SME Server 8

Status: Beta

SME Server Version 8 will be the next major version of SME Server, and will involve upgrading the base to CentOS 5. We are just in the early stages of development, but so far things look good. SME Server 8.0beta2 is based on CentOS 5.2.

See the Release Announcement for Beta2.

A copy of the CD image can be downloaded here.

Testing Team

Here are a list of the Testing Team for this release.

Coordinator

• Gavin Weight

Members

• Craig Jensen (~10 hrs a week)
• Brian Read (~2-3 hours per week)
• Cactus (~5 hours per week, or as long as the Miss can miss me ;-) )
• Nenonano (~2-3 hours per week)
• Kruhm (~2-3 hours per week)
• Ed Form (~10-12 hours per week)
• TechnologyWise team (8-10 hrs per week)
• VIP-ire (2-3 hours per week)

Considerations before installing

Please, please any issues report to our bug tracker under the SME Server 8 section (especially with SME Server 8.0beta1 as this is an early beta release). This way all problems can be fixed as quickly, early and efficiently as possible by the development team.

	Note:
	Since SME Server 8.0 is still beta no contribs will be released. Once the Release Candidate status is reached contribs will be released for contrib owners to check if their packages need updating.

Upgrade paths

CD

Upgrading from CD should work fine. If not file a bug here .

Yum

The repositories for SME 8 have not been enabled. You can't update with yum for now.

Problems and bugs

If you have any bug issues with upgrading please open a new SME Server 8.x file a bug here

Major Changes

• CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 will not work on i586 hardware. See bugzilla:2845. i586 hardware means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, Athlon XP and later.