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1 wellsi 1.12 SME Server 9.0 Release Notes
2     ============================
3 slords 1.1
4 wellsi 1.12 21st June 2014
5 slords 1.1
6     The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7 wellsi 1.12 SME Server 9.0 which is based on CentOS 6.5.
8 slords 1.1
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 wellsi 1.10 Download
15     ========
16    
17 wellsi 1.12 You can download SME Server 9.0 from
18     http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/9/iso/x86_64/
19 wellsi 1.10 or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
20 wellsi 1.12
21 wellsi 1.10 Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
22     during this time you may experience problems.
23    
24    
25 slords 1.1 About SME Server
26     ================
27    
28     SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
29 wellsi 1.10 enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
30     a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
31 wellsi 1.5 for SME Server.
32 slords 1.1
33     SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
34     is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
35     However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
36     meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
37    
38 wellsi 1.4 As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
39     a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
40     using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
41     within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
42 slords 1.1 development.
43 wellsi 1.4 b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
44     the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
45     commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
46     your have in the field. Please, help the project
47 slords 1.1
48     Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
49    
50 wellsi 1.10 Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
51 wellsi 1.5 simply email treasurer@koozali.org
52    
53    
54 slords 1.1 Thanks
55     ======
56    
57     The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
58     themselves with this release.
59    
60 wellsi 1.12 The development team would like to give a special thanks, and dedicate the
61     release of SME Server 9.0, to Chris Burnat. Chris has been a volunteer for
62     many years and we want to appreciate his invaluable contributions to 9.0.
63 wellsi 1.10
64 slords 1.1 Notes
65     =====
66    
67 wellsi 1.12 In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore.
68 wellsi 1.11 /boot partition is always RAID 1.
69     The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented.
70 slords 1.1
71 wellsi 1.12 USB installs are now supported, see:
72     http://wiki.contribs.org/Install_From_USB#SME_Server_9
73 slords 1.1
74     Changes in this release
75     =======================
76    
77 wellsi 1.12 Only the changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 are listed, mainly
78     autogenerated from the changelogs.
79 wellsi 1.4
80     Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
81     not included.
82    
83     Backups
84     -------
85 wellsi 1.7 - Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default
86     in line with console backup.
87 wellsi 1.6 - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
88 wellsi 1.10 of results from CGI.pm.
89 wellsi 1.6 - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
90 wellsi 1.10 when using dar 2.4.
91     - Simplify the workstation backup report.
92     - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1.
93     - Update the text in the Backup panel.
94     - Allow more time for cifs mounts before reporting errors.
95 wellsi 1.6 - Dar updated to 2.4.10.
96 wellsi 1.4 - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
97     backup.
98     - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
99     - Refactor directory tree creation and removal.
100     - Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.
101     - Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.
102     - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
103     - Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts
104     - Incremental backup fix.
105     - Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination.
106     Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.
107     - Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
108     - Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.
109     - NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.
110     - Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.
111     - Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
112     - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
113     Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
114 wellsi 1.8 - Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape
115     will succeed.
116 wellsi 1.10 - Update to the latest version of console restore.
117 wellsi 1.8 - Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set.
118 wellsi 1.10 - Delete items from dar catalog in descending order
119 wellsi 1.8 - Minor non-functional updates based on PerlCritic and review comments
120 wellsi 1.10 - Move console backup to e-smith-backup
121     - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files
122     - Remove migrate fragment 30vfstype
123     - Workstation Backup, Don't delete old sets, only empty them.
124     - Workstation Backup, Mail and WOL now subroutines
125     - Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory, updated.
126     - Workstation Backup, backupname includes seconds.
127 wellsi 1.8 - Simplification of the time routines.
128 wellsi 1.10 - Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory.
129     - Allow configuration of workstation backup if no removable disk present
130     - Create simplified function for updating the DarCatalog
131 wellsi 1.11 - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
132     - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups
133 wellsi 1.8
134 wellsi 1.4
135     File Server
136     -----------
137     - Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.
