From b17b6f78218c57359aa351003aa1033665d93f36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jelmer Vernooij Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:11:05 -0700 Subject: Update WHATSNEW.txt. --- WHATSNEW4.txt | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'WHATSNEW4.txt') diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt index fe5274d19a..200e47edf6 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's new in Samba 4 alpha12 +What's new in Samba 4 alpha13 ============================= Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being @@ -6,13 +6,16 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.x series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above. -Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been -publishing since September 2007 +Samba4 alpha13 follows on from the alpha release series we have been +publishing since September 2007. Since this file has referred to alpha 12 +for a while before any release happened and since Debian packages +have been published that presumed the existance of a alpha12 release +we are skipping alpha12 and going straight to alpha13. WARNINGS ======== -Samba4 alpha12 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference +Samba4 alpha13 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 @@ -28,7 +31,7 @@ automated basis, we have found Samba4 to be very stable in it's behaviour. We have to recommend against upgrading production servers from Samba 3 to Samba 4 at this stage, because there may be the features on which you may rely that are not present, or the mapping of -your configuration and user database may not be complete. +your configuration and user database may not be complete. If you are upgrading, or looking to develop, test or deploy Samba4, you should backup all configuration and data. @@ -71,7 +74,7 @@ AD implementation and therefore achieved also this time big steps forward. Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List -Beside this the release includes: +Beside this the release includes (among a lot of other things): * a new build system based on WAF Andrew Tridgell (tridge) invested much time to bring this up. He achieved a @@ -162,7 +165,7 @@ 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. +that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage. The Samba Wiki at http://wiki.samba.org should detail some of these development plans. -- cgit