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-rw-r--r--WHATSNEW.txt67
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 952ff939a3..83d76de075 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ SAMBA_VERSION_RC_RELEASE=
# e.g. SAMBA_VERSION_IS_SVN_SNAPSHOT=yes #
# -> "3.0.0-SVN-build-199" #
########################################################
-SAMBA_VERSION_IS_GIT_SNAPSHOT=yes
+SAMBA_VERSION_IS_GIT_SNAPSHOT=no
########################################################
# This is for specifying a release nickname #
diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index a9258b0fa8..d58ad09b5b 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha18
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha19
=============================
Samba 4.0 will be the next version of the Samba suite and incorporates
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ and above.
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha18 is not a final Samba release, however we are now making
+Samba4 alpha19 is not a final Samba release, however we are now making
good progress towards a Samba 4.0 release, of which this is a preview.
Be aware the this release contains both the technology of Samba 3.6
(that you can reasonably expect to upgrade existing Samba 3.x releases
@@ -55,52 +55,59 @@ programs to interface to Samba's internals, and many tools and
internal workings of the DC code is now implemented in python.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha17
+CHANGES SINCE alpha18
=====================
-For a list of changes since alpha 17, please see the git log.
+For a list of changes since alpha 18, please see the git log.
$ git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git
$ cd samba.git
-$ git log samba-4.0.0alpha17..samba-4.0.0alpha18
+$ git log samba-4.0.0alpha18..samba-4.0.0alpha19
Some major user-visible changes include:
-Improvements to DNS servers. Samba4 now has 3 options for the
-handling of DNS: The default option is to use the BIND 9.8 DLZ plugin,
-which stores the information about the DNS zone in the directory.
-There is also an internal DNS server (but which does not support
-secure DNS updates at this time) and the flat file BIND 9.8 backend
-(storing the data in traditional zone files).
+CVE-2012-1182:
+ Samba 3.0.x to 3.6.3 are affected by a
+ vulnerability that allows remote code
+ execution as the "root" user.
-To migrate from zone files to directory based DNS servers, a migration
-tool (upgradedns) has been added.
+Portability to MacOS X. By using the CC_MD5*() routines we no longer
+segfault on MacOS X.
-samba-tool dns commands to manage DNS records stored in directory.
+The source4/librpc layer has been reworked to be much more robust to
+connection failures.
-smbwrapper (a user-space file system based on LD_PRELOAD) has been
-removed.
+security=share in smbd has now been removed.
+
+A segfault in vfs_aio_fork for the smbd file server has been fixed
+
+ldbadd and ldbmodify now handle each ldif file in a single
+transaction, when modifying a local ldb.
+
+Further improvements to the dlz_bind9 and internal DNS servers.
-Improvement to the upgrade process between Samba 3.x domains and Samba
-4.0 AD domains (samba-tool domain samba3upgrade).
Some major but less visible changes include:
-Major work to bridge the code gap between the major parts of the code
-base, including a common loadparm wrapper, smb client library, as well
-as NTLMSSP, GSSAPI and SPNEGO code as part of the GENSEC
-authentication and authorization stack.
+Initial support for s3fs, using the smbd file server in the AD Domain
+controller has been added (but not yet finished, so not exposed)
+
+Samba now only uses the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 API for accessing large
+files, not the _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE API.
+
+All Samba daemons now monitor stdin when launched in the foreground,
+and shutdown when stdin is closed. We also ensure that all child
+processes are clened up by a similar mechanism. This ensures that
+stray processes do not hang around, particularly in make test.
-Preparation work for moving to TDB2, a new version of Samba's core TDB
+Further preparation work for moving to TDB2, a new version of Samba's core TDB
database.
-smbtorture tests for SMB 2 and SMB 2.2 as the team improves and
-develops support these new protocols.
+Early implementation work on the SMB 2.2 protocol client and server as
+the team improves and develops support these new protocols.
-Major cleanup and removal of global variables in the smbd SMB and SMB2 server.
+The last of the old-style krb5 ticket handling has been removed.
-Heimdal security issue 2012-01-11 - libkrb5 checksum - denial of serice
-http://www.h5l.org//advisories.html?show=2012-01-11
KNOWN ISSUES
============
@@ -113,9 +120,7 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
- Systems with tdb or ldb installed as a system library may have
difficulty building this release of Samba4. The --disable-tdb2
- configure switch may be of assistance. (Distributors who (rightly)
- have difficulty with this may wish to wait until a future release,
- which will soon fix this issue).
+ configure switch may be of assistance.
- Installation on systems without a system iconv (and developer
headers at compile time) is known to cause errors when dealing with