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May 2, 2017 22:50 GMT  ·  By

Terry Fage from the Koozali SME Server development team was proud to announce today, May 2, 2017, the release and general availability of the Koozali SME Server 9.2 operating system.

After being in development since early March, the Koozali SME Server 9.2 release is now the latest stable and most advanced of the server-oriented GNU/Linux distro based on CentOS, which in turn is derived from the freely distributed sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Based on CentOS 6.9, Koozali SME Server 9.2 incorporates all the security updates and bug fixes released upstream in the repositories of both CentOS 6.9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 operating systems, as well as the implementation of additional feature requests and local fixes.

Here's what's new in Koozali SME Server 9.2

Koozali SME Server 9.2 comes with various improvements for the Server Manager component, including the ability to access it from the loopback without using an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connection, implementation of a bug reporting template, and the ability to no longer redirect to HTTP when logging in or out from localhost.

Windows 10 support was added to SME Domain in the File Server component, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) support can now be hooked into the new ssl-update event, the motd text file was removed from grub.cfg, and the OS is now capable of correctly displaying the HTTP URL to the server-manager in the console.

The Web Server component was also updated to hook into the new ssl-update event, as well as to re-enable TLSv1 (Transport Layer Security) support. Lastly, the Mail Server component received the most attention, shipping with qpsmtpd 0.99.2, and allowing SSL_version from the tls_protocols configuration file.

Other changes to the Mail Server include an updated whitelist_soft transaction to be able to interact with the dnsbl filter, deprecation of the karma rcpt handling functionality, reverting the forcing of the TLSv1 patch as it broke some inbound delivery, and the addition of detailed SpamAssassin report headers.

Support for the URIBL plugin was implemented as well in the Mail Server component, along with the ability to check if rua is defined before trying to parse it, which should prevent an error from occurring when a domain has a DMARC entry published with no rua. You can download Koozali SME Server 9.2 right now.