The Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) Changelog

Changes to released versions and ongoing changes toward the next RCS are described here. We do major RCS upgrades when there is a 'pulse' of new versions of the most important desktop software (OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird); and an ongoing series of minor RCS updates with security fixes.

Version 3.6.25 - 27 December 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.25 and profiles.xml version 1.2.1.

• Firefox 3.6.24 → 3.6.25 (security updates)
  Requires new Firefox Setup 3.6.25.exe, see Firefox page for details.
• Thunderbird 3.1.16 → 3.1.17 (security updates)
  Requires new Thunderbird Setup 3.1.17.exe, see Thunderbird page for details.
• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 update 29 → 1.6 update 30 (performance and functionality update, not a security update)
  Requires new jre-6u30-windows-i586.exe, see Java Runtime Environment page for details.
• Flash Player for Firefox - a packages.xml update to uninstall Flash Player 10 ActiveX which was mistakenly installed with RCS 3.6.24's flashplayer10_3r183_11_win.exe.
• tweak-unattended-mse-whitelist-ultravnc - a packages.xml update to add a Remove line so that it can be uninstalled so the RCS 4.0 can remove it.

Version 3.6.24 - 16 November 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.24 and profiles.xml version 1.2.1.

• Firefox 3.6.23 → 3.6.24 (security updates)
  Requires new Firefox Setup 3.6.24.exe, see Firefox page for details.
• Thunderbird 3.1.15 → 3.1.16 (security updates)
  Requires new Thunderbird Setup 3.1.16.exe, see Thunderbird page for details.
• Flash Player for Firefox - 10.3.183.10 → 10.3.183.11 (security updates).
  Requires new flashplayer10_3r183_11_win.exe (rather than the usual install_flash_player.exe) which is in fp_10.3.183.11_archive.zip which you get from http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html.

Version 3.6.23 - 20 October 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.23 and profiles.xml version 1.2.1.

• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 update 26 → 1.6 update 29 (security update)
  Requires new jre-6u29-windows-i586.exe, see Java Runtime Environment page for details.

Version 3.6.22 - 28 September 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.22 and profiles.xml version 1.2.1.

• Firefox 3.6.22 → 3.6.23 (security updates)
  Requires new Firefox Setup 3.6.23.exe, see Firefox page for details.
• Thunderbird 3.1.14 → 3.1.15 (security updates)
  Requires new Thunderbird Setup 3.1.15.exe, see Thunderbird page for details.
• Flash Player for Firefox - 10.3.183.7 → 10.3.183.10 (security updates).
  Requires new install_flash_player.exe, see Flash Player page for details.
• Windows Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 client (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969084). The customised version of Windows XP we install has Remote Desktop capabilities removed as we use VNC instead. With the update to the Remote Desktop client in recent months, Windows tries to install the update then fails, annoyingly prompting on each and every shutdown to install it. To fix that, we're installing just the client portion of Remote Desktop here.
  Requires windows-remote-desktop-connection-client\WindowsXP-KB969084-x86-enu.exe. Note the correspondingly updated profiles.xml

Version 3.6.21 - 7 September 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.21 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.20 → 3.6.22 (security updates)
  Requires new Firefox Setup 3.6.22.exe, see Firefox page for details.
• Thunderbird 3.1.12 → 3.1.14 (security updates)
  Requires new Thunderbird Setup 3.1.14.exe, see Thunderbird page for details.
• Flash Player for Firefox - 10.3.183.5 → 10.3.183.7 (just compatibility issues, but Firefox complains it's out of date which could worry people).
  Requires new install_flash_player.exe, see Flash Player page for details.

Version 3.6.20 - 17 August 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.20 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.18 → 3.6.20 (security update)
  Requires new Firefox Setup 3.6.20.exe, see Firefox page for details.
• Thunderbird 3.1.11 → 3.1.12 (security update)
  Requires new Thunderbird Setup 3.1.12.exe, see Thunderbird page for details.

Version 3.6.19 - 11 August 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.19 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Java Runtime Environment - there's an issue with current versions of the JRE that, when it's simply reinstalled, most of its program files are lost. Because we've reinstalled it recently, versions of the JRE that are installed are broken to some extent. This update will uninstall it, then install it, to get it working again. Oracle recognise the issue, but only when using the MSI installer, where as we use the .exe installer, yet still see the issue.
  Requires the updated packages.xml.

