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@@ -124,6 +124,39 @@ smb.conf changes
Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
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+
+o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
+ * Add library for access to the registry configuration data.
+ * BUG 5023: Separate NFS4 and POSIX ACL code in file access checks.
+ * BUG 4308: Fix Excel save operation ACL bug.
+ * Refactor and consolidate logic for retrieving the machine
+ trust password information.
+ * VFS API cleanup (remove redundant parameter).
+ * BUG 4801: Correctly implement LSA lookup levels for LookupNames.
+ * Add new option "debug class" to control printing of the debug class.
+ in debug headers.
+ * Enable building of the zfsacl and notify_fam vfs modules.
+ * BUG 5083: Fix memleak in solarisacl module.
+ * BUG 5063: Fix build on RHEL5.
+ * New smb.conf parameter "config backend = registry" to enable registry
+ only configuration.
+ * Libreplace fixes.
+ * Build fixes.
+ * Initial support for using subsystems as shared libraries.
+ Use talloc, tdb, and libnetapi as shared libraries internally.
+
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * Added support for IPv6 client and server connections.
+ * Add in the recvfile entry to the VFS layer.
+ * Removal of pstring data type.
+ * Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
+ * Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
+ (based on work from Andreas Schneider).
+ * Additional work on the session data privacy for clients
+ implementing the Unix CIFS Extensions.
+
+
o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
* Added support for an SMB_CONF_PATH environment variable
containing the path to smb.conf.
@@ -132,7 +165,31 @@ o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
* Correctly handle mixed-case hostnames in NTLMv2 authentication.
+o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
+ * Add Winbind client library.
+ * Decouple static linking between smbd and winbindd's client
+ interface.
+
+
+o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * Enhance client and server remote registry access.
+ * Add client calls for remotely joining a computer to a domain
+ (including calls from "net dom" command).
+ * Add libnetapi.so library for joining domains including
+ sample GTK+ app.
+
+
+o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ * Integrate 2 out of 3 --with-fhs patches from Debian packaging
+ for better adherence to the FHS standard.
+
+
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * Add talloc_stackframe() and talloc_pool() features.
+ * Removal of pstring data type.
+ * Add generic a in-memory cache.
+ * Import the Linux red-black tree implementation.
+ * Remove large amount of global variables.
* Support for storing xattrs in tdb files
* Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
* Implement a generic in-memory cache based on rb-trees
@@ -141,6 +198,7 @@ o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* Fixes for libreplace.
+ * Pidl fixes.
* Build fixes.
* Add nss_wrapper support.
* Start and test winbindd by 'make test'
@@ -159,6 +217,16 @@ o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* Convert auth_winbind to use wbcAuthenticateUserEx().
+o James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
+ * Add support for DNS Service Discovery. Based on work from
+ Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>.
+
+
+o Andreas Schneider <anschneider@suse.de>
+ * Don't restart winbind if a corrupted tdb is found during
+ initialization.
+
+
o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
* Improve error messages of net subcommands.
* Add 'net rap file user'.
@@ -166,6 +234,29 @@ o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
are not located in the user suffix.
+o David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+ * BUG 5073: Allow "delete readonly = yes" to correctly override
+ deletion of a file.
+
+
+o Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>
+ * Register the smb service with mDNS if mDNS is supported.
+ * Add smbclient support for basic mDNS browsing.
+
+
+o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
+ * Fix padding between Winbind 32bit/64bit client library in
+ the request/response structures.
+ * Added a syncops VFS module for file systems which do not
+ guarantee meta-data operations are immediately committed to
+ disk in stable form.
+
+
+o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
+ * Additional portability support for building shared libraries.
+
+
+
Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
---------------------------
o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>