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                   Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre3
                               Mar 28, 2008
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This is the third preview release of Samba 3.2.0.  This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only.  Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.

Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under the version 3
of the new GNU General Public License.  You may refer to the COPYING
file that accompanies these release notes for further licensing details.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:

  File Serving:
  o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC
    interfaces.
  o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on
    filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
  o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
  o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
  o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
  o Support for IPv6 in the server, and client tools and libraries.
  o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
  o Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
  o Support for Vista clients authenticating via Kerberos.

  Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
  o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts
    and one-way domain trusts.
  o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS
    lookups.
  o Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
  o Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
  o New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so).

  Joining:
  o New NetApi library for domain join related queries (libnetapi.so)
    and example GTK+ Domain join gui.
  o New client and server support for remotely joining and unjoining
    Domains.
  o Support for joining into Windows 2008 domains.

  Users & Groups:
  o New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
  o Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.


  Documentation:
  o Inclusion of an HTML version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
    from O'Reilly Publishing.


Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
================================

The Samba Team has adopted the Version 3 of the GNU General Public
License for the 3.2 and later releases.   The GPLv3 is the updated
version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other
licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
Software in the 21st Century.

The original announcement is available on-line at

    http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/


New Security Defaults for Authentication
========================================

Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
applications.  Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
disabled by default in client utilities such as smbclient and all
libsmbclient based applications.  This will affect connection both
to and from hosts running DOS, Windows 9x/ME, and OS/2.  Please refer
to the "Changes" section for details on the exact parameters that were
updated.


Registry Configuration Backend
==============================

Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
supplement smb.conf setting.  This feature may be enabled by setting
"config backend = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.

More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
pages.


Removed Features
================

Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.

As smbfs is no longer supported in current kernel versions, smbmount has
been removed in this Samba version. Please use cifs (mount.cifs) instead.
See examples/scripts/mount/mount.smbfs as an example for a wrapper which
calls mount.cifs instead of smbmount/mount.smbfs.


Modified API for libsmbclient
==============================================================================

Maintaining ABI compatibility for libsmbclient has become increasingly
difficult to accomplish, while also keeping the code organization such that it
is easily readable.  Towards the goal of maintaining ABI compatibility and
also keeping the code easy to maintain and enhance, the API has been enhanced.
In particular, the fields in the SMBCCTX context structure are no longer
intended to be read/write by the user, and are marked as deprecated.  An
application that previously accessed the members of the SMBCCTX context
structure will now encounter warnings if recompiled.  This is intentional, to
encourage implementation of the small changes required for the new interface.
The number of changes is expected to be quite small for the vast majority of
applications, and no changes need be made for many applications.  The changes
required for KDE (konqueror) to conform to the new interface, for example, are
only four lines in only one file.

Instead of the application manually changing or reading values in the context
structure, there are now setter and getter functions for each configurable
member in that structure.  Similarly, the smbc_option_get() and
smbc_option_set() functions are deprecated in favor of the setter/getter
interface.  The setters and getters are all documented in libsmbclient.h
under these comment blocks:

  Getters and setters for CONFIGURATION
  Getters and setters for OPTIONS
  Getters and setters for FUNCTIONS
  Callable functions for files
  Callable functions for directories
  Callable functions applicable to both files and directories

Example changes that may be required to eliminate "deprecated" warnings:

  /* Set the debug level */
  context->debug = 99;
changes to:
  smbc_setDebug(context, 99);

  /* Specify the authentication callback function */
  context->callbacks.auth_fn = auth_smbc_get_data;
changes to:
  smbc_setFunctionAuthData(context, auth_smbc_get_data);

  /* Specify the new-style authentication callback with context parameter */
  smbc_option_set("auth_function", auth_smbc_get_data_with_ctx);
changes to:
  smbc_setFunctionAuthDataWithContext(context, auth_smbc_get_data_with_ctx);

  /* Set kerberos flags */
  context->flags = (SMB_CTX_FLAG_USE_KERBEROS |
                    SMB_CTX_FLAG_FALLBACK_AFTER_KERBEROS);
changes to:
  smbc_setOptionUseKerberos(context, 1);
  smbc_setOptionFallbackAfterKerberos(context, 1);




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Changes
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smb.conf changes
----------------

