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1 slords 1.1 SME Server 8.0 Release Notes
2     ============================
3    
4     21 May 2012
5    
6     The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7     SME Server 8.0 which is based on CentOS 5.8
8    
9     Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
10     tracker (and only there, please);
11    
12     http://bugs.contribs.org/
13    
14     About SME Server
15     ================
16    
17     SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
18     enterprises.
19    
20     SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
21     is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
22     However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
23     meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
24    
25     As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
26     development.
27    
28     Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
29    
30     Thanks
31     ======
32    
33     The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
34     themselves with this release.
35    
36     Notes
37     =====
38    
39     1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8
40     will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware
41     means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX;
42     AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors
43     are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon,
44     Athlon XP and later.
45    
46     2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at
47     http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
48    
49     3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
50     during this time you may experience problems.
51     You can download SME8.0 from
52     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/
53     or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8
54    
55     Major changes since beta 7
56     ==========================
57     * No major changes were introduced since beta 7
58    
59     Major changes in beta 7
60     =======================
61     * Require authentication for all emails, including local.
62     * Optional - to use ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems
63     (except for /boot). At the boot prompt use "ext4" or "sme ext4".
64     *** ext4 is considered experimental, so use with caution ***
65     * Optional - LDAP authentication can be enabled. Once enabled it cannot
66     be disabled, so experiment with care.
67     To enable: db configuration setprop ldap Authentication enabled
68    
69     Major changes in beta 5
70     =======================
71     The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling
72     reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they
73     want because of the PHP version constituted a compelling reason.
74    
75     PHP 5.2.10: is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2.
76     5.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce.
77    
78    
79     Changes in this release
80     =======================
81    
82     This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out
83     by SME-associated developers since 2009 where the most recent changes
84     to the package are dated after February 2010. The package changelogs
85     often included earlier changes and changes carried out by non-SME-
86     associated developers; these were removed to shorten the list. Packages
87     recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
88     not included.
89    
90     Backups
91     -------
92     - Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
93     - Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
94     - Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin
95     for Workstation Backups
96     - Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.
97     - Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
98     - Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup
99     destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.
100     - Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel.
101     Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not
102     restricted to only USB disks.
103     - Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.
104     - Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during
105     software update.
106     - Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.
107     - A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of
108     open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed
109     if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables.
110     - Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure.
111     - Workstation Backup emails include a To: header.
112     - Workstation Backup includes the system name and also indicates failure
113     if applicable in the subject line of the email.
114     - Update backup instructions in server-manager.
115     - The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces
116     from the hostname.
117     - Fix removal of leading slash in storage location.
118     - The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks.
119     - Only define Workstation Backup temporary directory once.
120     - Remove relocate_samba_file and all references to /etc/smbpasswd.
121     - Improved upgrade compatibility, remove .orig
122     - create mount point for verify
123     - remove comment re smbpasswd being last
124     - Fix mounting usb disks
125     - Don't backup more than once per day
126     - Fix full backup on Sunday diplayed as Everyday
127     - Add more excludes for compressed filetypes
128     - Porting Jean-Paul Leclere changes in the SME Server 7 tree to SME
129     Server 8:
130     - using credentials file for cifs mount
131     - workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to
132     bootstrap-console-save
133     - workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day
134     - workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before
135     restore
136     - workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in
137     a full restore
138     - Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups
139     - Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level
140     - Fix console backup from removable media
141     - Fix console restore from removable media (Federico Simoncelli)
142     - Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk
143    
144     File Server
145     -----------
146     - Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
147     - Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
148     - Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
149     - Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility.
150     - Remove require strong key part of regedit file.
151     - Backup all the samba tdb files.
152     - Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup.
