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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  26 April 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 6.9
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, Add Bug reporting template. 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 for ISO Release Notes with Bug Numbers
81  - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.  The changelogs are written per package, and each package is assigned a group.
82  - Refactor directory tree creation and removal.  
83  - Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.  File Server
84  - Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.  
85  - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.  e-smith-samba
86  - Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts  - fix outlook error code 0x8004011c when setting up and email account on a win10 computer joined to a domain (with   roaming profiles) [SME: 10106]
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 2017-03-16 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    - Set the default helo policy to lenient [SME: 9767]
158  Webmail and Groupware  - Turn SPF and DMARC rejects off by default [SME: 9654]
159  ---------------------  - Fix disabling DMARC reporting [SME: 9507]
160  - Don't use SSL over loopback.  - Remove o and r DKIM fields as they are not standard [SME: 9506]
161    - In qpsmtpd-print-dns set DKIM options after the public key so the string will still be splitted correctly [SME: 9506]
162  Web Server  - Fix a syntax error in the qpsmtpd-print-dns script [SME: 9507]
163  ----------  - Remove warning about spool dir permission on startup [SME: 9511]
164  - Force magic_quotes Off.  - Add missing patch for DKIM signing [SME: 9506]
165    - Add missing run time dependency on perl(DBD::SQLite) [SME: 9507]
166  Other fixes and updates  - Check SPF for inbound emails [SME: 9505]
167  -----------------------  - Check DKIM for inbound emails [SME: 9504]
168  - Update the full names of users added in %pre.  - Check DMARC for inbound emails (based on the previous SPF and DKIM checks) [SME: 9507]
169  - Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.  - Store and send DMARC aggregate reports [SME: 9507]
170  - Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.  - Support DKIM signing for outbound emails [SME: 9506]
171  - Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected  - Use an additional badrcptto file list for external connections so local only pseudonymes work as expected [SME: 9503]
172    ibay.  - Enable the bogus_bounce plugin [SME: 9501]
173  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.  - Use the naughty plugin to defer rejections, leaving users an opportunity to authenticate [SME: 9500]
174  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.  - Add support for the uribl plugin [SME: 9499]
175  - Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.  - Change separator for SBList and RBLlist from : to , [SME: 9498]
176  - Disable IPv6 on a default install.  - Switch to the clamdscan plugin [SME: 9497]
177  - Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.  - Enabe the loadcheck plugin [SME: 9508]
178  - Use UTF-8 in the console.  - Add support for the karma plugin [SME: 9502]
179  - Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.  - Work with qpsmtpd 0.96 [SME: 8861]
180  - Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.  - Expand all ssl related conf in ssl-update [SME: 9152]
181  - Require diald.  - Hook into a new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
182  - Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.  - Allow setting SSL protocols from DB [SME: 9162]
183  - Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.  smeserver-spamassassin
184  - Fix the way '.' works in bash.  - Rewrite spamd run script to add support for --allow-tell [SME: 10138]
185  - rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).  - Add X-Spam-Details header (and simplify X-Spam-Status) [SME: 9509]
186  - Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.  - Disable ipv6 support to prevent a warning during startup [SME: 9153]
187  - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.  
188  - Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.  Server manager
189  - Remove modprobe stuff.  
190  - Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.  e-smith-manager
191  - Change syslog templates to rsyslog.  - add a panel to ease reporting bugs [SME: 10238]
192  - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.  - fix typo in e-smith-manager-2.6.0-bz10187-emptyback.patch [SME: 10187]
193  - Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.  - avoid internal server error if empty back parameter [SME: 10187]
194  - Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.  - fix too short timeout in server-manager [SME: 10186]
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
205  - Remove rc.quota_create.  - dont_rewrite_to_https_from_localhost.patch code from John H. Bennett III bennettj@johnbennettservices.com [SME: 9271]
206  - the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.  - Really don't redirect to http when login in/out of the server-manager [SME: 9163]
207  - Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr  - Don't redirect to http when login in/out of the server-manager from localhost [SME: 9163]
208    directive.  - Allow access to the server-manager without SSL from the loopback [SME: 9163]
209  - Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the  php
210    radiusclient configuration file..  - don't set environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header CVE-2016-5385
211  - Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.  - fix wrong warning in openssl_encrypt() for missing IV when IV is not required #1260315
212  - Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.  - fix segfault's when you try and allocate an SplFixedArray with size >= 9999 #1071344
213  - Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.  - segfault in php_pgsql_meta_data CVE-2015-4644 #1234434
214  - Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.  - add options to enable TLS in curl #1255920
215  - Change order of mail options in check4updates.  - fix segfault in gc_collect_cycles #1122681
216  - Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.  