Version 3.6.18 - 10 August 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.18 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Flash Player for Firefox - 10.3.181.26 → 10.3.183.5 (security update).
  Requires new install_flash_player.exe, see Flash Player page for details.

Version 3.6.17 - 27 July 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.17 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• OpenOffice (actually Novell's Go-oo) 3.2.0 → 3.2.1.4
  Version 3.2.0 has a major issue where by spreadsheets embedded in word processed documents (known as OLE objects) saved in .doc files couldn't be seen
  Requires new GoOo-3.2.1-11.exe and GoOo-langpack-en-GB-3.2.1-11.exe, and your existing openoffice-installer-customisation.mst, see OpenOffice page for details, however we don't know how to download this old version now as the go-oo.org site redirects you to the LibreOffice site - we happened to have already downloaded this before the site shut down.
• Java Runtime Environment - Fixed an issue from 11 June 2011 where on new installs JRE 6.0 update 25 as well as 6.0 update 26 was installed
  This just requires the updated packages.xml.

Version 3.6.16 - 5 July 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.16 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 → 2.1 (also works to upgrade 1.0 → 2.1)
  Requires new mseinstall.exe, see Microsoft Security Essentials page for details. With this updated version our whitelisting of UltraVNC installs without issue.

Version 3.6.15 - 23 June 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.15 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.17 → 3.6.18 (security update)
  Requires new Firefox Setup 3.6.18.exe, see Firefox page for details.
• Thunderbird 3.1.10 → 3.1.11 (security update)
  Requires new Thunderbird Setup 3.1.11.exe, see Thunderbird page for details.

Version 3.6.14 - 15 June 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.14 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Flash Player for Firefox 10.3.181.22 → 10.3.181.26 (security update).
  Requires new install_flash_player.exe, see Flash Player page for details.

Version 3.6.13 - 11 June 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.13 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.16 → 3.6.17 (security update)
  Requires new Firefox Setup 3.6.17.exe, see Firefox page for details.
• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 update 25 → 1.6 update 26 (security update)
  Requires new jre-6u26-windows-i586.exe, see Java Runtime Environment page for details.

Version 3.6.12 - 6 June 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.12 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.
(The above links to packages.xml and profiles.xml were until now broken, linking to an outdated version of packages.xml)

• Flash Player for Firefox 10.3.181.14 → 10.3.181.22 (security update).
  Requires new install_flash_player.exe, see Flash Player page for details.

Version 3.6.11 - 16 May 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.11 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Thunderbird 3.1.9 → 3.1.10 (security update)
  Requires new Thunderbird Setup 3.1.10.exe, see Thunderbird page for details.
• Flash Player for Firefox 10.2.159.1 → 10.3.181.14 (security update; finally adds native control panel and integration with browser privacy controls for managing local storage (requires Firefox 4).
  Requires new install_flash_player.exe, see Flash Player page for details.

Version 3.6.10 - 26 April 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.10 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Flash Player for Firefox 10.2.153.1 → 10.2.159.1 (security update).
  Requires new install_flash_player.exe, see Flash Player page for details.
• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 update 24 → 1.6 update 25. This is not a security update; The previous upgrade in RCS 3.6.9 to JRE 6.0u24 caused an issue where by the Java Runtime Environment became inoperable, the only fix being to uninstall it.
  Requires new jre-6u25-windows-i586.exe, see Java Runtime Environment page for details.

Version 3.6.9 - 26 March 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.9 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• You should manually upgrade Microsoft Security Essentials to version 2.
  (There's no way we know of to programatically detect which version is installed. This is an 'Upgrade' (a major upgrade of the program itself) rather than an 'Update' (of the virus definitions) so it doesn't auto update to it; the upgrade isn't available via http://updates.microsoft.com; you have to run the upgrade as an Administrator rather than a Restricted user (not sure about Power User); choose Help → Upgrade..., or wait a while and it will prompt; after the upgrade there's no mention of the VNC 'excluded processes' in settings, but that doesn't seem to matter any more, or if you do a scan it will find the UltraVNC file(s) and prompt you to quarantine or Allow.)
• Firefox 3.6.15 → 3.6.16 (security update)
• Flash Player for Firefox 10.2.152.32 → 10.2.153.1 (security update)
• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 update 21 → 1.6 update 24 (security update)

