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- For 2.11
  Backport 1.95

- mysql daemon is mariadb for SLES12 SP5 and Debian 10

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.94

- If default language is not en_US.UTF-8 check for available languages, and
  en_US.UTF-8 is not found, provide apprpriate advice for current distro.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.92, 1.93

- Run systemctl daemon-reload after change to systemd security settings
  for Apache web server.

- Run systemctl daemon-reload after update to systemd security settings
  for Apache web server.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.91

- Add new action: "Configure systemd security settings for Apache web server".
  to support Fedora 40.
  - Check if ProtectHome property is set to readonly or yes for httpd.service,
    and if so default for the action is Y
  - If action selected then ProtectHome=no will be included in
    /etc/systemd/httpd.service.d//override.conf

- For 2.11
  Backport part of 1.77 omitted in earlier backport (1.45.2.16) and backport
  1.83, 1.84, 1.85, 1.86, 1.87, 1.88, 1.89, 1.90.

- Support Debian 10 (buster) and 11 (bullseye)

- Support debian 12 (bookworm)

- Remove trailing white space so patch can be applied to pwauth.c

- Separate major version and minor version in version number for mariadb
  and mysql, so correct actions are taken (e.g., for mariadb 10.11.6).

- Typo.

- Support Fedora 40
  Patch pwauth.c before compiling pwauth to eliminate warnings
  (builtin-declaration-mismatch) and errors (implicit-function-declaration
  and implicit-int errors).

- Support Ubuntu 22 and 24 (using ufw).

- For mysql on: CentOS Stream 9, RHEL 9, Oracle Linux 9, Rocky Linux 9 and
  AlmaLinux 9 (all MariaDB 10.5.16), process is /usr/libexec/mariadbd.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.79, 1.80, 1.81, 1.82

- Support Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8

- Support CentOS Stream 8 and 9.

- Support CentOS Stream 8 and 9.

- Support Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.78

- Support Fedora 34 (mariadb 10.5). process is: /usr/libexec/mariadbd

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.77

- loncapa-X.Y.Z-tar.gz files are downloaded into installation directory.
- loncapa-X.Y.Z directory in tarball will be extracted into parent directory
  of installation directory, if distro is Ubuntu, and into /root otherwise.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.74, 1.75, 1.76

- Remove trailing whitespace.

- Add Flush privileges call between INSERT call and ALTER USER call to eliminate
  error seen with MySQL 8.

- For distros with firewalld available but masked (iptables preferred),
  suppress display of: "Warning: firewalld.service changed on disk." message.
- Fix regexp used to detect if firewalld is active.

- In MySQL/Mariadb use of utf8mb4 character set results in "specified key
  was too long" error for primary key in md5_*_parameter tables.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.72, 1.73

- Support CentOS Stream

- If using firewalld, use firewall-cmd --reload after making changes.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.71

- For MySQL 5.7 and later MySQL uses auth_socket plugin for OS root user
  access from localhost (Ubuntu 16, 18, 20).
- If database handle is available then use it when checking if www user
  exits in MySQL.
- Suggested commands for starting LON-CAPA daemons and Apache take account
  of Linux distro/version.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.70

- For Ubuntu 14 and newer use relative paths in symlinks for loncapa.conf
  for consistency with a2ensite, a2enconf, a2dissite, and a2disconf.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.69

- For Ubuntu 14 and newer, Apache files in /etc/apache2/conf-available and
  /etc/apache2/sites-available are both named loncapa.conf.
- For Ubuntu 14 and newer, symlinks in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled and
  /etc/apache2/sites-enabled which link to them also named loncapa.conf
  (for consistency with a2ensite, a2enconf, a2dissite, and a2disconf).

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.68

- For Mariadb 10.14 and later, MySQL set up uses unix_socket authentication
  for OS root user access to Mariadb from localhost (SLES 15; Fedora 32, 33).

