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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 9.1 which is based on CentOS 6.7
SME Server 9.1 which is based on CentOS 6.7 [http://lists.contribs.org/pipermail/updatesannounce/2015-December/000436.html Full Release Notes]
Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved
themselves with this release.
themselves with this release.
===Installing===
[[SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter4|Hardware requirements]]
[[SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter5|Installation procedure]]
===Upgrading===
===Upgrading===
Even if possible and tested the yum upgrade must be performed only with stable internet connections and, preferably, not remotely. Loosing connection may leave your system in an unknown state.
Even if possible and tested the yum upgrade must be performed only with stable internet connections and, preferably, not remotely. Loosing connection may leave your system in an unknown state.
Check for known issues, here [[SME9.0 QA]] and at open bugs for SME 9 in bugzilla.
Check for known issues, here [[Dashboard#tab=SME_Server_9_1|Dashboard]] and at open bugs for SME 9 in bugzilla.
====Check for contrib packages that may need upgrading====
====Check for contrib packages that may need upgrading====
The network interface code has been reworked to remove all hardcoding
The network interface code has been reworked to remove all hardcoding
relating to eth0 and eth1.
relating to eth0 and eth1.
===Major changes in this release===
Added functionality to use a Dummy NIC for the internal interface.
Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager.
Disable SSLv3.
Added Windows 10 support for SME Domain.
====Changes in this release====
====Changes in this release====
Only the changes since SME Server 9.0 are listed, mainly
autogenerated from the changelogs.
autogenerated from the changelogs. A more human readable version will be
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are
not included.
not included.
Backups
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- dar new upstream version
- dar add pkgconfig
- The mountpoint is tested before attempting the console backup
- Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
- Change the sub checkMount() to findmnt Ian Wells <esmith@wellsi.com>
- Add requires nfs-utils
- The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
- Don't remove the apache group during restore
File Server
- Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default in line with console backup.
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- The samba performance registry is now added in the win10samba.reg
- Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results from CGI.pm.
- Fix samba audit parameters
Patch from Jorge Gonzalez
- Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed when using dar 2.4.
Replace syslog template to rsyslog so samba audits are logged in the correct
file
- Simplify the workstation backup report.
Corrected typo in patch of bad character '“', relative to roaming profile
e-smith-samba-2.4.0.bz9038.W10_registry.patch
- Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1.
Roaming profiles follow Windows version (.V2,.V3,.V4,.V5)
added W10 support to SME Domain
- Update the text in the Backup panel.
e-smith-samba-2.4.0.bz9038.W10_registry.patch
- Added e-smith-samba-2.4.0.bz9048.RoamingProfileForW8.patch
- Allow more time for cifs mounts before reporting errors.
Modified the registry file for roaming profile with W8
Roaming profiles follow Windows version (.V2,.V3,.V4,.V5)
- Dar updated to 2.4.10.
- Add dependency on perl(Crypt::Cracklib), needed for ftpasswd --use-cracklib
Add -utils subpackage for support tools (#1258440), using a sub-package to
- Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
ensure that the main package does not require perl
Update ftpasswd to version from proftpd 1.3.5a for additional functionality
- Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
(SHA passwords, locking and unlocking of accounts)
- Refactor directory tree creation and removal.
- Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.
- Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
- Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
- Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
- Remove the "swap interface" feature.
- Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.
- Require diald.
- Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.
- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.
- Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.