Version 3.6.8 - 8 March 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.8 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.13 → 3.6.15 (security update)
• Thunderbird 3.1.7 → 3.1.9 (security update)
• Flash Player for Firefox 10.2.152.26 → 10.2.152.32 (security update?)
• K-Lite Codec Pack (Standard) 5.7.0 → 7.0.0 (security and functionality update, included here for security update)
• Pidgin 2.6.3 → 2.6.6 (security and bug-fix update)
• QT Lite 3.1.0 → 4.1.0 (security and functionality update, included here for security update). As this installs after K-Lite Codec Pack it will associate MP3 and other files types in Firefox with QuickTime instead of Windows Media Player plugin / Media Player Classic (?), which shouldn't be an issue.

Version 3.6.7 - 15 February 2011

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.7 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Flash Player for Firefox 10.1.102.64 → 10.2.152.26 (security and functionality update)

Version 3.6.6 - 14 December 2010

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.6 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.12 → 3.6.13 (security update)
• Thunderbird 3.1.6 → 3.1.7 (security update)

Version 3.6.5 - 9 November 2010

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.5 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Flash Player for Firefox 10.1.85.3 → 10.1.102.64 (security update)

Version 3.6.4 - 28 October 2010

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.4 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.11 → 3.6.12 (security update)
• Thunderbird 3.1.5 → 3.1.6 (security update)

Version 3.6.3 - 23 October 2010

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.3 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.9 → 3.6.11 (security update)
• Thunderbird 3.1.3 → 3.1.5 (security update)
• Java Runtime Environment 6.0u21 → 6.0u22 (security update)
• (We could update Microsoft Security Essentials, but we'll allow its auto updater to bring that in because if we upgrade it through WPKG currently it quarantines UltraVNC)

Version 3.6.2 - 21 September 2010

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.2 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Flash Player for Firefox 10.1.82.76 → 10.1.85.3 (security update)

Version 3.6.1

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.1 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

• Firefox 3.6.8 → 3.6.9 (security update)
• Thunderbird 3.1.1 → 3.1.3 (security update)

Version 3.6 (August 2010)

This version uses packages.xml version 1.7.0 and profiles.xml version 1.2.0.

Added

• Microsoft Security Essentials (replaces F-Prot)
• OpenOffice language pack for EN-UK

Updated

• 7-zip 4.64 → 4.65
• AdBlock Plus 1.1.1 → 1.2.1
• CCleaner (Slim) 2.16.830 → 2.26.1050
• Enigmail 0.95.7 → 1.1.2
• FileZilla 3.1.6 → 3.3.0.1
• Firefox 3.5.3 → 3.6.8
• Flash Player 10.0.32.18 → 10.1.82.76
• Foxit Reader 3.1.1.0901 → 3.3.1.0518
• GIMP 2.6.3 → 2.6.10
• GIMP Help 2-2.4 → 2.6.0
• InfraRecorder 0.46.1 → 0.50
• Inkscape 0.46 → 0.47
• IrfanView 4.20 → 4.25
• K-Lite Codec Pack (Standard) 4.3.4 → 5.7.0
• Lightning 0.9 → 1.0beta2
• Mail Redirect 0.7.4-RCS-2 → 0.7.4-RCS-3
• Notepad++ 5.0.3 → 5.6.6
• Picasa 3.1 build 70.73 → 3.6 Build 95.25
• Pidgin 2.5.2 → 2.6.3
• QT Lite 2.9.0 → 3.1.0
• Real Alternative Lite 1.9.0 → 2.0.1
• Scribus 1.3.3.12 → 1.3.6
• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 update 11 → 1.6 update 21
• Sun's OpenOffice 3.1.1 → Novell's Go-oo (AKA OpenOffice) 3.2.0-13 - because it has better Microsoft Office compatability by turning on various user options that were otherwise turned off by default; includes plugins that we were installing seperately.
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 → 3.1.1
• TWEAK (Unattended) 0.9.5 → 0.9.6
• WinSCP 4.1.8 → 4.1.9
• WPKG 1.0.2 → 1.1.2
• WPKG Client 1.2.1 → 1.3.9
• Zotero 1.0.10 → 2.0.3
• Zotero OpenOffice plugin ? → 3.0a7
• pfSense (firewall appliance) 1.2.2 → 1.2.3

Fixed

• ...

