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.

The Koozali SME Server project

The Koozali Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit corporation that governs the open source Koozali SME Server project. Koozali SME Server is a stable, secure and easy to use/manage linux server that provides common server functionalities out of the box. Many open source contributions are available that can extend the default server functionality making Koozali SME Server an even more powerful and flexible business server solution. Thousands of Koozali SME Severs have been deployed as real or virtual servers and in the cloud to serve many small to medium enterprises, and this number is growing day by day. The Koozali SME Server is free to use but it takes a lot of effort and money to develop, make, and maintain. We therefore ask you for your considerations.

Volunteering

Koozali Foundation Inc. together with its community hosted at https://contribs.org is a collaborative effort of volunteers. You too can contribute to the development and continuity of the Koozali SME Server project as described on our volunteering page. Everybody is welcome to join the already 4000+ member contribs.org community and can contribute with any skill set.

Financial donations

You can also show your support by making financial donations. The preferred way to make financial donations is using the donate option in the forums. You are free to choose any amount and frequency, being monthly, yearly or only once. The benefit of donating through your forums account is that your forum user name will receive a badge, showing your donation status. If you do not have a forum account, you can create one, or select the below PayPal option to make your donations.

Commercial usage

Organizations that use Koozali SME Server for their business, provide professional services related to SME Server or in any other way benefit commercially from the Koozali SME Server project, are kindly requested to consider regular financial donations that reflect their business benefits.

Koozali Foundation Inc. is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received. For more information on invoicing please send a mail to treasurer@koozali.org.

Thank you for your considerations and support!

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