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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  Tony Keane
56  =============================  ============
57    
58  The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 2.  It is with huge sadness that we learnt the passing of Tony Keane on Friday
59  It now creates the degraded RAID1 array with a single disk install.  1st April, 2016. He was a long time user and supporters of Koozali SME Server
60  Some, but not all,  install options are now supported.  and one of the founding members of the Koozaly Foundation.
61    We dedicate this release of SME Server 9.2 to Tony.
62    Without him and a handful of others the community would not have been secured
63  Changes in this release  with the Koozali foundation and our current cluster of servers to build and
64  =======================  maintain your favourite distro. If you download and use it,
65    please remember him and his work, and that of all the other contributors
66  This section will be further updated for SME Server 9.0 Beta 3  who work tirelessly to make Koozali SME as good as it is.
67  Currently this only shows changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 and it is  
68  autogenerated from the changelogs. A more human readable version will be  We extend our thoughts and deepest sympathies to his family.
69  written for SME Server 9.0 Beta 3.  
70    
71    https://wiki.koozali.org/Tony_Keane
72  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are  
73  not included.  Notes
74    =====
75    
76  Backups  In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore.
77  -------  /boot partition is always RAID 1.
78  - Dar updated to 2.4.10  
79  - Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after  The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented.
80    backup.  
81  - Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.  USB installs are now supported, see:
82  - Refactor directory tree creation and removal.  http://wiki.contribs.org/Install_From_USB#SME_Server_9
83  - Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.  
84  - Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.  
85  - Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.  Major changes in this release
86  - Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts  =============================
87  - Incremental backup fix.  
88  - Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination.  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.
89    Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.  
90  - Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.  
91  - Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.  Detailed changes in this release
92  - NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.  =======================
93  - Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.  
94  - Improve text in console backup for success and failure.  Only the changes since SME Server 9.1 are listed, mainly autogenerated from the changelogs.
95  - Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level.  
96    Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.  Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are not included.
97  - Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape will  
98    succeed.  Text for ISO Release Notes with Bug Numbers
99    The changelogs are written per package, and each package is assigned a group.
100  File Server  
101  -----------  File Server
102  - Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.  
103  - Remove unused pam templates.  e-smith-samba
104  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.  - fix outlook error code 0x8004011c when setting up and email account on a win10 computer joined to a domain (with   roaming profiles) [SME: 10106]
105  - Add template for wide links.  - Create V6 profile dir (for Win10 roaming profiles) [SME: 9772]
106  - Add templates for max protocol.  proftpd
107  - Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.  - Additional tweak (to avoid null pointer dereference) for upstream bug 3868
108  - Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.  - Fix for CVE-2016-3125: usage of 1024 bit DH key even with manual parameters
109  - Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName    see (http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4230)
110  - Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.  - Also fixed related issue where only first DH param in TLSDHParamFile is used,
111  - Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.    regardless of requested keylength (http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3868)
112  - Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint  - Fix SUID/SGID directory permission setting regression introduced with fix
113    authentication.    for CVE-2012-6095 (#1297264)
114  - Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.    - Add support for specifying TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 (#1281493)
115    
116  LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental)  LDAP
117  ----  
118  None  e-smith-ldap
119    - Disable SSLv3, but keep the possibility to enable it again [SME: 10113]
120  Localisation  - Better default cipher suite, and honor global suite [SME: 10113]
121  ------------  - Hook into the new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
122  - Latest translations included.  
123    Localisation
124  Mail Server  
125  -----------  smeserver-locale
126  - Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.  - apply locale 2017-03-16 patch from pootle [SME: 9592]
127  - Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.  - Eliminated rpmbuild "bogus date" warnings due to inconsistent weekday,
128  - Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.    by assuming the date is correct and changing the weekday.
129  - Simplify qmail concurrency templates.  
130  - Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.  Mail Server
131  - Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.  
