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SME Server Changelog

What's new in SME Server 10.0 Alpha 1

May 30, 2016
  • Based on CentOS 7.2.1511 and all available updates.

New in SME Server 9.1 (Dec 11, 2015)

  • The latest release, SME Server 9.1, provides users with an update to the distribution's 9.x series and is based on CentOS 6.x. SME Server 9.1 introduces support for Windows 10 domains and includes OpenSSL packages from the project's upstream distribution.

New in SME Server 9.1 Beta 3 (Oct 4, 2015)

  • Backups:
  • dar new upstream version
  • dar add pkgconfig
  • Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
  • Change the sub checkMount() to findmnt Ian Wells
  • Add requires nfs-utils
  • The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start
  • Don't remove the apache group during restore
  • File Server:
  • Fix samba audit parameters Patch from Jorge Gonzalez Replace syslog template to rsyslog so samba audits are logged in the correct file
  • - The samba performance registry is now added in the win10samba.reg Corrected typo in patch of bad character '“', relative to roaming profile e-smith-samba-2.4.0.bz9038.W10_registry.patch Roaming profiles follow Windows version (.V2,.V3,.V4,.V5) added W10 support to SME Domain e-smith-samba-2.4.0.bz9038.W10_registry.patch
  • Added e-smith-samba-2.4.0.bz9048.RoamingProfileForW8.patch Modified the registry file for roaming profile with W8 Roaming profiles follow Windows version (.V2,.V3,.V4,.V5)
  • Add dependency on perl(Crypt::Cracklib), needed for ftpasswd --use-cracklib Add -utils subpackage for support tools (#1258440), using a sub-package to ensure that the main package does not require perl Update ftpasswd to version from proftpd 1.3.5a for additional functionality (SHA passwords, locking and unlocking of accounts)
  • LDAP:
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mail Server:
  • 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
  • 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 & Charlie Brady
  • allow IP relayclient stored by DB Code from Stefano ZAmboni
  • Server manager:
  • 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)
  • Web Server:
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • General features:
  • Based on CentOS 6.7 and all available updates

