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diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt index 7c637ccd66..1b9a5ba2c8 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's new in Samba 4 alpha7 +What's new in Samba 4 alpha8 ============================ Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being @@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above. -Samba4 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been +Samba4 alpha8 follows on from the alpha release series we have been publishing since September 2007 WARNINGS ======== -Samba4 alpha7 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference +Samba4 alpha8 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 @@ -62,35 +62,21 @@ 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 alpha6 +CHANGES SINCE alpha7 ===================== -In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has +In the time since Samba4 alpha7 was released in Feburary 2009, Samba has continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas (in no particular order): - Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated - for the OpenLDAP-Backend. + Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008 - OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the - OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required). + LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of + users and groups much more efficiently - Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain - - Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed - - A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been - updated for easier use outside Samba4 - - spoolss IDL updates to bring Samba3 to use PIDL code, and to merge - the corrected IDL back into Samba4 - - Fixes to allow use of C++ compilers and to increase portability - - Fixed TLS (SSL) support with modern versions of GnuTLS - -These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past -month. More details can be found in our GIT history. +These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in +the past few months. More details of the work done 'under the hood' +can be found in our GIT history. CHANGES @@ -116,11 +102,6 @@ KNOWN ISSUES and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist with this problem). -- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux - distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is - expected during the next alpha cycles - - RUNNING Samba4 ============== |