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1  SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 9.1 Beta 1 Release Notes
2  ============================  ====================================
3    
4  5 October 2013  27th March 2015
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
7  SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 6.4  the release of SME Server 9.1 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 6.6.
8    
9  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
10  tracker (and only there, please);  tracker (and only there, please);
11    
12      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
13    
14    Download
15    ========
16    
17    You can download SME Server 9.1 Beta 1 from
18    http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/9.1.beta1/
19    or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
20    
21    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  About SME Server  About SME Server
26  ================  ================
27    
28  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
29  enterprises.  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    for SME Server.
32    
33  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
34  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
35  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
36  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
37    
38  As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further  As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
39    
40    a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
41    using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
42    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
43  development.  development.
44    
45    b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
46    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
47    commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
48    your have in the field. Please, help the project
49    
50  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
51    
52  Thanks  Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
53  ======  simply email treasurer@koozali.org
54    
 The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved  
 themselves with this release.  
55    
56  Notes  Notes
57  =====  =====
58    
59  *** To be updated ***  In-place upgrades from SME 8.x are not supported. It is necessary to backup
60    and then restore.
61    /boot partition is always RAID 1.
62    The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented.
63    
64    USB installs are now supported, see:
65    http://wiki.contribs.org/Install_From_USB#SME_Server_9
66    
67    
 Major changes since alpha 3  
 ==========================  
   