New in SME Server 9.0 (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Backups:
  • Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default in line with console backup.
  • Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results from CGI.pm.
  • Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed when using dar 2.4.
  • Simplify the workstation backup report.
  • Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1.
  • Update the text in the Backup panel.
  • Allow more time for cifs mounts before reporting errors.
  • Dar updated to 2.4.10.
  • Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
  • Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
  • Refactor directory tree creation and removal.
  • Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.
  • Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.
  • Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
  • Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts
  • Incremental backup fix.
  • Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination. Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.
  • Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
  • Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.
  • NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.
  • Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.
  • Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
  • Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level. Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
  • Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape will succeed.
  • Update to the latest version of console restore.
  • Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set.
  • Delete items from dar catalog in descending order
  • Minor non-functional updates based on PerlCritic and review comments
  • Move console backup to e-smith-backup
  • Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files
  • Remove migrate fragment 30vfstype
  • Workstation Backup, Don't delete old sets, only empty them.
  • Workstation Backup, Mail and WOL now subroutines
  • Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory, updated.
  • Workstation Backup, backupname includes seconds.
  • Simplification of the time routines.
  • Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory.
  • Allow configuration of workstation backup if no removable disk present
  • Create simplified function for updating the DarCatalog
  • Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
  • Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups
  • File Server:
  • Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.
  • Remove unused pam templates.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Add template for wide links.
  • Add templates for max protocol.
  • Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.
  • Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.
  • Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName
  • Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.
  • Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
  • Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint authentication.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Remove 20smb as migrating from pre-SME7 is not supported
  • LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental):
  • Adjust slapd ACL to change dn.subtree to dn.children.
  • Localisation:
  • Latest translations included.
  • Mail Server:
  • Only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
  • Remove limit properties from the imaps DB entry.
  • Apply process limits to dovecot.
  • Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
  • Allow webmail-only-local-network.
  • Fix handling of messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers (eq was used in attempted assignment).
  • Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  • Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.
  • Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
  • Simplify qmail concurrency templates.
  • Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
  • Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
  • Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.
  • allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its arguments
  • Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.
  • Listen on loopback if disabled.
  • Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.
  • Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.
  • Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).
  • Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.
  • Fix size_limit initialization.
  • reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it to the arguments of the plugin if defined.
  • Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
  • Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  • Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Remove Packager and Vendor from spec file.
  • Revert last change.
  • Sources are local, do not download them.
  • Updates to release 0.98.1
  • Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
  • Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail
  • Remove insecure ciphers
  • Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email
  • Fix whitespace in 10required_score
  • Update SBL and RBL Lists
  • Server manager:
  • Renew donation text in server-manager.
  • Do not load mod_ssl.
  • Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.
  • Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
  • Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.
  • Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
  • Change wording of Software Update button.
  • Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
  • Remove references to obsolete images, by Stephane de Labrusse
  • Fix new starter website.
  • Update location of Primary index.html.
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • Allow webmail-only-local-network.
  • Don't use SSL over loopback.
  • Replace last change with a default value for horde access
  • Ensure initialisation of variables in webmail-only-local-network.
  • Web Server:
  • Force magic_quotes Off.
  • Remove insecure ciphers
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • Add ssh-autoblock for external interface. See: http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock
  • Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.
  • Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
  • Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
  • Remove the "swap interface" feature.
  • Remove obsolete VLAN code.
  • Load the bonding module if NIC bonding is enabled.
  • Define the udev-post service in the DB.
  • Provide the ability to restrict ibay access to http.
  • Restart rsyslog in logrotate event.
  • Set smb ServerName if unset.
  • Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.
  • Fix add_new_disk_to_raid1.
  • Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
  • Add an audit for groups. See: http://wiki.contribs.org/Audit_Tools#groups-users
  • Update the full names of users added in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.
  • Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.
  • Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.
  • Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • Disable IPv6 on a default install.
  • Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.
  • Use UTF-8 in the console.
  • Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.
  • Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.
  • Require diald.
  • Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.
  • Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.
  • Fix the way '.' works in bash.
  • rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).
  • Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.
  • In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.
  • Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.
  • Remove modprobe stuff.
  • Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.
  • Change syslog templates to rsyslog.
  • Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.
  • Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.
  • Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Correctly display accented letters in the console.
  • Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.
  • Ignore mysql.event table.
  • Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.
  • Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.
  • Increase memory limit for ntp.
  • Make rsyslog listen to our socket.
  • Remove rc.quota_create.
  • the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.
  • Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr directive.
  • Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the radiusclient configuration file..
  • Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.
  • Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.
  • Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.
  • Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.
  • Change order of mail options in check4updates.
  • Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.
  • Remove SSH v1 legacy support.
  • Support nolvm boot option.
  • Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.
  • nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.
  • Give more time to the grub menu.
  • Update installer hard drive warning.
  • Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.
  • Run installer in 'text' mode.
  • Roll new stream to really remove obsolete images
  • Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
  • Move console backup to e-smith-backup
  • Remove support.pl from e-smith-base and move to smeserver-support
  • Console restore should reboot
  • Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set
  • Add restore backup as a console item for freshly installed servers
  • Non-code changes to perform_restore.pm
  • Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore
  • Remove insecure SSL ciphers
  • Add more PHP options to ibays only by db commands. See: http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration
  • Add SSLRequireSSL to ibays when SSL is set to enabled
  • Force https per ibay should not be the default for existing ibays
  • Add textbox() to console.pm, getLicenseFile to util.pm
  • Update frame header and footer
  • Use mysql_upgrade in 00_restore_dumped_dbs, by Terje Edseth
  • Use mysql_upgrade --force due to upgrade to MySQL 5.1
  • Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
  • Code by Jesper Holck
  • Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports other than 443,563 using db command. See: http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration
  • Add -n 1 to the dmesg line in rc.sysinit to prevent unwanted messages appearing on the console
  • Correct offest in runlevel7 patch to avoid .orig file
  • Remove CentOS Branding patch
  • Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files
  • Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
  • Move support.pl from e-smith-base to smeserver-support
  • The console license page now uses dialog's textbox.
  • Ensure console is run with taint checking.
  • Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
  • Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
  • Display a warning with the domain name before to remove it.
  • Move mysql logging to multilog
  • Remove the information_schema
  • Fix error with flush of xt_recent SSH connections.
  • Add option to tcpsvd to set socket keepalive.
  • General features:
  • Based on CentOS 6.5 and all available updates

New in SME Server 9.0 RC1 (May 13, 2014)

