-What's new in Samba 4 alpha12
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha13
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Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
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
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-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
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.
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
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.