This upgrade, as all the others since SME server 7 came out have been,
was a breeze.
I have an SME server at work and home, and they have been most reliable.
Jim
David Guest wrote:
In case you missed this elsewhere.
yum update at the command line works for me. :-)
David
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [devinfo] SME Server 7.2 Release Announcement
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:44:37 +0100
From: I Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SME Server 7.2 Release Announcement
===================================
July 22 2007
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of
SME Server 7.2. This release is based on CentOS 4.5 and all packages
have been updated to the latest releases.
This release contains many new features, all released updates for
SME Server 7.1 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades
will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line.
All users should upgrade to this release.
The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download
Please report any issues with the SME Server to the bug tracker,
and only there:
http://bugs.contribs.org/
Please Note
-----------
At the time of the release planetmirror is out of sync and should
not be used. This is being worked on currently.
Also the official ISO is now in /releases/7/iso/i386 and not
in /releases/7/iso
Thanks
------
The development team would like to thank all of those involved in
this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the
current level of support. More people are required to help with
bug triage and verification testing.
Upgrades
========
- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
- An upgrade will preserve the existing data
Changes in this release
=======================
Virus/Spam Scanning
-------------------
- The FuzzyOCR spamassassin plugin has been enabled to detect image spam
- An X-Virus-Checked header is now added to mail when it is virus scanned
- sa-update is now run daily to download the latest SpamAssassin rules
- The "freshclam: Update failed" mail now shows the recent history of
the freshclam update process
- The mail server now defers delivery if clamd is unavailable
- Clamd and spamassassin have been updated to the latest releases
Other mail system changes
-------------------------
- Attempts to mail to invalid users now show "Relaying denied"
instead of "Invalid recipient"
- The qpsmtpd "terse" log plugin is now used, which results in a single
line summarising each mail
- The qplogsumm.pl tool has been added, which generates mail system
plugin statistics in /var/log/qpsmtpd/state
- The DNS blacklist plugin would occasionally return "False positive"
results for multiple overlapping requests. This has been corrected.
- It is now possible to tune the memory limit for qpsmtpd
- Disclaimer plugin added to allow footers in internal to external mails
Disk redundancy
---------------
- The default disk layout has changed. A hot spare drive is
automatically created if the system has more than two drives.
A new boot option "nospare" has been added if you are certain that
you do not want to create the spare. You should only use this option
if you are aware of the consequences of running without a hot spare.
- Errors from add_drive_to_raid are now displayed in the console
- Adding drives with invalid partition tables now works without a reboot
- Attempts to manually add RAID devices to systems without RAID shows
an error
Remote Access
-------------
- It is now possible to set the TCP port for SSH sessions from the
Remote Access panel. Note: Changing this port affects SSH, SFTP and SCP
- Issues with SFTP remote access have been corrected
- Users can be assigned fixed IP addresses with PPTP
db accounts setprop fredfrog PPTPIP 192.168.1.5
signal-event remoteaccess-update
- The PPTP link timeout has been increased to better handle unreliable
links
- PPTP has been upgraded to the latest release
Backups
-------
- USB backup and restore has been added to the console on a fresh install
- The tape reminder mail can now be sent to a user other than admin
config setprop backup reminderEmail fredfrog
- Backup to desktop no longer affects the BackupType set for tape backups
- Restores of MySQL databases with binary 'blobs' up to 16MB are now
supported by default (previous was 1MB). To change the setting:
config setprop mysqld MaxAllowedPacket 20MB
Localisation
------------
- Swedish translations have been added
- The Spanish translations have been updated
- The online manual link now points to the manual in the chosen browser
language, if such a manual exists
- The en-au and en-nz browser languages are now supported
Software Installer
------------------
- The pacific.net.au mirror has been added as a mirror location. Many
thanks to all of our mirrors.
- It is possible to limit visibility of updates to specific patterns or
repositories (see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2416 for
details)
Webmail
-------
- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions
Console
-------
- Further validation has been added for the Gateway IP to ensure that
it is on the same network as the External IP address
Server manager
--------------
- The new session-based login to the server-manager now works correctly
on servers where port 80 is blocked
- The user-password panel now correctly enforces the user password policy
- I-bay assignment when a name appears in Domains and Hostnames and
Addresses
now gives preference to the domain setting
UPS
---
- More template options are available to support more UPS models
(see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2791 for details)
Other fixes and updates
-----------------------
- Many changes have been made in preparation for migration to CentOS5
- We are now using the CentOS 4 php-pear modules instead of our own
builds
- runit was upgraded to the latest release
- The runsvctrl command has been replaced by the much simpler 'sv'
command
- The server-only firewall code now respects UDPPort configuration
settings
- The "use client driver" setting in smb.conf was corrected
- An apostrophe in the last name caused aliases to be undeletable
- The hostnames description on the Hostnames and Addresses page was
corrected
- Some log warnings from FormMagick were removed
- Unused openldap PID files are no longer created
- Various minor text corrections to the console
- The version number has been removed from the installer splash screen
- It is no longer possible to quit form the initial configuration wizard
before configuring the system
- The radius templates have been reorganised to simplify extension
- The templates.metadata settings can now be provided by a directory
of files
- templates.metadata now provides an option to delete unwanted expansions
- The /etc/pam.d/login fragments have been corrected
- The gauge console widget now allows the --clear action to be optional
- The e-smith-service wrapper initscript filename match has been
tightened
- Empty dnscache forwarder entries are ignored
- The CD no longer says "DVD" in the media check screen
- Many old dungog contribs were incompatible, untested or replaced with
SME Server 7.x features. These packages are now automatically removed
on upgrades
General features
================
- Based on CentOS 4.5 and all available updates
Ian Wells, on behalf of the SME Server development team.
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