New Development Announcements February 2005

A list of all development that has been announced in February. Sorry for any missing items. Suggest additions to this page to docteam.

[Announcement] Mitel SME 7.0alpha3

Alpha release based on Centos 3.4
Version 7.0alpha3
Date: 25 Feb 2005 on Devinfo
More information on this Wiki Page
Contributed by: Charlie Brady / Mitel

[Update] OpenVPN 2.0_rc16-1

Version 6.0.x
Date: 23 Feb 2005
Made by Jesper Knudsen
Download loc.: http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/downloads/OpenVPN/?M=A OpenVPN HowTo

[Announcement: Update] CUPS update for CAN-2005-0206: cups-1.1.17-13.3.27.rvda.alpha.rpm

Fixed a pdftops filter patch in CUPS module incorrect for 64-bit systems. This affects Alpha CPUs, not X86
Versions SME Alpha 5.5
Date: 21 Feb 2005 at devinfo
Made by Robert van den Aker
Download loc.: http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rvandenaker/beta/e-smith-cups/
Patched issue does not affect x86.

[Update] Gallery 1.4.4-pl6

online photo gallery for SME
Version 5.5, 5.6, 6.0
Date: 20 Feb 2005
Made by Jesper Knudsen
Download loc.: http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/index.html?frame=http%3A//sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_13.htm
Updated to version 1.4.4pl6 and now taking ibay name on command line

[Announcement: Howto] How to install the MoinMoin Wiki

Versions 6.x
Date: 20 Feb 2005 at devinfo
Made by Michael P. Soulier
Download loc.: How to install the MoinMoin Wiki
Tested on 6.0. They use it on The Ottawa Python Author's Group where Michael seems to be involved if you want to get an impression how it may look like.

[Announcement: Update] Mailman contrib update to 2.1.5

The new e-smith-mailman adds a simple panel to the server manager to enable/disable the service, with updated configuration for version 2.1.5
Versions 6.x
Date: 20 Feb 2005 at devinfo
Made by Michael P. Soulier
Contributors: Shad Lords
Download loc.: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/contrib/MichaelSoulier/6.0/RPMS/
Tested on 6.0 only!

[Announcement] Add Outlook Contacts to global ldap adress book

Hack for users to add their Outlook contacts ad-hoc into the global address book using Hasan Muhammad's ldap contacts contrib.
Versions 6.x
Date: 17 Feb 2005 at Forums
Made by Christopher
Contributors: Hasan Muhammad
Download loc.: see thread
Note: You need ldap contacts contrib. As of 18. Feb. 2005: smeserver-ldap-contacts-0.3.1-01hm.rpm

[Announcement] Dungog Update-system: sme-server-update-system-1.0-2.noarch.rpm

Versions 6.0.1, 6.5b2
Date: 16 Feb 2005 at Forums
Made by Stephen Noble
Download loc.: (removed -mb)

[Announcement] Dungog Mail-blocking: dungog-mailblocking-1.1-1test.noarch.rpm (beta, under testing)

These are beta rpms. Adds server-manager web panel for adding mailfront mailrules. Allows limiting a group or user email address to nominated domains
Versions 6.5b2
Date: 16 Feb 2005 at Forums
Made by Stephen Noble
Download loc.: http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/6.5updates/

[Update] Horde Upgrade Script

It installs or upgrades to the latest stable releases of the Horde 3.0 framework: Horde, Imp, Turba, Kronolith, Mnemo, Nag, Ingo
Versions 6.01-01, 6.5beta
Date: 16 Feb 2005 at devinfo
Made by John H. Bennet III
Download loc.: SME6.5UpdateScripts
Alt. download loc.: http://www.thebennetthome.com/sme/howto/Horde-SME65-Upgrade.htm

[Update] ClamAV 0.83

Antivirus for SME
Version 6.0.1, 6.5beta
Date: 14 Feb 2005 at Forums
Made by Jesper Knudsen
Download loc.: http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_22.htm

[Announcement/Update] e-smith-userpanel-1.6.5-1.noarch.rpm (beta, under testing)