Removed

• F-Prot (replaced by Microsoft Security Essentials)
• ODF Converter Integrator (not required with Novell's Go-oo OpenOffice)

Other Changes

• Adjust C: to 30GB and D: to 30GB (or 20GB each if have smaller hard disk). Note this isn't a requirement of this release more than any other, just what we've come to realise would be an improvement.
• Install command console from \\SERVER as it works when run from there, where as when run from the Windows XP CD there's an error about missing netupg.inf
• Changes from TWEAK (Unattended) 0.9.6:
• Added more auto configuration, using TWEAK Unattended:
• Thunderbird
• General system config (tweak-unattended-thunderbird-system-config)
• Disable auto-sync, offline working and don't display Migration Assistant (tweak-unattended-thunderbird-system-config-disable-sync)
• Disable updates (tweak-unattended-thunderbird-system-config-disable-updates)
• Microsoft Security Essentials whitelisting of UltraVNC
• Changes from 'Debian 4.0 'Etch' Samba guide' 1.0.0:
• netlogon.bat (logon script) 1.1.0 / 1.2.0(?) → 2.0.0 - uses TWEAK (Unattended) to provide a framework to automatically deploy user configuration.
• Changes from Debian 4.0 'Etch' Server guide 1.3.4
• The main Debian archive no longer includes Debian 4.0 Etch packages and security updates, so ftp.uk.debian.org and security.debian.org have been replaced with archive.debian.org
• GR Soft Virtual Mail Manager - So that it can be accessed from a saner URL: cp -a /srv/mailmanager/login.php /srv/mailmanager/index.php
• GR Soft Virtual Mail Manager - To be able to forward mail to outside domains in version 1.7 series, in 'function fqdn_check($fqdn)' in /srv/mailmanager/mgr_main.php, replace 'return (preg_match("/^([a-zA-Z0-9-]{3,}+\.)+([a-zA-Z]{2,3})$/", $fqdn, $regs));' with 'return (preg_match("/^([a-zA-Z0-9-]{3,}+\.)+([a-zA-Z.]{2,10})$/", $fqdn, $regs));' (the bit that is replaced is '[a-zA-Z]{2,3}' with '[a-zA-Z.]{2,10}')
• Mail server - removing old deleted mails - the line added to root's crontab to achieve this shouldn't have included 'root', should have read '00 1 * * * find /home/vmail/ -name '*,ST' -ctime +7 | xargs rm -f' rather than '00 1 * * * root find /home/vmail/ -name '*,ST' -ctime +7 | xargs rm -f'.

Version 3.5 (September 2009)

This version uses packages.xml version 1.6.0 and profiles.xml version 1.1.

Added

• Zotero
• Zotero OpenOffice plugin
• Zotero PDF indexing binaries
• Real Alternative Lite
• QT Lite (didn't we have 2.9.0 in RCS 3.5?)

Updated

• OpenOffice 3.0.1 → 3.1.1 (rev 11) (release note: requires that S:\templates exist)
• Firefox 3.0.6 → 3.5.3 (rev 14)
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 → 2.0.0.23 (rev. 15)
• Flash Player 10.0.12.36 → 10.0.32.18
• AdBlock Plus 1.0 → 1.1.1 (rev. 11)
• Replaced Adobe Reader with Foxit Reader 3.1.1.0901 (rev. 3) - Adobe Reader has far more features than anyone uses or expetcs from a PDF reader, and with those features (JavaScript, Flash) comes a myriad of security vulnerabilities that require constant patching of Adobe Reader to mitigate against; Adobe Reader is difficult to package for auto installation; when viewing PDFs in Firefox Adobe Reader has the effect of causing the tab from which the PDF opened to hang; Adobe Reader uses a lot of memory where as Foxit Reader specifically uses very little.
• Internet Explorer upgraded to version 8 (this should have been mentioned in the changes for RCS 3.4)

Fixed

• MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.5 → 3.51.26 - Should never have updated from 3.51 to 5.1 in RCS 3.4 as 5.1 won't work when connecting to our Debian Etch server running MySQL 5.0. When using a form it says "The data content could not be loaded. There exists no table named "<database>.<table>".". Presumably ODBC 5.1 is specifically for MySQL 5.1?

