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1  SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 Release Notes  Koozali SME Server 9.2 Final Release Notes
2  ===================================  ===========================================
3    
4  8 November 2013  31 March 2017
5    
6  The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of  The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce
7  SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 which is based on CentOS 6.4  the release of SME Server 9.2 Final which is based on CentOS 6.8
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);
11    
12      http://bugs.contribs.org/      http://bugs.contribs.org/
13    
14  About SME Server  Download
15  ================  ========
16    
17  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium  You can download Koozali SME Server 9.2 Final from
18  enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,  http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/9.2/
19  a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support  or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
20  for SME Server.  
21    Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing,
22  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and  during this time you may experience problems.
23  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.  
24  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on  About SME Server
25  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.  ================
26    
27  As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.  SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
28  a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual  enterprises. Loozali SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
29  using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute  a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
30  within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and  for SME Server.
31  development.  
32  b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in  SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
33  the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation  is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
34  commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers  However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
35  your have in the field. Please, help the project  meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
36    
37  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.  As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.
38    
39  Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,  a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual
40  simply email treasurer@koozali.org  using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute
41    within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and
42    development.
43  Thanks  
44  ======  b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in
45    the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation
46  The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved  commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers
47  themselves with this release.  your have in the field. Please, help the project
48    
49  Notes  Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.
50  =====  
51    Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received,
52  This section will be updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 3  simply email treasurer@koozali.org
53    
54    
55  Major changes in this release  Notes
56  =============================  =====
57    
58  The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 2.  In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore.
59  It now creates the degraded RAID1 array with a single disk install.  /boot partition is always RAID 1.
60  Some, but not all,  install options are now supported.  
61    The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented.
62    
63  Changes in this release  USB installs are now supported, see:
64  =======================  http://wiki.contribs.org/Install_From_USB#SME_Server_9
65    
66  This section will be further updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 3  
67  Currently this only shows changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 and it is  Major changes in this release
68  autogenerated from the changelogs. A more human readable version will be  =============================
69  written for SME Server 9.0 Beta 3.  
70    Major Changes in this release. Updated all to Koozali branding. Server Manager - Allow access to the server-manager without SSL from the loopback, Don't redirect to http when login in/out of the server-manager from localhost. File Server - added W10 support to SME Domain. LDAP - Hook into the new ssl-update event. Mail Server - Update qpsmtpd to release 0.99.6 (including multiple plugins and ability to ebale/disable same), Allow reading SSL_version from the tls_protocols config file (and turn TLSv1 back on by default), Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter, Revert forcing TLSv1 patch as it breaks some inbound delivery, Remove karma rcpt handling, Check rua is defined before trying to parse it to prevent an error if a domain has a DMARC entry published with no rua, add support for the uribl plugin, add detailed spamassassin report headers. Web Server - Hook into the new ssl-update event, Set TLSv1 back to enabled (but keep a prop to disable it if needed). Other fixes and updates - Correctly display http URL to the server-manager in the console, Remove motd text from grub.cfg.
71    
72  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are  
73  not included.  Detailed changes in this release
74    =======================
75    
76  Backups  Only the changes since SME Server 9.1 are listed, mainly autogenerated from the changelogs.
77  -------  
78  - Dar updated to 2.4.10  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are not included.
79  - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after  
80    backup.  Text With Bug Numbers
81  - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.  Text for ISO Release Notes with Bug Numbers
82  - Refactor directory tree creation and removal.  The changelogs are written per package, and each package is assigned a group.
83  - Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.  
84  - Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.  File Server
85  - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.  
86  - Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts  e-smith-samba
87  - Incremental backup fix.  - Create V6 profile dir (for Win10 roaming profiles) [SME: 9772]
88  - Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination.  proftpd
89    Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.  - Additional tweak (to avoid null pointer dereference) for upstream bug 3868
90  - Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.  - Fix for CVE-2016-3125: usage of 1024 bit DH key even with manual parameters
91  - Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.    see (http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4230)
92  - NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.  - Also fixed related issue where only first DH param in TLSDHParamFile is used,
93  - Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.    regardless of requested keylength (http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3868)
94  - Improve text in console backup for success and failure.  - Fix SUID/SGID directory permission setting regression introduced with fix
95  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level.    for CVE-2012-6095 (#1297264)
96    Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.  - Add support for specifying TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 (#1281493)
97  - Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape will  
98    succeed.  LDAP
99    
100  File Server  e-smith-ldap
101  -----------  - Disable SSLv3, but keep the possibility to enable it again [SME: 10113]
102  - Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.  - Better default cipher suite, and honor global suite [SME: 10113]
103  - Remove unused pam templates.  - Hook into the new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
104  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.  
