SME10 Roadmap

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Work in progress

This page provides the roadmap objectives and status updates for SME Server version 9.1


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

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