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-Revision 1.10 by wellsi,
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+Revision 1.12 by wellsi,
Wed Jun 18 15:14:22 2014 UTC
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- SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 Release Notes
+ SME Server 9.0 Release Notes
- ===================================
+ ============================
-th April 2014
+st June 2014
  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
- SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 which is based on CentOS 6.5.
+ SME Server 9.0 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
+ You can download SME Server 9.0 from
- http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/9.0beta4/iso/x86_64/
+ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/9/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.
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 Thanks
+Line 57 
 Thanks
  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
  themselves with this release.
+ The development team would like to give a special thanks, and dedicate the
+ release of SME Server 9.0, to Chris Burnat. Chris has been a volunteer for
+ many years and we want to appreciate his invaluable contributions to 9.0.
  Notes
  =====
- This section will be updated in a following ISO
+ In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore.
+ /boot partition is always RAID 1.
+ The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented.
- Major changes in this release
- =============================
- 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,
+ USB installs are now supported, see:
- http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock
+ http://wiki.contribs.org/Install_From_USB#SME_Server_9
- 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 further updated in a later release
+ Only the changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 are listed, mainly
- Currently this only shows changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 and it is
+ autogenerated from the changelogs.
- autogenerated from the changelogs. A more human readable version will be
- written.
  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
  not included.
  Backups
  -------
  - Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default
    in line with console backup.
  - Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array
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 Backups
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 Backups
  - 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
+ - Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
+ - Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups
  File Server
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 Mail Server
+Line 196 
 Mail Server
  - Remove insecure ciphers
  - Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email
  - Fix whitespace in 10required_score
+ - Update SBL and RBL Lists
  Server manager
  --------------
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 Web Server
+Line 227 
 Web Server
  Other fixes and updates
  -----------------------
  - Add ssh-autoblock for external interface.
+   See: http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock
  - Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.
  - Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
  - Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
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 Other fixes and updates
+Line 242 
 Other fixes and updates
  - Fix add_new_disk_to_raid1.
  - Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
  - Add an audit for groups.
+   See: http://wiki.contribs.org/Audit_Tools#groups-users
  - 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
+Line 310 
 Other fixes and updates
  - 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 more PHP options to ibays only by db commands.
+   See: http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration
  - 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
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 Other fixes and updates
+Line 321 
 Other fixes and updates
  - 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
+,563 using db command.
- - Codes by Ray Mitchell and Ian Wells
+   See: http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration
  - 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
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 Other fixes and updates
+Line 332 
 Other fixes and updates
  - 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.
+ - Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
+ - Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
+ - Display a warning with the domain name before to remove it.
+ - Move mysql logging to multilog
+ - Remove the information_schema
+ - Fix error with flush of xt_recent SSH connections.
+ - Add option to tcpsvd to set socket keepalive.
  General features
  ================
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 General features
+Line 349 
 General features
  Ian Wells
  On behalf of the SME Server development team
- $Id: README.txt,v 1.9 2014/04/07 16:24:22 wellsi Exp $
+ $Id: README.txt,v 1.11 2014/05/08 05:56:12 wellsi Exp $

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