- =================================
- Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
- Feb 29, 2008
- =================================
+ ================================
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.5.0rc2
+ January 26, 2010
+ ================================
-This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. 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/.
-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 3.5.0 include:
-Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
+General changes:
+o Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution
+o The Using Samba HTML book has been removed.
- 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.
+Protocol changes:
+o Experimental implementation of SMB2
- 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 Support in pam_winbind for logging on using the userPrincipalName.
- 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)
+Printing Changes:
+o Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server
+Winbind changes:
+o Major refactoring
+o Asynchronous
- Users & Groups:
- o New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
- o Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.
+VFS modules:
+o New vfs_scannedonly module has been added.
- Documentation:
- o Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
- from O'Reilly Publishing.
+General changes:
+================
+
+Support for full Windows timestamp resolution has been added. This effectively
+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.
-Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
-================================
+Protocol changes
+================
-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.
+An EXPERIMENTAL implementation of the SMB2 protocol has been added. SMB2 can be
+enabled by setting "max protocol = smb2". SMB2 is a new implementation of the
+SMB protocol used by Windows Vista and higher.
-The original announcement is available on-line at
+Printing Changes
+================
- http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
+A new parameter "cups encrypt" has been added to control whether connections to
+CUPS servers will be encrypted or not. The default is to use unencrypted
+connections.
+Winbind changes
+===============
-New Security Defaults for Authentication
-========================================
+The Winbind daemon has been refactored internally to be asynchronous. The new
+Winbind will not be blocked by running 'getent group' or 'getent passwd'.
-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.
+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.
-Registry Configuration Backend
-==============================
+######################################################################
+Changes
+#######
-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.
+smb.conf changes
+----------------
-More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
-pages.
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
+ create krb5 conf New yes
+ ctdb timeout New 0
+ cups encrypt New no
+ debug hires timestamp Changed Default yes
+ ldap deref New auto
+ ldap follow referral New auto
-Removed Features
-================
-Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
-removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.
+New configure options
+---------------------
+--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
+--with-codepagedir=DIR Where to put codepages
-######################################################################
-Changes
-#######
+Commit Highlights
+=================
-smb.conf changes
-----------------
+o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
+ * Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution.
+ * Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * Major internal refactoring of the Winbind daemon.
+ * Make Winbind asynchronous.
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * Implement the new SMB2 protocol (experimental).
+
+
+Changes since 3.5.0rc1
+----------------------
- 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
- hidden New No
- lanman auth Changed Default No
- ldap debug level New 0
- ldap debug threshold New 10
- mangle map Removed
- open files database hashsize Removed
- read bmpx Removed
- registry shares New No
- winbind expand groups New 1
- winbind rpc only New No
-
-
-Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
------------------------
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.
+ * BUG 4347: Check password history before increasing "badPasswordCount".
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.
+ * 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>
- * 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.
+ * BUG 7039: Fix compile error with WITH_DNS_UPDATE. Update .po files.
-o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
- * Add Winbind client library.
- * Decouple static linking between smbd and winbindd's client
- interface.
+o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * BUG 7043: Fix crash bug in libsmbclient.
-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.
+o André Hentschel <nerv@dawncrow.de>
+ * BUG 7039: Complete German translation of 'net'.
-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 Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
+ * BUG 7039: Improve some German translations in 'net'.
-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()
+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>
- * Fixes for libreplace.
- * Pidl fixes.
- * Build fixes.
- * Add nss_wrapper support.
- * Start and test winbindd by 'make test'
- * Split up child_dispatch_table into domain, idmap and locator tables
- in winbindd.
- * 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().
+ * 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 James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
- * Add support for DNS Service Discovery. Based on work from
- Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>.
+o Olivier Sessink <oliviersessink@gmail.com>
+ * BUG 7028: Add new scannedonly VFS module.
-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 "hidden".
+Changes since 3.5.0pre2
+-----------------------
-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.
+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 David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
- * BUG 5073: Allow "delete readonly = yes" to correctly override
- deletion of a file.
+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 Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>
- * Register the smb service with mDNS if mDNS is supported.
- * Add smbclient support for basic mDNS browsing.
+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 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 Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski+samba@gmail.com>
+ * BUG 6992: make test for getgrouplist cacheable.
-o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
- * Additional portability support for building shared libraries.
+o André Hentschel <nerv@dawncrow.de>
+ * Add some German translations for the 'net' command.
-o Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
- * Get Samba version or capability information from Windows user space
+o Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
+ * Update mount.cifs man page with nounix option.
-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 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 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 Kamen Mazdrashki <kamen.mazdrashki@postpath.com>
+ * Fix write behind memory block in libtalloc.
+ * Fix result check for getaddrinfo().
-o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
- * Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
- ads join".
+o Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org>
+ * BUG 7014: Fix Winbind crash when retrieving empty group members.
-o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
- * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
- servers.
+o Brian Lu <brian.lu@sun.com>
+ * BUG 6991: Create symbol links to shared libraries.
-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 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 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 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+ * Output %p as unsigned in snprintf replacement.
-o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
- * Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
- to come up.
+o Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
+ * New attempt at TDB transaction nesting allow/disallow.
-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 Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
+ * Remove swig stuff from libtdb.
+ * Reset tdb->fd to -1 in tdb_close() in libtdb.
-o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
- * Fixes for mount.cfs Linux utility.
+o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
+ * Change the way mksysms work in libtalloc.
-o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
- * Fixes for libreplace.
- * Add support for LDAP digital signing policy.
- * Experimental clustered file system support.
+o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
+ * Also build and install tdb manpages from standalone tdb.
-o Lars Mueller <lars@samba.org>
- * Makefile and build fixes.
- * Add pam_pwd_expire for pam_winbind (original patch from Andreas
- Schneider).
+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.
-o James Peach <jpeach@apple.com>
- * Fixes for setgroups() and *BSD and Darwin.
- * Support membership of >16 groups on Darwin.
+Changes since 3.5.0pre1
+-----------------------
-o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
- * Added vfs_zfsacl module.
+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 Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
- * Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
- * Cleanup internal passdb functions.
+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 Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
- * Fixes for IDmap and Passdb backends.
+o Dan Cox <dan@wep.net>
+ * BUG 2350: Add LDAP Alias Dereferencing support.
-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 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 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
- * Implement NDR basic to support utilizing IDL files from Samba 4
- tree for general DCE/RPC parsing stubs.
+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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-be filed under the Samba 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
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