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.67

- Fix typo in 1.64

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.63, 1.64, 1.65, 1.66

- Early return from &check_locale() routine if locale information absent.

- Support detection of MySQL version for Ubuntu 20 LTS.

- Replace Ubuntu's status.conf in /etc/apache2/mods-available with a loncapa
  version.
- &copy_apache2_debconf() only modifies each apache2 config file for Ubuntu,
  if the file needs to be changed.

- Early return from &check_locale() routine if locale information absent.
- Example loncapa release name now includes major, minor and sub version.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.61

- Fix documentation.

- Ubuntu 18 LTS use chrony instead of ntp.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.59, 1.60.

- Fix documentation.

- Enable mpm_prefork_module in RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Oracle Linux and
  Fedora.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.58

- Support Oracle Linux 7.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.53, 1.54, 1.55, 1.56, 1.57

- Support Oracle 6
- Remove some trailing white space
- Remove unnecessary double quotes

- Support Oracle Linux.

- Support Oracle Linux 7

- Support RHEL 8 (and CentOS 8, once released).

- When checking firewall status for distros which use firewalld, get default
  zone when firewalld is in use.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.50, 1.51, 1.52

- Standard indent is 4 spaces.

- Support both Mariadb 10.2 and newer, and MySQL 5.7.6 and newer. (logic
  was backwards in rev. 1.50).

- Support both Mariadb 10.2 and newer, and MySQL 5.7.6 and newer.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.49 (modified).

- Support SLES 15.

- Remove duplicate line.

- Modification/creation of configuration files for Apache/SSL for SNI (port 443)
  when replicating content from /raw/, and for redirects to http://.

- Add config file for Apache/SSL for use with SNI and SSL when replicating
  content from /raw/.
- Installer script will copy/modify standard loncapassl.conf file.

- Support Ubuntu 18 LTS

- Support Ubuntu 18 LTS, Fedora 27 and 28.

- Support perl 5.26 (in which '.' is no longer in @INC).

- Support SLES12 SP2.

- Reverse change in 1.40 (not needed).

- Fedora 19 and later use mariadb instead of mysql.

- By defalt Fedora 19 and later use MariaDB in place of MySQL.

- Support MariaDB 10.0

- Support Fedora 22, 23 and 24.

- Support MySQL 5.7.6

- Support for SLES12 and SuSE 13.2
- Support stopping of unnecessary services (cups and memcached) for distro
  versions which use systemctl in place of chkconfig for these services.

- Ubuntu 14 sometimes needs a restart of mysql before install.pl will connect
  to it to verify set up status.

- Support for Ubuntu 14 LTS
  - Symlink now set correctly from conf-available/loncapa to
    conf-available/loncapa.conf
  - Checking if Apache web server needs configuration now supports
    checking of loncapa files in both conf-available and sites-available

- Ubuntu14 LTS
  - use both conf-enabled and sites-enabled.
  - to support rewrite form http -> https include loncapa_rewrite_conf
    in VirtualHost block for port 80 in sites-enabled/loncapa

- Apache config file location changed in Ubuntu 14.

- RHEL7/CentOS7 use mariadb in place of mysql.

- Support RHEL7, CentOS 7
- Use Apache 2.4 httpd.conf for Fedora 18 and newer; RHEL/CentOS 7.

- Support Ubuntu 14 LTS

- Typo

- SuSE 12 uses systemctl in place of chkconfig to start Apache.

- Improved locale checking for Debian.
- Change in suggested commands to set locale LANG to en_US.UTF-8 in Debian
  and Ubuntu if LANG currently set to something else.

- Support for Fedora 18.
  /etc/sysconfig/i18n deprecated.

- Support for Fedora 16.
- systemctl replacing chkconfig and service for mysqld and httpd.

- correct regexp for Scientific Linux 6.
- return $updatecmd if LONCAPA-prerequisites missing.

- Support CentOS 6.

