SME10 Roadmap

Work in progress

This page provides the roadmap objectives and status updates for SME Server version 10

Wishlist

A selection of improvements and or additions to SME Server 10 has to be made from the wishist

Current suggestions:

• SME Server 10 is to be considered a MAJOR update
• SME Server 10 based on upstream Centos 7
• Updated Horde Framework to 5.2
• Improved Samba 4 support
• Improvements to Backup and Restore

• encrypted backup (for cloud purpose and others)

• Updated packages to latest releases at the time of ISO release
• new version of qpsmtpd 0.96
• MySQL replaced with MariaDB
• systemd as the default init
• The boot loader is now grub2
• Move server manager to Mojolicious
• ibays

• merger ibays with Shared folders Bugzilla:9568
• The contrib Shared folder offers many new features which enhance a lot the file sharing. We will be winners if we can have this contrib in the sme core
• finish tmp folder integration Bugzilla:9568
• better integration of php and httpd setting per ibay Bugzilla

• Cloud awareness

• Market development and usage of services and software are changing quickly. One of them being 'Cloud' and all xaaS related services
• Being able to deploy SME Server as a Virtual Machine (VPS) in ServerGateway mode with an ISP that only offers 1 Network interface
• Patch available, Proof of concept applied on production servers Bugzilla:7200
• ease backup to cloud Bugzilla:9517

• SSL Certificates

• integrate Let'sencrypt certificates Bugzilla:8676 Bugzilla:9196
• redesign apache configuration to handle SNI Bugzilla:1775 Bugzilla:8693
• panel for certificates Bugzilla:9196 Bugzilla:8185

• MTA to MTA delivery

• implement encrypted sending of emails Bugzilla:9349
• find a way to adapt to new smarthosts Bugzilla:9050

see all final changes on : https://wiki.contribs.org/SME10Changes

Pre-Alpha

Development has beend performed using COS7 minimal and rebuild packages from SME 9.0 and any other needed repo.

Create SME 10 packages

• Build all SME Server packages on COS7, see Sme10BuildQueue
• Cleanup SME 10 packages
• Import package into SME10

status: completed on 2016-03-18

SME 10 Alpha 1

Status: completed on 18-03-2016

Goal

• first iso with limited hardware support for install
• horde webmail excluded of iso because of anaconda conflicts
• functional systemd integration
• bootloader

SME 10 Alpha 2

Status: completed 09-08-2016

Goal

• improve installation process of the iso
• Koozali branding
• Hoirde back on the anaconda install
• few improvements and fixes see release

SME 10 Alpha 3

Status: WIP

• Please add bug references to be able to track status and progress.

Goal

• improve anaconda integration
• SSL management
• multiple SSL certificate compatibility
• free SSL certificate integration
• Samba 4 integration
• fix proxy
• fix backup/restore issues
• startup process and config db tidying
• Horde consolidation
• qpsmtpd 0.96 verification of the integration
• fix to prevent qmail and qpsmtpd to loop

Difficulties encountered during update from previous versions

you might encounter an error for a missing key for REMI rpms.

Public key for php-pear-1.10.3-1.el7.remi.noarch.rpm is not installed

solution: pick one of those:

yum update smeserver-yum --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing -y
signal-event yum-update
yum update --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

alternatively you could

yum update --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing --exclude=php-pear
signal-event yum-update
yum update --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

or

yum update --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing --nogpgcheck