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diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt index 200e47edf6..174122152c 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's new in Samba 4 alpha13 +What's new in Samba 4 alpha14 ============================= Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being @@ -6,16 +6,13 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.x series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above. -Samba4 alpha13 follows on from the alpha release series we have been -publishing since September 2007. Since this file has referred to alpha 12 -for a while before any release happened and since Debian packages -have been published that presumed the existance of a alpha12 release -we are skipping alpha12 and going straight to alpha13. +Samba4 alpha14 follows on from the alpha release series we have been +publishing since September 2007. WARNINGS ======== -Samba4 alpha13 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference +Samba4 alpha14 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 @@ -65,7 +62,7 @@ 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 alpha11 +CHANGES SINCE alpha13 ===================== We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our @@ -76,46 +73,10 @@ http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List Beside this the release includes (among a lot of other things): -* a new build system based on WAF -Andrew Tridgell (tridge) invested much time to bring this up. He achieved a -marvellous work which brings us faster building, easier management and smaller -binaries. - -* enhancements in Samba4 winbind to provide a fairly good implementation of the -most important functions needed by "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" -This two components allow a user/group mapping for Windows accounts on UNIX and -UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to connect to -services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on. -More informations available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind -and for winbind in general, "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" in the Samba 3.X -documentation. - -* server side NT ACLs manipulation -These can now also be set on the command line directly on the server. See -"net acl" for further informations. - -* dynamic DNS updates -Up-to-date DNS entries are essential for Active Directory deployments. As for -the moment Samba4 isn't yet capable to interoperate with Microsofts AD DNS -server (regarding RPCs, ADs zone entries...) a kind of update script has been -developed. It also permits the update of the "grant" and "resource" lists. - -* registry improvements -The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the -new torture tests written by gd and some additional testing against Windows -("regedit" - Windows Registry Editor and "regedt32" - Windows NT Registry Editor). -Also some real bugs were fixed. - -* new Kerberos HEIMDAL release -Andrew Bartlett (abartlet) imported a new release with various bugfixes - -* DCE/RPC code unification work -Stefan Metzmacher (metze) started his work to unify these codebases between s3 -and s4 - -* And much more -We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of our -program. +* a script for backuping production provision +Although still in development, samba4 is already used in a couple of production sites +and such kind of use case is intensifying. This script is intendended for administrators +to allow them to make a periodic backup of the provision in case of problem. CHANGES ======= @@ -140,7 +101,7 @@ KNOWN ISSUES and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist with this problem). -- The DRS replication code often fails, and is very new +- The DRS replication code fails, and is very new - Users upgrading existing databases to Samba4 should carefully consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in |