105  - Add template for wide links.  Localisation
106  - Add templates for max protocol.  
107  - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.  smeserver-locale
108  - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.  - apply locale 2017-03-03 patch from pootle [SME: 9592]
109  - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName  - Eliminated rpmbuild "bogus date" warnings due to inconsistent weekday,
110  - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.    by assuming the date is correct and changing the weekday.
111  - Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.  
112  - Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint  Mail Server
113    authentication.  
114  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.    clamav
115    - Update to release 0.99.2 [SME: 9489]
116  LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental)  - Add pcre-devel to BuildRequires [SME: 9151]
117  ----  e-smith-pop3
118  None  - Hook into a new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
119    - Allow setting SSL protocols from DB (and set TLSv1 back to enabled
120  Localisation    on a default install) [SME: 9175]
121  ------------  - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9169]
122  - Latest translations included.  e-smith-qmail
123    - Add possibility to exclude users or members of other groups from group
124  Mail Server    email address [SME: 9540]
125  -----------  qmail
126  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.  - Consider literal <> as null sender [SME: 9883]
127  - Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.  qpsmtpd
128  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.  - Removed Message-Id validation, as it rejects MS account validation email [SME: 9773]
129  - Simplify qmail concurrency templates.  - fix whitelist plugin to support helo with naughty rejecting at mail stage [SME: 10111]
130  - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.  - Validate domains found in uribl with Data::Validate::Domain [SME: 9499]
131  - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.  - Use eval to fetch dkim policies, prevent fatal errors in case of DNS
132  - Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.    timeout [SME: 9504]
133  - allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its  - Remove karma rcpt handling (buggy and doesn't make a lot of sense) [SME: 9502]
134    arguments  - Check rua is defined before trying to parse it to prevent an errorif a domain has a DMARC
135  - Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.    entry published with no rua [SME: 9507]
136  - Listen on loopback if disabled.  - Fix error when RCPT TO is not valid [SME: 8861]
137  - Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.  - Fix karma logic by checking negative strikes [SME: 9502]
138  - Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.  - Backport a fix for karma_tool so it can find its database [SME: 9502]
139  - Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).  - Update to 0.96 (with some backports from GIT head) [SME: 8861]
140  - Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.  - Allow reading SSL_version from the tls_protocols config file (and turn TLSv1 back on by default)
141  - Fix size_limit initialization.    [SME: 9162]
142  - reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it  - Correctly log login attempts with nulls in login name [SME: 9167]
143    to the arguments of the plugin if defined.  - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9162]
144  - Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.  qpsmtpd-plugins
145  - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.  - remove whitelist_soft [SME: 10125]
146  - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.  smeserver-clamav
147    - Disable unofficial sigs for filesystem scans [SME: 9142]
148  Server manager  smeserver-dovecot
149  --------------  - Better default cipher suite, and honor global suite [SME: 10114]
150  - Renew donation text in server-manager.  - Hook into the new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
151  - Do not load mod_ssl.  - Allow settings SSL protocols from DB (and set TLSv1 back to enabled on a default install)
152  - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.    [SME: 9175]
153  - Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.  - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9175]
154  - Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.  smeserver-qpsmtpd
155  - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.  - updated regex for SBList in smeserver-qpsmtpd-2.4.0-change_rbl_sbl_list_separator.patch to take into
156  - Change wording of Software Update button.    account list using a subdomain [SME: 10116]
157    - Eliminated rpmbuild "bogus date" warnings due to inconsistent weekday, by assuming the date is correct
158  Webmail and Groupware    and changing the weekday.
159  ---------------------    Thu May 11 2005 --> Thu May 05 2005 or Wed May 11 2005 or Thu May 12 2005 or ....
160  - Don't use SSL over loopback.    Sun Sep 25 2010 --> Sun Sep 19 2010 or Sat Sep 25 2010 or Sun Sep 26 2010 or ....