138     - Remove unused pam templates.
139     - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
140     - Add template for wide links.
141     - Add templates for max protocol.
142     - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.
143     - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.
144     - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName
145     - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.
146     - Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
147     - Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint
148 wellsi 1.5 authentication.
149 wellsi 1.8 - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
150 wellsi 1.10 - Remove 20smb as migrating from pre-SME7 is not supported
151 wellsi 1.4
152     LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental)
153     ----
154 wellsi 1.6 - Adjust slapd ACL to change dn.subtree to dn.children.
155 wellsi 1.4
156     Localisation
157     ------------
158     - Latest translations included.
159    
160     Mail Server
161     -----------
162 wellsi 1.6 - Only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
163 wellsi 1.10 - Remove limit properties from the imaps DB entry.
164 wellsi 1.7 - Apply process limits to dovecot.
165 wellsi 1.10 - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
166     - Allow webmail-only-local-network.
167     - Fix handling of messages with no body and no trailing \n after
168     headers (eq was used in attempted assignment).
169 wellsi 1.4 - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
170     - Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.
171     - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
172     - Simplify qmail concurrency templates.
173     - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
174     - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
175     - Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.
176     - allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its
177     arguments
178     - Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.
179     - Listen on loopback if disabled.
180     - Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.
181     - Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.
182     - Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).
183     - Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.
184     - Fix size_limit initialization.
185     - reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it
186     to the arguments of the plugin if defined.
187     - Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
188     - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
189     - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
190 wellsi 1.10 - Remove Packager and Vendor from spec file.
191     - Revert last change.
192     - Sources are local, do not download them.
193     - Updates to release 0.98.1
194 wellsi 1.8 - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
195 wellsi 1.10 - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail
196     - Remove insecure ciphers
197     - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email
198 wellsi 1.8 - Fix whitespace in 10required_score
199 wellsi 1.11 - Update SBL and RBL Lists
200 wellsi 1.4
201     Server manager
202     --------------
203     - Renew donation text in server-manager.
204     - Do not load mod_ssl.
205     - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.
206 wellsi 1.5 - Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
207     - Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.
208     - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
209     - Change wording of Software Update button.
210 wellsi 1.10 - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
211 wellsi 1.8 - Remove references to obsolete images, by Stephane de Labrusse
212 wellsi 1.9 - Fix new starter website.
213 wellsi 1.10 - Update location of Primary index.html.
214 wellsi 1.4
215     Webmail and Groupware
216     ---------------------
217 wellsi 1.10 - Allow webmail-only-local-network.
218 wellsi 1.4 - Don't use SSL over loopback.
219 wellsi 1.10 - Replace last change with a default value for horde access
220     - Ensure initialisation of variables in webmail-only-local-network.
221 wellsi 1.4
222     Web Server
223     ----------
224     - Force magic_quotes Off.
225 wellsi 1.10 - Remove insecure ciphers
226 wellsi 1.4
227     Other fixes and updates
228     -----------------------
229 wellsi 1.9 - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface.
230 wellsi 1.12 See: http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock
231 wellsi 1.6 - Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.
232     - Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
233 wellsi 1.10 - Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
234 wellsi 1.6 - Remove the "swap interface" feature.
235     - Remove obsolete VLAN code.
236 wellsi 1.10 - Load the bonding module if NIC bonding is enabled.
237     - Define the udev-post service in the DB.
238 wellsi 1.7 - Provide the ability to restrict ibay access to http.
239 wellsi 1.10 - Restart rsyslog in logrotate event.
240     - Set smb ServerName if unset.
241     - Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.
242 wellsi 1.6 - Fix add_new_disk_to_raid1.
243 wellsi 1.10 - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
244 wellsi 1.6 - Add an audit for groups.
