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authorJelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>2009-01-06 23:52:34 +0100
committerJelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>2009-01-06 23:52:34 +0100
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Start on alpha6 release notes.
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha5
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha6
============================
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha5 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha6 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha5 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha6 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a
statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad
deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to
@@ -62,32 +62,15 @@ working on modules to map between AD-like behaviours and this backend.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE Alpha4
+CHANGES SINCE Alpha5
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 Alpha4 was released in June 2008, Samba has
+In the time since Samba4 Alpha5 was released in June 2008, Samba has
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
- LDAP backend support restored (issues preventing the use of the LDAP
- backend in alpha4 have been addressed).
-
- SMB2 Support: The SMB2 server, while still disabled, has improved,
- and now supports SMB2 signing.
-
- OpenChange support: Updates have been made since alpha4 to better
- support OpenChange's use of Samba4's libraries.
-
- Faster ldb loading: A fix to avoid calling 'init_module' (which was
- not defined by Samba modules, but was by the C library) will fix
- some of the slowness in authentication.
-
- SWAT Remains Disabled: Due to a lack of developer time and without a
- long-term web developer to maintain it, the SWAT web UI remains been
- disabled (and would need to be rewritten in python in any case).
-
- GNU Make: To try and simplfy our build system, we rely on GNU Make
- to avoid autogenerating a massive single makefile.
-
+ The source code for various libraries that are used by both Samba 3 and
+ Samba 4 are now shared between the two rather than duplicated
+ (and being slightly diverged).
These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
months. More details can be found in our GIT history.
@@ -116,11 +99,11 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
and server. (The NTP work in the previous alpha is partly to assist
with this problem).
-- Samba4 alpha5 is currently only portable to recent Linux
+- Samba4 alpha6 is currently only portable to recent Linux
distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
expected during the next alpha cycle
-- Samba4 alpha5 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and
+- Samba4 alpha6 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and
recent Ubuntu releases. GnuTLS use may be disabled using the
--disable-gnutls argument to ./configure. (otherwise 'make test' and
LDAPS operations will hang).