From 1ac654d108ebeede3ff78ddb30f19e1f4d516063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:02:23 +0200 Subject: s4:WHATSNEW4.txt - further updates and corrections Some are inspired by ekacnet. --- WHATSNEW4.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'WHATSNEW4.txt') diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt index 7176abeb92..fe5274d19a 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt @@ -73,11 +73,16 @@ http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List Beside this the release includes: +* a new build system based on WAF +Andrew Tridgell (tridge) invested much time to bring this up. He achieved a +marvellous work which brings us faster building, easier management and smaller +binaries. + * enhancements in Samba4 winbind to provide a fairly good implementation of the most important functions needed by "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" -The use of this two components allows a user/group mapping for Windows accounts -on UNIX and UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to -connect to services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on. +This two components allow a user/group mapping for Windows accounts on UNIX and +UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to connect to +services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on. More informations available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind and for winbind in general, "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" in the Samba 3.X documentation. @@ -87,8 +92,10 @@ These can now also be set on the command line directly on the server. See "net acl" for further informations. * dynamic DNS updates -A new DNS upgrade mechanism has been introduced which works with newer bind9 -releases. +Up-to-date DNS entries are essential for Active Directory deployments. As for +the moment Samba4 isn't yet capable to interoperate with Microsofts AD DNS +server (regarding RPCs, ADs zone entries...) a kind of update script has been +developed. It also permits the update of the "grant" and "resource" lists. * registry improvements The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the @@ -97,10 +104,11 @@ new torture tests written by gd and some additional testing against Windows Also some real bugs were fixed. * new Kerberos HEIMDAL release -Abartlet imported a new release with various bugfixes +Andrew Bartlett (abartlet) imported a new release with various bugfixes * DCE/RPC code unification work -Metze started his work to unify these codebases between s3 and s4 +Stefan Metzmacher (metze) started his work to unify these codebases between s3 +and s4 * And much more We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of our @@ -139,9 +147,6 @@ KNOWN ISSUES from Samba3 to Samba4. It's not included yet in the binary distributions since it's completely experimental! -- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision. - Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed soon. - RUNNING Samba4 ============== @@ -153,8 +158,8 @@ DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK We need your help! Projects as Samba 4 live from the community feedback. If you provide expressive bug reports, some documentation snippets on the wiki or some -real patches - all is appreciated if it meets our quality criterias. Here you -can find the links: +real code patches - all is appreciated if it meets our quality criterias. Here +you can find further references: Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/ but please be aware that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage. -- cgit