245 wellsi 1.12 See: http://wiki.contribs.org/Audit_Tools#groups-users
246 wellsi 1.4 - Update the full names of users added in %pre.
247     - Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.
248     - Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.
249     - Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected
250     ibay.
251     - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.
252     - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.
253     - Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.
254     - Disable IPv6 on a default install.
255     - Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.
256     - Use UTF-8 in the console.
257     - Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.
258     - Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.
259     - Require diald.
260     - Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.
261     - Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.
262     - Fix the way '.' works in bash.
263     - rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).
264     - Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.
265     - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.
266     - Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.
267     - Remove modprobe stuff.
268     - Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.
269     - Change syslog templates to rsyslog.
270     - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.
271     - Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.
272     - Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.
273     - Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected
274     ibay.
275     - Correctly display accented letters in the console.
276     - Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.
277     - Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.
278     - Ignore mysql.event table.
279     - Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.
280     - Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.
281     - Increase memory limit for ntp.
282     - Make rsyslog listen to our socket.
283     - Remove rc.quota_create.
284     - the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.
285     - Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr
286     directive.
287     - Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the
288     radiusclient configuration file..
289     - Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.
290     - Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.
291     - Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.
292     - Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.
293     - Change order of mail options in check4updates.
294 wellsi 1.5 - Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.
295     - Remove SSH v1 legacy support.
296     - Support nolvm boot option.
297     - Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.
298     - nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.
299     - Give more time to the grub menu.
300     - Update installer hard drive warning.
301     - Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.
302     - Run installer in 'text' mode.
303 wellsi 1.10 - Roll new stream to really remove obsolete images
304     - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
305     - Move console backup to e-smith-backup
306     - Remove support.pl from e-smith-base and move to smeserver-support
307     - Console restore should reboot
308     - Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set
309     - Add restore backup as a console item for freshly installed servers
310 wellsi 1.8 - Non-code changes to perform_restore.pm
311 wellsi 1.10 - Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore
312     - Remove insecure SSL ciphers
313 wellsi 1.12 - Add more PHP options to ibays only by db commands.
314     See: http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration
315 wellsi 1.10 - Add SSLRequireSSL to ibays when SSL is set to enabled
316     - Force https per ibay should not be the default for existing ibays
317     - Add textbox() to console.pm, getLicenseFile to util.pm
318     - Update frame header and footer
319     - Use mysql_upgrade in 00_restore_dumped_dbs, by Terje Edseth
320     - Use mysql_upgrade --force due to upgrade to MySQL 5.1
321 wellsi 1.8 - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
322 wellsi 1.10 - Code by Jesper Holck
323     - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports other than
324 wellsi 1.12 443,563 using db command.
325     See: http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration
326 wellsi 1.8 - Add -n 1 to the dmesg line in rc.sysinit to prevent unwanted messages
327 wellsi 1.10 appearing on the console
328     - Correct offest in runlevel7 patch to avoid .orig file
329 wellsi 1.8 - Remove CentOS Branding patch
330 wellsi 1.10 - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files
331     - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
332     - Move support.pl from e-smith-base to smeserver-support
333 wellsi 1.8 - The console license page now uses dialog's textbox.
334 wellsi 1.9 - Ensure console is run with taint checking.
335 wellsi 1.11 - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
336     - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
337 wellsi 1.12 - Display a warning with the domain name before to remove it.
338 wellsi 1.11 - Move mysql logging to multilog
339     - Remove the information_schema
340     - Fix error with flush of xt_recent SSH connections.
341     - Add option to tcpsvd to set socket keepalive.
342 slords 1.1
343     General features
344     ================
345    
346 wellsi 1.6 - Based on CentOS 6.5 and all available updates
347 slords 1.1
348 wellsi 1.10
349     Ian Wells
350    
351     On behalf of the SME Server development team
352 wellsi 1.12 $Id: README.txt,v 1.11 2014/05/08 05:56:12 wellsi Exp $

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