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Koozali SME Server 9.1 Beta 1 Release Notes |
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27th March 2015 |
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The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce |
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the release of SME Server 9.1 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 6.6. |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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Download |
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You can download SME Server 9.1 Beta 1 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/9.1.beta1/ |
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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, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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About SME Server |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., |
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a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support |
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for SME Server. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development. |
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a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual |
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using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute |
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within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and |
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development. |
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b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in |
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the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation |
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commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers |
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your have in the field. Please, help the project |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received, |
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simply email treasurer@koozali.org |
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Notes |
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In-place upgrades from SME 8.x are not supported. It is necessary to backup |
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and then restore. |
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/boot partition is always RAID 1. |
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The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented. |
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USB installs are now supported, see: |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/Install_From_USB#SME_Server_9 |
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Changes in this release |
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Only the changes since SME Server 9.0 are listed, mainly |
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autogenerated from the changelogs. |
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Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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not included. |
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Backups |
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- dar add pkgconfig |
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- dar new upstream version |
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- Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch |
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- Change the sub checkMount() to findmnt Ian Wells <esmith@wellsi.com> |
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- Add requires nfs-utils |
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- The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start |
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- Don't remove the apache group during restore |
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LDAP |
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- Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be |
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parsed |
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- Symlink /etc/init.d/ldap to /usr/bin/sv |
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- Chown all DB files to ldap before staring slapd |
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- Set checkpoint in slapd.conf instead of DB_CONFIG |
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- Stop ldap on shutdown (rc0 and rc6) |
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- Don't overwrite the ldif dump if slapcat's output is empty |
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(code from Charlie Brady) |
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- Run db_recover on startup |
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- Don't wipe LDAP DB when the ldif dump is empty |
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Localisation |
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- apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle |
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- apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle |
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Mail Server |
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- ClamAV Updated to release 0.98.6 |
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- Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3 |
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- Disable fips mode on stunnel |
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- Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS |
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- Revert forcing TLSv1 patch as it breaks some inbound delivery |
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- Revert whitelist_soft dnsbl as it hasn't been verified yet and we need to |
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push the fix for TLSv1 |
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- Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter |
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by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk> |
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- Force usage of TLSv1 |
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- Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 |
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- Allow custom passdb args |
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- allow IP relayclient stored by DB |
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Code from Stefano ZAmboni <zamboni@mind-at-work.it> |
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& Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au> |
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PHP |
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- fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710 |
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- xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 |
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- core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669 |
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- exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 |
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- spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object |
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change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698 |
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- spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670 |
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- gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm. |
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CVE-2014-2497 |
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- fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in |
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cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587 |
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- core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT |
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record parsing. CVE-2014-3597 |
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- core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 |
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- date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712 |
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- core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing. |
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CVE-2014-4049 |
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- core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type |
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confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 |
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- fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270 |
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- fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type |
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rules. CVE-2014-1943 |
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- fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571 |
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- fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479 |
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- fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480 |
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- fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping |
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DoS. CVE-2014-0237 |
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- fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite |
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loop. CVE-2014-0238 |
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- add php_get_module_initialized internal function (#1053301) |
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- soap: fixRFC2616 transgression (#1045019) |
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- fix static calling in non-static method (#953786) |
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- fix autoload called from closing session (#954027) |
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- drop unneeded part of CVE-2006-724.patch and fileinfo.patch |
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extension not provided or git binary patches (#1064027) |
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- odbc: fix incompatible pointer type (#1053982) |
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- mysqli: fix possible segfault in mysqli_stmt::bind_result |
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php bug 66762 (#1069167) |
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- mysql: fix php_mysql_fetch_hash writes long value into int |
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php bug 52636 (#1054953) |
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Web Server |
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- Disable SSLv3 |
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- Turn SSLEngine on in the SSL vhost (ProxyPassVirtualHosts) |
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- Remove obsolete gpc_order setting from php.ini. |
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- Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command |
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Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected |
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answer to NO |
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- Added a comment to specify the real configuration file of dhcpd |
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- Modified the patch of daniel e-smith-base-5.6.0-ensure_apache_alias_www.patch |
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- Ensure www group exists and that apache is an alias of www |
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- Check where running runlevel 4, not 7 in service wrapper |
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- Correctly update NIC configuration on single NIC systems |
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- Symlink udev-post service in rc7 |
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- Fix PPPoE after a post-upgrade |
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- Remove dependency on microcode_ctl |
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- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays, by Mark Casey |
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- Don't claim to own /sbin and /sbin/e-smith |
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- Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command |
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Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse |
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- the folder /tmp is created by the event init-ibays |
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- the event ibay-modify create/chown/chmod the folder /tmp |
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- Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command |
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Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse |
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- Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain |
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- Perl::critic syntax modifications |
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- Add more PHP options to ibays only by db commands |
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- Add SSLRequireSSL to ibays when SSL is set to enabled |
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- Allow the admin upsd in /etc/hosts.allow |
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- Creation Admin Privilege for use of upscmd & upsrw |
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- Remove obsolete directives {allowfrom} |
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- Access property created (default value is 'localhost') |
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- Remove obsolete directives {ACL,ACCEPT,REJECT} and switch to LISTEN |
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in /etc/ups/upsd.conf |
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- Allow NUT in /etc/hosts.allow and in /etc/services |
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Code change from Daniel B.<daniel@firewall-services.com> |
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- Revert the patch e-smith-tinydns-2.4.0_add_hostname_following_dhcpdleases_hostname.patch |
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- Duplicate hostnames with different IP are not used, a warn in log is printed |
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- The server hostname can not be used by a dhcp client, a warning in log is printed |
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- Changed the name of /tmp/dhcpd.leases to /tmp/tmpdhcpd.leases |
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when the dhcpd lease is modified |
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- Do template-expand of /var/service/tinydns/root/data |
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- Do sigus1 of dhcp-dns & dnscache |
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- Forked DHCPparse for parsing the end of lease and remove old entry of dnscache |
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- Require perl-Text-DHCPparse removed |
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- Timestamp added in tinydns, the entry in dnscache is cleared when the lease is over |
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- Add new feature 'Parse dhcpd.leases and feed to tinydns' |
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- e-smith-tinydns-2.4.0_add_hostname_following_dhcpdleases_hostname.patch |
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made from the solution of Stefano Zamboni |
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- Make slapd service an alias for ldap |
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- Switched to sysvinit from systemd (it's rhel-6) |
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- Fixed license tag Related: rhbz#632853 |
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- pptpd New version |
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- Dropped pppd-unbundle patch (upstreamed) |
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- Various fixes according to Fedora review Related: rhbz#632853 |
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- Modified for Fedora Resolves: rhbz#632853 |
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- Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 |
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- Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the |
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CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes. |
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- Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS. |
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- Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message |
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generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix |
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regression). |
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- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild |
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- Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946) |
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- Update runit to 2.1.2 |
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- Remove now uneeded obsolete directives |
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- Remove openssl from the Exclude list of centos repo |
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- Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates |
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- Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository |
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- Move protected package list to the correct location |
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General features |
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- Based on CentOS 6.6 and all available updates |
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Terry Fage |
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On behalf of the SME Server development team |
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