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SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 Release Notes |
SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 Release Notes |
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5 October 2013 |
14 October 2013 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 6.4 |
SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 which is based on CentOS 6.4 |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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. |
meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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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. |
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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. |
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. |
Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Notes |
Notes |
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*** To be updated *** |
This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 |
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Major changes in this release |
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Major changes since alpha 3 |
This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 |
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Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
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*** To be updated *** |
This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 |
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Currently this only shows changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 and it is |
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autogenerated from the changelogs. A more human readable version will be |
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written for SME Server 9.0 Beta 2. |
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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 updated to 2.4.10 |
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- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after |
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backup. |
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- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success. |
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- Refactor directory tree creation and removal. |
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- Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages. |
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- Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation. |
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- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors. |
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- Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts |
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- Incremental backup fix. |
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- Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination. |
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Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces. |
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- Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level. |
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- Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR. |
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- NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount. |
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- Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount. |
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- Improve text in console backup for success and failure. |
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- Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level. |
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Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default. |
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File Server |
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- Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates. |
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- Remove unused pam templates. |
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- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. |
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- Add template for wide links. |
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- Add templates for max protocol. |
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- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login. |
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- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file. |
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- Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName |
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- Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option. |
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- Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server. |
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- Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint |
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authentication |
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LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental) |
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Localisation |
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- Latest translations included. |
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- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. |
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- Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled. |
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- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. |
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- Simplify qmail concurrency templates. |
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- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name. |
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- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers. |
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- Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd. |
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- allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its |
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- Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check. |
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- Listen on loopback if disabled. |
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- Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s. |
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- Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm. |
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- Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled). |
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- Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd. |
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- Fix size_limit initialization. |
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- reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it |
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to the arguments of the plugin if defined. |
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- Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local. |
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- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled. |
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- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email. |
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- Renew donation text in server-manager. |
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- Do not load mod_ssl. |
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- Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel. |
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- add security fix for CVE-2013-4113. |
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Webmail and Groupware |
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- Don't use SSL over loopback. |
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- Force magic_quotes Off. |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- Update the full names of users added in %pre. |
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- Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre. |
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- Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated. |
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- Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected |
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ibay. |
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- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated. |
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- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB. |
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- Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled. |
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- Disable IPv6 on a default install. |
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- Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space. |
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- Use UTF-8 in the console. |
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- Remove redundant parts of init-accounts. |
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- Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse. |
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- Require diald. |
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- Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service. |
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- Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service. |
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- Fix the way '.' works in bash. |
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- rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret). |
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- Always define InternalInterface NICBonding. |
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- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk. |
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- Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items. |
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- Remove modprobe stuff. |
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- Don't be as agressive on rate limiting. |
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- Change syslog templates to rsyslog. |
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- Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized. |
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- Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server. |
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- Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary. |
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- Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected |
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ibay. |
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- Correctly display accented letters in the console. |
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- Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre. |
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- Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user. |
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- Ignore mysql.event table. |
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- Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables. |
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- Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables. |
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- Increase memory limit for ntp. |
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- Make rsyslog listen to our socket. |
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- Remove rc.quota_create. |
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- the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf. |
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- Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr |
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directive. |
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- Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the |
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radiusclient configuration file.. |
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- Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers. |
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- Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4. |
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- Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth. |
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- Renew donation text and add donation graphic. |
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- Fix /etc/system-release. |
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- Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version. |
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- Change order of mail options in check4updates. |
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- Change wording of Software Update button. |
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General features |
General features |
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- Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates |
- Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.2 2013/09/28 19:26:06 wellsi Exp $ |
$Id: README.txt,v 1.3 2013/10/05 05:06:26 wellsi Exp $ |
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