Roadmap to 3.0
Page Last Updated : 12th Sep, 2003
Current Beta Release : Samba-3.0.0rc4
Road to 3.0
- (12th Sep, 2003) The fourth release candidate of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download
Samba-3.0.0rc4 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the Release Notes for more details.
- (8th Sep, 2003) The third release candidate of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download
Samba-3.0.0rc3 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the Release Notes for more details.
- (29th Aug, 2003) The second release candidate of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download
Samba-3.0.0rc2 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the Release Notes for more details.
- (16th Aug, 2003) The first release candidate of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download
Samba-3.0.0rc1 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the Release Notes for more details.
- (16th Jul, 2003) The third beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download
Samba-3.0.0beta3 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the Release Notes for more details. This could be the last beta release before moving onto 3.0.0 release candidates.
- (1st Jul, 2003) The second beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download
Samba-3.0.0beta2 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the Release Notes for more details.
- (7th Jun, 2003) The first beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download
Samba-3.0.0beta1 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the Release Notes for more details.
- (14th May, 2003) The Feature Freeze is in place with the 3.0alpha24 release
The 3.0alpha24 release is provided to aid developers in testing Samba in preparation for the first beta release of 3.0 tenatively planned for May 26. Refer to the main page on samba.org for download locations.
- (5th May, 2003) Feature Freeze and Samba 3.0 beta release dates
The Samba Team has agreed to push the feature freeze for Samba 3.0 development to May 12, 2003. Following this will be two weeks of testing with the first planned beta release of Samba 3.0 on May 26. Following the open-ended beta period will be preview (preX) releases, followed by release candidate builds (rcX) and finally 3.0.0. There is no estimated shipping date on the initial stable 3.0.0 release.
Here is the mail sent to samba-technical describing the reasons for the delay.
- (31st Mar, 2003) Samba-3.0alpha23 RPMS for Redhat 6.x, 7.x and 8.0 available
Binary packages for RedHat Linux 6.x, 7.x and 8.0 systems of the Samba 3.0alpha23 release are ready for download from the Binary_Packages/RedHat directory.
Roadmap Overview
This is a feature list/roadmap for the 3.0 release. A lot of discussion has gone on about this. Implementation is a separate discussion :-) If a feature is already done, I marked it as "Req". It should be obvious from this roadmap that one the major hurdles for releasing the 3.0 code base is the completion of documentation updates.
- X = done
- o = TODO
- - = unknown
Some features have been through basic testing that have o's beneath testing column since we are not done. Items are ordered by maturity, not by importance. If it is marked as Required, then it must be completed for a stable 3.0 release.
Feature |
Required? |
Code |
Test |
Document |
| Release Delaying Features | ||||
| UNICODE support | yes | X | X | X |
| Windows 2000 AD client support | yes | X | X | X |
| winbind dual-daemon implementation | yes | X | X | X |
| pluggable passdb support | yes | X | X | X |
| Windows NT 4.0 Style Trust Relationship | yes | X | X | X |
| NTLMv2 | yes | X | X | X |
| One Time Migration script from a Windows NT 4.0 PDC to a Samba PDC | yes | X | X | X |
| Winbind working with Samba PDC | yes | X | X | X |
| Loadable RPC implementations | yes | X | X | X |
| Utilizing a centralized winbindd id map database | yes | X | X | o |
| Mapping between Windows and UNIX groups | yes | X | X | X |
| Publishing printers in AD | yes | X | X | o |
| Non-Release Delaying Features | ||||
| Stackable VFS | no | X | X | X |
| SAM replication (full implementation still lacks some decoding work; post 3.0) | no | - | - | - |
| SMB signing (needs more research; not a show stopper) | no | X | X | X |
| schannel, ntlmv2 sign & seal (needs more research) | no | X | X | X |
| alternative backend for WINS database (there is a patch that still needs some work) | no | in-progress | - | - |
| Group policy objects, profiles, and SYSVOL replication protocols | no | in-progress | - | - |
Plus the following interesting, but non-show stopping projects
- background updates of print queues via a dedicated process
- WINS replication with Windows NT WINS servers