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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2009-06-08 12:54:15 +1000
committerAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2009-06-08 12:54:15 +1000
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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
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@@ -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
==============