    Parameter Name                      Description     Default
    --------------                      -----------     -------
    client lanman auth			Changed Default	No
    client ldap sasl wrapping		New		plain
    client plaintext auth		Changed Default	No
    clustering				New		No
    cluster addresses			New		""
    config backend			New		file
    ctdb socket				New		""
    debug class				New		No
    administrative share		New		No
    lanman auth				Changed Default	No
    ldap debug level			New		0
    ldap debug threshold		New		10
    mangle map				Removed
    min receive file size		New             0
    open files database hashsize	Removed
    read bmpx				Removed
    registry shares			New		No
    winbind expand groups		New		1
    winbind rpc only			New		No


Changes since 3.2.0pre2:
-----------------------


o   Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
    * Fix session setup with security = share.
    * Fix segfault in testparm.
    * Fix several Makefile issues.
    * Fix build of bin/net on Solaris.
    * Reformat the parm table of loadparm to use named initializers.
    * Fix %I macro expansion for IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses.
    * Convert registry.tdb to use dbwrap and fix memleaks.
    * Several make test fixes and improvements.
    * Rename libnet_conf to libsmbconf and introduce backend abstraction layer.
    * Add text backend to libsmbconf, based on params.c.
    * Fix handling of includes in registry libsmbconf backend.
    * Fix net conf import by reading from text backend.
    * Add a "net registry" command to locally access the registry.
    * Add testsuites for libsmbconf and "net registry".
    * Fix Coverity IDs 517, 536, 545.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
    * BUG 5311: Fix IPv6 issue with hosts allow/deny settings.


o   Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
    * BUG 4235: Prevent ntlm_auth from sending BH responses without a message.
    * Fix one BH message.


o   Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
    * Fix libtdb some to move back towards allowing out of tree builds.
    * Ignore port when pulling IP addr from struct sockaddr_storage..


o   Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
    * Fix build of pam_smbpass.
    * Fix lp_load with an empty registry and "config backend = registry".
    * Fix build targets for bin/net.
    * Fix _dssetup_DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInformation().
    * Fix the build of cifs.spnego.
    * Migration of the SRVSVC client and server DCE/RPC code to IDL
      based structures and autogenerated code


o   Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
    * Add support for async SMB requests.
    * Add transactions to the dbwrap API.
    * Add "net idmap aclmapset".
    * Change default bufsize to 512k.
    * Fix Coverity IDs 473, 481, 506, 507, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 537,
      538, 547, 548, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 557, 558, 559, 563, 564, 567.
    * Fix some warnings in the tsmsm module.
    * Fix warnings.
    * BUG 4901: Fix "ldap passwd sync = only".
    * BUG 5334: Fix download of empty files using smbclient.
    * BUG 5307: Fix notify changes.
    * BUG 5317: Fix debug output in domain_client_validate.
    * BUG 5338: Fix format string issue in rpcclient.


o   Derrell Lipman <derrell@samba.org>
    * Check for NULL pointers before dereferencing them.
    * Fix use of AuthDataWithContext capability.


o   Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
    * Fix usage message for "net idmap dump".


o   Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
    * Suppress superfluous message.


o   Marc VanHeyningen <marc.vanheyningen@isilon.com>
    * Coverity fixes.


Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
-----------------------

o   Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
    * Add library for access to the registry configuration data.
    * BUG 5023: Separate NFS4 and POSIX ACL code in file access checks.
    * BUG 4308: Fix Excel save operation ACL bug.
    * Refactor and consolidate logic for retrieving the machine
      trust password information.
    * VFS API cleanup (remove redundant parameter).
    * BUG 4801: Correctly implement LSA lookup levels for LookupNames.
    * Add new option "debug class" to control printing of the debug class.
      in debug headers.
    * Enable building of the zfsacl and notify_fam vfs modules.
    * BUG 5083: Fix memleak in solarisacl module.
    * BUG 5063: Fix build on RHEL5.
    * New smb.conf parameter "config backend = registry" to enable registry
      only configuration.
    * Move "net conf" functionality into a separate module libnet_conf.c
    * Restructure registry code, eliminating the dynamic overlay.
      Make use of reg_api instead of backend code in most places.
    * Add support for intercepting LDAP libraries' debug output and print
      it in Samba's debugging system.
    * Libreplace fixes.
    * Build fixes.
    * Initial support for using subsystems as shared libraries.
      Use talloc, tdb, and libnetapi as shared libraries internally.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
    * Added support for IPv6 client and server connections.
    * Add in the recvfile entry to the VFS layer.
    * Removal of pstring data type.
    * Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
    * Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
      (based on work from Andreas Schneider).
    * Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.


o   Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
    * Added support for an SMB_CONF_PATH environment variable
      containing the path to smb.conf.
    * Various fixes to ntlm_auth.
    * make test now supports more extensive SPOOLSS testing using vlp.
    * Correctly handle mixed-case hostnames in NTLMv2 authentication.


o   Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
    * Add Winbind client library.
    * Decouple static linking between smbd and winbindd's client
      interface.


o   Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
    * Enhance client and server remote registry access.
    * Add client calls for remotely joining a computer to a domain
      (including calls from "net dom" command).
    * Add libnetapi.so library for joining domains including
      sample GTK+ app.
    * Fixes for Vista SP1 Kerberos authdata handling to only pickup
      the PAC.
    * Various error code and error message fixes.
    * Add initial draft of libnetconf to allow programmatic
      configuration changes.
    * Add libnet_join internal library for programmatically joining
      and unjoining Domains.
    * Add various fixes and new calls to libnetapi.so library.
    * Various fixes for DsGetDcName and conversion to IDL based
      structures.
    * Fixes for pidl to correctly generate WERROR based client calls.
    * Fixes for pidl to generate output that complies to coding
      conventions.
    * Various IDL fixes.
    * Add ads_get_joinable_ous() to libads to get list of joinable ous.
    * Add get_logon_hours_from_pdb() to comply with new IDL based
      structures.
    * Add debugging capabilities to dump AD connections to libads
      (using ndr_print).
    * Add "dump-domain-list" command for smbcontrol to retrieve better
      debugging information out of winbindd.
    * Migration of the entire client and server DCE/RPC code to IDL
      based structures and autogenerated code for DSSETUP, LSA, SAMR
      and NETLOGON.
    * Started migration of client and server DCE/RPC code to IDL based
      structures and autogenerated code for NTSSVC, SVCCTL and
      EVENTLOG.
    * Use IDL and autogenerated code for samlogoncache and Kerberos
      PAC handling.
    * Various fixes and cleanup of Kerberos PAC handling.
    * Fix segfault in _srv_net_file_enum.
    * Conversion of client join and unjoin code to libnet_join.
    * Add remote join/unjoin server-side implementation.
    * Removed a lot of code which has become obsolete.


o   Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
    * Integrate 2 out of 3 --with-fhs patches from Debian packaging
      for better adherence to the FHS standard.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
    * Add talloc_stackframe() and talloc_pool() features.
    * Removal of pstring data type.
    * Add generic a in-memory cache.
    * Import the Linux red-black tree implementation.
    * Remove large amount of global variables.
    * Support for storing xattrs in tdb files.
    * Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
    * Implement a generic in-memory cache based on rb-trees.
    * Add implicit temporary talloc contexts via talloc_stack().
    * Speed up the smbclient "get" command
    * Add the aio_fork module
    * Fix bug 4901

o   Derrell Lipman <derrell@samba.org>
    * Modified libsmbclient API for more easily maintaining ABI compatibility
      while adding new features to libsmbclient.

o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
    * Refactor Winbind internal parent-child interface tables
      to achieve better unit testing support.
    * Add nss_wrapper API for local Winbind unit tests.
    * Networking fixes to the libreplace library.
    * Pidl fixes.
    * Remove unused Winbind pipe calls.
    * Build fixes.
    * Fix for a crash bug in pidl generated client code.
      This could have happend with [in,out,unique] pointers
      when the client sends a valid pointer, but the server
      responds with a NULL pointer (as samba-3.0.26a does for some calls).
    * Change NTSTATUS into enum ndr_err_code in librpc/ndr.
    * Remove unused calls in the struct based winbindd protocol.
    * Add --configfile option to wbinfo.
    * Convert winbind_env_set(), winbind_on() and winbind_off() into macros.
    * Return rids and other_sids arrays in WBFLAG_PAM_INFO3_TEXT mode.
    * Implement wbcErrorString() and wbcAuthenticateUserEx().
    * Convert auth_winbind to use wbcAuthenticateUserEx().


o   James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
    * Add support for DNS Service Discovery.  Based on work from
      Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>.


o   Andreas Schneider <anschneider@suse.de>
    * Don't restart winbind if a corrupted tdb is found during
      initialization.
    * Fix Windows 2008 (Longhorn) join.
    * Fix crashbug in winbindd.
    * Add share parameter "administrative share".


o   Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
    * Improve error messages of net subcommands.
    * Add 'net rap file user'.
    * Change LDAP search filter to find machine accounts which
      are not located in the user suffix.
    * Remove smbmount.


o   David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
    * BUG 5073: Allow "delete readonly = yes" to correctly override
      deletion of a file.


o   Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>
    * Register the smb service with mDNS if mDNS is supported.
    * Add smbclient support for basic mDNS browsing.


o   Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
    * Fix padding between Winbind 32bit/64bit client library in
      the request/response structures.
    * Added a syncops VFS module for file systems which do not
      guarantee meta-data operations are immediately committed to
      disk in stable form.


o   Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
    * Additional portability support for building shared libraries.


o   Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
    * Get Samba version or capability information from Windows user space.


Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
---------------------------
o   Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
    * Unified POSIX ACL detection including support for FreeBSD and
      HP-UX.
    * Performance improvements for Winbind's lookup functions (names,
      SIDs, and group membership) when joined to an AD domain.
    * Winbind cache validation support.
    * Store domain trust passwords for Samba domain controller's in
      the domain's passdb backend.
    * Merged \winreg server code from the SAMBA_3_2 development branch.
    * Fixes for libreplace.
    * Implement new registry configuration backend.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
    * Add support for file system objectIDs.
    * Winbind cache validation support.
    * Add in the UNIX capability for 24-bit readX.
    * Improve Delete-on-Close semantics.
    * Removal of static file and path name buffers in SMB file serving
      code.


o   Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
    * Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
      ads join".


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
    * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
      servers.


o   Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
    * Implement support for one-way trusts and two-way cross-forest
      transitive trust in winbindd.
    * Fixes for Winbind's offline/disconnected logon support when
      using remote idmap backends.
    * Fix LookupNames and LookupSids to use the same resolution
      heuristics as Windows XP.
    * Fix lockups in Winbind when running nscd.
    * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
    * Add support for GNU linker scripts when build shared libraries
      (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
      Peach).


o   Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
    * Additional support for decoding and downloading group policy
      objects from Active Directory.
    * Improvements to "net ads keytab" command.
    * Fixes for linking against Heimdal Kerberos client libs.
    * Support LDAP range retrieval searches.
    * Fixes for failure to refresh user ticket caches in Winbind.
    * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
    * Add KDC locator plugin for MIT kerberos 1.6 or later.


o   Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
    * Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
      to come up.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
    * Merge experimental cluster support patches from the ctdb branch.
    * Add tdb storage abstraction for ctdb.
    * Use IDL for internal message passing system.
    * Add client support for the SamLogonEx() authentication request.
    * Implement RPC proxy stubs in the Samba server code to allow
      replacing implementation functions one by one.
    * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
      packet processing code.
    * Add "net sam rights" command.


o   Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
    * Fixes for mount.cifs Linux utility.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
    * Fixes for libreplace.
    * Add support for LDAP digital signing policy.
    * Experimental clustered file system support.


o   Lars Mueller <lars@samba.org>
    * Makefile and build fixes.
    * Add pam_pwd_expire for pam_winbind (original patch from Andreas
      Schneider).


o   James Peach <jpeach@apple.com>
    * Fixes for setgroups() and *BSD and Darwin.
    * Support membership of >16 groups on Darwin.


o   Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
    * Added vfs_zfsacl module.


o   Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
    * Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
    * Cleanup internal passdb functions.


o   Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
    * Fixes for IDmap and Passdb backends.


o   Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
    * Port ldb from the Samba 4 tree and add ldb group mapping plugin.
    * Move several file serving related tdb files to use the dbwrap
      API internally.
    * Cleanup the GPFS VFS plugin.
    * Experimental clustered file system support.


o   Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
    * Implement NDR basic to support utilizing IDL files from Samba 4
      tree for general DCE/RPC parsing stubs.



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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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