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+Revision 1.10 by wellsi,
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- SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 Release Notes
+ SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 Release Notes
  ===================================
-October 2013
+th April 2014
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 6.4
+ SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 which is based on CentOS 6.5.
+ This is the final planned Beta of SME Server 9.0.
+ This version has the latest openssl to avoid the heartbleed issue.
  Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
  tracker (and only there, please);
      http://bugs.contribs.org/
+ Download
+ ========
+ You can download SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 from
+ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/9.0beta4/iso/x86_64/
+ or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
+ Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
+ during this time you may experience problems.
  About SME Server
  ================
  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
- enterprises.
+ enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
+ a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
+ for SME Server.
  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
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 your have in the field. Please, help the
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 your have in the field. Please, help the
  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
+ Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
+ simply email treasurer@koozali.org
  Thanks
  ======
  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
  themselves with this release.
  Notes
  =====
- This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2
+ This section will be updated in a following ISO
  Major changes in this release
  =============================
- This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2
+ The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 3.
+ The remaining relevant patches from SME Server 8 have been ported.
+ Note: The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented.
+ Workstation Backup has had many minor changes, see below for details.
+ A new feature has been introduced to block SSH login attempts,
+ http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock
+ It is set by default to reject SSH connections when there have been 3
+ or more requests in the previous 15 minutes.
+ See the link above to tune the defaults, or to disable:
+ db configuration setprop sshd AutoBlock enabled
+ signal-event remoteaccess-update
+ The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 2.
+ It now creates the degraded RAID1 array with a single disk install.
+ Some, but not all,  install options are now supported.
+ The base has been updated to CentOS 6.5
+ The network interface code has been reworked to remove all hardcoding
+ relating to eth0 and eth1.
  Changes in this release
  =======================
- This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2
+ This section will be further updated in a later release
  Currently this only shows changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 and it is
  autogenerated from the changelogs. A more human readable version will be
- written for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2.
+ written.
  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
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 not included.
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 not included.
  Backups
  -------
- - Dar updated to 2.4.10
+ - Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default
+   in line with console backup.
+ - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
+   of results from CGI.pm.
+ - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
+   when using dar 2.4.
+ - Simplify the workstation backup report.
+ - Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1.
+ - Update the text in the Backup panel.
+ - Allow more time for cifs mounts before reporting errors.
+ - Dar updated to 2.4.10.
  - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
    backup.
  - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
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 Backups
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 Backups
  - Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
    Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
+ - Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape
+   will succeed.
+ - Update to the latest version of console restore.
+ - Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set.
+ - Delete items from dar catalog in descending order
+ - Minor non-functional updates based on PerlCritic and review comments
+ - Move console backup to e-smith-backup
+ - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files
+ - Remove migrate fragment 30vfstype
+ - Workstation Backup, Don't delete old sets, only empty them.
+ - Workstation Backup, Mail and WOL now subroutines
+ - Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory, updated.
+ - Workstation Backup, backupname includes seconds.
+ - Simplification of the time routines.
+ - Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory.
+ - Allow configuration of workstation backup if no removable disk present
+ - Create simplified function for updating the DarCatalog
  File Server
  -----------
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 File Server
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 File Server
  - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.
  - Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
  - Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint
-   authentication
+   authentication.
+ - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
+ - Remove 20smb as migrating from pre-SME7 is not supported
  LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental)
  ----
- None
+ - Adjust slapd ACL to change dn.subtree to dn.children.
  Localisation
  ------------
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 Localisation
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 Localisation
  Mail Server
  -----------
+ - Only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
+ - Remove limit properties from the imaps DB entry.
+ - Apply process limits to dovecot.
+ - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
+ - Allow webmail-only-local-network.
+ - Fix handling of messages with no body and no trailing \n after
+   headers (eq was used in attempted assignment).
  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  - Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.
  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
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 Mail Server
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 Mail Server
  - Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
  - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
+ - Remove Packager and Vendor from spec file.
+ - Revert last change.
+ - Sources are local, do not download them.
+ - Updates to release 0.98.1
+ - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
+ - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail
+ - Remove insecure ciphers
+ - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email
+ - Fix whitespace in 10required_score
  Server manager
  --------------
  - Renew donation text in server-manager.
  - Do not load mod_ssl.
  - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.
- - add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
+ - Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
+ - Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.
+ - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
+ - Change wording of Software Update button.
+ - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
+ - Remove references to obsolete images, by Stephane de Labrusse
+ - Fix new starter website.
+ - Update location of Primary index.html.
  Webmail and Groupware
  ---------------------
+ - Allow webmail-only-local-network.
  - Don't use SSL over loopback.
+ - Replace last change with a default value for horde access
+ - Ensure initialisation of variables in webmail-only-local-network.
  Web Server
  ----------
  - Force magic_quotes Off.
+ - Remove insecure ciphers
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
+ - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface.
+ - Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.
+ - Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
+ - Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
+ - Remove the "swap interface" feature.
+ - Remove obsolete VLAN code.
+ - Load the bonding module if NIC bonding is enabled.
+ - Define the udev-post service in the DB.
+ - Provide the ability to restrict ibay access to http.
+ - Restart rsyslog in logrotate event.
+ - Set smb ServerName if unset.
+ - Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.
+ - Fix add_new_disk_to_raid1.
+ - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
+ - Add an audit for groups.
  - Update the full names of users added in %pre.
  - Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.
  - Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.
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 Other fixes and updates
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 Other fixes and updates
  - Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.
  - Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.
  - Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.
- - Renew donation text and add donation graphic.
- - Fix /etc/system-release.
  - Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.
  - Change order of mail options in check4updates.
- - Change wording of Software Update button.
+ - Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.
+ - Remove SSH v1 legacy support.
+ - Support nolvm boot option.
+ - Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.
+ - nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.
+ - Give more time to the grub menu.
+ - Update installer hard drive warning.
+ - Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.
+ - Run installer in 'text' mode.
+ - Roll new stream to really remove obsolete images
+ - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
+ - Move console backup to e-smith-backup
+ - Remove support.pl from e-smith-base and move to smeserver-support
+ - Console restore should reboot
+ - Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set
+ - Add restore backup as a console item for freshly installed servers
+ - Non-code changes to perform_restore.pm
+ - Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore
+ - Remove insecure SSL ciphers
+ - Add more PHP options to ibays only by db commands
+ - Add SSLRequireSSL to ibays when SSL is set to enabled
+ - Force https per ibay should not be the default for existing ibays
+ - Add textbox() to console.pm, getLicenseFile to util.pm
+ - Update frame header and footer
+ - Use mysql_upgrade in 00_restore_dumped_dbs, by Terje Edseth
+ - Use mysql_upgrade --force due to upgrade to MySQL 5.1
+ - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
+ - Code by Jesper Holck
+ - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports other than
+,563 using db command
+ - Codes by Ray Mitchell and Ian Wells
+ - Add -n 1 to the dmesg line in rc.sysinit to prevent unwanted messages
+   appearing on the console
+ - Correct offest in runlevel7 patch to avoid .orig file
+ - Remove CentOS Branding patch
+ - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files
+ - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
+ - Move support.pl from e-smith-base to smeserver-support
+ - The console license page now uses dialog's textbox.
+ - Ensure console is run with taint checking.
  General features
  ================
- - Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates
+ - Based on CentOS 6.5 and all available updates
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.3 2013/10/05 05:06:26 wellsi Exp $
+ Ian Wells
+ On behalf of the SME Server development team
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.9 2014/04/07 16:24:22 wellsi Exp $

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