- filename of tarball needs loncapa- prepended.

- systemd replacing sysvinit in Fedora 15.

- TYPE=MYISAM was replaced with ENGINE=MYISAM in MySQL 4.
- TYPE was deprecated in 4 and 5.0/5.1.  It is no longer supported in 5.5.

- Rename debian-ubuntu/apache2.conf as debian-ubuntu/loncapa for
  consistency with target.

- Correction to location of memcached binary for Debian/Ubuntu.

- Incorrect scalar.

- Different httpd.conf required for Fedora 11 (and newer) and
  RedHat/Scientific Linux/CentOS 6 compared with one used for
  RHEL/SL/CentOS 5 and Fedora  10 and older.

- Match columns in new metadata table to those used in rev 1.12 and later of:
  loncom/metadata_database/LONCAPA/lonmetadata.pm

- Fix typos.
- Consistent method for checking if mysql is running.
- Allow ten seconds total for mysql to start (check after 5s, then 10s).
- distro-specific location for memcached executable.
- Trap output to STDERR that does not need to be displayed to user.

- Support Scientific Linux 6.
   - use: system-config-firewall-tui to configure firewall
- Only call &update_SuSEfirewall2_setup() if distro is SuSE or SLES.
- Correct path for LC's httpd.conf for CentOS/Fedora/RHEL/Scientific

- Do not shutdown memcached daemon started by loncontrol.
- Include memcached in list of "unnecessary" services not needng start on boot
  (loncontrol takes care of this).

- Enable use of a single install.tar file for all supported Linux
  distros/versions when preparing systems for LON-CAPA installation.
  - files needed for installation fall into three groups:
   (a) file needed by all distros - pwauth-2.2.8.tar.gz - found in $instdir
   (b) localization files - found in $instdir/LCLocalization directory
   (c) files specific to different distros - found in:
       $instdir/centos-rhes-fedora-sl, $instdir/debian-ubuntu,
       $instdir/sles-suse, and $instdir/rhes4.

- Changes to accommodate SuSE/SLES
  - check /etc/sysconfig/language for locale
  - ntp daemon is ntp
  - cups daemon is cups
  - scope for scalar with apache dir. name (apache2 for SuSE/SLES, version 10 or later).

- For SuSE/SLES use yast to set language (if not en).

- Include ntp amongst services to start on boot.
- Include memcached amongst services to stop, and remove from start on boot
  (loncontrol starts memcached).
- ubuntu8 and earlier use cupsys instead of cups for name of print server pkg.
- set-up of Apache on debian/ubuntu includes linking from mods-available to
  mods-enabled for headers.load and expires.load.

- Add ntp to services for which runlevel check is made.
- More informative ffedback on how to configure firewall.
- For debian5, ufw is unavailable, so provide a script for use in
  to setting up iptables for ssh, http and https.

- Put MySQL commands in arrays, as $dbh->do() only accepts one statement at
  a time.
- Check for mysqld status with ps instead of status arg (only supported on
  some distros).
- Pass $instdir arg to &build_and_install_mod_auth_external().
- Missing quotes.
- Missing prefix for tarballs.

- Localization.

- Typo in comments.
- No "fedora" in generic tarball.

- Bugs 4400, 4550, 6348.
- install.pl script used to prepare server for LON-CAPA installation.
   - Combine separate scripts for each supported distro into a single script
     (for: CentOS, Fedora, RHEL, Scientific Linux, SuSE, SLES, Debian, Ubuntu).
   - Localization added.
   - Checks if LONCAPA prerequisites package is installed.
   - Checks status of www account, runlevels, firewall, MySQL, Apache,
     tarball download, extra services (cups).
   - Suggests appropriate recommended actions.
   - Handles case where a MySQL root password has already been set.
- Requires Term::ReadKey from CPAN.
  (perl-Term-ReadKey dependency in LONCAPA-preqrequisites 1-20.)