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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index b7af9953fc..1b08ff31a4 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's new in Samba 4.0 beta4 +What's new in Samba 4.0 beta5 ============================= Samba 4.0 will be the next version of the Samba suite and incorporates @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ and above. WARNINGS ======== -Samba 4.0 beta4 is not a final Samba release, however we are now making +Samba 4.0 beta5 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 the best of all of Samba's technology parts, both a file server (that you can reasonably expect @@ -94,55 +94,61 @@ Python programs to interface to Samba's internals, and many tools and internal workings of the DC code is now implemented in python. -CHANGES SINCE beta3 +CHANGES SINCE beta4 ===================== -For a list of changes since beta3, please see the git log. +For a list of changes since beta4, please see the git log. $ git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git $ cd samba.git -$ git log samba-4.0.0beta3..samba-4.0.0beta4 +$ git log samba-4.0.0beta4..samba-4.0.0beta5 Some major user-visible changes include: -- The issue with beta3 being unable to build with a released version of +- The issue with beta4 being unable to build with a released version of ldb has been resolved. -- A new tool 'samba-tool domain dcpromo' has been added to allow the - promotion of existing domain member accounts to a DC without creating - a new SID +- The two parameter tables for our two smb.conf parsing engines have + been merged. This removes the ugly (but harmless) "unknown + parameter xxx" warnings, particularly from the smbd child process. -- When provisioning with --use_rfc2307=yes we will populate the - subtree CN=ypServ30,CN=RpcServices,CN=System,${DOMAINDN}. This makes - it possible to manipulate the posix attributes via ADUC. +- Major issues have been fixed in conflict and missing/deleted parent + handling in or DRS replication engine. -- Improved 'samba-tool gpo' subcommands +- Safety improvements to prevent corruption of read-write replicas + by manual replication from a read-only replica. -- --disable-ntdb now works properly +- Improvements to dbcheck to correct incorrect instanceType values from + the above and to relocate objects with missing parents. -- Bug 9026 - 3.6.6 upgrade from 3.5.x fails with "Couldn't migrate - printers tdb file: NT_STATUS_NO_MEMORY" has been resolved +- smbd no longer places all accounts in the 'Domain Users' of the AD + domain to which it is joined -- Bug 9016 - Connection to outbound trusted domain goes offline has - been resolved +- AES support in NETLOGON Schannel + +- DCE/RPC timeout handling no longer crashes + +- "socket address" is now "nbt client socket address" as it only + controls the binding of the NetBIOS client, not other protocols. + See 'bind interfaces only = yes'. This parameter is also now depricated. + +- nmbd now always binds to it's broadcast sockets explicitly, rather + than just relying on the socket address above. Less visible, but important changes under the hood include: - Continued work to support SMB2 and SMB3 -- Correct restrictions and permissions on LSA calls over TCP and via - Schannel have been implemented and tested - - Continued work to use async IO to improve file server performance. +- Patches to ensure that talloc_tos() and talloc_stackframe() are + always used correctly. + KNOWN ISSUES ============ - This release makes the s3fs file server the default, as this is the file server combination we will use for the Samba 4.0 release. - Users should still expect some rough edges: in particular, there are - warnings about invalid parameters from the two respective parameter - parsing engines. - Modifying of group policies by members of the Domain Administrators group is not possible with the s3fs file server, only with the ntvfs |