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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 4446832fd4..23453e813c 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha21 - 26th November 2002 - =============================== + WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha22 + 4th March 2003 + ============================== This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release. Use at your own risk. @@ -45,8 +45,17 @@ Major new features: - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot. -- better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000 - clients has improved greatly. +- better w2k printing support including publishing printer + attributes in active directory + +- new loadable RPC modules + +- new dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance + +- support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain + +- support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0 + domain controllers Plus lots of other changes! @@ -55,40 +64,118 @@ Reporting bugs & Development Discussion --------------------------------------- Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by -joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net +joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. If you do report problems then please try to send high quality feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down the problem then you will probably be ignored. -Removed Parameters ------------------- - * postscript - * printer driver - * printer driver location - * printer driver file +Changes in alpha22: +------------------- -Added Parameters ---------------- + Added Parameters - * ldap trust ids - * acl compatibility - * mangle prefix + * client NTLMv2 auth + * client lanman auth + * client signing + * client use spnego + * max reported print jobs + * msdfs proxy -Modified Parameters -------------------- + See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many + smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes. - * restrict anonymous - * password server +1) remove the global_myname string and replace with wrapper function + global_myname() +2) create vfs/ and pdb/ subdirectories for library installs +3) Fixup of ordered cleanup of get_dc_list() +4) Added more autoconf tests for Stratus VOS +5) Fixed nasty bug where file writes with start offsets in the + range 0x80000000 -> 0xFFFFFFFF would fail as they were being cast + from IVAL (uint32) to SMB_OFF_T (off_t or off64_t, both *signed* + types). The sign extension would cause the offset to be treated + as negative. +6) Add support to automatically retrieve the dns host name and domain + name of an AD server +7) Add support for PRINTER_INFO_7 and publishing printer attributes + in active directory +8) Fix for 64 bit issues with oplocks and allocation size +9) Remove assert(count ==1) for multi-homed PDCs when resolving + DOMAIN<0x1b> +10) Ensure that change_trust_account_password() always talks to + the PDC +11) Add some docs on CUPS printing +12) Fix rpcclient querygroup command +13) The _abs time functions should not be converting from/to GMT +14) Fix broken incremental tar in smbclient +15) Adding supporting code for better testing using Valgrind +16) Fix for old DOS client when veto files is set to /.*/ +17) Add win32 utility to query driver capabilities to publish + (examples/printing/prtpub.c) +18) Fix memory leak when constructing an driver_level_6 structure and + no dependent files +19) Add some friendly versions of NT_STATUS codes +20) Protect nmbd against malformed reply packets +21) Removal of unpopular winbind client environment variable +22) Add msdfs proxy functionality; a CIFS share can directly be a + stand-in for another share, and when clients connect to the first + share, they will be redirected to the proxied share +23) Make Samba compile cleanly with -Wwrite-strings +24) Add new timegm() that actually works on solaris +25) Add support for running smbd, nmbd, & winbindd under the daemontools + package +26) Move user password changes into the NTSTATUS era, and add support + for the 'min password age' and 'min passwd len' concepts +27) Add new gencache based namecache code +28) Add profiles utility support to Samba 3.0.x +29) Fix open problem with changing attributes on an existing file +30) Efficiency fixes for internal messaging system +31) Make sure to update print queue cache during timeout_processing() + to send notify events +32) Make -i flag work like it did in 2.2 +33) Merge some rpcclient and net functionality from HEAD +34) Add support for compiling with Heimdal kerberos libraries +35) Connect to the actual netbios name in smb.conf and not LOCALHOST +36) Add support for CUPS-PRINTER_CLASS +37) Add ntlm_auth tool and update NTLMSSP support +38) require Autoconf 2.53 and remove configure from CVS +39) Check for too many processes *before* the fork +40) Fix delete on close semantics to match W2K. +41) merge desired_access for open_printer_ex from HEAD, allowing + cupsaddsmb to work again! +42) Add support for dynamic RPC modules +43) wrap all cm_get_XX calls and their subsequent requests in a retry loop + in case we've temporarily lost connection to the DC. Makes winbindd + more reliable +44) Optimize user_ok() and user_in_group() when verifying group membership +45) Add NTLMv2 client code (that works) and some SMB signing fixes +46) Add caching of PRINTER_INFO_2 structures to open printer handles +47) Add 1/3 second delay in OpenPrinter() reply to trigger a LAN/WAN + optimization in Windows 2000 clients +48) Add "WinXP" to the possible values of the %a variable +49) Fix to allow blocking lock notification to be done rapidly (no wait for + smb -> smb lock release). Adds new PENDING_LOCK type to lockdb (does + not interfere with existing locks) +50) Limit the unix domain sockets used by winbindd (also solves FD_SETSIZE + problem in