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SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 Release Notes |
SME Server 9.0 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes |
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11th April 2014 |
12th May 2014 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 which is based on CentOS 6.5. |
SME Server 9.0 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 6.5. |
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This is the final planned Beta of SME Server 9.0. |
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This version has the latest openssl to avoid the heartbleed issue. |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
tracker (and only there, please); |
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Download |
Download |
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You can download SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 from |
You can download SME Server 9.0 RC 1 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/9.0beta4/iso/x86_64/ |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/9.0rc1/iso/x86_64/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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. |
during this time you may experience problems. |
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Notes |
Notes |
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This section will be updated in a following ISO |
/boot partition is always RAID 1. |
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The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented. |
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Major changes in this release |
Major changes in this release |
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The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 3. |
This section will be further updated in a later release. |
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The remaining relevant patches from SME Server 8 have been ported. |
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Note: The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented. |
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Workstation Backup has had many minor changes, see below for details. |
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A new feature has been introduced to block SSH login attempts, |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock |
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It is set by default to reject SSH connections when there have been 3 |
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or more requests in the previous 15 minutes. |
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See the link above to tune the defaults, or to disable: |
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db configuration setprop sshd AutoBlock enabled |
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signal-event remoteaccess-update |
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The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 2. |
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It now creates the degraded RAID1 array with a single disk install. |
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Some, but not all, install options are now supported. |
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The base has been updated to CentOS 6.5 |
Allow workstation backup to mounted drive. |
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The network interface code has been reworked to remove all hardcoding |
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relating to eth0 and eth1. |
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Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
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This section will be further updated in a later release |
This section will be further updated in a later release. |
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Currently this only shows changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 and it is |
Currently this only shows changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 and it is |
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autogenerated from the changelogs. A more human readable version will be |
autogenerated from the changelogs. A more human readable version will be |
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written. |
written. |
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Backups |
Backups |
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- Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default |
- Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default |
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in line with console backup. |
in line with console backup. |
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- Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array |
- Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array |
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- Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory. |
- Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory. |
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- Allow configuration of workstation backup if no removable disk present |
- Allow configuration of workstation backup if no removable disk present |
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- Create simplified function for updating the DarCatalog |
- Create simplified function for updating the DarCatalog |
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- Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / |
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- Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups |
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File Server |
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- Remove insecure ciphers |
- Remove insecure ciphers |
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- Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email |
- Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email |
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- Fix whitespace in 10required_score |
- Fix whitespace in 10required_score |
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- Update SBL and RBL Lists |
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Server manager |
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- Move support.pl from e-smith-base to smeserver-support |
- Move support.pl from e-smith-base to smeserver-support |
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- The console license page now uses dialog's textbox. |
- The console license page now uses dialog's textbox. |
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- Ensure console is run with taint checking. |
- Ensure console is run with taint checking. |
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- Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd |
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- Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd |
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- Display a warning with the domain name before to remove it [SME : 8333] |
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- Move mysql logging to multilog |
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- Remove the information_schema |
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- Fix error with flush of xt_recent SSH connections. |
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General features |
General features |
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Ian Wells |
Ian Wells |
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On behalf of the SME Server development team |
On behalf of the SME Server development team |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.9 2014/04/07 16:24:22 wellsi Exp $ |
$Id: README.txt,v 1.10 2014/04/12 03:42:07 wellsi Exp $ |