  • Backups:
  • Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default in line with console backup.
  • Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results from CGI.pm.
  • Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed when using dar 2.4.
  • Simplify the workstation backup report.
  • Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1.
  • Update the text in the Backup panel.
  • Allow more time for cifs mounts before reporting errors.
  • Dar updated to 2.4.10.
  • Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
  • Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
  • Refactor directory tree creation and removal.
  • Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.
  • Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.
  • Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
  • Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts
  • Incremental backup fix.
  • Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination. Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.
  • Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
  • Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.
  • NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.
  • Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.
  • Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
  • Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level. Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
  • Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape will succeed.
  • Update to the latest version of console restore.
  • Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set.
  • Delete items from dar catalog in descending order
  • Minor non-functional updates based on PerlCritic and review comments
  • Move console backup to e-smith-backup
  • Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files
  • Remove migrate fragment 30vfstype
  • Workstation Backup, Don't delete old sets, only empty them.
  • Workstation Backup, Mail and WOL now subroutines
  • Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory, updated.
  • Workstation Backup, backupname includes seconds.
  • Simplification of the time routines.
  • Workstation Backup, remove the need for a temporary directory.
  • Allow configuration of workstation backup if no removable disk present
  • Create simplified function for updating the DarCatalog
  • Workstation Backup, do not create folder in /
  • Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups
  • File Server:
  • Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.
  • Remove unused pam templates.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Add template for wide links.
  • Add templates for max protocol.
  • Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.
  • Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.
  • Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName
  • Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.
  • Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
  • Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint authentication.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Remove 20smb as migrating from pre-SME7 is not supported
  • LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental):
  • Adjust slapd ACL to change dn.subtree to dn.children.
  • Localisation:
  • Latest translations included.
  • Mail Server:
  • Only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
  • Remove limit properties from the imaps DB entry.
  • Apply process limits to dovecot.
  • Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
  • Allow webmail-only-local-network.
  • Fix handling of messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers (eq was used in attempted assignment).
  • Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  • Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.
  • Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
  • Simplify qmail concurrency templates.
  • Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
  • Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
  • Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.
  • allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its arguments
  • Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.
  • Listen on loopback if disabled.
  • Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.
  • Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.
  • Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).
  • Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.
  • Fix size_limit initialization.
  • reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it to the arguments of the plugin if defined.
  • Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
  • Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  • Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Remove Packager and Vendor from spec file.
  • Revert last change.
  • Sources are local, do not download them.
  • Updates to release 0.98.1
  • Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
  • Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail
  • Remove insecure ciphers
  • Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email
  • Fix whitespace in 10required_score
  • Update SBL and RBL Lists
  • Server manager:
  • Renew donation text in server-manager.
  • Do not load mod_ssl.
  • Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.
  • Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
  • Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.
  • Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
  • Change wording of Software Update button.
  • Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
  • Remove references to obsolete images, by Stephane de Labrusse
  • Fix new starter website.
  • Update location of Primary index.html.
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • Allow webmail-only-local-network.
  • Don't use SSL over loopback.
  • Replace last change with a default value for horde access
  • Ensure initialisation of variables in webmail-only-local-network.
  • Web Server:
  • Force magic_quotes Off.
  • Remove insecure ciphers
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • Add ssh-autoblock for external interface.
  • Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.
  • Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
  • Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
  • Remove the "swap interface" feature.
  • Remove obsolete VLAN code.
  • Load the bonding module if NIC bonding is enabled.
  • Define the udev-post service in the DB.
  • Provide the ability to restrict ibay access to http.
  • Restart rsyslog in logrotate event.
  • Set smb ServerName if unset.
  • Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.
  • Fix add_new_disk_to_raid1.
  • Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
  • Add an audit for groups.
  • Update the full names of users added in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.
  • Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.
  • Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.
  • Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • Disable IPv6 on a default install.
  • Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.
  • Use UTF-8 in the console.
  • Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.
  • Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.
  • Require diald.
  • Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.
  • Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.
  • Fix the way '.' works in bash.
  • rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).
  • Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.
  • In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.
  • Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.
  • Remove modprobe stuff.
  • Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.
  • Change syslog templates to rsyslog.
  • Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.
  • Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.
  • Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Correctly display accented letters in the console.
  • Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.
  • Ignore mysql.event table.
  • Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.
  • Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.
  • Increase memory limit for ntp.
  • Make rsyslog listen to our socket.
  • Remove rc.quota_create.
  • the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.
  • Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr directive.
  • Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the radiusclient configuration file..
  • Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.
  • Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.
  • Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.
  • Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.
  • Change order of mail options in check4updates.
  • Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.
  • Remove SSH v1 legacy support.
  • Support nolvm boot option.
  • Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.
  • nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.
  • Give more time to the grub menu.
  • Update installer hard drive warning.
  • Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.
  • Run installer in 'text' mode.
  • Roll new stream to really remove obsolete images
  • Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
  • Move console backup to e-smith-backup
  • Remove support.pl from e-smith-base and move to smeserver-support
  • Console restore should reboot
  • Boostrap console should only offer restore if no password set
  • Add restore backup as a console item for freshly installed servers
  • Non-code changes to perform_restore.pm
  • Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore
  • Remove insecure SSL ciphers
  • Add more PHP options to ibays only by db commands
  • Add SSLRequireSSL to ibays when SSL is set to enabled
  • Force https per ibay should not be the default for existing ibays
  • Add textbox() to console.pm, getLicenseFile to util.pm
  • Update frame header and footer
  • Use mysql_upgrade in 00_restore_dumped_dbs, by Terje Edseth
  • Use mysql_upgrade --force due to upgrade to MySQL 5.1
  • Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
  • Code by Jesper Holck
  • Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports other than 443,563 using db command
  • Codes by Ray Mitchell and Ian Wells
  • Add -n 1 to the dmesg line in rc.sysinit to prevent unwanted messages appearing on the console
  • Correct offest in runlevel7 patch to avoid .orig file
  • Remove CentOS Branding patch
  • Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files
  • Roll new stream to remove obsolete images
  • Move support.pl from e-smith-base to smeserver-support
  • The console license page now uses dialog's textbox.
  • Ensure console is run with taint checking.
  • Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
  • Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against ip allowed in dhcpd
  • Display a warning with the domain name before to remove it [SME : 8333]
  • Move mysql logging to multilog
  • Remove the information_schema
  • Fix error with flush of xt_recent SSH connections.
  • Add option to tcpsvd to set socket keepalive.
  • General features:
  • Based on CentOS 6.5 and all available updates

