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==SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 Release Notes==
==SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 Release Notes==
11th April 2014
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 8.1 Release Candidate 1 which is based on CentOS 5.10
SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 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
Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
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===Download===
You can download SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 from
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/9.0beta4/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.
===About SME Server===
===About SME Server===
SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc.,
a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support
for SME Server.
for SME Server.
simply email treasurer@koozali.org
simply email treasurer@koozali.org
===Thanks and a plea for help===
===Thanks===
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
themselves with this release.
themselves with this release.
===Notes===
===Notes===
{{Note box|It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, during this time you may experience problems. You can download SME Server 8.1 from
{{Note box|msg=In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore.}}
===Changes from Beta 3===
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,
http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock
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
===Changes from Beta 2===
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 After Beta 4===
===Changes in this release===
This section will be further updated in a later release
Currently this only shows changes since SME Server 9.0 Alpha 3 and it is
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
of results from CGI.pm.
- Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed
when using dar 2.4.
- Simplify the workstation backup report.
- Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1.
- Update the text in the Backup panel.
- Allow more time for cifs mounts before reporting errors.
- Dar updated to 2.4.10.
- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after
backup.
Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results
- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
- Refactor directory tree creation and removal.
- Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.
- Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.
- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
- Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts
- Incremental backup fix.
- Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination.
Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.
- Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
- Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.
- NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.
- Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.
- Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
- Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
- Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer Microsoft OS.
- Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape
will succeed.
- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups.
- Update to the latest version of console restore.
- In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device.
- Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set.
- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed.
- Delete items from dar catalog in descending order
- Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
- Minor non-functional updates based on PerlCritic and review comments
- Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
- Move console backup to e-smith-backup
- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
- Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files
- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
- Remove migrate fragment 30vfstype
- Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is quoted to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
- Workstation Backup, Don't delete old sets, only empty them.
- Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0 when it goes out of scope.
- Workstation Backup, Mail and WOL now subroutines
- Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
- Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory, updated.
- Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results from CGI.pm
- Workstation Backup, backupname includes seconds.
- Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed when using dar 2.4
- Simplification of the time routines.
- Don't remove the apache group during restore.
- Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory.
- Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
- Allow configuration of workstation backup if no removable disk present
- Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
- Create simplified function for updating the DarCatalog
====File Server====
====File Server====
- Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.
- Remove unused pam templates.
- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file.
- Add template for wide links.
- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'.
- Add templates for max protocol.
- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons.
- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.
- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}.
- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.
- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an email to be sent to the admin every night.
- Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName
- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. Auditing is enabled via
- Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.
- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
- Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
- Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint
authentication.
- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when large numbers of local networks were configured.
- Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
- Remove 20smb as migrating from pre-SME7 is not supported
====LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental)====
- Adjust slapd ACL to change dn.subtree to dn.children.
- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
====Localisation====
- Latest translations included.
- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
====Mail Server====
- Only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
- Remove limit properties from the imaps DB entry.
- Apply process limits to dovecot.
- Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
- Latest translations included.
- Allow webmail-only-local-network.
- Fix handling of messages with no body and no trailing \n after
headers (eq was used in attempted assignment).
- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
- Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
- Simplify qmail concurrency templates.
- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods.
- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed. It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow.
- Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.
- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit}
- allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its
arguments
- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20.
- Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.
- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
- Listen on loopback if disabled.
- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
- Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.
- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd.
- Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.
- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed.
- Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).
- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2.
- Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.
- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
- Fix size_limit initialization.
- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP and SSMTP transactions
- reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it
to the arguments of the plugin if defined.
- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
- Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
- Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
- Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum message size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
- Remove Packager and Vendor from spec file.
- Revert last change.
- Sources are local, do not download them.
- Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
- Updates to release 0.98.1
- Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
- Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
- Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
- Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail
- Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
- Remove insecure ciphers
- Use stunnel-tls instead of sslio to wrap imaps service.
- Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email
- Fix whitespace in 10required_score
====Server manager====
====Server manager====
- Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
- Renew donation text in server-manager.
- Do not load mod_ssl.
- Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.
- Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
- Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.
- Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
- Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise.
- Change wording of Software Update button.
- Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is now case-insensitive for %escapes.
- Remove references to obsolete images, by Stephane de Labrusse
- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
- Fix new starter website.
- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager.
- Update location of Primary index.html.
====Webmail and Groupware====
====Webmail and Groupware====
- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
- Allow webmail-only-local-network.
- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
- Don't use SSL over loopback.
- Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
- Replace last change with a default value for horde access
- Ensure initialisation of variables in webmail-only-local-network.
====Web Server====
====Web Server====
- Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
- Force magic_quotes Off.
- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
- Remove insecure ciphers
- Change wording of Software Update button.
====Other fixes and updates====
- Add ssh-autoblock for external interface.
- Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
- Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.
- Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
- Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
- Remove the "swap interface" feature.
- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds
- Remove obsolete VLAN code.
- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
- Load the bonding module if NIC bonding is enabled.
- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
- Define the udev-post service in the DB.
- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January 2013.
- Provide the ability to restrict ibay access to http.
- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this.
- Restart rsyslog in logrotate event.
- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time.
- Set smb ServerName if unset.
- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
- Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.
- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
- Fix add_new_disk_to_raid1.
- Increase memory limit for ntpd.
- Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
- Add an audit for groups.
- Add an audit for groups.
- Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for new installations.
- 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.
- Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected
ibay.
- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.
- Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.
- Disable IPv6 on a default install.
- Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.
- Use UTF-8 in the console.
- Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.
- Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.
- Require diald.
- Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.
- Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.
- Fix the way '.' works in bash.
- rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).
- Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.
- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.
- Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.
- Remove modprobe stuff.
- Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.
- Change syslog templates to rsyslog.
- Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.
- Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.
- Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.
- Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected
ibay.
- Correctly display accented letters in the console.
- Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.
- Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.
- Ignore mysql.event table.
- Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.
- Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.
- Increase memory limit for ntp.
- Make rsyslog listen to our socket.
- Remove rc.quota_create.
- the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.
- Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr
directive.
- Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the
radiusclient configuration file..
- Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.
- Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.
- Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.
- Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.
- Change order of mail options in check4updates.
- Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.
- Remove SSH v1 legacy support.
- Support nolvm boot option.
- Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.
- nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.
- Give more time to the grub menu.
- Update installer hard drive warning.
- Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.
- Run installer in 'text' mode.
- Roll new stream to really remove obsolete images
- Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
- Move console backup to e-smith-backup
- Remove support.pl from e-smith-base and move to smeserver-support
- Console restore should reboot
- Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
- Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set
- Add restore backup as a console item for freshly installed servers
- 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 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
- Update frame header and footer
- Use mysql_upgrade in 00_restore_dumped_dbs, by Terje Edseth
- Use mysql_upgrade --force due to upgrade to MySQL 5.1
- Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
- Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
- Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports other than 443,563
- Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports other than
443,563 using db command
- Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
- Add -n 1 to the dmesg line in rc.sysinit to prevent unwanted messages
appearing on the console
- Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore.
- Correct offest in runlevel7 patch to avoid .orig file
- Remove old images.
- Remove CentOS Branding patch
- Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9
- Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files
- Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
- 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.
- Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates
===General features===
- Based on CentOS 6.5 and all available updates
