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| -rw-r--r-- | WHATSNEW4.txt | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | source4/VERSION | 2 |
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt index 7becef544f..b4c6e7de10 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's new in Samba 4 alpha10 +What's new in Samba 4 alpha11 ============================ 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.x series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above. -Samba4 alpha10 follows on from the alpha release series we have been +Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been publishing since September 2007 WARNINGS ======== -Samba4 alpha10 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference +Samba4 alpha11 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 @@ -62,12 +62,29 @@ 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 alpha9 +CHANGES SINCE alpha10 ===================== -Alpha9 was released last week, but in the time since the release we -have found and fixed an important segfault, and improved the -experimental DRS replication. +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 + +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. + +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. + +Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki: +http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List CHANGES ======= @@ -103,7 +120,7 @@ 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 Alpha10. + Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha12. RUNNING Samba4 ============== diff --git a/source4/VERSION b/source4/VERSION index ed8d2b0350..76e66da6bd 100644 --- a/source4/VERSION +++ b/source4/VERSION @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ SAMBA_VERSION_TP_RELEASE= # e.g. SAMBA_VERSION_ALPHA_RELEASE=1 # # -> "4.0.0alpha1" # ######################################################## -SAMBA_VERSION_ALPHA_RELEASE=11 +SAMBA_VERSION_ALPHA_RELEASE=12 ######################################################## # For 'pre' releases the version will be # |