161    - Set the default helo policy to lenient [SME: 9767]
162  Web Server  - Turn SPF and DMARC rejects off by default [SME: 9654]
163  ----------  - Fix disabling DMARC reporting [SME: 9507]
164  - Force magic_quotes Off.  - Remove o and r DKIM fields as they are not standard [SME: 9506]
165    - In qpsmtpd-print-dns set DKIM options after the public key so the string will still be splitted correctly [SME: 9506]
166  Other fixes and updates  - Fix a syntax error in the qpsmtpd-print-dns script [SME: 9507]
167  -----------------------  - Remove warning about spool dir permission on startup [SME: 9511]
168  - Update the full names of users added in %pre.  - Add missing patch for DKIM signing [SME: 9506]
169  - Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.  - Add missing run time dependency on perl(DBD::SQLite) [SME: 9507]
170  - Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.  - Check SPF for inbound emails [SME: 9505]
171  - Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected  - Check DKIM for inbound emails [SME: 9504]
172    ibay.  - Check DMARC for inbound emails (based on the previous SPF and DKIM checks) [SME: 9507]
173  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.  - Store and send DMARC aggregate reports [SME: 9507]
174  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.  - Support DKIM signing for outbound emails [SME: 9506]
175  - Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.  - Use an additional badrcptto file list for external connections so local only pseudonymes work as expected [SME: 9503]
176  - Disable IPv6 on a default install.  - Enable the bogus_bounce plugin [SME: 9501]
177  - Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.  - Use the naughty plugin to defer rejections, leaving users an opportunity to authenticate [SME: 9500]
178  - Use UTF-8 in the console.  - Add support for the uribl plugin [SME: 9499]
179  - Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.  - Change separator for SBList and RBLlist from : to , [SME: 9498]
180  - Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.  - Switch to the clamdscan plugin [SME: 9497]
181  - Require diald.  - Enabe the loadcheck plugin [SME: 9508]
182  - Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.  - Add support for the karma plugin [SME: 9502]
183  - Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.  - Work with qpsmtpd 0.96 [SME: 8861]
184  - Fix the way '.' works in bash.  - Expand all ssl related conf in ssl-update [SME: 9152]
185  - rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).  - Hook into a new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
186  - Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.  - Allow setting SSL protocols from DB [SME: 9162]
187  - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.  smeserver-spamassassin
188  - Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.  - Rewrite spamd run script to add support for --allow-tell [SME: 10138]
189  - Remove modprobe stuff.  - Add X-Spam-Details header (and simplify X-Spam-Status) [SME: 9509]
190  - Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.  - Disable ipv6 support to prevent a warning during startup [SME: 9153]
191  - Change syslog templates to rsyslog.  
192  - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.  Server manager
193  - Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.  
194  - Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.  e-smith-manager
195  - Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected  - reapply patch 4
196    ibay.  - Update server-manager to Koozali branding [SME: 9678]
197  - Correctly display accented letters in the console.  - move fix to the right line to be effective [SME: 9920]
198  - Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.  - fix bad redirection parameter that might reveal session information to remote site temporarily
199  - Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.    reverting patch 4 for fast release of security fix please put it back at next release  [SME: 9920]
200  - Ignore mysql.event table.  - Update server-manager to Koozali branding [SME: 9678]
201  - Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.  - e-smith-manager-2.6.0-Koozali_manager.patch better syntax for removing Indexes option for the manager [SME: 9589]
202  - Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.  - Remove index option for manager's resources [SME: 9589]
203  - Increase memory limit for ntp.  - fix 307 redirection to http when https is used [SME: 8825]
204  - Make rsyslog listen to our socket.  - update syntaxe for TKT Auth, bump 7 for typo, corrected typo in e-smith-manager-2.4.0-  dont_rewrite_to_https_from_localhost.patch code from John H. Bennett III bennettj@johnbennettservices.com [SME: 9271]
205  - Remove rc.quota_create.  - Really don't redirect to http when login in/out of the server-manager [SME: 9163]
206  - the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.  - Don't redirect to http when login in/out of the server-manager from localhost [SME: 9163]
207  - Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr  - Allow access to the server-manager without SSL from the loopback [SME: 9163]
208    directive.  php
209  - Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the  - don't set environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header CVE-2016-5385
210    radiusclient configuration file..  - fix wrong warning in openssl_encrypt() for missing IV when IV is not required #1260315
211  - Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.  - fix segfault's when you try and allocate an SplFixedArray with size >= 9999 #1071344
212  - Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.  - segfault in php_pgsql_meta_data CVE-2015-4644 #1234434
213  - Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.  - add options to enable TLS in curl #1255920
214  - Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.  - fix segfault in gc_collect_cycles #1122681
215  - Change order of mail options in check4updates.  