User panel from dungog for SME 6.5. These are beta rpms.
Versions 6.0, 6.5
Date: 11 Feb 2005 (location removed)
Made by Stephen Noble
Download loc.: (location removed)

[Howto] ntop 3.1 howto

Analyzing network traffic
Versions 6.01
Date: 10 Feb 2005 at Forums
Made by Eric Gerards
Download loc.: http://egerards.com/sme/

[Announcement] zoneminder-videomonitoring on sme 6.0.1-01: zm-1.20.1-sme60_1.i386.rpm

Videomonitoring with SME
Versions 6.01
Date: 07 Feb 2005 at Forums
Made by chaapai
Download loc.: ftp://chaapai.homelinux.net/SME/video/zoneminder/zoneminder-1.20.1/
There is an install script in the ftp directory: install_zm-1.20.1.sh

[Update/Howto] How to install mod_dav/webdav: smeserver-webdav-1.0-3ld.noarch.rpm

Mozilla webdav calender in ibays
Versions 5.6, 6.0., 6.01, 6.5
Date: 07 Feb 2005 at devinfo
Made by Laurent Dinclaux
Contributors: Michiel Blotwijk
Download loc.: http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/ldinclaux/SME6.x/beta/smeserver-webdav/

[Update] ClamAV 0.82

Antivirus for SME
Version 6.0.1, 6.5beta
Date: 05/07 Feb 2005 at Forums and Forums
Made by Jesper Knudsen
Download loc.: http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_22.htm
Jesper updated to ClamAV 0.82, fixed a Date/Timezone issue, added 6.5 support and enhanced statistics

[Announcement/Update] SME6admin in english

Extended graphical server monitor: shows disk usage, temperatures, network traffic, services, http(s), smtp, pop, vpn, netbios, samba, connections, sends configurable email report and whatnot.
Versions SME 5.6, 6.0, 6.01
Date: 05 Feb. 2005 at Forums
Made by Landry Breuil
Download loc.: http://firewall-services.com/sme6admin-howto-en.html
Best monitoring solution for SME i have seen so far

[Announcement/Update] CUPS updates: e-smith-cups-0.3.0-2.sme6.noarch.rpm

Common Unix Printing System updates
Versions 5.5, 5.6, 6.0, 6.01
Date: 02 Feb. 2005 at devinfo
Made by Robert van den Aker
Download loc.: http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rvandenaker/testing/
Note: The post is not to be found on the Server Development Discussion html overview
For SME upgraded with Samba 3.x please read this Forum thread and use the rpm in Roberts testing directory

[Announcement/Update] PHP v4.3.10 RPMS compiled with CURL and MCRYPT

Version 6.01
Date: 02 Feb. 2005 at devinfo Made by Ergin Özdemir
Download loc.: http://ergin.dyndns.org/download/RPMS/contribs/php/

[Howto/Script] Horde 3.0 on SME 6.5b2

Version 6.5b2 Date: 02 Feb. 2005 at Forums
Made by John H. Bennet III
Download loc.: various, see thread

[Howto/Update] Virus and file blocking HOWTO using smtpfront-qmail for sme server

Attachment blocking
Versions 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.5 (not compatible with 6.0beta or earlier sme versions)
Date: 02 Feb. 2005 at Forums
Made by Ray Mitchell
Contributors: Gordon Rowell, Charlie Brady
Download loc.: Virus and file blocking using smtpfront-qmail

[Announcement/Howto] HOWTO install Ulogd on SME Server

Puts everything that comes from iptables to another file than syslogd.
Version 6.0, 6.01
Date: 01 Feb. 2005 at Forums
Made by Landry Breuil
Download loc.: http://firewall-services.com/ulogd-howto-en.html

[Announcement/Howto] htop install for SME Server

Like top? Then maybe you'll love htop! It's top on steroids (and maybe LSD as well).
Version 6.x
Date: 01 Feb. 2005 at devinfo
Made by Charlie Brady
Download loc.: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/contrib/CharlieBrady/RPMS/i386/

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