Re: Mitel Networks announces the availability of SME Server 6.0 unsupported developer release

Michael Herger <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:06:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.e-smith.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've got 6.0beta3 with all the updates installed. Will there be another 
update to the final version or do I have to do the install from the iso?

Thanks and regards,

Michael


> devinfo community,
>
> Mitel Networks is pleased to announce the availability of our
> SME Server 6.0 unsupported developer release from our mirror
> sites listed at:
>
>   http://www.e-smith.org/downloads/
>
> (Note that at the current moment not all of the mirrors have
> finished updating.)
[..]
> Changes from 6.0beta3 to 6.0 final
> ----------------------------------
> A big "Thank you" to all of the testers and bug reporters
>
> - Samba's two daemons, smbd and nmbd, are now under supervision such that
> they
>   will be restarted automatically if they fail for any reason.
> - A new limiting feature to inbound smtp connections has been added,
>   defaulting to 40 simultaneous connections.
> - Upgrading by performing a desktop backup, installing 6.0 and restoring
> the
>   backup broke the trust relationship between the samba server and all
>   clients. This has been fixed.
> - iptraf has been added to assist in diagnosing network-related issues.
> - An error in the firewall rules with Stealth enabled has been fixed.
> - Groups with periods or hyphens in the name were mismanaged by the Users
>   panel.
> - There was a potential vulnerability in OpenSSL.
> - If the primary language requested by the browser was not an available
>   translation, the server failed to return any of the lower priority
>   localizations, and the panel was returned with raw lexicon tags.
> - There was a potential vulnerability in mod_ssl.
> - There was a potential root exploit in proftpd.
> - The remove summary on the local networks panel had a look and feel
>   inconsistent with the other panels.
> - Upgrades to 6.0 with NICs requiring the old_tulip driver were
> mismanaged.
> - The /etc/fetchmail file was not being generated properly, resuting in a
>   failure to download mail from remote POP3 servers.
> - A potential security vulnerability in the qmail virus scanner was
> patched.
> - A potential security vulnerability in the webmail system was patched.
> - Improvements were made to the reliability of Windows file sharing
> services.
> - The success message for the domains panel is now green instead of red.
> - To prevent denial-of-service attacks, a new limiting feature to inbound
>   SMTP connections has been added, defaulting to 40 simultaneous
> connections.
> - DNS services now correctly publish virtual domains to the private
> network.
> - Using the new ability to change the content of the primary i-bay to
> another
>   ibay resulted in the inability to access the server's other i-bays as
>   sub-urls of the primary domain. This has been fixed.
> - Roaming profiles for Windows file sharing are no longer enabled by
> default.
> - Local passwords were being denied for ftp if the server was configured
> to
>   accept only local passwords. This has been fixed.
> - Other minor changes and bugfixes were made.
>



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