SME Server:7.6

SME Server 7.6 Release Announcement

May 25 2012

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 7.6. This release is based on CentOS 4.9 which is the final version of CentOS 4 and now End of Life.

This is the final ISO release for SME 7, only critical updates will be provided from now as SME 8 is now at Release Candidate status.

The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download

Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug tracker (and only there, please);

   http://bugs.contribs.org/

	Note:
	It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, during this time you may experience problems.

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	SME Server and it's community Contribs.org are a collaborative effort of volunteers. You can contribute in many ways to SME Server like described in SME Server:Volunteering, but if you lack the skills or simply want to support SME Server in a financial way you can donate money. There are two ways to donate money to SME Server.

Donate through your contribs.org forums account

The preferred way is using the Donate option (located in the menu bar) in the forums. You are free to choose the amount and you can choose to donate monthly, yearly or only once.

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About SME Server

SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium enterprises.

SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.

Thanks

The development team would like to thank all of those involved in this release. More people are required to help with bug triage and verification testing.

Upgrades

Upgrades are available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.

• Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
• An upgrade will preserve the existing data

Changes in this release

Backups

• Allow for daylight saving changes when running backups.
• Handle removable backup locations when using modern browsers.
• Backup to Workstation to handle full remote disc gracefully.
• Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
• The backup to workstation did not correctly handle network drives starting with a leading slash. The leading slash is now allowed and silently removed.

File Server

• Create .V2 profiles for Windows 7 clients.
• Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
• Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
• Fix USB fstab issue preventing automatic mount (HAL).

Installer

• Allow installation when dmraid present.

Localisation

• Add Chinese (Taiwan) language.
• Add Hebrew language.
• Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.

Mail Server

• TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
• Fix Pseudonym "local network only" to merge multiple properties.
• Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections.

Server manager

• There should be strict checking of the IP address and Subnet Mask entered into remote access panel before allowing to save successfully.
• Fix handling of double speechmarks in the comment field of the hostname panel.

Webmail and Groupware

• Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions.
• Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional identities.

Web Server

• Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
• Default expose_php to Off for security reasons. A database property is added to allow the value to be easily controlled.

 To enable expose_php   /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP On
 To disable expose_php  /sbin/e-smith/config setprop php ExposePHP Off

Other fixes and updates

• Fix group-modify event to honour ibays group assignment.
• Don't exit 99 from e-smith-service script when called with 'condrestart' and service is disabled.
• Correct the ldif file expansion for groups to include the uid element and fix the objectClass.
• Apply patch to allow rsync v3.0+ to work (needs -e parameter).
• Add random wait timer for check4updates script to distribute load on ibiblio.
• Update Clamav to latest version.
• Update yum to handle CentOS 4 moving to the vault.

Ian Wells On behalf of the SME Server Development Team