SME Server 8.0 Beta 6 Release Notes =================================== July 18 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. 4. 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. 5. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 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 Beta 6 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 ------- - Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure. - Workstation Backup emails now include a To: header and includes the system name in the subject line. - Update backup instructions in server-manager. - The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces from the hostname. - Fix removal of leading slash in storage location. - The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks. - Only define Workstation Backup temporary directory once. - Remove relocate_samba_file and all references to /etc/smbpasswd. File Server ----------- - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility. - Remove require strong key part of regedit file. - Backup all the samba tdb files. - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup. Localisation ------------ - Add Chinese (Taiwan) language (zh_TW). - Add Hebrew language (he). - Fix translation of local nic string in console. - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. Mail Server ----------- - Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be transparently proxied. - Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5). - Update qpsmtpd to 0.84 - Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses enabled/disabled for clarity. - Fix HeloHost patch. - Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed. - Update email addresses on domain change. 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 - Updated to Ingo 1.2.4 - Updated to Turba 2.3.4 - Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book. - Templated 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 ----------------------- - Handle no network interface scenario in console. - Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups. - The LDAP information for admin was not being updated. - Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP. - 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. - 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 1.6 2010/07/12 20:08:18 wellsi Exp $