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SME Server 8.0 Beta 6 Release Notes |
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July 18 2010 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 8.0beta6 which is based on CentOS 5.5 and will be the next |
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major release of SME Server. This is the final planned Beta for SME 8. |
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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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Testers Please Note the following... |
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1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this |
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release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a |
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dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase. |
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2. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 |
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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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3. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean |
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machines without contribs or other modifications. Issues with |
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upgrading from clean SME machines can be reported in the bug |
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tracker, but detailed reviews of upgrading paths will not start |
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until Release Candidate versions are made available. |
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4. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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5. 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 SME8.0 Beta 6 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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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 beta release. At this stage in development the role |
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of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and |
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quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all |
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levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw |
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the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design, |
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up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug |
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triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement; |
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please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's |
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future. |
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This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core, |
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contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server |
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Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the |
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latest stage of development. |
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Major changes in beta 6 |
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The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling |
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reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they |
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want because of the Samba and PHP versions constituted a compelling |
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reason. |
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Samba 3x: |
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The Samba packages have reverted to those provided by CentOS to simplify |
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the support needed. This version of samba provides support for Windows 7 |
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domain logins. |
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Changes in this release |
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This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out |
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by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 5. |
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The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes |
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carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to |
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shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and |
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Fedora-associated developers are not included. |
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Backups |
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- Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure. |
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- Workstation Backup emails now include a To: header and includes the |
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system name in the subject line. |
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- Update backup instructions in server-manager. |
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- The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces |
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from the hostname. |
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- Fix removal of leading slash in storage location. |
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- The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks. |
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File Server |
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- Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility. |
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- Remove require strong key part of regedit file. |
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- Backup all the samba tdb files. |
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- Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup. |
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Localisation |
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- Add Hebrew language. |
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- Fix translation of local nic string in console. |
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- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. |
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Mail Server |
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- Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from |
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sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be |
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transparently proxied. |
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- Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP |
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Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before |
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Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5). |
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- Update qpsmtpd to 0.84 |
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- Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses |
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enabled/disabled for clarity. |
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- Fix HeloHost patch. |
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- Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed. |
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- Update email addresses on domain change. |
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Server manager |
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- Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel. |
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Webmail and Groupware |
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- Updated to Horde 3.3.8 |
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- Updated to imp 4.3.7 |
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- Updated to Ingo 1.2.4 |
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- Updated to Turba 2.3.4 |
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- Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book. |
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- Templated attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email |
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values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space. |
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- Update to freebusy info in sources.php |
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Web Server |
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No updates |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- Handle no network interface scenario in console. |
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- Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups. |
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- The LDAP information for admin was not being updated. |
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- Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP. |
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- Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server. |
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- Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+ |
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- Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules. |
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- Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos. |
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- Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos. |
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- Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos. |
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General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.5 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.5 2010/07/11 16:09:26 wellsi Exp $ |