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-'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.