjustPortForward template fragment - Add migrate fragment for centos excludes - Fix migrate fragment to not throw warnings - Fix yum database removal (missing one) - Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos - Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos - Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos General features ================ - Based on CentOS 5.5 and all available updates $Id: README.txt,v 1.4 2010/03/05 22:02:58 wellsi Exp $