Prepare for a quick alpha7 release to help simo meet Fedora deadlines

While there isn't much in this release, there is enough to be worth
cutting the tarball, and not much cost in doing so.

Andrew Bartlett

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 80 deletions

diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt
index 03cd72c518..2093a4ee1f 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW4.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha6
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
 ============================
 
 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 alpha6 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
 publishing since September 2007
 
 WARNINGS
 ========
 
-Samba4 alpha6 is not a final Samba release.  That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha7 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
@@ -62,85 +62,30 @@ 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 Alpha5
+CHANGES SINCE alpha6
 =====================
 
-In the time since Samba4 Alpha5 was released in June 2008, Samba has
+In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has
 continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas 
 (in no particular order):
 
- 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).
+ OpenLDAP Multi Master Replication can now also replicate the OpenLDAP
+ configuration itself.
 
- The tevent library has been split out and is now usable on its own.
+ Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
 
- Several crash bugs and memory leaks in the registry library have been fixed.
+ Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
 
- The Python modules have been extended and are no longer generated using SWIG.
+ A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
+ updated for easier use outside Samba4
 
- Stream renames are now supported.
-
- The provision script now has an interactive mode.
-
- The (broken) copy of CTDB has been removed.
-
- More work towards supporting an OpenLDAP backend. 
-
- Initial work on using the Microsoft LDAP schema.
-
- The storage of schemas in LDB is now much more efficient.
-
- Support for extended DNs in LDB has been added.
-
- Incoming trusts are now supported.
-
- Compatibility of the registry server with several Windows versions has been 
- improved.
-
- Improvements to LSA.idl for better functionality in the usrmgr.exe.
-
- Improved handling of non-standard characters in passwords.
-
- The embedded JavaScript library has been removed in favor of Python.
-
- The WMI implementation has been re-added, but does not completely work yet.
-
- xpress compression is now supported in the NDR layer.
-
- The main binary is now named "samba" rather than "smbd".
-
- A simple script for setting the expiration of a user was added.
-
- The LDB library is now completely asynchronous internally.
-
- Various unknowns and correctness issues in the drsblobs and drsuapi RPC 
- interface implementations have been fixed.
-
- It is now possible to connect to an LDAP backend using SASL credentials.
-
- Multi-fragment NTtrans request support has been added.
-
- The DCE/RPC server can now listen on a separate pipe to allow DCE/RPC 
- connections forwarded from Samba 3. The user credentials are provided 
- by the client.
-
- A large number of bugs in the SMB2 implementation have been fixed.
-
- Auxiliary classes in LDAP schema conversion are now collapsed.
-
- Several tests have been added to the SMB testsuite.
-
- Object GUIDs in DCE/RPC connections are now dealt with properly.
-
- The correctness of the LSA and NETLOGON implementations has been 
- improved.
-
- Multi Master Replication configuration can now be generated 
- for OpenLDAP.
-
-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.
+ spoolss IDL updates to bring Samba3 to use PIDL code, and to merge
+ the corrected IDL back into Samba4
+ 
+ Fixes to allow use of C++ compilers and to increase portability
+ 
+These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past 
+month.  More details can be found in our GIT history.
 
 
 CHANGES
@@ -163,17 +108,13 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
 
 - Clock Synchronisation is critical.  Many 'wrong password' errors are
   actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
-  and server.  (The NTP work in the previous alpha is partly to assist
+  and server.  (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
   with this problem).
 
-- Samba4 alpha6 is currently only portable to recent Linux
+- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux
   distributions.  Work to return support for other Unix varients is
-  expected during the next alpha cycle
+  expected during the next alpha cycles
 
-- 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).
 
 RUNNING Samba4
 ==============