4 This is the first preview release of Samba 4.12. This is *not*
5 intended for production environments and is designed for testing
6 purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
7 system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
9 Samba 4.12 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
22 Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
23 3.4 with samba 4.11. Samba 4.12 raises this minimum version to Python
24 3.5 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version
25 we test with in our CI infrastructure.
27 (Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not
33 Samba is making efforts to remove in-tree cryptographic functionality,
34 and to instead rely on externally maintained libraries. To this end,
35 Samba has chosen GnuTLS as our standard cryptographic provider.
37 Samba now requires GnuTLS 3.4.7 to be installed (including development
38 headers at build time) for all configurations, not just the Samba AD
41 NOTE WELL: The use of GnuTLS means that Samba will honour the
42 system-wide 'FIPS mode' (a reference to the US FIPS-140 cryptographic
43 standard) and so will not operate in many still common situations if
44 this system-wide parameter is in effect, as many of our protocols rely
45 on outdated cryptography.
47 A future Samba version will mitigate this to some extent where good
48 cryptography effectively wraps bad cryptography, but for now that above
55 BIND9_FLATFILE deprecated
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58 The BIND9_FLATFILE DNS backend is deprecated in this release and will
59 be removed in the future. This was only practically useful on a single
60 domain controller or under expert care and supervision.
62 This release removes the "rndc command" smb.conf parameter, which
63 supported this configuration by writing out a list of DCs permitted to
64 make changes to the DNS Zone and nudging the 'named' server if a new
65 DC was added to the domain. Administrators using BIND9_FLATFILE will
66 need to maintain this manually from now on.
71 Parameter Name Description Default
72 -------------- ----------- -------
74 nfs4:acedup Changed default merge
80 https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.12#Release_blocking_bugs
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84 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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87 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
88 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
90 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
91 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
92 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
93 be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
94 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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98 == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
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