- Correct offest in runlevel7 patch to avoid .orig file
LDAP
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- Remove size limit for search result
- Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be
parsed
- Symlink /etc/init.d/ldap to /usr/bin/sv
- Chown all DB files to ldap before staring slapd
- Set checkpoint in slapd.conf instead of DB_CONFIG
- Stop ldap on shutdown (rc0 and rc6)
- Don't overwrite the ldif dump if slapcat's output is empty
(code from Charlie Brady)
- Run db_recover on startup
- Don't wipe LDAP DB when the ldif dump is empty
- Remove CentOS Branding patch
Localisation
------------
- apply locale smeserver-locale-2.4.0-locale-2015-07-12.patch
- apply locale smeserver-locale-2.4.0-locale-2015-07-01.patch
- apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle
- apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle
- Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files
Mail Server
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- ClamAV Updated to release 0.98.7
- Remove the patch e-smith-email-5.4.0-UEsDBBQDAAAIA-new-signature.patch
- Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : UEsDBBQDAAAIA
- Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & ZIPV3
- Disable fips mode on stunnel
- Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS
- Revert forcing TLSv1 patch as it breaks some inbound delivery
- Revert whitelist_soft dnsbl as it hasn't been verified yet and we need to
push the fix for TLSv1
- Modify whitelist_soft transaction to interact with dnsbl filter
by John Crisp <jcrisp@safeandsoundit.co.uk>
- Force usage of TLSv1
- Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98
- Allow custom passdb args
- allow IP relayclient stored by DB
Code from Stefano ZAmboni <zamboni@mind-at-work.it>
& Charlie Brady <charlieb-contribs-bugzilla@budge.apana.org.au>
- allow IP relayclient stored by DB
Code from Stefano ZAmboni <zamboni@mind-at-work.it>
- Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
Server manager
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- fix gzfile accept paths with NUL character #1213407
- fix patch for CVE-2015-4024
- fix more functions accept paths with NUL character #1213407
- soap: missing fix for #1222538 and #1204868
- core: fix multipart/form-data request can use excessive
amount of CPU usage CVE-2015-4024
- fix various functions accept paths with NUL character
CVE-2015-4026, #1213407
- ftp: fix integer overflow leading to heap overflow when
reading FTP file listing CVE-2015-4022
- phar: fix buffer over-read in metadata parsing CVE-2015-2783
- phar: invalid pointer free() in phar_tar_process_metadata()
CVE-2015-3307
- phar: fix buffer overflow in phar_set_inode() CVE-2015-3329
- phar: fix memory corruption in phar_parse_tarfile caused by
empty entry file name CVE-2015-4021
- soap: more fix type confusion through unserialize #1222538
- soap: more fix type confusion through unserialize #1204868
- core: fix double in zend_ts_hash_graceful_destroy CVE-2014-9425
- core: fix use-after-free in unserialize CVE-2015-2787
- exif: fix free on unitialized pointer CVE-2015-0232
- gd: fix buffer read overflow in gd_gif.c CVE-2014-9709
- date: fix use after free vulnerability in unserialize CVE-2015-0273
- enchant: fix heap buffer overflow in enchant_broker_request_dict
CVE-2014-9705
- phar: use after free in phar_object.c CVE-2015-2301
- soap: fix type confusion through unserialize
- fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710
- xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668
- core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669
- exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670
- spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object
change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
- spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670
- gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm.
CVE-2014-2497
- fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in
cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587
- core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT
record parsing. CVE-2014-3597
- core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721
- date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712
- core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing.
CVE-2014-4049
- core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type
confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515
- fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270
- fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type
rules. CVE-2014-1943
- fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571
- fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479
- fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480
- fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping
DoS. CVE-2014-0237
- fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite
loop. CVE-2014-0238
- add php_get_module_initialized internal function (#1053301)
- soap: fixRFC2616 transgression (#1045019)
- fix static calling in non-static method (#953786)
- fix autoload called from closing session (#954027)
- drop unneeded part of CVE-2006-724.patch and fileinfo.patch
extension not provided or git binary patches (#1064027)
- odbc: fix incompatible pointer type (#1053982)
- mysqli: fix possible segfault in mysqli_stmt::bind_result
php bug 66762 (#1069167)
- mysql: fix php_mysql_fetch_hash writes long value into int
php bug 52636 (#1054953)
- Move support.pl from e-smith-base to smeserver-support
Web Server
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- DIsable SSLv3
- Revert CRIME mitigation patch, as it's not needed
- Mitigate CVE-2012-4929
- Turn SSLEngine on in the SSL vhost (ProxyPassVirtualHosts)
- Remove obsolete gpc_order setting from php.ini.
- Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command
- Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse
- The console license page now uses dialog's textbox.
