SME Server:10.0Beta1

Koozali SME Server 10 Beta 1 Release Notes "Justine"

These are draft only and are in a constant state of update.

18 Feb 2021

The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 10 Beta 1 which will be the next major release of SME Server. Code named "Justine"

This release is based on CentOS 7. CentOS 7.# has an EOL of 30 June 2024.

Koozali SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this release but those who can are encouraged to load the alpha to a dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase.

Some notes on Koozali SME Server 10 can be found at https://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_10.0_Development

SME10 Roadmap - Beta 1 https://wiki.contribs.org/SME10_Roadmap#SME_10_Beta_1

Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug tracker (and only there, please); https://bugs.koozali.org/

Copy of releaase notes may be found here: https://lists.contribs.org/pipermail/updatesannounce/2021-February/000475.html

Download

You can download SME Server 10 from https://mirror.koozali.org/smeserver/releases/testing/10/ or for other methods see https://wiki.koozali.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 SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.

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.

As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development.

a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and development.

b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers your have in the field. Please, help the project

Please visit https://wiki.koozali.org/Donate to donate.

Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received, simply email treasurer at koozali.org

Notes

In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore. (Remember, testing purpose only)

Single disk install no longer creates a degraded Raid1 array, Two or more disks will be created as a Raid1-6 array, see wiki https://wiki.contribs.org/Raid

The spare handling for RAID arrays is now implemented.

New Server-Manager Framework, Mojolicious, is now well on the way to full implementation

USB installs are once again fully supported Note: it is important to use proposed apps to create the boot media See: https://wiki.koozali.org/Install_From_USB

Netinstall is once again fully supported

Install to a system supporting a UEFI BIOS is also now fully supported

Console backup, and workstation backup to removable storages is now fully supported.

The work that has gone into getting SME 10 to this stage has been enormous, an attempt to list and detail the work that has been done in recent months would not do justice to the effort contributed by the following,

thank you one and all:

Jean Phillipe Pialasse Michel Begue Brian Read Catton Durbrow Chris Sansom-Ninnes Jean-pierre Odion Zsolt Vasarhelyi John Crisp

there have also been many others who have done what they can, thank you:

The changes that have been implemented to ensure the Koozali Sme Server way is fully implemented have been far reaching, far to many to try and list, suffice to say long live "Justine".

Major changes in this release This release is based on CentOS 7.#

Changes in this release See full release Notes at - https://lists.contribs.org/pipermail/updatesannounce/2021-February/000475.html