--- cdrom.image/sme9/README.txt 2013/09/28 19:26:06 1.2 +++ cdrom.image/sme9/README.txt 2013/10/12 06:31:51 1.4 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 Release Notes -============================ +=================================== -1 October 2013 +14 October 2013 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 @@ -22,8 +22,15 @@ is only possible through the efforts of However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. -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. +a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual +using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute +within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and development. +b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in +the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation +commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers +your have in the field. Please, help the project Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. @@ -36,35 +43,174 @@ themselves with this release. Notes ===== -*** To be updated *** +This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 +Major changes in this release +============================= -Major changes since alpha 3 -========================== +This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 -*** To be updated *** Changes in this release ======================= -*** To be updated *** +This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 +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. -This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out -by SME-associated developers since 2009 where the most recent changes -to the package are dated after February 2010. The package changelogs -often included earlier changes and changes carried out by non-SME- -associated developers; these were removed to shorten the list. Packages -recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are + +Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are not included. +Backups +------- +- 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. +- Refactor directory tree creation and removal. +- Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages. +- Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation. +- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors. +- Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts +- Incremental backup fix. +- Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination. + Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces. +- Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level. +- Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR. +- NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount. +- Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount. +- 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. + +File Server +----------- +- Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates. +- Remove unused pam templates. +- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. +- Add template for wide links. +- Add templates for max protocol. +- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login. +- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file. +- Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName +- 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 + +LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental) +---- +None + +Localisation +------------ +- Latest translations included. + +Mail Server +----------- +- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. +- Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled. +- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. +- Simplify qmail concurrency templates. +- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name. +- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers. +- Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd. +- allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its + arguments +- Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check. +- Listen on loopback if disabled. +- Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s. +- Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm. +- Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled). +- Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd. +- Fix size_limit initialization. +- reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it + to the arguments of the plugin if defined. +- Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local. +- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled. +- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email. + +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. + +Webmail and Groupware +--------------------- +- Don't use SSL over loopback. + +Web Server +---------- +- Force magic_quotes Off. + +Other fixes and updates +----------------------- +- 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. +- Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected + ibay. +- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated. +- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB. +- Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled. +- Disable IPv6 on a default install. +- Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space. +- Use UTF-8 in the console. +- Remove redundant parts of init-accounts. +- Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse. +- Require diald. +- Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service. +- Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service. +- Fix the way '.' works in bash. +- rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret). +- Always define InternalInterface NICBonding. +- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk. +- Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items. +- Remove modprobe stuff. +- Don't be as agressive on rate limiting. +- Change syslog templates to rsyslog. +- Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized. +- Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server. +- Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary. +- Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected + ibay. +- Correctly display accented letters in the console. +- Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre. +- Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user. +- Ignore mysql.event table. +- Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables. +- Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables. +- Increase memory limit for ntp. +- Make rsyslog listen to our socket. +- Remove rc.quota_create. +- the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf. +- Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr + directive. +- Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the + radiusclient configuration file.. +- 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. + General features ================ - Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates -$Id: 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