SME11 Roadmap

Work in progress

This page provides the roadmap objectives and status updates for SME Server version 11

Wishlist

A selection of improvements and or additions to SME Server 11 has to be made from the wishlist

Current suggestions:

• SME Server 11 is to be considered a MAJOR update
• SME Server 11 based on upstream Rocky 8
• Updated Horde Framework, ease switching to an alternate webmail
• 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
• MariaDB
• switch from yum to dnf
• deal with modularity and dnf
• systemd improvement and removal of last runit/daemontool scripts
• Move server manager to Mojolicious
• Facilitate Integrator Customization SME10_Integrator_Customization
• 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

• 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
• 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/SME11Changes

Build Base Packages and missing deps

Upstream repos

upstream repo are :

• Rocky 8 BaseOS, AppStream, PowerTools
• remi 8 safe
• epel 8
• openfusion 8 (missing arm)

State of the builds

see https://bugs.koozali.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12424

and Sme11BuildQueue

Pre-Alpha

Development has been performed using Rocky 8 minimal and rebuild packages from SME 10.0 and any other needed repo.

SME 11 Alpha 1

• Status: TBD

Goal for next release

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

"Well done guys, no more open bugs!"