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diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt index 03cd72c518..2093a4ee1f 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's new in Samba 4 alpha6 +What's new in Samba 4 alpha7 ============================ Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being @@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above. -Samba4 alpha6 follows on from the alpha release series we have been +Samba4 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been publishing since September 2007 WARNINGS ======== -Samba4 alpha6 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference +Samba4 alpha7 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 @@ -62,85 +62,30 @@ 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 Alpha5 +CHANGES SINCE alpha6 ===================== -In the time since Samba4 Alpha5 was released in June 2008, Samba has +In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas (in no particular order): - The source code for various libraries that are used by both Samba 3 and - Samba 4 are now shared between the two rather than duplicated - (and being slightly diverged). + OpenLDAP Multi Master Replication can now also replicate the OpenLDAP + configuration itself. - The tevent library has been split out and is now usable on its own. + Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain - Several crash bugs and memory leaks in the registry library have been fixed. + Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed - The Python modules have been extended and are no longer generated using SWIG. + A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been + updated for easier use outside Samba4 - Stream renames are now supported. - - The provision script now has an interactive mode. - - The (broken) copy of CTDB has been removed. - - More work towards supporting an OpenLDAP backend. - - Initial work on using the Microsoft LDAP schema. - - The storage of schemas in LDB is now much more efficient. - - Support for extended DNs in LDB has been added. - - Incoming trusts are now supported. - - Compatibility of the registry server with several Windows versions has been - improved. - - Improvements to LSA.idl for better functionality in the usrmgr.exe. - - Improved handling of non-standard characters in passwords. - - The embedded JavaScript library has been removed in favor of Python. - - The WMI implementation has been re-added, but does not completely work yet. - - xpress compression is now supported in the NDR layer. - - The main binary is now named "samba" rather than "smbd". - - A simple script for setting the expiration of a user was added. - - The LDB library is now completely asynchronous internally. - - Various unknowns and correctness issues in the drsblobs and drsuapi RPC - interface implementations have been fixed. - - It is now possible to connect to an LDAP backend using SASL credentials. - - Multi-fragment NTtrans request support has been added. - - The DCE/RPC server can now listen on a separate pipe to allow DCE/RPC - connections forwarded from Samba 3. The user credentials are provided - by the client. - - A large number of bugs in the SMB2 implementation have been fixed. - - Auxiliary classes in LDAP schema conversion are now collapsed. - - Several tests have been added to the SMB testsuite. - - Object GUIDs in DCE/RPC connections are now dealt with properly. - - The correctness of the LSA and NETLOGON implementations has been - improved. - - Multi Master Replication configuration can now be generated - for OpenLDAP. - -These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few -months. More details can be found in our GIT history. + spoolss IDL updates to bring Samba3 to use PIDL code, and to merge + the corrected IDL back into Samba4 + + Fixes to allow use of C++ compilers and to increase portability + +These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past +month. More details can be found in our GIT history. CHANGES @@ -163,17 +108,13 @@ KNOWN ISSUES - Clock Synchronisation is critical. Many 'wrong password' errors are actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client - and server. (The NTP work in the previous alpha is partly to assist + and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist with this problem). -- Samba4 alpha6 is currently only portable to recent Linux +- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is - expected during the next alpha cycle + expected during the next alpha cycles -- Samba4 alpha6 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and - recent Ubuntu releases. GnuTLS use may be disabled using the - --disable-gnutls argument to ./configure. (otherwise 'make test' and - LDAPS operations will hang). RUNNING Samba4 ============== |