Removed

• Goldfish email autoreponder removed as we never managed to get it to work.

Other Changes

• Added more auto configuration, using TWEAK Unattended. In 3.4 only user config was automated enough to do that user config which was required for an update from 3.3 to 3.4. Now that has been expanded to do all config that TWEAK itself did. Still, the system config is only enough to cover that which is required for the upgrade from 3.4 to 3.5, with the exception of Flash Player config.
• The Windows XP CD image we build now includes language files for all languages (see Microsoft languages information at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897338)
• Some configuration performed by WPKG was run on every startup, is now only run as and when instructed to do so
• WPKG will now configure Flash Player
• Changes from Debian 4.0 'Etch' Server guide 1.3.0 - see the Release Notes
• Changes from Samba guide 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 - see the Release Notes
• Changes from Auto Backup A Server To A Hotswap USB Disk versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 - see the Release Notes
• Changes from pfSense firewall guide 0.8.17 and 0.9.1 - see the Release Notes
• Changes from TWEAK (Unattended) 0.9.5 that relate to the RCS
• flash-disable-auto-update-mms.cfg - removed windowlessdisable=true because Telegraph TV broken and settings dialog unreachable with it. It's supposed to disable floating adverts but I've never seen any without it.
• Irfanview Configuration was copying the configs from %PROGRAMFILES%\IrfanView rather than from TWEAK itself, this was made in TWEAK 0.9.4 but not made in TWEAK Unattended 0.9.4
• Added new logging mechanism. The RCS 3.4 user config via logon script doesn't want to run for RCS 3.5, because it's only for upgrades and new users. For RCS 3.5 the existing user doesn't want a new OpenOffice config where as new users do so now we need to differenciate differently between the two groups or move to a new system. As for shortcuts, shortcuts were changed in TWEAK 0.9.4.1/2, yet the shortcut suite wasn't refreshed via the login script for exsting users. We need a new mechanism so that we can selectively apply fixes to existing users whilst at the same time apply all the config to new users (rcs-user-config-if-not-already-done.bat). And a bit of script to run before they login in order to create the directories to get existing users who dont need any of it through the logon script without it running - hence mark-all-user-config-as-done.bat.
• Added from TWEAK 0.9.4.2:
• Java Runtime Environment's 'set user cache to D:\%USERNAME%\java'
• Eraser 'Set default erase method to US DoD 5220.22-M (8-306. / E) (3 passes)'
• 'Set KompoZer as Default HTML Editor for this user'
• Windows Configuration
• 'Use D: for this user's temporary system files, E: for their data'
• 'Configure this user's Windows interface (including some shortcuts)'
• 'Configure this user's IE interface; Internet/trustd/restrictd security'
• 'Lock down this user's local intranet zone security'
• 'Use H: for this user's My Documents (log off/on afterward)'
• tweak-remove-per-machine-shortcuts \\server\windows-admin\tweak-unattended\ changed to relative addressing renamed to remove-per-machine-shortcuts-BUT SHOULD IT BE SHORTCUTS-SYSTEM-REMOVE?
• Zotero - added copying PDF indexing binaries to a user's H:\zotero\
• Foxit Reader - added Foxit Reader user config
• Added Foxit Reader shortcut removal
• Changed the use of %SOFTWARE%\tweak-wpkg\ within TWEAK (Unattened) to relative addressing. The logon script now sets up a W: drive for this to work.
• Changes from TWEAK 0.9.4.2
• 'Shortcut Management → Remove various shortcuts' - added removal of OpenOffice 3.1 shortcuts
• File Type Associations - 'Archive files (i.e. .Zip) Open in 7-Zip (Edit for ISO opens in 7-Zip)' - setting 7-Zip to 'edit' .iso files was mistakenly setting a 7-Zip icon for .iso files when it shouldn't be. The icon should be left to that of InfraRecorder as set in 'ISO disc images to open in InfraRecorder for writing to disc' [/DIS="%PROGRAMFILES%\7-Zip\7z.dll,1"]
• Windows Configuration
• 'Configure Windows system behaviour and interface on this machine' - 'set Windows Automatic Updates to not automatically reboot after applying updates' - didn't work, now fixed. I believe this did work and that it stopped working since Windows XP SP3, but I can't be sure. The registry setting it made was at HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Update\AU when it should have been at HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU. TWEAK now makes both settings as I can't be sure earlier versions of Windows didn't work the previous way.
• Changes from TWEAK 0.9.4.1
• Default programs → 'Set Thunderbird as default mail client / mail handler for this machine' - wasn't working
• InfraRecorder
• Desktop shortcut broken, set to 'irExpress.exe' which doesn't exist, should instead be set to 'InfraRecorder.exe'
• Desktop shortcut broken, 'Start-in' set to '%PROGRAMFILES%\InfraRecorder\cdrtools' which no longer exists, should instead be set to '%PROGRAMFILES%\InfraRecorder\cdrkit'
• Changed all infrarecorder shortcuts to use the icon at its position 3, rather than that at position 3
• Start menu shortcut - InfraExpress mistakenly left in, now removed
• File Type Associations - association of InfraRecorder .iso files (IOIR) doesn't work - '%PROGRAMFILES%\Infra Recorder\InfraRecorder.exe' should have been '%PROGRAMFILES%\InfraRecorder\InfraRecorder.exe'

