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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 4446832fd4..f841e1a742 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha21 - 26th November 2002 - =============================== + WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha22 + 4th March 2003 + ============================== This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release. Use at your own risk. @@ -45,8 +45,17 @@ Major new features: - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot. -- better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000 - clients has improved greatly. +- better w2k printing support including publishing printer + attributes in active directory + +- new loadable RPC modules + +- new dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance + +- support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain + +- support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0 + domain controllers Plus lots of other changes! @@ -62,33 +71,111 @@ feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down the problem then you will probably be ignored. -Removed Parameters ------------------- - * postscript - * printer driver - * printer driver location - * printer driver file +Changes in alpha22: +------------------- -Added Parameters ---------------- + Added Parameters - * ldap trust ids - * acl compatibility - * mangle prefix + * client NTLMv2 auth + * client lanman auth + * client signing + * client use spnego + * max reported print jobs + * msdfs proxy -Modified Parameters -------------------- + See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many + smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes. - * restrict anonymous - * password server +1) remove the global_myname string and replace with wrapper function + global_myname() +2) create vfs/ and pdb/ subdirectories for library installs +3) Fixup of ordered cleanup of get_dc_list() +4) Added more autoconf tests for Stratus VOS +5) Fixed nasty bug where file writes with start offsets in the + range 0x80000000 -> 0xFFFFFFFF would fail as they were being cast + from IVAL (uint32) to SMB_OFF_T (off_t or off64_t, both *signed* + types). The sign extension would cause the offset to be treated + as negative. +6) Add support to automatically retrieve the dns host name and domain + name of an AD server +7) Add support for PRINTER_INFO_7 and publishing printer attributes + in active directory +8) Fix for 64 bit issues with oplocks and allocation size +9) Remove assert(count ==1) for multi-homed PDCs when resolving + DOMAIN<0x1b> +10) Ensure that change_trust_account_password() always talks to + the PDC +11) Add some docs on CUPS printing +12) Fix rpcclient querygroup command +13) The _abs time functions should not be converting from/to GMT +14) Fix broken incremental tar in smbclient +15) Adding supporting code for better testing using Valgrind +16) Fix for old DOS client when veto files is set to /.*/ +17) Add win32 utility to query driver capabilities to publish + (examples/printing/prtpub.c) +18) Fix memory leak when constructing an driver_level_6 structure and + no dependent files +19) Add some friendly versions of NT_STATUS codes +20) Protect nmbd against malformed reply packets +21) Removal of unpopular winbind client environment variable +22) Add msdfs proxy functionality; a CIFS share can directly be a + stand-in for another share, and when clients connect to the first + share, they will be redirected to the proxied share +23) Make Samba compile cleanly with -Wwrite-strings +24) Add new timegm() that actually works on solaris +25) Add support for running smbd, nmbd, & winbindd under the daemontools + package +26) Move user password changes into the NTSTATUS era, and add suppport + for the 'min password age' and 'min passwd len' concepts +27) Add new gencache based namecache code +28) Add profiles utility support to Samba 3.0.x +29) Fix open problem with changing attributes on an existing file +30) Effeciency fixes for internal messaging system +31) Make sure to update print queue cache during timeout_processing() + to send notify events +32) Make -i flag work like it did in 2.2 +33) Merge some rpcclient and net functionality from HEAD +34) Add support for compiling with Heimdal kerberos libraries +35) Connect to the actual netbios name in smb.conf and not LOCALHOST +36) Add support for CUPS-PRINTER_CLASS +37) Add ntlm_auth tool and update NTLMSSP support +38) require Autoconf 2.53 and remove configure from CVS +39) Check for too many processes *before* the fork +40) Fix delete on close semantics to match W2K. +41) merge desired_access for open_printer_ex from HEAD, allowing + cupsaddsmb to work again! +42) Add suport for dynamic RPC modules +43) wrap all cm_get_XX calls and their subsequent requests in a retry loop + in case we've temporarily lost connection to the DC. Makes winbindd + more reliable +44) Optimize user_ok() and user_in_group() when verifying group membership +45) Add NTLMv2 client code (that works) and some SMB signing fixes +46) Add caching of PRINTER_INFO_2 structures to open printer handles +47) Add 1/3 second delay in OpenPrinter() reply to trigger a LAN/WAN + optimization in Windows 2000 clients +48) Add "WinXP" to the possible values of the %a variable +49) Fix to allow blocking lock notification to be done rapidly (no wait for + smb -> smb lock release). Adds new PENDING_LOCK type to lockdb (does + not interfere with existing locks) +50) Limit the unix domain