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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index ee5255d16c..69036fae3c 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,15 +1,10 @@ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 - September XX, 2003 + September 24, 2003 ============================== -This is the fourth release candidate snapshot of Samba 3.0.0. A release -candidate implies that the code is very close to a final release, remember -that this is still a non-production release intended for testing purposes. -Use at your own risk. - -The purpose of this release candidate is to get wider testing of the major -new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. -Please refer to the section on "Known Issues" for more details. +This is the first official release of Samba 3.0.0 code base. Work +on the SAMBA_3_0 CVS branch continues. Please refer to the section +on "Known Issues" for more details. Major new features: @@ -19,13 +14,13 @@ Major new features: join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/Kerberos. -2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and - internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte - and UNICODE character sets. +2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire + and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for + multi-byte and UNICODE character sets. -3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system has - been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal, - but the new auth system is also very configurable. +3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system + has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are + internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable. 4) New default filename mangling system. @@ -37,11 +32,11 @@ Major new features: 6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot. -7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing +7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing printer attributes in active directory. -8) New loadable module support for passdb backends and - character sets. +8) New loadable module support for passdb backends and character + sets. 9) New default dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance. @@ -59,6 +54,10 @@ Major new features: 14) Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings. +15) Improvement of ACL mapping features based on code donated by + Andreas Grünbacher. + + Plus lots of other improvements! @@ -82,12 +81,39 @@ License. ###################################################################### -Changes since 3.0rc3 +Changes since 3.0rc4 #################### Please refer to the CVS log for the SAMBA_3_0 branch for complete details: +1) Fix bug that prevented restoring filenames of length + >100 characters. +2) Fix bug that prevented fast path code in strchr_m + from being used. +3) Make sure we store the desired access flag on incoming + SAMR rpc calls. +4) Fix smbd crash when dealing with mangled file names. +5) Ensure that the group comment field is not overwritten + if it already exists. +6) Fix bug that prevented 'net rpc join' from working + with mixed mode AD domains (bug 442). +7) Fix crash in smbd when a Samba PDC is not able to + enumerate trusted domains (bug 450). +8) Fix crash bug found by the Samba4 testsuite. +9) Fix bug that prevented smbd from returning an ACL list + if one of the SIDs could not be resolved (bug 470). +10) Remove -P option from smbclient printing scripts since it + has a different meaning in Samba 3.0 (bug 473). +11) Sync smbldap-tools with latest version +12) Cleanup some warnings produced by the Sun C compiler. +13) Several fixes for SWAT relating to international character + sets. + + +Changes since 3.0rc3 +#################### + 1) Fix incorrect error message in testparm.c regarding 'map system'. 2) Protect against core dump if ioctl for print job sends invalid fid. @@ -708,24 +734,24 @@ ${lock directory}/*tdb before upgrading to Samba 3.0. Samba will upgrade databases as they are opened (if necessary), but downgrading from 3.0 to 2.2 is an unsupported path. -Name Description Backup? ----- ----------- ------- -account_policy User policy settings yes -gencache Generic caching db no -group_mapping Mapping table from Windows yes - groups/SID to unix groups -winbindd_idmap ID map table from SIDS to UNIX yes - uids/gids. -namecache Name resolution cache entries no -netsamlogon_cache Cache of NET_USER_INFO_3 structure no - returned as part of a successful - net_sam_logon request -printing/*.tdb Cached output from 'lpq no - command' created on a per print - service basis -registry Read-only samba registry skeleton no - that provides support for exporting - various db tables via the winreg RPCs +Name Description Backup? +---- ----------- ------- +account_policy User policy settings yes +gencache Generic caching db no +group_mapping Mapping table from Windows yes + groups/SID to unix groups +winbindd_idmap ID map table from SIDS to UNIX yes + uids/gids. +namecache Name resolution cache entries no +netsamlogon_cache Cache of NET_USER_INFO_3 structure no + returned as part of a successful + net_sam_logon request +printing/*.tdb Cached output from 'lpq no + command' created on a per print + service basis +registry Read-only samba registry skeleton no + that provides support for exporting + various db tables via the winreg RPCs Changes in Behavior |