From 9f62c8bddfeeb5fa38b34fe4bfbbe73b524aa5fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jelmer Vernooij Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:52:34 +0100 Subject: Start on alpha6 release notes. --- WHATSNEW4.txt | 37 ++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt index 726fb1cd97..a82ceac843 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's new in Samba 4 alpha5 +What's new in Samba 4 alpha6 ============================ 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 alpha5 follows on from the alpha release series we have been +Samba4 alpha6 follows on from the alpha release series we have been publishing since September 2007 WARNINGS ======== -Samba4 alpha5 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference +Samba4 alpha6 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 @@ -62,32 +62,15 @@ 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 Alpha4 +CHANGES SINCE Alpha5 ===================== -In the time since Samba4 Alpha4 was released in June 2008, Samba has +In the time since Samba4 Alpha5 was released in June 2008, Samba has continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas: - LDAP backend support restored (issues preventing the use of the LDAP - backend in alpha4 have been addressed). - - SMB2 Support: The SMB2 server, while still disabled, has improved, - and now supports SMB2 signing. - - OpenChange support: Updates have been made since alpha4 to better - support OpenChange's use of Samba4's libraries. - - Faster ldb loading: A fix to avoid calling 'init_module' (which was - not defined by Samba modules, but was by the C library) will fix - some of the slowness in authentication. - - SWAT Remains Disabled: Due to a lack of developer time and without a - long-term web developer to maintain it, the SWAT web UI remains been - disabled (and would need to be rewritten in python in any case). - - GNU Make: To try and simplfy our build system, we rely on GNU Make - to avoid autogenerating a massive single makefile. - + The source code for various libraries that are used by both Samba 3 and + Samba 4 are now shared between the two rather than duplicated + (and being slightly diverged). These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few months. More details can be found in our GIT history. @@ -116,11 +99,11 @@ KNOWN ISSUES and server. (The NTP work in the previous alpha is partly to assist with this problem). -- Samba4 alpha5 is currently only portable to recent Linux +- Samba4 alpha6 is currently only portable to recent Linux distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is expected during the next alpha cycle -- Samba4 alpha5 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and +- Samba4 alpha6 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and recent Ubuntu releases. GnuTLS use may be disabled using the --disable-gnutls argument to ./configure. (otherwise 'make test' and LDAPS operations will hang). -- cgit