Released: March 20, 2013

ClearOS Community 6.4.0 Beta 2 has arrived! Along with the usual round of bug fixes and enhancements, this release introduces a new reports engine, a storage manager, an antimalware file scanner, a basic POP/IMAP server, RADIUS, mail retrieval (fetchmail) as well as upstream proxy support.

Some of the new apps in the beta are NOT available via the Marketplace but can be installed via yum. You can find installation and app details further below.

There have been a number of important changes since the Alpha 1 release:

• Many little usability issues have been addressed
• RADIUS Server was added
• Mail Retrieval was added
• ClearOS Core 6.4.0 was integrated
• Additional ClearOS Core packages (clearos-core) now disabled by default

The full changelog is here.

The following is a list of features coming in ClearOS Community 6.4.0.

• Filter and Proxy Report
• Resource Report
• Network Report
• Storage Manager
• Mail Retrieval
• Basic POP/IMAP Server
• Upstream Proxy Support
• Antimalware File Scan
• RADIUS Server

For businesses and organizations, ClearOS Professional 6.4.0 (not yet released) will also include:

• Network Map
• Amazon EC2 Images
• Samba 4 Directory (Beta)

There have also been a couple of apps already released since ClearOS 6.3.0:

• SMART Monitor
• Dropbox
• BackupPC

The full changelog can be found here:

• Changelog - ClearOS 6.4.0 Beta 2
• Changelog - ClearOS 6.4.0 Beta 1
• Changelog - ClearOS 6.4.0 Alpha 1

Please post your feedback in the ClearOS Development and Test Release Forum.

You can upgrade an existing ClearOS 6 system to 6.4.0 Beta 2 using the following command:

yum --enablerepo=clearos-updates-testing upgrade

The new Storage Manager app provides a clean way to separate app data from the underlying operating system. Flexshares, web proxy cache, mail stores and other data intensive apps are mapped to /store on the file system. This /store could be a separate RAID partition, an external store, or an Amazon S3 store.

By default, the /store directory is used by the Storage Manager. If you are in a VM environment, you can attach another disk to your virtual machine and then mount it to /store. In future test versions, you will be able to do this via the ClearOS web-based administration tool. For now, we're the storage manager is only available with Amazon EC2 images.

• User Guide - Storage Manager

One of the features added to ClearOS 6.4.0 is support for upstream proxies. The initial testing for this feature requires some command line knowledge as well as direct access to the Internet (e.g. no proxy!). Once we are comfortable with the stability of the new feature, we will roll it into the release. In the ClearOS 6.4.0 Beta 2 release, you can see an Upstream Proxy step in the first boot wizard by running the following command before starting the wizard:

yum --enablerepo=clearos-updates-testing install app-upstream-proxy

To install the Antimalware File Scan run:

yum --enablerepo=clearos-updates-testing install app-file-scan

To install the RADIUS Server run:

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