New in SME Server 9.0 Beta 4 (Apr 12, 2014)

  • The installer has been substantially modified in Beta 3.
  • The remaining relevant patches from SME Server 8 have been ported.
  • Note: The spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented.
  • A new feature has been introduced to block SSH login attempts, http://wiki.contribs.org/AutoBlock
  • It is set by default to reject SSH connections when there have been 3 or more requests in the previous 15 minutes.
  • See the link above to tune the defaults, or to disable: db configuration setprop sshd AutoBlock enabled signal-event remoteaccess-update

New in SME Server 8.1 (Mar 1, 2014)

  • Backups:
  • Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
  • Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
  • To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one
  • second delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer
  • Microsoft OS.
  • Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
  • In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device.
  • After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed.
  • Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
  • Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
  • Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
  • Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
  • Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is
  • quoted to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
  • Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0 when it goes out of scope.
  • Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
  • Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results from CGI.pm
  • Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed when using dar 2.4
  • Don't remove the apache group during restore.
  • Workstation Backup, suppress ctime error message on incremental backups.
  • Workstation Backup, selective restore of deleted files.
  • File Server:
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
  • New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or
  • 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'. see
  • http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS For example to enable samba Wide Links # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
  • Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons. /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
  • Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
  • Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was
  • causing an email to be sent to the admin every night.
  • Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. Auditing is enabled via # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
  • Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
  • Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
  • Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not
  • handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when large numbers of local networks were configured.
  • Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
  • Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName, and change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server
  • LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental):
  • Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was corrected.
  • Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
  • The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
  • Localisation:
  • Latest translations included.
  • Mail Server:
  • Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.1
  • Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  • Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
  • Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
  • Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP and enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. For example to remove CRAM-MD5: # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy More than one method can be removed: # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5
  • DIGEST-MD5" # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
  • Handle exceptions during attempted SASL auth. Add more debug tracing.
  • imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary
  • and was sometimes very slow.
  • The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} For example to increase the memory limit # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000 # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000 # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
  • New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
  • Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
  • Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
  • Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd.
  • New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to
  • allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. For example to also scan larger files # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
  • Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2.
  • Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate
  • to IMAP and SSMTP transactions
  • Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
  • Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  • Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum
  • message size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
  • Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
  • Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
  • Add keepalive option for tcpsvd for imap and imaps services.
  • Use stunnel-tls instead of sslio to wrap imaps service.
  • Server manager:
  • Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
  • Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
  • Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise.
  • If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL
  • processing is now case-insensitive for %escapes.
  • Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from
  • HTML.pm.
  • Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager.
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now
  • listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
  • Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
  • Allow webmail access to be selected for only the local network.
  • Web Server:
  • Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
  • Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
  • PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the
  • default is ON.
  • Change wording of Software Update button.
  • Remove insecure SSL ciphers.
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
  • Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
  • user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds
  • The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
  • On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent
  • to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
  • Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January 2013.
  • The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this.
  • Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time.
  • Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
  • Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
  • Increase memory limit for ntpd.
  • Add an audit for groups.
  • Set sme-server as the default workgroup and domain name for new installations.
  • Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
  • Prevent server being used in NTP amplification attacks.
  • Modify template to allow Squid proxy https access to ports other than 443,563
  • Add logcheck to help analyse errors in the log files.
  • Refer to removable media not CDROM in console restore.
  • Remove old images.
  • Update with ca-bundle.crt from SME 9
  • General features:
  • Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates

New in SME Server 9.0 Beta 3 (Jan 29, 2014)