217  - Remove SSH v1 legacy support.  Webmail and Groupware
218  - Support nolvm boot option.  
219  - Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.  
220  - nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.  Web Server
221  - Give more time to the grub menu.  
222  - Update installer hard drive warning.  e-smith-apache
223  - Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.  - Hook into the new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
224  - Run installer in 'text' mode.  - Set TLSv1 back to enabled (but keep a prop to disable it if needed) [SME: 9154]
225    - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9154]
226  General features  
227  ================  Other fixes and updates
228    
229  - Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates  e-smith-base
230    - Use ip route syntax to define routes to local network [SME: 9905]
231  $Id: README.txt,v 1.4 2013/10/12 06:31:51 wellsi Exp $  - Allow /32 masks on the external interface, in which case we don't
232      check if the gateway is on the correct network) [SME: 9765]
233    - Add a column to display forwarding address [SME: 9174]
234    - Correctly display http URL to the server-manager in the console [SME: 9163]
235    - Fire ssl-update event when default cert is renewed [SME: 2257]
236    - Expand /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/pem during ssl-update [SME: 9152]
237    e-smith-devtools
238    - Quote filenames in genfilelist so filenames containing spaces are correctly
239      handled [SME: 9758]
240    e-smith-grub
241    - Remove motd text from grub.cfg [SME: 9161]
242    e-smith-hosts
243    - Allow empty comment when creating/modifying a hostname [SME: 9177]
244    e-smith-ibays
245    - Remove double / in SSL RewriteRule [SME: 9195]
246    e-smith-lib
247    - Adjust regex so adjust-service accepts sigusr1 and sigusr2 from files [SME: 9184]
248    e-smith-proxy
249    - Allow custom file descriptor limit, and set default to 4096 [SME: 9911]
250    initscripts
251    - Rebase on upstream 9.03.53-1 [SME: 9534]
252    - Roll in CentOS Branding
253    - functions: parse -d first
254    - functions: fix ignored delay in killproc
255    - netfs: only unmount loopback device mounted on top of netdev or with back-file on netdev
256    - functions: improve killing loops
257    - netfs: tweak nfs umount
258    - sysctl.conf: mention sysctl -a
259    - sysconfig.txt: document PPPOE_EXTRA and PPPD_EXTRA
260    - spec: require plymouth
261    - fix mangled sysconfig/init.s390
262    - rc.sysinit: don't perform fsck twice with /.autorelabel
263    - ifdown-eth: fix comparison
264    - ifup-eth: if arping fails, output responding MAC
265    - network-functions: fix change_resolv_conf after grep update
266    - spec: add sysctl.d dir
267    - rc.sysinit: fix typo in fs
268    - rename_devices: comments need to have a blank before them
269    - rename_device: remove comments and trailing whitespaces
270    - bonding: warn if the ifup for slave device failed
271    - clarify daemon() usage message
272    - ifdown: clean ipv4 localhost addresses
273    - ifup-post: check resolve.conf also with DNS2
274    - ifup: add missing quotes
275    - ifup-eth: some bridge options are applied later
276    - init.d/halt: give init some time to reexecute
277    - network-scripts: DEVICE and HWADRR could be quoted by apostrophe
278    - ifup-wireless: fix calling of phy_wireless_device
279    - rc.sysinit: apply quotas after system is relabeled
280    mod_auth_tkt
281    - backport to SME9 fix redirection when proxy ssl [SME: 8825]
282    - update apxs path for SME9 (sbin)
283    smeserver-release
284    - Bump for beta1 release of 9.2 [SME: 9525]
285    smeserver-support
286    - updated sources with new pictures fix hover color [SME: 9678]
287    - Koozali branding of manager [SME: 9678]
288    - Eliminated rpmbuild "bogus date" warnings due to inconsistent weekday,by assuming the date is correct and changing the weekday.
289    - Update copyright in server-manager footer [SME: 9266]
290    - Don't put motd content in /etc/redhat-release [SME: 9161]
291    smeserver-yum
292    - added centos SCLo SIG gpg rpm signing key [SME: 10102]
293      will allow to install SCL packages directly from smecontribs
294    
295    General features
296    ================
297    
298    - Based on CentOS 6.9 and all available updates
299    
300    Terry Fage
301    Compilation of release data is thanks to Ian Wells
302    On behalf of the Koozali SME Server development team


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