153     - Create/remove V2 profile directories
154     - Enable bindinterfaces by default
155     - Set recyle bin permissions
156     - Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to join Samba
157     3.x domains
158     - Fix warnings in template expansion
159     - Fix migrate fragments for samba
160    
161     LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)
162     ----
163     - Create samba account during event for machine
164     - Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP
165     - Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account
166     - Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership
167     - Fix cpu critical patch missing '
168     - LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb
169     - Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database
170     - Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed
171     - Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with
172     regards to LDAP
173     - Fix create user gid parameter
174     - Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script
175     - All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP
176     - Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP
177     - Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master
178     - Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled
179     - Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database
180     - Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix
181     - Change script order: ldap-update should be called after
182     domain-group-maps
183     - LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department
184     - LDAP changes: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config
185     - Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype
186     - Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates
187     - Change startup order for ldap
188     - ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords
189     - Add ldap as an auth type to radius
190     - Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled)
191     - Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups.
192     - The LDAP information for admin was not being updated.
193     - Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP.
194     - Fix admin user password change (Daniel B.)
195     - Init database if the ldif dump is empty (ie from sme8b)
196     - revert re-init database
197     - re-init readonly database on post-upgrade
198     - Force SSL/TLS for remote authentication
199     - reuse users_groups_ous.patch2
200     - Separate groups and users with mailboxRelatedObject
201     - Set readonly access
202     - Fix ldap-update action script to user-lock event
203     - Add Groups entries
204     - Add admin user as a standard user
205     - Add ldap-update action script to user-lock event
206     - Add ldap authentication and tls support
207     - Update schema for newer openldap and remove calFBurl
208     - Convert ldif dump
209     - Create bdb log directory
210     - Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem
211    
212     Localisation
213     ------------
214     - Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
215     - Add Chinese (Taiwan) language (zh_TW).
216     - Add Hebrew language (he).
217     - Fix translation of local nic string in console.
218     - Add Thai language
219     - Add Polish language
220     - Add Romanian language
221     - Add Estonian language
222    
223     Mail Server
224     -----------
225     - Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5
226     config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
227     config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled
228     - Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
229     - Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
230     - Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections
231     - Add template fragment for pyzor timeout
232     - Remove spamd restart from bootstrap-console-save event
233     - Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external
234     address.
235     - Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
236     - Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.
237     - Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.
238     - Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.
239     - Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.
240     - Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work
241     - Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no
242     headers.
243     - Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.
244     - Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.
245     - Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.
246     - New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of
247     mail logfiles.
248     - Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from
249     sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be
250     transparently proxied.
251     - Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP
252     Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before
253     Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5).
254     - Update qpsmtpd to 0.84
255     - Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses
256     enabled/disabled for clarity.
257     - Fix HeloHost patch.
258     - Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed.
259     - Update email addresses on domain change.
260     - Work around how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
261     - Use HeloHost (if present) in smtp-auth-proxy.pl
262     - Allow for changing SPAM subject tag through server-manager
263     - Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file
264     - Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use
265     - Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request)
266     - SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups
267     - smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups
268     - Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0
269     as a local ip
270     - Remove spool and log dir from package (in smeserver-qpsmtpd)
271     - Don't create smtpd user (unused in sme)
272     - Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM subject prefix
273     - Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install
274     - Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file
275     - Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings
276     - Only run/initialize plugins once
277     - Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav
278     - Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog
279     - don't add qpsmtpd to start-up by default
280     - add apache config file to qpsmtpd-apache package
281     - use rpm macros for dirs
282     - use a filelist for main package instead of a long list of files
283     - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log
284     - Remove create option from logrotate configuration
285     - Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log
286     - Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file
287     - Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default to yes
288     - Obsolete e-smith-antivirus
289     - Enable qpsmtpd RequireResolvableFromHost plugin by default, remove
290     database entry and the database default value
291     - Tie template fragment into event system to have it expanded
292     - Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix
293     - Remove FuzzyOcr
294     - Run sa-update every two hours and check restart every hour
295     - Redirect cron job output to logfile to avoid mail noise
296     - Fix invalid service name in sa-update
297    
298     Server manager
299     --------------
300     - Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.
301     - Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel.
