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-What's new in Samba 4 alpha11
-============================
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha12
+=============================
 
 Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
 developed in parallel to the stable 3.x series. The main emphasis in
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ publishing since September 2007
 WARNINGS
 ========
 
-Samba4 alpha11 is not a final Samba release.  That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha12 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
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 CHANGES SINCE alpha11
 =====================
 
-Since the alpha10 release, we have fixed a number of serious bugs in
-the implementation of AD-compatible 'Directory Replication Services'.
-We can now join an AD domain as a read-write DC
+We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
+AD implementation and therefore achieved also this time big steps forward.
 
-This release includes changes related to:
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
 
-* winbind, to allow a fairly good implementation of functions needed by
-libnss_winbind and pam_winbind.
-The usage of this two library allow to have domain users and groups information
-available on the unix and unix-like side. It allow to be able to use domain user
-to connect to all the services (ssh, login, X session, ...)
-More information available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
+Beside this the release includes:
 
-* server side NTACL manipulation, NTACL of shared file can now be set from the command line
-directly on the server. See net acl for more information.
+* enhancements in Samba4 winbind to provide a fairly good implementation of the
+most important functions needed by "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind"
+The use of this two components allows a user/group mapping for Windows accounts
+on UNIX and UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to
+connect to services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on.
+More informations available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
+and for winbind in general, "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" in the Samba 3.X
+documentation.
 
-CHANGES SINCE alpha10
-=====================
+* server side NT ACLs manipulation
+These can now also be set on the command line directly on the server. See
+"net acl" for further informations.
 
-Since the alpha10 release, we have fixed a number of serious bugs in
-the implementation of AD-compatible 'Directory Replication Services'.
-We can now join an AD domain as a read-write DC
+* dynamic DNS updates
+A new DNS upgrade mechanism has been introduced which works with newer bind9
+releases.
 
-Importantly, since alpha10, the following serious issues were
-addressed:
- - We now allocate RID values safely (previous implementations would
- add users and groups without regard to allocated RID pools, possibly
- creating duplicates)
- - In previous Samba4 versions, a failure to 'prepare' a transaction
- would silently commit the transaction. 
+* registry improvements
+The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the
+new torture tests written by gd and some additional testing against Windows
+("regedit" - Windows Registry Editor and "regedt32" - Windows NT Registry Editor).
+Also some real bugs were fixed.
 
-Any deployments of Samba4 before this alpha are very strongly
-encouraged to upgrade.  Assistance may be found in the
-upgradeprovision script, and the advice of the Samba Team should be
-sought to determine the impact of these issues in your particular
-deployment. 
+* new Kerberos HEIMDAL release
+Abartlet imported a new release with various bugfixes
 
-Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
-http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
+* DCE/RPC code unification work
+Metze started his work to unify these codebases between s3 and s4
+
+* And much more
+We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of our
+program.
 
 CHANGES
 =======
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
   since it's completely experimental!
 
 - ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
-  Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha12.
+  Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed soon.
 
 RUNNING Samba4
 ==============
@@ -150,6 +151,11 @@ in root of the tarball.
 DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
 ========================
 
+We need your help! Projects as Samba 4 live from the community feedback. If you
+provide expressive bug reports, some documentation snippets on the wiki or some
+real patches - all is appreciated if it meets our quality criterias. Here you
+can find the links:
+
 Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/ but please be aware
 that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.