Update WHATSNEW for an alpha8 release this week.

Please update this file with things you have worked on, if you want
them to be mentioned in the release.

Andrew Bartlett

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt
index 7c637ccd66..1b9a5ba2c8 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW4.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha8
 ============================
 
 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 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha8 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
 publishing since September 2007
 
 WARNINGS
 ========
 
-Samba4 alpha7 is not a final Samba release.  That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha8 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
@@ -62,35 +62,21 @@ 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 alpha6
+CHANGES SINCE alpha7
 =====================
 
-In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has
+In the time since Samba4 alpha7 was released in Feburary 2009, Samba has
 continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas 
 (in no particular order):
 
- Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated 
- for the OpenLDAP-Backend.
+ Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008
 
- OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the 
- OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).
+ LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of
+ users and groups much more efficiently
 
- Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
-
- Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
-
- A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
- updated for easier use outside Samba4
-
- 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
-
- Fixed TLS (SSL) support with modern versions of GnuTLS
- 
-These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past 
-month.  More details can be found in our GIT history.
+These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in
+the past few months.  More details of the work done 'under the hood'
+can be found in our GIT history.
 
 
 CHANGES
@@ -116,11 +102,6 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
   and server.  (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
   with this problem).
 
-- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux
-  distributions.  Work to return support for other Unix varients is
-  expected during the next alpha cycles
-
-
 RUNNING Samba4
 ==============