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1  SME Server 9.0 Beta 3 Release Notes  SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 Release Notes
2  ===================================  ===================================
3    
4  25 December 2013  10th April 2014
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
7  SME Server 9.0 Beta 3 which is based on CentOS 6.5  SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 which is based on CentOS 6.5
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);
# Line 55  This section will be updated in a follow Line 55  This section will be updated in a follow
55  Major changes in this release  Major changes in this release
56  =============================  =============================
57    
58    The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 3.
59    The remaining relevant patches from SME Server 8 have been ported.
60    Note: The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented.
61    Workstation Backup has had many minor changes, see below for details.
62    
63    A new feature has been introduced to block SSH login attempts,
64    http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock
65    It is set by default to reject SSH connections when there have been 3
66    or more requests in the previous 15 minutes.
67    See the link above to tune the defaults, or to disable:
68    db configuration setprop sshd AutoBlock enabled
69    signal-event remoteaccess-update
70    
71  The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 2.  The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 2.
72  It now creates the degraded RAID1 array with a single disk install.  It now creates the degraded RAID1 array with a single disk install.
73  Some, but not all,  install options are now supported.  Some, but not all,  install options are now supported.
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93  Backups  Backups
94  -------  -------
95    
96    - Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default
97      in line with console backup.
98  - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array  - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
99    of results from CGI.pm.    of results from CGI.pm.
100  - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed  - Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
# Line 107  Backups Line 122  Backups
122  - Improve text in console backup for success and failure.  - Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
123  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level.  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
124    Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.    Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
125  - Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape will  - Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape
126    succeed.    will succeed.
127    - Update to the latest version of console restore.
128    - Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set.
129    - Delete items from dar catalog in descending order
130    - Minor non-functional updates based on PerlCritic and review comments
131    - Move console backup to e-smith-backup
132    - Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files
133    - Remove migrate fragment 30vfstype
134    - Workstation Backup, Don't delete old sets, only empty them.
135    - Workstation Backup, Mail and WOL now subroutines
136    - Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory, updated.
137    - Workstation Backup, backupname includes seconds.
138    - Simplification of the time routines.
139    - Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory.
140    - Allow configuration of workstation backup if no removable disk present
141    - Create simplified function for updating the DarCatalog
142    
143    
144  File Server  File Server
145  -----------  -----------
# Line 124  File Server Line 155  File Server
155  - Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.  - Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
156  - Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint  - Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint
157    authentication.    authentication.
158  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.    - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
159    - Remove 20smb as migrating from pre-SME7 is not supported
160    
161  LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental)  LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental)
162  ----  ----
# Line 137  Localisation Line 169  Localisation
169  Mail Server  Mail Server
170  -----------  -----------
171  - Only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.  - Only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
172    - Remove limit properties from the imaps DB entry.
173    - Apply process limits to dovecot.
174    - Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
175  - Allow webmail-only-local-network.  - Allow webmail-only-local-network.
176  - Fix handling of messages with no body and no trailing \n after  - Fix handling of messages with no body and no trailing \n after
177    headers (eq was used in attempted assignment).    headers (eq was used in attempted assignment).
# Line 161  Mail Server Line 196  Mail Server
196  - Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.  - Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
197  - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.  - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
198  - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.  - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
199    - Remove Packager and Vendor from spec file.
200    - Revert last change.
201    - Sources are local, do not download them.
202    - Updates to release 0.98.1
203    - Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
204    - Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail
205    - Remove insecure ciphers
206    - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email
207    - Fix whitespace in 10required_score
208    
209  Server manager  Server manager
210  --------------  --------------
# Line 171  Server manager Line 215  Server manager
215  - Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.  - Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.
216  - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.  - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
217  - Change wording of Software Update button.  - Change wording of Software Update button.
218    - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
219    - Remove references to obsolete images, by Stephane de Labrusse
220    - Fix new starter website.
221    - Update location of Primary index.html.
222    
223  Webmail and Groupware  Webmail and Groupware
224  ---------------------  ---------------------
225  - Allow webmail-only-local-network.  - Allow webmail-only-local-network.
226  - Don't use SSL over loopback.  - Don't use SSL over loopback.
227    - Replace last change with a default value for horde access
228    - Ensure initialisation of variables in webmail-only-local-network.
229    
230  Web Server  Web Server
231  ----------  ----------
232  - Force magic_quotes Off.  - Force magic_quotes Off.
233    - Remove insecure ciphers
234    
235  Other fixes and updates  Other fixes and updates
236  -----------------------  -----------------------
237    - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface.
238  - Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.  - Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.
239  - Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.  - Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
240  - Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.  - Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
# Line 190  Other fixes and updates Line 242  Other fixes and updates
242  - Remove obsolete VLAN code.  - Remove obsolete VLAN code.
243  - Load the bonding module if NIC bonding is enabled.  - Load the bonding module if NIC bonding is enabled.
244  - Define the udev-post service in the DB.  - Define the udev-post service in the DB.
245    - Provide the ability to restrict ibay access to http.
246  - Restart rsyslog in logrotate event.  - Restart rsyslog in logrotate event.
247  - Set smb ServerName if unset.  - Set smb ServerName if unset.
248  - Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.  - Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.
# Line 253  Other fixes and updates Line 306  Other fixes and updates
306  - Update installer hard drive warning.  - Update installer hard drive warning.
307  - Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.  - Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.
308  - Run installer in 'text' mode.  - Run installer in 'text' mode.
309    - Roll new stream to really remove obsolete images
310    - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
311    - Move console backup to e-smith-backup
312    - Remove support.pl from e-smith-base and move to smeserver-support
313    - Console restore should reboot
314    - Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set
315    - Add restore backup as a console item for freshly installed servers
316    - Non-code changes to perform_restore.pm
317    - Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore
318    - Remove insecure SSL ciphers
319    - Add more PHP options to ibays only by db commands
320    - Add SSLRequireSSL to ibays when SSL is set to enabled
321    - Force https per ibay should not be the default for existing ibays
322    - Add textbox() to console.pm, getLicenseFile to util.pm
323    - Update frame header and footer
324    - Use mysql_upgrade in 00_restore_dumped_dbs, by Terje Edseth
325    - Use mysql_upgrade --force due to upgrade to MySQL 5.1
326    - Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
327    - Code by Jesper Holck
328    - Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports other than
329      443,563 using db command
330    - Codes by Ray Mitchell and Ian Wells
331    - Add -n 1 to the dmesg line in rc.sysinit to prevent unwanted messages
332      appearing on the console
333    - Correct offest in runlevel7 patch to avoid .orig file
334    - Remove CentOS Branding patch
335    - Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files
336    - Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
337    - Move support.pl from e-smith-base to smeserver-support
338    - The console license page now uses dialog's textbox.
339    - Ensure console is run with taint checking.
340    
341  General features  General features
342  ================  ================
343    
344  - Based on CentOS 6.5 and all available updates  - Based on CentOS 6.5 and all available updates
345    
346  $Id: README.txt,v 1.5 2013/11/06 06:26:57 wellsi Exp $  $Id: README.txt,v 1.8 2014/03/30 04:08:35 wellsi Exp $


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