  • Backups:
  • Workstation Backup, do not exclude dar files by default in line with console backup.
  • Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results from CGI.pm.
  • Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed when using dar 2.4.
  • Simplify the workstation backup report.
  • Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1.
  • Update the text in the Backup panel.
  • Allow more time for cifs mounts before reporting errors.
  • Dar updated to 2.4.10.
  • Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
  • Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
  • Refactor directory tree creation and removal.
  • Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages.
  • Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.
  • Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
  • Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts
  • Incremental backup fix.
  • Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination. Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.
  • Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
  • Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.
  • NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.
  • Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.
  • Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
  • Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level. Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
  • Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to tape will succeed.
  • File Server:
  • Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.
  • Remove unused pam templates.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Add template for wide links.
  • Add templates for max protocol.
  • Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.
  • Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.
  • Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName
  • Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.
  • Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
  • Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint authentication.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots. LDAP (Optional in SME 9.0, and considered experimental) ----
  • Adjust slapd ACL to change dn.subtree to dn.children.
  • Localisation:
  • Latest translations included.
  • Mail Server:
  • Only present one auth method at a time, in order, to NET::SMTP.
  • Remove limit properties from the imaps DB entry.
  • Apply process limits to dovecot.
  • Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
  • Allow webmail-only-local-network.
  • Fix handling of messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers (eq was used in attempted assignment).
  • Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  • Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.
  • Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
  • Simplify qmail concurrency templates.
  • Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
  • Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
  • Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.
  • allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its arguments
  • Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.
  • Listen on loopback if disabled.
  • Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.
  • Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.
  • Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).
  • Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.
  • Fix size_limit initialization.
  • reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it to the arguments of the plugin if defined.
  • Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
  • Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  • Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Server manager:
  • Renew donation text in server-manager.
  • Do not load mod_ssl.
  • Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.
  • Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
  • Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.
  • Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
  • Change wording of Software Update button.
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • Allow webmail-only-local-network.
  • Don't use SSL over loopback.
  • Web Server:
  • Force magic_quotes Off.
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • Do not hardcode NIC names to eth0 and eth1.
  • Return nic names in probeAdapters so we can drop HWAddress.
  • Remove HWAddress prop from interfaces.
  • Remove the "swap interface" feature.
  • Remove obsolete VLAN code.
  • Load the bonding module if NIC bonding is enabled.
  • Define the udev-post service in the DB.
  • Provide the ability to restrict ibay access to http.
  • Restart rsyslog in logrotate event.
  • Set smb ServerName if unset.
  • Don't reload init in bootstrap-console-save and console-save.
  • Fix add_new_disk_to_raid1.
  • Provide the ability to force https per ibay.
  • Add an audit for groups.
  • Update the full names of users added in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.
  • Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.
  • Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.
  • Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • Disable IPv6 on a default install.
  • Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.
  • Use UTF-8 in the console.
  • Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.
  • Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.
  • Require diald.
  • Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.
  • Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.
  • Fix the way '.' works in bash.
  • rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).
  • Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.
  • In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.
  • Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.
  • Remove modprobe stuff.
  • Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.
  • Change syslog templates to rsyslog.
  • Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.
  • Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.
  • Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Correctly display accented letters in the console.
  • Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.
  • Ignore mysql.event table.
  • Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.
  • Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.
  • Increase memory limit for ntp.
  • Make rsyslog listen to our socket.
  • Remove rc.quota_create.
  • the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.
  • Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr directive.
  • Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the radiusclient configuration file..
  • Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.
  • Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.
  • Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.
  • Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.
  • Change order of mail options in check4updates.
  • Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.
  • Remove SSH v1 legacy support.
  • Support nolvm boot option.
  • Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.
  • nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.
  • Give more time to the grub menu.
  • Update installer hard drive warning.
  • Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.
  • Run installer in 'text' mode.

New in SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Backups:
  • Latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup.
  • Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
  • To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one
  • second delay was added to the backup. This issue is not seen on the newer
  • Microsoft OS.
  • Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
  • In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device.
  • After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed.
  • Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
  • Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
  • Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
  • Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
  • Workstation Backup, ensure that the pathname passed to dar_manager is
  • quoted to allow backup destinations with spaces, eg some USB drives.
  • Workstation Backup, count backup sets from 1 and delete the obsolete set0 when it goes out of scope.
  • Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch
  • Workstation Backup, fix selective restore by requesting array of results from CGI.pm
  • Workstation Backup, new method to show files being restored is needed when using dar 2.4
  • File Server:
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
  • New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or
  • 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'. see
  • http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS For example to enable samba Wide Links # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
  • Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons. /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
  • Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
  • Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was
  • causing an email to be sent to the admin every night.
  • Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. Auditing is enabled via # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
  • Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
  • Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
  • Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not
  • handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when large numbers of local networks were configured.
  • Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
  • LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental):
  • Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was corrected.
  • Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
  • The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
  • Localisation:
  • Latest translations included.
  • Mail Server:
  • Updated to latest Antivirus, ClamAV, 0.98.
  • Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  • Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
  • Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
  • Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. For example to remove CRAM-MD5: # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy More than one method can be removed: # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5
  • DIGEST-MD5" # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
  • imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary
  • and was sometimes very slow.
  • The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} For example to increase the memory limit # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000 # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000 # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
  • New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
  • Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
  • Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
  • Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd.
  • New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to
  • allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. For example to also scan larger files # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
  • Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2.
  • Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate
  • to IMAP and SSMTP transactions
  • Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
  • Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  • Removed the databytes file from qpsmtpd config to honor the maximum
  • message size settings. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size
  • Include /usr/bin/refreshclam
  • Remove workarounds for how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Server manager:
  • Added donation text and graphic to login page and server-manager.
  • Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
  • Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise.
  • If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL
  • processing is now case-insensitive for %escapes.
  • Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from
  • HTML.pm.
  • Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now
  • listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
  • Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
  • Web Server:
  • Modules necessary to implement .htaccess have now been loaded by default.
  • Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
  • PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the
  • default is ON.
  • Change wording of Software Update button.
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
  • Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
  • user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds
  • The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
  • On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent
  • to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
  • Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January 2013.
  • The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this.
  • Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time.
  • Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
  • Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
  • Increase memory limit for ntpd.
  • Add an audit for groups.
  • General features:
  • Based on CentOS 5.10 and all available updates