Version 3.4 (February 2009)

This version uses packages.xml version 1.5.0 and profiles.xml version 1.0.

Added

• Some automated system and user account configuration using a new unattended version of TWEAK has been added. The system config is done using WPKG; the user config is done using the logon script, netlogon.bat.

  Manual updates for the transition from RCS 3.3 to 3.4 are now no longer necessary. In future more automated configuration will be added. More was actually written - Windows configuration 'general settings' and 'domain-specific settings' and Flash Player revision 6 'auto copy of config file mms.cfg' - but WPKG hangs when running them so they were pulled at the last mnute. The hope is that the bottleneck for deploying the RCS on a large numer of workstations, of having to apply updated configuration manually using TWEAK, can be eliminated.

  The changes required are the addition of various batch files in \\server\windows-admin\tweak-unattended\, an addition to netlogon.bat and to packages.xml, see the Release Notes for details. Only the minimum required to deploy an RCS 3.3 to 3.4 upgrade has been implemented so far:

• System configuration
• Remove applications' system-wide shortcuts (remove-per-machine-shortcuts.bat)
• User configuration
• OpenOffice 3 user config (part 1) (openoffice3-configure-profile-1-odf.bat)
• OpenOffice 3 user config (part 2) (openoffice3-configure-profile-2.bat)
• OpenOffice 3 user config (part 3) (openoffice3-configure-profile-3.bat)
• Refresh user shortcuts (refresh-user-shortcuts.bat)
• IrfanView configuration (irfanview-user-config.bat)
• odf-converter-integrator (from http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator)
• New documentation: Creating Certificates and Keys For pfSense 1.2 Series OpenVPN Servers and Clients

Updated

• The server's Linux kernel has been updated from Debian Etch's 2.6.18 kernel to Etch-and-a-half's 2.6.24
• pfSense (firewall appliance) 1.2.0 → 1.2.2
• 7-Zip 4.57 → 4.64 rev6
• Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 → 1.0
• Adobe Reader 8.1.2SU1 → 9
• CCleaner (Slim) 2.11.636 → 2.16.830 rev7
• Enigmail 0.95.6 → 0.95.7
• Eraser 5.81 → 5.86a (AKA 5.86.1)
• FileZilla 3.1.2 → 3.1.6
• Firefox 3.0.4 → 3.0.6
• Flash Player 9.0.124.0 → 10.0.12.36
• ghostscript 8.61 → 8.63
• GIMP 2.4.7 → 2.6.3
• GNUPG 1.4.8 → 1.4.9
• InfraRecorder 0.45 → 0.46.1
• K-Lite Codec Pack (Standard) 4.1.0 → 4.3.4 (no changes to klite-settings.ini)
• Lightning 0.8 → 0.9
• MailManager 1.6 → 1.7 + fix from author
• MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.26 → 5.1.5
• Nero BurnRights rev (uninstaller fixed, error at commandline "not installed on your machine")
• OpenOffice 2.4.1 → 3.0.1
• Picasa 2.7 build 37.49 → 3.1 build 70.73
• Pidgin 2.5.0 → 2.5.2
• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 update 7 → 1.6 update 11
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 → 2.0.0.19
• TWEAK - 0.9.3 → 0.9.4
• winscp 4.1.6 → 4.1.8