132  - Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.  clamav
133  - allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its  - Update to release 0.99.2 [SME: 9489]
134    arguments  - Add pcre-devel to BuildRequires [SME: 9151]
135  - Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.  e-smith-pop3
136  - Listen on loopback if disabled.  - Hook into a new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
137  - Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.  - Allow setting SSL protocols from DB (and set TLSv1 back to enabled
138  - Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.    on a default install) [SME: 9175]
139  - Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).  - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9169]
140  - Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.  e-smith-qmail
141  - Fix size_limit initialization.  - Add possibility to exclude users or members of other groups from group
142  - reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it    email address [SME: 9540]
143    to the arguments of the plugin if defined.  qmail
144  - Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.  - Consider literal <> as null sender [SME: 9883]
145  - Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.  qpsmtpd
146  - Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.  - Removed Message-Id validation, as it rejects MS account validation email [SME: 9773]
147    - fix whitelist plugin to support helo with naughty rejecting at mail stage [SME: 10111]
148  Server manager  - Validate domains found in uribl with Data::Validate::Domain [SME: 9499]
149  --------------  - Use eval to fetch dkim policies, prevent fatal errors in case of DNS
150  - Renew donation text in server-manager.    timeout [SME: 9504]
151  - Do not load mod_ssl.  - Remove karma rcpt handling (buggy and doesn't make a lot of sense) [SME: 9502]
152  - Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.  - Check rua is defined before trying to parse it to prevent an errorif a domain has a DMARC
153  - Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.    entry published with no rua [SME: 9507]
154  - Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.  - Fix error when RCPT TO is not valid [SME: 8861]
155  - Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.  - Fix karma logic by checking negative strikes [SME: 9502]
156  - Change wording of Software Update button.  - Backport a fix for karma_tool so it can find its database [SME: 9502]
157    - Update to 0.96 (with some backports from GIT head) [SME: 8861]
158  Webmail and Groupware  - Allow reading SSL_version from the tls_protocols config file (and turn TLSv1 back on by default)
159  ---------------------    [SME: 9162]
160  - Don't use SSL over loopback.  - Correctly log login attempts with nulls in login name [SME: 9167]
161    - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9162]
162  Web Server  qpsmtpd-plugins
163  ----------  - remove whitelist_soft [SME: 10125]
164  - Force magic_quotes Off.  smeserver-clamav
165    - Disable unofficial sigs for filesystem scans [SME: 9142]
166  Other fixes and updates  smeserver-dovecot
167  -----------------------  - Better default cipher suite, and honor global suite [SME: 10114]
168  - Update the full names of users added in %pre.  - Hook into the new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
169  - Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.  - Allow settings SSL protocols from DB (and set TLSv1 back to enabled on a default install)
170  - Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.    [SME: 9175]
171  - Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected  - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9175]
172    ibay.  smeserver-qpsmtpd
173  - Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.  - updated regex for SBList in smeserver-qpsmtpd-2.4.0-change_rbl_sbl_list_separator.patch to take into
174  - Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.    account list using a subdomain [SME: 10116]
175  - Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.  - Set the default helo policy to lenient [SME: 9767]
176  - Disable IPv6 on a default install.  - Turn SPF and DMARC rejects off by default [SME: 9654]
177  - Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.  - Fix disabling DMARC reporting [SME: 9507]
178  - Use UTF-8 in the console.  - Remove o and r DKIM fields as they are not standard [SME: 9506]
179  - Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.  - In qpsmtpd-print-dns set DKIM options after the public key so the string will still be splitted correctly [SME: 9506]
180  - Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.  - Fix a syntax error in the qpsmtpd-print-dns script [SME: 9507]
181  - Require diald.  - Remove warning about spool dir permission on startup [SME: 9511]