New in SME Server 9.0 Beta 2 (Nov 11, 2013)

  • Backups:
  • Dar updated to 2.4.10
  • Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
  • Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
  • Refactor directory tree creation and removal.
  • Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in
  • messages.
  • Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.
  • Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
  • Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts
  • Incremental backup fix.
  • Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination. Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.
  • Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
  • Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.
  • NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.
  • Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.
  • Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
  • Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level. Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
  • Patch to exclude trying to backup aquota.* files so that backups to
  • tape will succeed.
  • File Server:
  • Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.
  • Remove unused pam templates.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Add template for wide links.
  • Add templates for max protocol.
  • Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.
  • Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.
  • Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName
  • Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.
  • Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
  • Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint authentication.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Localisation:
  • Latest translations included.
  • Mail Server:
  • Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  • Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.
  • Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
  • Simplify qmail concurrency templates.
  • Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
  • Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
  • Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.
  • allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its arguments
  • Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.
  • Listen on loopback if disabled.
  • Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.
  • Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.
  • Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).
  • Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.
  • Fix size_limit initialization.
  • reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it to the arguments of the plugin if defined.
  • Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
  • Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  • Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Server manager:
  • Renew donation text in server-manager.
  • Do not load mod_ssl.
  • Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.
  • Add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
  • Renew donation text and graphic in server-manager.
  • Update footer copyright and renew full copyright text.
  • Change wording of Software Update button.
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • Don't use SSL over loopback.
  • Web Server:
  • Force magic_quotes Off.
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • Update the full names of users added in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.
  • Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.
  • Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.
  • Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • Disable IPv6 on a default install.
  • Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.
  • Use UTF-8 in the console.
  • Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.
  • Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.
  • Require diald.
  • Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.
  • Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.
  • Fix the way '.' works in bash.
  • rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).
  • Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.
  • In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.
  • Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.
  • Remove modprobe stuff.
  • Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.
  • Change syslog templates to rsyslog.
  • Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.
  • Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.
  • Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Correctly display accented letters in the console.
  • Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.
  • Ignore mysql.event table.
  • Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.
  • Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.
  • Increase memory limit for ntp.
  • Make rsyslog listen to our socket.
  • Remove rc.quota_create.
  • the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.
  • Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr directive.
  • Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the radiusclient configuration file..
  • Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.
  • Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.
  • Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.
  • Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.
  • Change order of mail options in check4updates.
  • Fix parsing issues with "manage RAID" menu option in the console.
  • Remove SSH v1 legacy support.
  • Support nolvm boot option.
  • Create degraded RAID1 array with single disk install.
  • nodmraid is the default for SME 9.0 installs.
  • Give more time to the grub menu.
  • Update installer hard drive warning.
  • Customize confirmation dialogs during fresh install.
  • Run installer in 'text' mode.

New in SME Server 9.0 Beta 1 (Oct 16, 2013)