Fixed

• Irfanview is now the default viewer for JPGs [TWEAK: I → IOI]
• Plain text files now open in Notepad++ [TWEAK: I → PON]
• Firefox can be set as default web browser so it doesn't nag when you open it [TWEAK 0.9.4]
• Right-click and edit a HTML file opens it in Notepad, should open it in KompoZer [TWEAK 0.9.4: I → WEM]
• Picasa auto update is now able to be turned off [TWEAK 0.9.4: B → P → K]

Version 3.3 Update 2 (2^nd December 2008)

This version uses packages.xml version 1.4.4; profiles.xml version 0.9.1.

• Firefox 3.0.3 → 3.0.4
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 → 2.0.0.18

Version 3.3 Update 1 (29^th September 2008)

This version uses packages.xml version 1.4.3; profiles.xml version 0.9.1.

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 → 2.0.0.17
• Firefox 3.0.1 → 3.0.3
• TWEAK - 0.9.2 → 0.9.3

Version 3.3 (16^th September 2008)

This version uses packages.xml version 1.4.2.

New

• Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox
• K-Lite Codec Pack 4.1.0 (Standard) - http://www.codecguide.com/features_standard.htm - gives us DVD playback in Windows Media Player (and a host of other media support). Ogg Codec installer has been retained for its FLAC support due to the fact we can't remove it silently.
• CCleaner (Slim) 2.11.636

Updated

• Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 → 0.7.5.5
• Adobe Reader 8.1.2 → 8.1.2 Security Update 1
• F-Prot 6.0.8.0 → 6.0.9.1 (fixes many issues)
• FileZilla 3.0.7 → 3.1.2
• Firefox 2.0.0.14 → 3.0.1 (major upgrade)
• GIMP 2.4.5 → 2.4.7
• Irfanview 4.10 → 4.20
• Irfanview Plugins 4.10 → 4.20
• MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.12 → 3.51.26
• Notepad++ 4.8.1 → 5.0.3
• OpenOffice 2.4.0 → 2.4.1 (security fix, minor enhancements, and bug fixes)
• Pidgin 2.4.1 → 2.5.0
• Pidgin OTR 3.1.0-1 → 3.2.0-1
• Scribus 1.3.3.11 → 1.3.3.12 (lots of updates)
• Sun Java Runtime Environment 6.0 update 4 → update 7
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 → 2.0.0.16 (security updates)
• TWEAK - 0.9.0 RC3 → 0.9.2
• WinSCP 4.0.6 → 4.1.6

Removed

• ASpell and ASpell dictionaries (English) - they were for Pidgin, which has included ASpell for all languages since version 2.0.1(?)

Changed

• Adobe Reader - we spend a massively disproportionate amount of time creating an MSI transform to change the Adobe Reader installation directory so that it doesn't have a version in its path so we can maintain our Adobe Reader shortut in Start - Programs - Office. We're no longer going to do this. We're able to do this for this program in particular and not others because we don't expect people use Adobe Reader by running the program from its shortcut, instead using it from within a web browser or by choosing to load a PDF file directly from within Windows Explorer.
• With RCS 3.1 & 3.2, Thunderbird UK spellcheck dictionary is installed but isn't working as Thunderbird isn't noticing it. We installed MySpell dictionaries in %PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Thunderbird\components\myspell\ which was correct for Thunderbird 1.5 but Thunderbird 2.0 expects them in %PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Thunderbird\dictionaries. We've fixed this and also are now using a MySpell dictionary from Mozilla, version 1.16, rather than version 1.18 from the original author.