sockets used by winbindd (also solves FD_SETSIZE + problem in winbindd to boot !). Adds a "last_access" field to winbindd + connections, and will close the oldest idle connection once the number + of open connections goes over WINBINDD_MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_CLIENTS (defined + in local.h as 200 currently) +51) Limit the number of print jobs returned in EnumJobs() + + + + =============================== +Changes in older alpha releases follow: -Changes in alpha21: +--------------------------------------------------------------------- - See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many - smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes. +Changes in alpha21: +------------------- 1) Numerous documentation updates including new Samba FAQ 2) Fixed logic error in checking wins server lists @@ -124,14 +211,8 @@ Changes in alpha21: of DC's, but not authoritative (e.g. password server = DC1 DC2 *) - - =============================== - -Changes in older alpha releases follow: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Changes in alpha20: +------------------- 1) Rework the 'guest account gets RID 501' code again... 2) Change to use NT-based session key negotiated for Win2k SPNEGO @@ -294,85 +375,5 @@ Changes in alpha20: 125) Add -r parameter to smbgroupedit. With -r you can manually choose a rid -Changes in alpha19 -1) Virtual registry framework with printing hooks (jerry) -2) Heavy registry updates (jerry) -3) Use 850 as the default DOS character set in smb.conf (tpot) -4) printer fixes ) removed encoding of queueid in job number (jra) -5) A lot of small fixes (jra) -6) Don't crash on setfileinfo on printer fsp(jra) -7) fixed line buffer mode in XFILE(jra) -8) update samba.schema from 2.2 (jerry,idra) -9) Fix problem with oplock breaks and win2k ) - noticed by Lev Iserovich <lev@ciprico.com> (jra) -10) Update smbgroupedit to document -d ) thanks to metze (abartlet) -11) Support weird behaviour used by win9x pass-through auth (abartlet,tpot) -12) Support for duplicating stderr in log files (abartlet) -13) Move startup time initialisation to server.c (abartlet) -14) *A lot* of fixes and cleanups (abartlet) -15) Fix up compiler warnings (abartlet) -16) Few small fixes (tpot) -17) Renamed new_cli_netlogon_* -> cli_netlogon_* (tpot) -18) Fixed segfault in net time when host is unavailable (tridge) -19) Ensure to be root when opening printer backend tdb (jra) -20) Merges from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot,jerry) -21) configure updates (tridge) -22) getgrouplist() updates (tridge) -23) Support for pdbedit to query account policy values (abartlet) -24) Allow one to create trusting domain account using smbpasswd (mimir,abartlet) -25) 'Net rpc trustdom list' (mimir, abartlet) -26) Fix fallback to anonymous connection (mimir, abartlet) -27) Fix for pdb_ldap and OpenLDAP 2.1 -28) Added support in swat to determine whether winbind is running (idra) -29) Add 'hide unwritable' option (idra) -30) Correct pickup of [homes] share after subsequent session setups (abartlet) -31) Update rebind code in pdb_ldap (abartlet) -32) Add some info levels to RPC srvsvc code ) - thanks to Nigel Williams" <nigel@veritas.com> (abartlet) -33) Small doc fixes (tridge) -34) good security patch from Timothy.Sell@unisys.com (tridge) -35) fix minor nits in nmbd from adtam@cup.hp.com (tridge) -36) make sure async dns nmbd child dies (tridge) -37) interim fix for nmbd not registering DOMAIN#1b (tridge) -38) fix for smbtar filename matching (tridge) -39) Better quote handling in smb.conf (abartlet) -40) Support browsers setting multiple languages in swat (idra) -41) Changed str_list_make to be able to use a different separator string (idra) -42) Samsync support to insert account info into the pdb (tpot) -43) Don't hide unwritable dirs when 'hide unwritable' is enabled ) - suggested by Alexander Oswald <oswald@is.haw-hamburg.de> (idra) -44) Fix for handling sparse files in smbd (tridge) -45) Merges from 2_2 (jerry) -46) Minor printer fixes (jerry) -47) Add some checks to SID lookup code (abartlet) -48) Cascaded VFS (Alexander Bokovoy, idra) -49) Some netbios-less connections support in ADS mode (tridge) -50) ADS tweaks (tridge) -51) Fix plaintext passwords with win2k (tridge) -52) 'net ads info' reports IP of LDAP server (tridge) -53) Add some more RPC functions (jmcd) -54) Add 'smb ports = ' option (tridge) -55) Various small fixes (tridge) -56) Passdb security checks (abartlet) -57) Large winbind updates (abartlet) -58) Moved rpc client routines from libsmb to rpc_client (tpot) -59) Few nmbd fixes (jmcd) -60) Fix swat to handle new debug level code (idra) -61) Fix name length bug in namequeries (tridge) -62) Don't have client binaries depend on libs they don't use ) - patch from Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> (abartlet) -63) Printing change notification (merged from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry) -64) fix delete printer driver (from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry) -65) Added pdb_xml and pdb_mysql (jelmer) -66) Update pdb_test (jelmer) -67) Fix security issues with %m (abartlet) -68) Support for service joins from win2k AND use SPNEGO (jmcd) -69) pdbedit -i and -e fix, add -b (idra) -70) textdocs converted to sgml (jelmer, jerry) -71) Merge netbios namecache code from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot) -72) Fix segs in new NTLMSSP code (abartlet) -73) Always make guest rid 501 (abartlet) - - |