------------------------------------------------------------ SME Server V5 Release notes - Aug 22, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------ The Network Server Solutions Group of Mitel Networks is pleased to announce the availability of SME Server V5. This release includes many package updates, and some new features. This release is also available as a bundled solution with network-delivered services, SME Server V5 with ServiceLink. For more information see http://www.e-smith.com/solutions/ General - The server-software product name has changed from "e-smith Server and Gateway" to "SME Server V5" - Existing e-smith version 4 servers can be upgraded to SME Server V5 Documentation - The user manual is available in the Documentation directory of the CD image in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and Windows HTML help file (CHM) formats - The manual is also available online at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/ Installation - The user is required to accept the license conditions before installing the software. This license is also available in the LICENSE file on the CDROM Console - A new mode "Private server and gateway" has been added which allows the administrator to disable external access to HTTP, SMTP, IDENT. In this mode the server also does not respond to external ICMP ECHO requests - The "Server-only, no Internet access" option has been removed as it was redundant. This mode can be selected by choosing "Server-only" mode and then specifying a null (empty) gateway address - The Hard drive optimization screen has been removed because of reliability problems. This feature is also disabled automatically on upgrades Server manager - The appearance of the manager is changed to reflect the new product name and new corporate identity - The web manager is now accessible via SSL from all local networks - The manager may now be accessed using the URLs "https://www/server-manager/" or "http://www/server-manager/" - The user password panel may now be accessed using the URLs "https://www/user-password/" or "http://www/user-password/" - The URLs used for these features used in previous releases ("http://www/e-smith-manager" and "http://www/e-smith-password") are still supported. The https variants of these URLs are now also supported Blades - A new blades subsystem has been added to allow simplified installation and upgrade of software View log files - A new web panel has been added to allow all system log files to be viewed and searched Backup and restore - A "Verify desktop backup file" option has been added. This feature provides a list of all files contained in a desktop backup file - The desktop backup option now uses the gzipped tar format, resulting in significantly smaller backup files. Restoring from the previous format is supported - The restore from desktop backup file option executes more quickly and requires less free space on the server Remote access - The Administrative command line access over Telnet option has been removed from the manager panel. This option can still be configured in the configuration database, but is not recommended and will be removed in future releases IP Masquerading - The quake and IPSEC masquerade modules are no longer loaded by default. Masquerading of these protocols through the gateway will require command line configuration changes Third party package updates - This release is based on RedHat 7.1 and includes all relevant updates - Linux kernel 2.2.19-7.0.8 is installed. This kernel was released by RedHat, inc. as the latest update for RedHat 7.0 and has been chosen for its reliability, security and known hardware compatibility - The webmail packages has been upgraded to imp-2.2.6 and horde-1.2.6 - Openssh has been upgraded to openssh-2.9 For a detailed list of package changes, please see the CHANGES file