We are excited to announce that ClearOS 7.4 has been released to the ClearOS Community Users. Your Community edition servers should be or have been updated already. As this release contains a new kernel, it is advised that you restart your machine during a service window in order to apply the new kernel. Changes to ClearOS since the release of 7.3 include:

ClearOS Marketplace:

Microsoft SQL Server app
Wordpress (Beta) app
Kapano app (Zarafa Replacement) (https://www.clearos.com/resources/documentation/clearos/content:en_us:7_kb_zarafa_to_kopano_upgrade)
PHP Engine app
LetsEncrypt (imminent)
Dynamic Firewall (imminent)
2-Factor Authentication for Webconfig (imminent)

ClearOS Platform Improvements:

Backend SSSD improvements
OpenLDAP improvements such as LMDB improvements
Samba updates disable NTLMv1
Improved backend Clustering support
SSL/TLS certificate verification for HTTP client by default in Python
Improvements to Perl modules
NFS server now support limited copy-offload. Settings consolidated in nfs.conf.
Improvements to support of Intel PCH devices
RAID chunk size support in Anaconda
Anaconda now support IPoIB interfaces
Improvements to Anaconda Kickstart parameters
NVMe driver updated
Better random number generation support in kernel
Improved kernel support for switch and virtual switch processes
Framework for ‘usbguard’ to prevent access to unauthorized USB devices
Improvements to openssh and openssl
Improvements to libreswan
LVM support for RAID level takeover and reshaping which allows for conversion between RAID types and RAID parameters
Backend Certificate improvements

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Please report any issues with the Community Release to the forums in this thread or a new thread that indicates the issue in relation to 7.4. Much of the backend engineering makes significant changes to the kernel in preparation to the modernization that will take place in ClearOS 8. Some marketplace apps listed in this list will appear within a short period after the release.

Users of Home and Business will be updated soon.