302     - Remove empty <p> tag from footer template.
303     - Only display error messages intended for admin in server-manager
304     - Fix css validation errors.
305     - display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes
306     - Fix unitialized value errors in HTML.pm
307    
308     Webmail and Groupware
309     ---------------------
310     - Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5
311     - Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional
312     identities.
313     - Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book.
314     - Templated attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email
315     values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space.
316     - Update to freebusy info in sources.php
317     - Update to remove turbaContact info that SME is not using.
318     - Change horde's templated mime_drivers.php file so some additional
319     settings can be customized
320     - Make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
321     - Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of
322     php-pear-HTTP-Request information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7
323     and sme8
324     - Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8
325     - Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN
326     and non-FQDN access to webmail will work.
327     - Remove klutz template from registry.php
328     - Template imp's mime_drivers.php file so some settings can be
329     customized
330    
331     Web Server
332     ----------
333     - Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
334     - Disable SSLv2 by default.
335     - make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.
336     - Default expose_php in php.ini to Off.
337     - Add option to disable SSLv2
338     - Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types
339     - Add OpenOffice MIME Types
340     - Add XML MIME Type
341     - Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types
342    
343     Other fixes and updates
344     -----------------------
345     - Add MAC address into console network selection
346     - Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
347     - Improve error message for quota
348     - Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
349     - Initialize ExternalInterface db structure so hwaddr in console works.
350     - Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt.
351     - Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.
352     - Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.
353     - Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.
354     - Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.
355     - Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.
356     - Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
357     - Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add
358     FQDN).
359     - Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks
360     - Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be
361     inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.
362     - Add validator back for ip or cname entry.
363     - Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts
364     - Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be
365     configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.
366     - Set the TimeZone property earlier, so templates can rely on it.
367     - Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and
368     ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by
369     network inactivity.
370     - New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.
371     - Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.
372     - Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.
373     - Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.
374     - Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.
375     - Handle no network interface scenario in console.
376     - Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server.
377     - Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+
378     - Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules.
379     - Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos.
380     - Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos.
381     - Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos.
382     - Enable cpuspeed by default.
383     - Fix scriplet error in e-smith-service script when service is disabled.
384     - Allow use of CNAME in remote hosts.
385     - Add Obsoletes for php5-cgi-{imap,ldap,mysql,pear,xmlrpc}.
386     - Restate smartd dependency.
387     - Fix gettext errors in WAN/LAN subnet error message
388     - Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing
389     - Fix eth? swapping
390     - Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits
391     - Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console
392     configuration pages.
393     - Translate $ifName in console configuration pages
394     - Prevent IP conflicts between local and external interface in server
395     gateway mode
396     - Clean up: remove unused nonetworkdrivers
397     - Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod
398     - Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize
399     - Add compiled python files to the packaged files list
400     - Update path for 64-bit compatibility
401     - Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf
402     - adds the hwaddr parameter to probeAdapters()
403     - Update path for 64-bit compatibility
404     - Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids
405     - Fix log-error detection algorithm
406     - Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut
407     - Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s
408     - Enable port forwards to localhost if mode is serveronly
409     - Adjust xml entry in locale
410     - Add option to limit port forwards from source ip
411     - Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line
412     - Fix owner/perms for radius files
413     - Fix typo in /sbin/service patch (Federico Simoncelli)
414     - Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration
415     database to avoid failures in post scriptlets
416     - Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only
417     initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures that
418     the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects against
419     running "service httpd restart"
420     - Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first
421     - Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot
422     - Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms
423     - only unlink file if we created it
424     - Import only keys not already imported
425     - set unsaved changes in yum event
426     - move yum warming to sme yum plugin
427     - ensure file exists before unlinking
428     - remove semicolons from yum plugin
429     - Add frequency of updates toggle
430     - Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package
431     - Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio
432     - Require mailx
433     - Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed pacakges
434    
435     General features
436     ================
437    
438     - Based on CentOS 5.8 and all available updates
439    
440     $Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $
441    
442    
443    

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