winbindd to boot !). Adds a "last_access" field to winbindd + connections, and will close the oldest idle connection once the number + of open connections goes over WINBINDD_MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_CLIENTS (defined + in local.h as 200 currently) +51) Limit the number of print jobs returned in EnumJobs() + + + + =============================== +Changes in older alpha releases follow: -Changes in alpha21: +--------------------------------------------------------------------- - See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many - smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes. +Changes in alpha21: +------------------- 1) Numerous documentation updates including new Samba FAQ 2) Fixed logic error in checking wins server lists @@ -105,7 +192,7 @@ Changes in alpha21: 11) Merge the new ACL mapping code from Andreas Gruenbacher 12) Removed make_printerdef tool from build 13) Fix fd leak on printer queue tdb's -14) Better error/status loggin in both the pam_winbind client and +14) Better error/status logging in both the pam_winbind client and winbindd_pam 15) Fix fd leak with kernel change notify 16) Fix slowdown because of enumerating all print queues on every smbd startup @@ -124,14 +211,8 @@ Changes in alpha21: of DC's, but not authoritative (e.g. password server = DC1 DC2 *) - - =============================== - -Changes in older alpha releases follow: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Changes in alpha20: +------------------- 1) Rework the 'guest account gets RID 501' code again... 2) Change to use NT-based session key negotiated for Win2k SPNEGO @@ -294,85 +375,5 @@ Changes in alpha20: 125) Add -r parameter to smbgroupedit. With -r you can manually choose a rid -Changes in alpha19 -1) Virtual registry framework with printing hooks (jerry) -2) Heavy registry updates (jerry) -3) Use 850 as the default DOS character set in smb.conf (tpot) -4) printer fixes ) removed encoding of queueid in job number (jra) -5) A lot of small fixes (jra) -6) Don't crash on setfileinfo on printer fsp(jra) -7) fixed line buffer mode in XFILE(jra) -8) update samba.schema from 2.2 (jerry,idra) -9) Fix problem with oplock breaks and win2k ) - noticed by Lev Iserovich <lev@ciprico.com> (jra) -10) Update smbgroupedit to document -d ) thanks to metze (abartlet) -11) Support weird behaviour used by win9x pass-through auth (abartlet,tpot) -12) Support for duplicating stderr in log files (abartlet) -13) Move startup time initialisation to server.c (abartlet) -14) *A lot* of fixes and cleanups (abartlet) -15) Fix up compiler warnings (abartlet) -16) Few small fixes (tpot) -17) Renamed new_cli_netlogon_* -> cli_netlogon_* (tpot) -18) Fixed segfault in net time when host is unavailable (tridge) -19) Ensure to be root when opening printer backend tdb (jra) -20) Merges from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot,jerry) -21) configure updates (tridge) -22) getgrouplist() updates (tridge) -23) Support for pdbedit to query account policy values (abartlet) -24) Allow one to create trusting domain account using smbpasswd (mimir,abartlet) -25) 'Net rpc trustdom list' (mimir, abartlet) -26) Fix fallback to anonymous connection (mimir, abartlet) -27) Fix for pdb_ldap and OpenLDAP 2.1 -28) Added support in swat to determine whether winbind is running (idra) -29) Add 'hide unwritable' option (idra) -30) Correct pickup of [homes] share after subsequent session setups (abartlet) -31) Update rebind code in pdb_ldap (abartlet) -32) Add some info levels to RPC srvsvc code ) - thanks to Nigel Williams" <nigel@veritas.com> (abartlet) -33) Small doc fixes (tridge) -34) good security patch from Timothy.Sell@unisys.com (tridge) -35) fix minor nits in nmbd from adtam@cup.hp.com (tridge) -36) make sure async dns nmbd child dies (tridge) -37) interim fix for nmbd not registering DOMAIN#1b (tridge) -38) fix for smbtar filename matching (tridge) -39) Better quote handling in smb.conf (abartlet) -40) Support browsers setting multiple languages in swat (idra) -41) Changed str_list_make to be able to use a different separator string (idra) -42) Samsync support to insert account info into the pdb (tpot) -43) Don't hide unwritable dirs when 'hide unwritable' is enabled ) - suggested by Alexander Oswald <oswald@is.haw-hamburg.de> (idra) -44) Fix for handling sparse files in smbd (tridge) -45) Merges from 2_2 (jerry) -46) Minor printer fixes (jerry) -47) Add some checks to SID lookup code (abartlet) -48) Cascaded VFS (Alexander Bokovoy, idra) -49) Some netbios-less connections support in ADS mode (tridge) -50) ADS tweaks (tridge) -51) Fix plaintext passwords with win2k (tridge) -52) 'net ads info' reports IP of LDAP server (tridge) -53) Add some more RPC functions (jmcd) -54) Add 'smb ports = ' option (tridge) -55) Various small fixes (tridge) -56) Passdb security checks (abartlet) -57) Large winbind updates (abartlet) -58) Moved rpc client routines from libsmb to rpc_client (tpot) -59) Few nmbd fixes (jmcd) -60) Fix swat to handle new debug level code (idra) -61) Fix name length bug in namequeries (tridge) -62) Don't have client binaries depend on libs they don't use ) - patch from Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> (abartlet) -63) Printing change notification (merged from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry) -64) fix delete printer driver (from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry) -65) Added pdb_xml and pdb_mysql (jelmer) -66) Update pdb_test (jelmer) -67) Fix security issues with %m (abartlet) -68) Support for service joins from win2k AND use SPNEGO (jmcd) -69) pdbedit -i and -e fix, add -b (idra) -70) textdocs converted to sgml (jelmer, jerry) -71) Merge netbios namecache code from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot) -72) Fix segs in new NTLMSSP code (abartlet) -73) Always make guest rid 501 (abartlet) - - |