 *** To be updated ***  
   
68  Changes in this release  Changes in this release
69  =======================  =======================
70    
71  *** To be updated ***  Only the changes since SME Server 9.0 are listed, mainly
72    autogenerated from the changelogs.
73    
74    Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
75    not included.
76    
77    
78  General features  Backups
79  ================  -------
80     - dar add pkgconfig
81     - dar new upstream version
82     - Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
83     - Change the sub checkMount() to findmnt Ian Wells <esmith@wellsi.com>
84     - Add requires nfs-utils
85     - The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
86     - Don't remove the apache group during restore
87    
88    
89    LDAP
90    ----
91     - Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
92       parsed
93     - Symlink /etc/init.d/ldap to /usr/bin/sv
94     - Chown all DB files to ldap before staring slapd
95     - Set checkpoint in slapd.conf instead of DB_CONFIG
96     - Stop ldap on shutdown (rc0 and rc6)
97     - Don't overwrite the ldif dump if slapcat's output is empty
98       (code from Charlie Brady)
99     - Run db_recover on startup
100     - Don't wipe LDAP DB when the ldif dump is empty
101    
102    Localisation
103    ------------
104     - apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
105     - apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
106    
107    Mail Server
108    -----------
109     - ClamAV Updated to release 0.98.6
110     - Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
111     - Disable fips mode on stunnel
112     - Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
113     - Revert forcing TLSv1 patch as it breaks some inbound delivery
114     - Revert whitelist_soft dnsbl as it hasn't been verified yet and we need to
115       push the fix for TLSv1
116     - Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
117       by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
118     - Force usage of TLSv1
119     - Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
120     - Allow custom passdb args
121     - allow IP relayclient stored by DB
122       Code from Stefano ZAmboni <zamboni@mind-at-work.it>
123       & Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
124    
125    PHP
126    --------------
127     - fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
128     - xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
129     - core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
130     - exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
131     - spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
132       change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
133     - spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
134     - gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
135       CVE-2014-2497
136     - fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
137       cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
138     - core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
139       record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
140     - core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
141     - date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
142     - core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
143       CVE-2014-4049
144     - core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
145       confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
146     - fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
147     - fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
148       rules. CVE-2014-1943
149     - fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
150     - fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
151     - fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
152     - fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
153       DoS. CVE-2014-0237
154     - fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
155       loop. CVE-2014-0238
156     - add php_get_module_initialized internal function (#1053301)
157     - soap: fixRFC2616 transgression (#1045019)
158     - fix static calling in non-static method (#953786)
159     - fix autoload called from closing session (#954027)
160     - drop unneeded part of CVE-2006-724.patch and fileinfo.patch
161       extension not provided or git binary patches (#1064027)
162     - odbc: fix incompatible pointer type (#1053982)
163     - mysqli: fix possible segfault in mysqli_stmt::bind_result
164       php bug 66762 (#1069167)
165     - mysql: fix php_mysql_fetch_hash writes long value into int
166       php bug 52636 (#1054953)
167    
168    Web Server
169    ----------
170     - Disable SSLv3
171     - Turn SSLEngine on in the SSL vhost (ProxyPassVirtualHosts)
172     - Remove obsolete gpc_order setting from php.ini.
173     - Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command
174       Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse
175    
176    Other fixes and updates
177    -----------------------
178     - When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
179       answer to NO
180     - Added a comment to specify the real configuration file of dhcpd
181     - Modified the patch of daniel e-smith-base-5.6.0-ensure_apache_alias_www.patch
182     - Ensure www group exists and that apache is an alias of www
183     - Check where running runlevel 4, not 7 in service wrapper
184     - Correctly update NIC configuration on single NIC systems
185     - Symlink udev-post service in rc7
186     - Fix PPPoE after a post-upgrade
187     - Remove dependency on microcode_ctl
188     - Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays, by Mark Casey
189     - Don't claim to own /sbin and /sbin/e-smith
190     - Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command
191       Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse
192     - the folder /tmp is created by the event init-ibays
193     - the event ibay-modify create/chown/chmod the folder /tmp
194     - Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command
195       Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse
196     - Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
197     - Perl::critic syntax modifications
198     - Add more PHP options to ibays only by db commands
199     - Add SSLRequireSSL to ibays when SSL is set to enabled
200     - Allow the admin upsd in /etc/hosts.allow
201     - Creation Admin Privilege for use of upscmd & upsrw
202     - Remove obsolete directives {allowfrom}
203     - Access property created (default value is 'localhost')
204     - Remove obsolete directives {ACL,ACCEPT,REJECT} and switch to LISTEN
205       in /etc/ups/upsd.conf
206     - Allow NUT in /etc/hosts.allow and in /etc/services
207       Code change from Daniel B.<daniel@firewall-services.com>
208     - Revert the patch e-smith-tinydns-2.4.0_add_hostname_following_dhcpdleases_hostname.patch
209     - Duplicate hostnames with different IP are not used, a warn in log is printed
210     - The server hostname can not be used by a dhcp client, a warning in log is printed
211     - Changed the name of /tmp/dhcpd.leases to /tmp/tmpdhcpd.leases
212       when the dhcpd lease is modified
213     - Do template-expand of /var/service/tinydns/root/data
214     - Do sigus1 of dhcp-dns & dnscache
215     - Forked DHCPparse for parsing the end of lease and remove old entry of dnscache
216     - Require perl-Text-DHCPparse removed
217     - Timestamp added in tinydns, the entry in dnscache is cleared when the lease is over
218     - Add new feature 'Parse dhcpd.leases and feed to tinydns'
219     - e-smith-tinydns-2.4.0_add_hostname_following_dhcpdleases_hostname.patch
220       made from the solution of Stefano Zamboni
221     - Make slapd service an alias for ldap
222     - Switched to sysvinit from systemd (it's rhel-6)
223     - Fixed license tag Related: rhbz#632853
224     - pptpd New version
225     - Dropped pppd-unbundle patch (upstreamed)
226     - Various fixes according to Fedora review Related: rhbz#632853
227     - Modified for Fedora Resolves: rhbz#632853
228     - Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
229     - Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
230       CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
231     - Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
232     - Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
233       generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
234       regression).
235     - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
236     - Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
237     - Update runit to 2.1.2
238     - Remove now uneeded obsolete directives
239     - Remove openssl from the Exclude list of centos repo
240     - Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
241     - Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
242     - Move protected package list to the correct location
243    
 - Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates  
244    
245  $Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2013/09/28 19:26:06 wellsi Exp $  General features
246    ================
247    
248    - Based on CentOS 6.6 and all available updates
249    
250    
251    Terry Fage
252    On behalf of the SME Server development team

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