SME Server:8.0

SME Server 8.0 Release Notes

25 May 2012

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0 which is based on CentOS 5.8

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

   http://bugs.contribs.org/

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.

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

Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate.

Thanks

The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved themselves with this release.

Notes

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

	Note:
	Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8.

Major changes since beta 7

No major changes were introduced since beta 7

Major changes in beta 7

Require authentication for all emails, including local.
Optional - to use ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems (except for /boot). At the boot prompt use "ext4" or "sme ext4".

 ext4 is considered experimental, so use with caution

Optional - LDAP authentication can be enabled. Once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care.

 To enable: db configuration setprop ldap Authentication enabled

Major changes in beta 5

The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they want because of the PHP version constituted a compelling reason.

PHP 5.2.10: is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2. 5.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce.

Changes in this release

This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out by SME-associated developers since 2009 where the most recent changes to the package are dated after February 2010. The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes carried out by non-SME- associated developers; these were removed to shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are not included.

Backups

Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers
Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore
Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin for Workstation Backups
Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks.
Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file.
Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel.
Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel. Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted to only USB disks.
Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number.
Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update.
Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email.
A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables.
Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure.
Workstation Backup emails include a To: header.
Workstation Backup includes the system name and also indicates failure if applicable in the subject line of the email.
Update backup instructions in server-manager.
The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces from the hostname.
Fix removal of leading slash in storage location.
The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks.
Only define Workstation Backup temporary directory once.
Remove relocate_samba_file and all references to /etc/smbpasswd.
Improved upgrade compatibility, remove .orig
create mount point for verify
remove comment re smbpasswd being last
Fix mounting usb disks
Don't backup more than once per day
Fix full backup on Sunday diplayed as Everyday
Add more excludes for compressed filetypes
Porting Jean-Paul Leclere changes in the SME Server 7 tree to SME Server 8:
using credentials file for cifs mount
workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to bootstrap-console-save
workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day
workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before restore
workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in a full restore
Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups
Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level
Fix console backup from removable media
Fix console restore from removable media (Federico Simoncelli)
Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk

File Server

Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM)
Change separator character in general Samba configuration file.
Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays).
Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility.
Remove require strong key part of regedit file.
Backup all the samba tdb files.
Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup.
Create/remove V2 profile directories
Enable bindinterfaces by default
Set recyle bin permissions
Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to join Samba 3.x domains
Fix warnings in template expansion
Fix migrate fragments for samba
Support for netatalk - appletalk has been removed

LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental)

Create samba account during event for machine
Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP
Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account
Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership
Fix cpu critical patch missing '
LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb
Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database
Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed
Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP
Fix create user gid parameter
Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script
All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP
Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP
Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master
Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled
Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database
Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix
Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps
LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department
LDAP changes: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config
Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype
Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates
Change startup order for ldap
ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords
Add ldap as an auth type to radius
Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled)
Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups.
The LDAP information for admin was not being updated.
Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP.
Fix admin user password change (Daniel B.)
Init database if the ldif dump is empty (ie from sme8b)
revert re-init database
re-init readonly database on post-upgrade
Force SSL/TLS for remote authentication
reuse users_groups_ous.patch2
Separate groups and users with mailboxRelatedObject
Set readonly access
Fix ldap-update action script to user-lock event
Add Groups entries
Add admin user as a standard user
Add ldap-update action script to user-lock event
Add ldap authentication and tls support
Update schema for newer openldap and remove calFBurl
Convert ldif dump
Create bdb log directory
Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem

Localisation

Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
Add Chinese (Taiwan) language (zh_TW).
Add Hebrew language (he).
Fix translation of local nic string in console.
Add Thai language
Add Polish language
Add Romanian language
Add Estonian language

Mail Server

Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5

    config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr>
    config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled

Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name
Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports
Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections
Add template fragment for pyzor timeout
Remove spamd restart from bootstrap-console-save event
Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address.
Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured.
Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy.
Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary.
Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts.
Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled.
Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work
Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers.
Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors.
Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager.
Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager.
New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of mail logfiles.
Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be transparently proxied.
Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5).
Update qpsmtpd to 0.84
Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses enabled/disabled for clarity.
Fix HeloHost patch.
Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed.
Update email addresses on domain change.
Work around how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
Use HeloHost (if present) in smtp-auth-proxy.pl
Allow for changing SPAM subject tag through server-manager
Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file
Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use
Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request)
SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups
smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups
Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 as a local ip
Remove spool and log dir from package (in smeserver-qpsmtpd)
Don't create smtpd user (unused in sme)
Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM subject prefix
Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install
Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file
Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings
Only run/initialize plugins once
Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav
Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog
don't add qpsmtpd to start-up by default
add apache config file to qpsmtpd-apache package
use rpm macros for dirs
use a filelist for main package instead of a long list of files
Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log
Remove create option from logrotate configuration
Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log
Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file
Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default to yes
Obsolete e-smith-antivirus
Enable qpsmtpd RequireResolvableFromHost plugin by default, remove database entry and the database default value
Tie template fragment into event system to have it expanded
Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix
Remove FuzzyOcr
Run sa-update every two hours and check restart every hour
Redirect cron job output to logfile to avoid mail noise
Fix invalid service name in sa-update

Server manager

Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel.
Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel.
Remove empty
tag from footer template.
Only display error messages intended for admin in server-manager
Fix css validation errors.
display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes
Fix unitialized value errors in HTML.pm

Webmail and Groupware

Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5
Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional identities.
Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book.
Templated attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space.
Update to freebusy info in sources.php
Update to remove turbaContact info that SME is not using.
Change horde's templated mime_drivers.php file so some additional settings can be customized
Make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of php-pear-HTTP-Request information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7 and sme8
Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8
Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN and non-FQDN access to webmail will work.
Remove klutz template from registry.php
Template imp's mime_drivers.php file so some settings can be customized

Web Server

Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources
Disable SSLv2 by default.
make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'.
Default expose_php in php.ini to Off.
Add option to disable SSLv2
Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types
Add OpenOffice MIME Types
Add XML MIME Type
Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types

Other fixes and updates

Add MAC address into console network selection
Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel
Improve error message for quota
Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt
Initialize ExternalInterface db structure so hwaddr in console works.
Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt.
Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well.
Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only.
Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC.
Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories.
Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf.
Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup.
Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add FQDN).
Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks
Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to beinserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address.
Add validator back for ip or cname entry.
Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts
Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift.
Set the TimeZone property earlier, so templates can rely on it.
Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity.
New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration.
Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration.
Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units.
Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings.
Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3.
Handle no network interface scenario in console.
Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server.
Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+
Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules.
Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos.
Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos.
Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos.
Enable cpuspeed by default.
Fix scriplet error in e-smith-service script when service is disabled.
Allow use of CNAME in remote hosts.
Add Obsoletes for php5-cgi-{imap,ldap,mysql,pear,xmlrpc}.
Restate smartd dependency.
Fix gettext errors in WAN/LAN subnet error message
Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing
Fix eth? swapping
Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits
Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console configuration pages.
Translate $ifName in console configuration pages
Prevent IP conflicts between local and external interface in server gateway mode
Clean up: remove unused nonetworkdrivers
Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod
Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize
Add compiled python files to the packaged files list
Update path for 64-bit compatibility
Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf
adds the hwaddr parameter to probeAdapters()
Update path for 64-bit compatibility
Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids
Fix log-error detection algorithm
Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut
Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s
Enable port forwards to localhost if mode is serveronly
Adjust xml entry in locale
Add option to limit port forwards from source ip
Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line
Fix owner/perms for radius files
Fix typo in /sbin/service patch (Federico Simoncelli)
Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration database to avoid failures in post scriptlets
Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures that the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects against running "service httpd restart"
Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first
Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot
Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms
only unlink file if we created it
Import only keys not already imported
set unsaved changes in yum event
move yum warming to sme yum plugin
ensure file exists before unlinking
remove semicolons from yum plugin
Add frequency of updates toggle
Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package
Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio
Require mailx
Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed pacakges

General features

- Based on CentOS 5.8 and all available updates

$Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $

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