prepare WHATSNEW for Samba 4.0alpha18 release and mark as release.
[gd/samba-autobuild/.git] / upgrading-samba4.txt
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@@ -18,3 +18,11 @@ descriptors, and upgradeprovision --full will perform a more
 comprehensive upgrade of the data (including schema and display
 specifiers).  This attempts to do a new provision, and to then copy
 existing data into that database.
+
+If you are upgrading from a more recent version, particularly alpha16
+or later, then it is better *NOT* to run upgradeprovision as the
+database format has not changed.
+
+To upgrade from BIND9 flat files to the internal database store for
+Bind 9 DLZ, use ./source4/scripting/bin/upgradedns
+