216  - Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.  Webmail and Groupware
217  - Remove SSH v1 legacy support.  
218  - Support nolvm boot option.  
219  - Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.  Web Server
220  - nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.  
221  - Give more time to the grub menu.  e-smith-apache
222  - Update installer hard drive warning.  - Hook into the new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
223  - Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.  - Set TLSv1 back to enabled (but keep a prop to disable it if needed) [SME: 9154]
224  - Run installer in 'text' mode.  - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9154]
225    
226  General features  Other fixes and updates
227  ================  
228    e-smith-base
229  - Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates  - Use ip route syntax to define routes to local network [SME: 9905]
230    - Allow /32 masks on the external interface, in which case we don't
231  $Id: README.txt,v 1.4 2013/10/12 06:31:51 wellsi Exp $    check if the gateway is on the correct network) [SME: 9765]
232    - Add a column to display forwarding address [SME: 9174]
233    - Correctly display http URL to the server-manager in the console [SME: 9163]
234    - Fire ssl-update event when default cert is renewed [SME: 2257]
235    - Expand /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/pem during ssl-update [SME: 9152]
236    e-smith-devtools
237    - Quote filenames in genfilelist so filenames containing spaces are correctly
238      handled [SME: 9758]
239    e-smith-grub
240    - Remove motd text from grub.cfg [SME: 9161]
241    e-smith-hosts
242    - Allow empty comment when creating/modifying a hostname [SME: 9177]
243    e-smith-ibays
244    - Remove double / in SSL RewriteRule [SME: 9195]
245    e-smith-lib
246    - Adjust regex so adjust-service accepts sigusr1 and sigusr2 from files [SME: 9184]
247    e-smith-proxy
248    - Allow custom file descriptor limit, and set default to 4096 [SME: 9911]
249    initscripts
250    - Rebase on upstream 9.03.53-1 [SME: 9534]
251    - Roll in CentOS Branding
252    - functions: parse -d first
253    - functions: fix ignored delay in killproc
254    - netfs: only unmount loopback device mounted on top of netdev or with back-file on netdev
255    - functions: improve killing loops
256    - netfs: tweak nfs umount
257    - sysctl.conf: mention sysctl -a
258    - sysconfig.txt: document PPPOE_EXTRA and PPPD_EXTRA
259    - spec: require plymouth
260    - fix mangled sysconfig/init.s390
261    - rc.sysinit: don't perform fsck twice with /.autorelabel
262    - ifdown-eth: fix comparison
263    - ifup-eth: if arping fails, output responding MAC
264    - network-functions: fix change_resolv_conf after grep update
265    - spec: add sysctl.d dir
266    - rc.sysinit: fix typo in fs
267    - rename_devices: comments need to have a blank before them
268    - rename_device: remove comments and trailing whitespaces
269    - bonding: warn if the ifup for slave device failed
270    - clarify daemon() usage message
271    - ifdown: clean ipv4 localhost addresses
272    - ifup-post: check resolve.conf also with DNS2
273    - ifup: add missing quotes
274    - ifup-eth: some bridge options are applied later
275    - init.d/halt: give init some time to reexecute
276    - network-scripts: DEVICE and HWADRR could be quoted by apostrophe
277    - ifup-wireless: fix calling of phy_wireless_device
278    - rc.sysinit: apply quotas after system is relabeled
279    mod_auth_tkt
280    - backport to SME9 fix redirection when proxy ssl [SME: 8825]
281    - update apxs path for SME9 (sbin)
282    smeserver-release
283    - Bump for beta1 release of 9.2 [SME: 9525]
284    smeserver-support
285    - updated sources with new pictures fix hover color [SME: 9678]
286    - Koozali branding of manager [SME: 9678]
287    - Eliminated rpmbuild "bogus date" warnings due to inconsistent weekday,by assuming the date is correct and changing the weekday.
288    - Update copyright in server-manager footer [SME: 9266]
289    - Don't put motd content in /etc/redhat-release [SME: 9161]
290    smeserver-yum
291    - added centos SCLo SIG gpg rpm signing key [SME: 10102]
292      will allow to install SCL packages directly from smecontribs
293    
294    General features
295    ================
296    
297    - Based on CentOS 6.8 and all available updates
298    
299    Terry Fage
300    Compilation of release data is thanks to Ian Wells
301    On behalf of the Koozali SME Server development team


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