Other fixes and updates
-----------------------
- Update /etc/mime.types templates
- Use sha256 algorithm for signature of SSL cert.
- Added new createlinks function event_templates event_actions event_services
- Don't claim to own /sbin and /sbin/e-smith
- display variable name in the server-manager $domainName, $domainDesc $domain
- Revert the upload_tmp_folder patch as it needs some more work
- Add dummy NIC support as InternalInterface
- Only fire the ip-change event when IP is assigned to WAN nic
(Code by Charlie Brady and John Crisp)
- Only reset service access when switching to or from private server mode
(Code by Charlie Brady)
- When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected
answer to NO
- Added a comment to specify the real configuration file of dhcpd
- Modified the patch of daniel e-smith-base-5.6.0-ensure_apache_alias_www.patch
- Ensure www group exists and that apache is an alias of www
- Check where running runlevel 4, not 7 in service wrapper
- Correctly update NIC configuration on single NIC systems
- Symlink udev-post service in rc7
- Fix PPPoE after a post-upgrade
- Remove dependency on microcode_ctl
- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays, by Mark Casey
- Don't claim to own /sbin and /sbin/e-smith
- Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command
Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse
- the folder /tmp is created by the event init-ibays
- the event ibay-modify create/chown/chmod the folder /tmp
- Add an upload_tmp_folder setting by db command
Thanks to Michael McCarn and Jean-philippe Pialasse
- Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain
- Perl::critic syntax modifications
- Add more PHP options to ibays only by db commands
- Add SSLRequireSSL to ibays when SSL is set to enabled
- Allow the admin upsd in /etc/hosts.allow
- Creation Admin Privilege for use of upscmd & upsrw
- Remove obsolete directives {allowfrom}
- Access property created (default value is 'localhost')
- Remove obsolete directives {ACL,ACCEPT,REJECT} and switch to LISTEN
in /etc/ups/upsd.conf
- Allow NUT in /etc/hosts.allow and in /etc/services
Code change from Daniel B.<daniel@firewall-services.com>
- Revert the patch e-smith-tinydns-2.4.0_add_hostname_following_dhcpdleases_hostname.patch
- Duplicate hostnames with different IP are not used, a warn in log is printed
- The server hostname can not be used by a dhcp client, a warning in log is printed
- Changed the name of /tmp/dhcpd.leases to /tmp/tmpdhcpd.leases
when the dhcpd lease is modified
- Do template-expand of /var/service/tinydns/root/data
- Do sigus1 of dhcp-dns & dnscache
- Forked DHCPparse for parsing the end of lease and remove old entry of dnscache
- Require perl-Text-DHCPparse removed
- Timestamp added in tinydns, the entry in dnscache is cleared when the lease is over
- Add new feature 'Parse dhcpd.leases and feed to tinydns'
- e-smith-tinydns-2.4.0_add_hostname_following_dhcpdleases_hostname.patch
made from the solution of Stefano Zamboni
- Make slapd service an alias for ldap
- Switched to sysvinit from systemd (it's rhel-6)
- Fixed license tag Related: rhbz#632853
- pptpd New version
- Dropped pppd-unbundle patch (upstreamed)
- Various fixes according to Fedora review Related: rhbz#632853
- Modified for Fedora Resolves: rhbz#632853
- Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252
- Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of the
CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes.
- Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS.
- Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message
generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix
regression).
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
- Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946)
- Update runit to 2.1.2
- Remove now uneeded obsolete directives
- Remove openssl from the Exclude list of centos repo
- Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates
- Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository
- Move protected package list to the correct location
- Ensure console is run with taint checking.
====General features====
- Based on CentOS 6.7 and all available updates
====Known issues====
===General features===
* It can happen that during installation or after changing network interfaces, they appear in reverse order to the system, leaving the network (LAN/WAN) non functional. This has been fixed.
* It can happen that during installation or after changing network interfaces, they appear in reverse order to the system, leaving the network (LAN/WAN) non functional. This has been fixed.
Fixed in e-smith-base-5.6.0-10
Fixed in e-smith-base-5.6.0-10
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