182  - Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.  - Add missing patch for DKIM signing [SME: 9506]
183  - Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.  - Add missing run time dependency on perl(DBD::SQLite) [SME: 9507]
184  - Fix the way '.' works in bash.  - Check SPF for inbound emails [SME: 9505]
185  - rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).  - Check DKIM for inbound emails [SME: 9504]
186  - Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.  - Check DMARC for inbound emails (based on the previous SPF and DKIM checks) [SME: 9507]
187  - In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.  - Store and send DMARC aggregate reports [SME: 9507]
188  - Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.  - Support DKIM signing for outbound emails [SME: 9506]
189  - Remove modprobe stuff.  - Use an additional badrcptto file list for external connections so local only pseudonymes work as expected [SME: 9503]
190  - Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.  - Enable the bogus_bounce plugin [SME: 9501]
191  - Change syslog templates to rsyslog.  - Use the naughty plugin to defer rejections, leaving users an opportunity to authenticate [SME: 9500]
192  - Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.  - Add support for the uribl plugin [SME: 9499]
193  - Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.  - Change separator for SBList and RBLlist from : to , [SME: 9498]
194  - Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.  - Switch to the clamdscan plugin [SME: 9497]
195  - Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected  - Enabe the loadcheck plugin [SME: 9508]
196    ibay.  - Add support for the karma plugin [SME: 9502]
197  - Correctly display accented letters in the console.  - Work with qpsmtpd 0.96 [SME: 8861]
198  - Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.  - Expand all ssl related conf in ssl-update [SME: 9152]
199  - Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.  - Hook into a new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
200  - Ignore mysql.event table.  - Allow setting SSL protocols from DB [SME: 9162]
201  - Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.  smeserver-spamassassin
202  - Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.  - Rewrite spamd run script to add support for --allow-tell [SME: 10138]
203  - Increase memory limit for ntp.  - Add X-Spam-Details header (and simplify X-Spam-Status) [SME: 9509]
204  - Make rsyslog listen to our socket.  - Disable ipv6 support to prevent a warning during startup [SME: 9153]
205  - Remove rc.quota_create.  
206  - the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.  Server manager
207  - Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr  
208    directive.  e-smith-manager
209  - Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the  - add a panel to ease reporting bugs [SME: 10238]
210    radiusclient configuration file..  - fix typo in e-smith-manager-2.6.0-bz10187-emptyback.patch [SME: 10187]
211  - Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.  - avoid internal server error if empty back parameter [SME: 10187]
212  - Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.  - fix too short timeout in server-manager [SME: 10186]
213  - Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.  - reapply patch 4
214  - Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.  - Update server-manager to Koozali branding [SME: 9678]
215  - Change order of mail options in check4updates.  - move fix to the right line to be effective [SME: 9920]
216  - Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.  - fix bad redirection parameter that might reveal session information to remote site temporarily
217  - Remove SSH v1 legacy support.    reverting patch 4 for fast release of security fix please put it back at next release  [SME: 9920]
218  - Support nolvm boot option.  - Update server-manager to Koozali branding [SME: 9678]
219  - Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.  - e-smith-manager-2.6.0-Koozali_manager.patch better syntax for removing Indexes option for the manager [SME: 9589]
220  - nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.  - Remove index option for manager's resources [SME: 9589]
221  - Give more time to the grub menu.  - fix 307 redirection to http when https is used [SME: 8825]
222  - Update installer hard drive warning.  - update syntaxe for TKT Auth, bump 7 for typo, corrected typo in e-smith-manager-2.4.0
223  - Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.  - dont_rewrite_to_https_from_localhost.patch code from John H. Bennett III bennettj@johnbennettservices.com [SME: 9271]
224  - Run installer in 'text' mode.  - Really don't redirect to http when login in/out of the server-manager [SME: 9163]