Miscellaneous

• Our new sun Java Runtime Environment WPKG packaging removes all previous versions of JRE rather than leaving them in, fixing a long-standing issue. Because JRE doesn't uninstall prior versions, and it's a large installation, it eats up disk space. This hasn't remotely been a problem yet because we've only shipped a few versions but it would become a problem in time.
• We now set 7-Zip file type associations during workstation installation, using TWEAK
• The Windows Firewall will now allow workstations to answer ping requests, useful in troubleshooting
• Changed the location of sub-group directories on the server, creating 'restricted' - see Samba guide version 0.9.0 or later

Version 3.2 (29^th April 2008)

New

• Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 - blocks adverts in web pages
• goldfish 002 - adds an email auto responder
• GRSoft Mail Manager 1.6 - adds a web interface to add email domains, users and forwardings / aliases
• Lightning 0.8 - calendar integrated with Mozilla Thunderbird
• pfSense firewall appliance replaces IPCop (firewall appliance) and ZERINA (OpenVPN). pfSense is an even higher quality firewall appliance than IPCop.
  Because we relied upon the seperate ZERINA module for OpenVPN support, the firewall was vulnerable when an updated IPCop was available but we had to hold off upgrading because we were waiting on the corresponding ZERINA. Also we couldn't perform that upgrade remotely because we were trying to upgrade the very VPN software we were using for remote access. pfSense fixes both these issues. Firewall installation, configuration and usage is now documented here, previously there was no documentation here for the firewall (though there was for the VPN, and there was documentation at the IPCop web site).
• Pidgin OTR - encryption for Pidgin
• Ogg Codec Pack (from Illiminable) / Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC from xiph.org
• WPKG Client 1.2.1 - allows workstation software to be updated by remotely adding software to the server then it automatically installing when a user logs in to their workstation

Updated

• The server, Debian 3.1 'Sarge' → Debian 4.0 'Etch'. An updated suite of server software (Windows domain server, mail server, print server) and an updated server operating system in general bringing lots of worthwhile capabilities. Security support for Debian 3.1 'Sarge' runs out in April 2008 so there's an imperative to upgrade.
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) → Service Pack 3 (SP3)
• Documentation has been improved
• 7-Zip 4.42 → 4.57
• Adobe Reader 8.0.0 → 8.1.2
• F-Prot 6.0.7.0 → 6.0.8.0 (F-Prot is self updating anyway)
• FileZilla 2.2.32 → 3.0.7
• Firefox 2.0.0.4 → 2.0.0.14
• Flash Player 9.0.16 → 9.0.124
• (GNU) Ghostscript 8.56 → 8.61
• GIMP 2.2.15 → 2.4.5
• GIMP Help 0.11 → 2-2.4
• GnuPG 1.4.7 → 1.4.8
• InfraRecorder 0.42.1 → 0.45. No longer experimental as it actually works now for regular users
• Inkscape 0.45.1-1 → 0.46
• Irfanview 4.0 → 4.10
• Irfanview Plugins 4.0 → 4.10
• KompoZer 0.7.7 → 0.7.10
• Notepad++ 4.1.1 → 4.8.1
• OpenOffice 2.2.1 → 2.4.0
• Picasa 2.7 build 36.40 → 2.7 build 37.49
• Pidgin 2.0.2 → 2.4.1
• Scribus 1.3.3.9 → 1.3.3.11 (adds PDF editing)
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 → 2.0.0.12
• Enigmail 0.95 → 0.95.6
• WinSCP 4.0.3 → 4.0.6
• Java Runtime Environment 6.0 update 1 → 6.0 update 4
• TWEAK - 0.9.0 beta 7 → 0.9.0 RC3
• Twix - 0.3.4 → 0.3.6. Can now be used to create user accounts on the server where before it was done much more manually.
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 → Service Pack 3 (claims a 10% speed boost)
• WPKG 1.0RC2 → 1.0.2

Removed

• Dia - use OpenOffice Draw instead, it's more intuitive
• GTK+ runtime environment - all software applications requiring GTK+ now each use their own GTK+ rather than all sharing a single GTK+ (GIMP 2.4 now includes GTK+ without the option of getting it separately; we've dropped Dia which didn't include its own GTK+

Resolved Issues

• Kompozer 0.7.10 will now work if installed using the following method (see KompoZer issue 1806420): install earlier version (for file type associations); remove earlier version program directory; create new program files directory; copy 0.7.10 files into there
• UltraVNC is now auto installing using WPKG, where before it had to be installed manually

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