  • Backups:
  • Dar updated to 2.4.10
  • Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
  • Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success.
  • Refactor directory tree creation and removal.
  • Workstation Backup, inconsistent formatting of host share name in
  • messages.
  • Workstation Backup, more reliable catalog creation.
  • Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
  • Workstation Backup, do not access /proc/mounts
  • Incremental backup fix.
  • Workstation Backup, allow spaces in the backup destination. Includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces.
  • Desktop Backup, allow user setting of compression level.
  • Use Wake on LAN before starting Backup with DAR.
  • NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount.
  • Require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for cifs mount.
  • Improve text in console backup for success and failure.
  • Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level. Compression level of the console backup is now -6 by default.
  • File Server:
  • Also remove the empty template-begin file in pam.d/proftpd templates.
  • Remove unused pam templates.
  • Replace vfs_shadow_copy with vfs_shadow_copy2 for shadow snapshots.
  • Add template for wide links.
  • Add templates for max protocol.
  • Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login.
  • Add windows network performance enhancements registry file.
  • Update default ServerName in 30smbServerName
  • Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option.
  • Change default Workgroup and Domain to sme-server.
  • Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint authentication
  • Localisation:
  • Latest translations included.
  • Mail Server:
  • Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  • Always enable imap, listen on loopback is disabled.
  • Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
  • Simplify qmail concurrency templates.
  • Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
  • Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
  • Fix Net::DNS update breaks qpsmtpd.
  • allows the spamassassin plugin to read the size limit from its arguments
  • Move clamscan scheduling to complete before 99-raid-check.
  • Listen on loopback if disabled.
  • Fix permissions on imapd.pem as it's used by pop3s.
  • Do not obsolete bglibs, it's required for cvm.
  • Allow plaintext (unless explicitly disabled).
  • Do not obsolete cvm, it's still needed for qpsmtpd.
  • Fix size_limit initialization.
  • reads MaxMessageSize prop of spamassassin and adds it to the arguments of the plugin if defined.
  • Requires e-smith-cvm-unix-local.
  • Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  • Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Server manager:
  • Renew donation text in server-manager.
  • Do not load mod_ssl.
  • Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel.
  • add security fix for CVE-2013-4113.
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • Don't use SSL over loopback.
  • Web Server:
  • Force magic_quotes Off.
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • Update the full names of users added in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same for the users added in %pre.
  • Changed Prereq to Requires(pre) as Prereq is deprecated.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated.
  • Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB.
  • Fix group creation when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • Disable IPv6 on a default install.
  • Continue escaping control chars in rsyslog, just replace LF with space.
  • Use UTF-8 in the console.
  • Remove redundant parts of init-accounts.
  • Add_template_to_ssl.pem, codes by JP Pialasse.
  • Require diald.
  • Removal of rc.e-smith now functionality is in e-smith-service.
  • Replacement of rc.e-smith by moving code into e-smith-service.
  • Fix the way '.' works in bash.
  • rename /etc/ldap.conf to /etc/pam_ldap.conf (and same for .secret).
  • Always define InternalInterface NICBonding.
  • In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk.
  • Fix a few more syslog => rsyslog items.
  • Remove modprobe stuff.
  • Don't be as agressive on rate limiting.
  • Change syslog templates to rsyslog.
  • Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized.
  • Change System Name from mitel-networks-server to sme-server.
  • Patch to remove symlink to Primary ibay from /home/e-smith/files/primary.
  • Patch to correct issue with not being able to access a password protected ibay.
  • Correctly display accented letters in the console.
  • Add e-smith as a Requires(pre) and remove adding users in %pre.
  • Fix uid and gid to be the same in create-system-user.
  • Ignore mysql.event table.
  • Use --single-transaction in mysql-dump-tables.
  • Use mysql_upgrade instead of fix_privilege_tables.
  • Increase memory limit for ntp.
  • Make rsyslog listen to our socket.
  • Remove rc.quota_create.
  • the config file is radiusclient.conf, not radiusclient-ng.conf.
  • Add templates for radiusclient-ng.conf file to remove binaddr directive.
  • Add directive to options.pptpd so that radius plugin can find the radiusclient configuration file..
  • Fix permissions of /etc/radiusclient-ng/servers.
  • Add hack for running rc7.d script during runlevel 4.
  • Apply SME Server config file changes to pwauth.
  • Renew donation text and add donation graphic.
  • Fix /etc/system-release.
  • Fix libgomp obsoletes to not obsolete el6 version.
  • Change order of mail options in check4updates.
  • Change wording of Software Update button.
  • General features:
  • Based on CentOS 6.4 and all available updates

New in SME Server 8.1 Beta 1 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • Backups:
  • Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week.
  • To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup.
  • Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression.
  • In the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device.
  • After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed.
  • Add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup.
  • Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors.
  • Workstation Backup, be compatible with destinations that include spaces.
  • Workstation Backup, remove temporary directory on success .
  • Workstation Backup, add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup.
  • File Server:
  • Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. /server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg
  • New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'. see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS For example to enable samba Wide Links # config setprop smb WideLinks yes
  • Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons. /server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg
  • Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1
  • Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an email to be sent to the admin every night.
  • Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. Auditing is enabled via # db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled # signal-event ibay-modify ibayname
  • Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays
  • Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated
  • Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when large numbers of local networks were configured.
  • Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN
  • LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental):
  • Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled.
  • The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was corrected.
  • Add missing dependency on openldap-servers.
  • The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed.
  • Localisation:
  • Latest translations included.
  • Mail Server:
  • Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting.
  • Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments.
  • Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS.
  • Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. For example to remove CRAM-MD5: # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy More than one method can be removed: # db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" # sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy
  • imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow.
  • The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop {MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} For example to increase the memory limit # config setprop pop3s MemLimit 50000000 # expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT # config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000 # expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT
  • New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit # config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6
  • Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name.
  • Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers.
  • Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd.
  • New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. For example to also scan larger files # config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000
  • Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2.
  • Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email.
  • Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP and SSMTP transactions
  • Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8.
  • Load TextCat plugin if ok_languages is enabled.
  • Server manager:
  • Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise.
  • If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is now case-insensitive for %escapes.
  • Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm.
  • Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function.
  • Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface.
  • Web Server:
  • Disable index listing of Apache icons folder.
  • PHP's magic_quotes are deprecated so should no longer be used. The php.ini will now have "magic_quotes Off" instead of fully removing it as the default is ON.
  • Change wording of Software Update button.
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB
  • Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC.
  • user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds
  • The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb.
  • On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file.
  • Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.
  • The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in
  • servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this.
  • Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time.
  • Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures.
  • Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org
  • Increase memory limit for ntpd .
  • General features:
  • Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates

New in SME Server 7.5 (May 27, 2010)

  • Backups:
  • The backup service has been made more robust: Allow many backups in the same day. Prevent launching a restore if all needed backups are not available. Do not allow a restore from a partial backup.
  • Some valid passwords would fail due to how the backup directory was mounted, the use of a credentials file for mount.cifs now avoids this limitation.
  • The e-mail now correctly identifies incremental and full backups.
  • Make Workstation Backup 'full backup allowed on' setting stick across revisits of the Configure page when set to 'Sunday'.
  • Workstation Backup emails now include a To: header. File Server:
  • A patch was added to support multiple samba roles, the change is transparent. However installing smeserver-adv-samba allows the user to take advantage of additional server roles as detailed in http://wiki.contribs.org
  • Advanced_Samba Localisation:
  • As part of a major update with translations we have added seven new languages: Thai, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Chinese, Norwegian (Bokmal), Russian.
  • Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages.
  • Mail Server:
  • Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication capability has been added for incoming smtp ehlo requests.
  • Implement correctly the subject line SPAM tagging functionality.
  • The syntax of the smtproutes and SMTPSmartHost templates have been updated to avoid MX lookups
  • Incoming mail could be incorrectly rejected by qpsmtpd plugin require_resolvable_fromhost.
  • Update to qpsmtpd 0.83
  • Update to ClamAV 0.96.1
  • Increase MemLimit to 600M for clamav-0.96
  • Remove spamassassin jobs from cron.daily that are no longer needed.
  • HeuristicScanPrecedence is a new option in clamav 0.94. See http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Heuristic_Scan
  • Rotate Virus scanning log files
  • Remove the external preloaded library, qmail-workaround, which was needed for qmail loopback connections if a domain MX resolves to 0.0.0.0. This has now been replaced by a patch to qmail itself.
  • Use HeloHost (if present) for SMTP auth proxy
  • Server manager:
  • The reconfigure warning is displayed in subsequent browser sessions of the server-manager when the server is updated from the Command Line, or after a reboot, if a full reconfiguration has not been performed.
  • Allow to select "check for updates" daily, weekly or monthly in the Software Installer. Check for updates can also be disabled.
  • Fix yum warnings about "another instance is running" when running a second instance of yum from another terminal.
  • Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel to work in IE8.
  • Webmail and Groupware:
  • Horde, imp, turba and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
  • Patch to make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's
  • Allow FQDN and non-FQDN access to webmail.
  • The spell checker in Horde Mail has been enabled for HTML composition.
  • Obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 as it makes the sidebar menu of the webmail interface disappear.
  • Web Server:
  • Implement a database key (SSLv2) which allows to disable certificates signed with SSLv2, enabled by default to keep current behaviour.
  • Add support for more MIME Types to Apache: Openoffice 1.x, Openoffice 2.x Microsoft Office 2007 XML
  • SSL Certificates will now use a SHA1
  • SSL Certificates will now use a 2048 bits key size
  • Other fixes and updates:
  • From June 2009 smeserver-rkhunter was removed from smeos and made a contrib.
  • Do not allow re-allocation of deleted Windows user profiles.
  • Template sshd login grace time
  • Correct the configuration of smartd to monitor hard disk status, but default to disabled.
  • Display the boot time menu by default by removing the hiddenmenu entry from the default grub.conf to be in line with the documentation.
  • Enable error logging for MySQL.
  • When user or group names with a "." in the names exist, running /sbin/e-smith/audittools/aliases will show more than the expected list.
  • Improve the quality of the mirrors by using a network mirror-list. The list is automatically generated hourly based on the status of the current mirrors. By using these mirror-lists it is ensured that people are directed to an updated mirror. When a mirror is added or removed the change will be available quickly and automatically. It also centralizes control of the mirror lists.
  • Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed packages. This stops accidental removal of core SME Server packages.
  • Introduced (weak) kernel modules which are independent of kernel version. This means there is no need to update/rebuild kmods for each kernel update.
  • Fix for VPN access failed with buffer too small errors.
  • Require /sbin/mdassemble so mkinitrd works correctly.
  • Reduce drive size requirements from 5G to 1.5G

New in SME Server 7.4 (Nov 22, 2008)

  • This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes in this release are the use of dar for backups and the change to UTF-8, along with translation to six additional languages. All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. Changes: fix GRUB label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand; introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym 'visible' property; fix the ugly log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking results in 0 hits; emails sent to a null address without the username part are now rejected; support for sending mail to ISP via secure SMTP; enable the auth plugin for local LAN connections; migrate ordb.net from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing....