- =================================
- Release Notes for Samba 3.5.0pre1
- November 26, 2009
- =================================
+ ================================
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.5.0rc2
+ January 26, 2010
+ ================================
-This is the first preview release of Samba 3.5. This is *not*
+This is the second release candidate of Samba 3.5. 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/.
General changes:
o Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution
+o The Using Samba HTML book has been removed.
Protocol changes:
o Experimental implementation of SMB2
o Major refactoring
o Asynchronous
+VFS modules:
+o New vfs_scannedonly module has been added.
+
General changes:
================
makes us use Windows' full 100ns timestamp resolution if supported by the
kernel (2.6.22 and higher) and the glibc (2.6 and higher).
+The Using Samba HTML book has been removed from the Samba tarball.
+It is still available at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html.
+
Protocol changes
================
===============
The Winbind daemon has been refactored internally to be asynchronous. The new
-Winbind will not be blocked by running 'wbinfo -g' or 'wbinfo -u'.
+Winbind will not be blocked by running 'getent group' or 'getent passwd'.
+
+VFS modules
+===========
+
+A new VFS module "scannedonly" has been added. This is a filter that
+talks to an antivirus-engine and stores whether a file is clean or not.
+Users do only see clean files on their filesystem.
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ctdb timeout New 0
cups encrypt New no
debug hires timestamp Changed Default yes
+ ldap deref New auto
ldap follow referral New auto
New configure options
---------------------
---enable-external-libtalloc Enable external tdb
+--enable-external-libtdb Enable external tdb
--enable-netapi Turn on netapi support
--enable-pthreadpool Enable pthreads pool helper support
--with-cifsumount Include umount.cifs (Linux only) support
Commit Highlights
=================
-o Björn Jacke <bjacke@sernet.de>
+o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
* Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution.
* Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server.
* Implement the new SMB2 protocol (experimental).
+Changes since 3.5.0rc1
+----------------------
+
+
+o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
+ * BUG 4347: Check password history before increasing "badPasswordCount".
+
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * BUG 5202: Fix changing of ACLs on writable file with "dos filemode=yes".
+ * BUG 6876: Fix deletion of an object whose parent folder does not have delete
+ rights fails even if the delete right is set on the object in
+ vfs_acl_xattr and vfs_acl_tdb.
+ * BUG 7033: Fix SMBrmdir error message when deleting a directory fails.
+ * BUG 7036: Fix 'net rpc getsid' in hardened Windows environments.
+ * BUG 7045: Fix bad (non memory copying) interfaces in smbc_setXXXX calls.
+
+
+o Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com>
+ * BUG 7029: Disable sanity check in NetShareEnum for better compatibility
+ with Windows.
+
+
+o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
+ * BUG 7039: Fix compile error with WITH_DNS_UPDATE. Update .po files.
+
+
+o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * BUG 7043: Fix crash bug in libsmbclient.
+
+
+o André Hentschel <nerv@dawncrow.de>
+ * BUG 7039: Complete German translation of 'net'.
+
+
+o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
+ * BUG 7039: Improve some German translations in 'net'.
+
+
+o William Jojo <w.jojo@hvcc.edu>
+ * BUG 7052: Fix DFS on AIX.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6981: Fix large paged search with DirX LDAP servers.
+ * BUG 7027: Fix a segfault in winbindd_dual_ccache_ntlm_auth().
+ * BUG 7037: Fix a Winbind segfault in "trusted_domains".
+ * BUG 7046: Fix libsmbclient crash against OpenSolaris CIFS server.
+ * Lock down some srvsvc calls according to what w2k3 seems to do.
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6157: Restore Samba 3.0.x behavior and use the first "uid" value in
+ pdb_ldap.
+
+
+o SASAJIMA Toshihiro <sasajima_t@jp.fujitsu.com>
+ * BUG 7034: Fix segfault in vfs_cap.
+
+
+o Olivier Sessink <oliviersessink@gmail.com>
+ * BUG 7028: Add new scannedonly VFS module.
+
+
+Changes since 3.5.0pre2
+-----------------------
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6837: Fix "Too many open files" when trying to access large number of
+ files with Windows 7.
+ * BUG 6939: Fix long filenames when "mangling method" is set to "hash".
+ * BUG 7020: Fix smbd using 2G memory.
+ * Ensure dos_mode can return FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, then filter the returned
+ attributes by protocol level.
+ * Vector correctly through reply_openerror() (which uses the same logic).
+ * Fix bugs with the full Windows ACL support.
+
+
+o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
+ * Add a few missing gettext calls to the 'net' command.
+ * Fix up a share type translation and translate some more strings in 'net'.
+
+
+o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * Allow to call "pdbedit -N description -u user" without specifiyng "-r".
+ * Add spoolss_DriverInfo7.
+ * Fix rpcclient after setprinter IDL fixes.
+ * Use generated krb5.conf in 'net ads testjoin'.
+
+
+o Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski+samba@gmail.com>
+ * BUG 6992: make test for getgrouplist cacheable.
+
+
+o André Hentschel <nerv@dawncrow.de>
+ * Add some German translations for the 'net' command.
+
+
+o Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
+ * Update mount.cifs man page with nounix option.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * Fix _samr_GetAliasMembership for results with 0 rids.
+ * Fix an error case in cli_negprot.
+ * Add a lower-cost alternative to wbinfo -t: wbinfo --ping-dc.
+ * Restore correct timeouts for SMB requests.
+ * Fix a 64-bit error in libsmb.
+ * Replace IS_DOMAIN_OFFLINE by a function in Winbind.
+ * Simplify/cleanup Winbind code.
+
+
+o Kamen Mazdrashki <kamen.mazdrashki@postpath.com>
+ * Fix write behind memory block in libtalloc.
+ * Fix result check for getaddrinfo().
+
+
+o Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org>
+ * BUG 7014: Fix Winbind crash when retrieving empty group members.
+
+
+o Brian Lu <brian.lu@sun.com>
+ * BUG 6991: Create symbol links to shared libraries.
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * Add tsocket_address_bsd_sockaddr() and tsocket_address_bsd_from_sockaddr()
+ to tsocket.
+ * Always set tdb->tracefd to -1 to be safe on goto fail in libtdb.
+ * Add TDB_DISALLOW_NESTING and make TDB_ALLOW_NESTING the default behavior.
+ * Fix standalone 'make installdocs'.
+
+
+o Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+ * Output %p as unsigned in snprintf replacement.
+
+
+o Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
+ * New attempt at TDB transaction nesting allow/disallow.
+
+
+o Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
+ * Remove swig stuff from libtdb.
+ * Reset tdb->fd to -1 in tdb_close() in libtdb.
+
+
+o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
+ * Change the way mksysms work in libtalloc.
+
+
+o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
+ * Also build and install tdb manpages from standalone tdb.
+
+
+o Bo Yang <boyang@samba.org>
+ * Fix infinite loop in NCACN_IP_TCP as there is no timeout.
+ * Make winbindd_cache.c aware of domain offline to avoid unnecessary backend
+ query.
+ * List trusted domains from wcache when domain is offline.
+
+
+Changes since 3.5.0pre1
+-----------------------
+
+o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
+ * Fix the build when no external talloc and tdb are installed.
+ * Fix detection of CTDB headers on systems without system-libtalloc.
+
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6802: A created folder does not properly inherit permissions from
+ parent in vfs_acl_xattr.
+ * BUG 6837: "Too many open files" when trying to access large number of
+ files from Windows 7.
+ * BUG 6938 : No hook exists to check creation rights when using acl_xattr
+ module.
+ * Fix vfs_acl_xattr which was failing to call the NEXT connect function.
+ * Restructure the ACL code.
+ * Refactor reply_rmdir to use handle based code.
+
+
+o Dan Cox <dan@wep.net>
+ * BUG 2350: Add LDAP Alias Dereferencing support.
+
+
+o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6929: Fix build with recent heimdal.
+ * Fix several printing issues.
+ * Fix the build on Mac OS X 10.6.2.
+ * Fix net and rpcclient after setprinterdataex changes.
+ * Add full support for level 8 printer drivers.
+ * Add more spoolss architectures to IDL.
+ * Fix enumprinter key client and server.
+ * Fix crash in EnumPrinterDataEx.
+
+
+o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
+ * Prefer posix_fallocate for doing "strict allocate".
+
+
+o Matt Kraai <mkraai@beckman.com>
+ * BUG 6860: Fix shared library build on QNX.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6288: SWAT adds a second share when changing parameters of an existing
+ share.
+ * BUG 6435: Fix minor memory corruption.
+ * Restore "fake directory create times" as a share parameter.
+ * Fix explicit stat64 support.
+ * Add support for NetWkstaGetInfo 101 and 102.
+ * Add rpcclient wkssvc_enumerateusers.
+ * De-deprecate "write cache size" to prevent its removal without a proper
+ alternative.
+ * Allow more than 1000 users in BUILTIN\Users.
+
+
+o Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6967: Prevent glibc error on 'net ads join'.
+
+
+o Lars Müller <lars@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6710: Only install the cifs.upcall man page if CIFSUPCALL_PROGS was
+ set while configure.
+
+
+o Ian Puleston <ipuleston@sonicwall.com>
+ * Complete support for NetWkstaGetInfo/NetWkstaEnumUsers.
+
+
+o Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
+ * Fix the build of the example VFS modules.
+
+
+o Bo Yang <boyang@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6879: Fix crash in Winbind.
+ * Fix crash in free_file_list().
+ * Give the user a chance to change password when password will expire soon.
+
+
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