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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 72e3be35c5..6c0835883d 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,49 +1,24 @@ -'Samba4 TP5' presents you with a snapshot into Samba4's ongoing -development, as we move towards our first alpha releases. This Technology -Preview (TP) is snapshot of Samba4's development, as at June 2007. +The Samba Team is proud to present our first alpha release of Samba4. -In the time since TP4 was released in January 2007, Samba has +Samba4 aims to be a compatible replacement for + +In the time since TP5 was released in June 2007, Samba has continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas: - Work has continued on SWAT, the the libnet API behind it. These we - hope will grow into a full web-based management solution for both - local and remote Samba and windows servers. - - The DRSUAPI research effort has largely concluded, and an initial - implementation of AD replication is present, included in torture - test-cases. This includes the decryption of the AD passwords, which - were specially and separately encrypted. This should be recognised - as vital milestone. - - Likewise, the LDAP Backend project has moved from a research - implementation into something that can be easily deployed outside - the test infrastructure. - - Testing has been an area of great work, with renewed vigour to - increase our test coverage over the past few months. In doing so, - we now demonstrate PKINIT and many other aspects of kerberos, as - well as command-line authentication handling in our testsuite. - - The testsuite infrastructure has been rewritten in perl and - extended, to setup multiple environments: allowing testing of the - domain member, as well as the domain controller, roles. Samba4's - initial implementation of winbind has been revived, to fill in these - tests. - - In clustering, work on CTDB (an implementation of a clustered Samba) - has moved ahead very well, but the current code has not - been merged into Samba4 in time for this release. - - To support better management, we have investigated group policy - support, and include the infrastructure required. Unfortunately - without MMC write support, you will need to place the polices into - the directory by hand. - -As we move forward, we have many of the features we feel are required -for a Samba4 Alpha. Similarly, we know enough about the data -formats (particularly those that are encrypted) to be confident that -we won't need to change the LDB format. Our plan is to publish a -Samba4 alpha in the next few months. + Group Policy Support: Basic group policies may be defined, and are + enforced by Windows clients + + MMC Support: The Active Directory Users and Computers console now + works, supporting most operations. + + Winbind: Kai Blin has been working hard on his Google Summer of + Code project, creating a winbind implementation for Samba4. + + Heimdal update: A Heimdal 1.0 snapshot is now included as the + internal Kerberos library in Samba4. + + In the past few weeks, many small but significant bugs have been + fixed, particularly thanks to Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mwallnoefer@yahoo.de> These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few months. More details can be found in our SVN history. |