225    - Don't redirect to http when login in/out of the server-manager from localhost [SME: 9163]
226  General features  - Allow access to the server-manager without SSL from the loopback [SME: 9163]
227  ================  php
228    - don't set environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header CVE-2016-5385
229  - Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates  - fix wrong warning in openssl_encrypt() for missing IV when IV is not required #1260315
230    - fix segfault's when you try and allocate an SplFixedArray with size >= 9999 #1071344
231  $Id: README.txt,v 1.4 2013/10/12 06:31:51 wellsi Exp $  - segfault in php_pgsql_meta_data CVE-2015-4644 #1234434
232    - add options to enable TLS in curl #1255920
233    - fix segfault in gc_collect_cycles #1122681
234    
235    Webmail and Groupware
236    
237    
238    Web Server
239    
240    e-smith-apache
241    - Hook into the new ssl-update event [SME: 9152]
242    - Set TLSv1 back to enabled (but keep a prop to disable it if needed) [SME: 9154]
243    - Disable TLSv1 [SME: 9154]
244    
245    Other fixes and updates
246    
247    e-smith-base
248    - Use ip route syntax to define routes to local network [SME: 9905]
249    - Allow /32 masks on the external interface, in which case we don't
250      check if the gateway is on the correct network) [SME: 9765]
251    - Add a column to display forwarding address [SME: 9174]
252    - Correctly display http URL to the server-manager in the console [SME: 9163]
253    - Fire ssl-update event when default cert is renewed [SME: 2257]
254    - Expand /home/e-smith/ssl.pem/pem during ssl-update [SME: 9152]
255    e-smith-devtools
256    - Quote filenames in genfilelist so filenames containing spaces are correctly
257      handled [SME: 9758]
258    e-smith-grub
259    - Remove motd text from grub.cfg [SME: 9161]
260    e-smith-hosts
261    - Allow empty comment when creating/modifying a hostname [SME: 9177]
262    e-smith-ibays
263    - Remove double / in SSL RewriteRule [SME: 9195]
264    e-smith-lib
265    - Adjust regex so adjust-service accepts sigusr1 and sigusr2 from files [SME: 9184]
266    e-smith-proxy
267    - Allow custom file descriptor limit, and set default to 4096 [SME: 9911]
268    initscripts
269    - Rebase on upstream 9.03.53-1 [SME: 9534]
270    - Roll in CentOS Branding
271    - functions: parse -d first
272    - functions: fix ignored delay in killproc
273    - netfs: only unmount loopback device mounted on top of netdev or with back-file on netdev
274    - functions: improve killing loops
275    - netfs: tweak nfs umount
276    - sysctl.conf: mention sysctl -a
277    - sysconfig.txt: document PPPOE_EXTRA and PPPD_EXTRA
278    - spec: require plymouth
279    - fix mangled sysconfig/init.s390
280    - rc.sysinit: don't perform fsck twice with /.autorelabel
281    - ifdown-eth: fix comparison
282    - ifup-eth: if arping fails, output responding MAC
283    - network-functions: fix change_resolv_conf after grep update
284    - spec: add sysctl.d dir
285    - rc.sysinit: fix typo in fs
286    - rename_devices: comments need to have a blank before them
287    - rename_device: remove comments and trailing whitespaces
288    - bonding: warn if the ifup for slave device failed
289    - clarify daemon() usage message
290    - ifdown: clean ipv4 localhost addresses
291    - ifup-post: check resolve.conf also with DNS2
292    - ifup: add missing quotes
293    - ifup-eth: some bridge options are applied later
294    - init.d/halt: give init some time to reexecute
295    - network-scripts: DEVICE and HWADRR could be quoted by apostrophe
296    - ifup-wireless: fix calling of phy_wireless_device
297    - rc.sysinit: apply quotas after system is relabeled
298    mod_auth_tkt
299    - backport to SME9 fix redirection when proxy ssl [SME: 8825]
300    - update apxs path for SME9 (sbin)
301    smeserver-release
302    - Bump for beta1 release of 9.2 [SME: 9525]
303    smeserver-support
304    - updated sources with new pictures fix hover color [SME: 9678]
305    - Koozali branding of manager [SME: 9678]
306    - Eliminated rpmbuild "bogus date" warnings due to inconsistent weekday,by assuming the date is correct and changing the weekday.
307    - Update copyright in server-manager footer [SME: 9266]
308    - Don't put motd content in /etc/redhat-release [SME: 9161]
309    smeserver-yum
310    - added centos SCLo SIG gpg rpm signing key [SME: 10102]
311      will allow to install SCL packages directly from smecontribs
312    
313    General features
314    ================
315    
316    - Based on CentOS 6.9 and all available updates
317    
318    Terry Fage
319    Compilation of release data is thanks to Ian Wells
320    On behalf of the Koozali SME Server development team


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