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2 Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
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6 This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
7 intended for production environments and is designed for testing
8 purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
9 system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
11 Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under the version 3
12 of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING
13 file that accompanies these release notes for further licensing details.
15 Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
18 o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC
20 o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on
21 filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
22 o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
23 o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
24 o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
25 o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
28 Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
29 o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts
30 and one-way domain trusts
31 o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS
33 o Support in pam_winbind for logging on using the userPrincipalName.
34 o Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
35 o Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
39 o New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
40 o Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.
44 o Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
45 from O'Reilly Publishing.
48 Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
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51 The Samba Team has adopted the Version 3 of the GNU General Public
52 License for the 3.2 and later releases. The GPLv3 is the updated
53 version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
54 distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other
55 licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
56 improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
57 Software in the 21st Century.
59 The original announcement is available on-line at
61 http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
64 New Security Defaults for Authentication
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67 Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
68 applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
69 disabled by default in client utilities such as smbclient and all
70 libsmbclient based applications. This will affect connection both
71 to and from hosts running DOS, Windows 9x/ME, and OS/2. Please refer
72 to the "Changes" section for details on the exact parameters that were
77 Registry Configuration Backend
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80 Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
81 supplement smb.conf setting. This feature may be enabled by setting
82 "include = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
83 section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
85 More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
92 Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
93 removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.
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104 Parameter Name Description Default
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106 client lanman auth Changed Default No
107 client ldap sasl wrapping New plain
108 client plaintext auth Changed Default No
110 cluster addresses New ""
112 lanman auth Changed Default No
114 open files database hashsize Removed
116 registry shares New No
117 winbind expand groups New 1
118 winbind rpc only New No
121 Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
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123 o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
124 * Added support for an SMB_CONF_PATH environment variable
125 containing the path to smb.conf.
126 * Various fixes to ntlm_auth.
127 * make test now supports more extensive SPOOLSS testing using vlp.
128 * Correctly handle mixed-case hostnames in NTLMv2 authentication.
130 Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
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132 o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
133 * Unified POSIX ACL detection including support for FreeBSD and
135 * Performance improvements for Winbind's lookup functions (names,
136 SIDs, and group membership) when joined to an AD domain.
137 * Winbind cache validation support.
138 * Store domain trust passwords for Samba domain controller's in
139 the domain's passdb backend.
140 * Merged \winreg server code from the SAMBA_3_2 development branch.
141 * Fixes for libreplace.
142 * Implement new registry configuration backend.
145 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
146 * Add support for file system objectIDs.
147 * Winbind cache validation support.
148 * Add in the UNIX capability for 24-bit readX.
149 * Improve Delete-on-Close semantics.
150 * Removal of static file and path name buffers in SMB file serving
154 o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
155 * Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
159 o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
160 * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
164 o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
165 * Implement support for one-way trusts and two-way cross-forest
166 transitive trust in winbindd.
167 * Fixes for Winbind's offline/disconnected logon support when
168 using remote idmap backends.
169 * Fix LookupNames and LookupSids to use the same resolution
170 heuristics as Windows XP.
171 * Fix lookups in Winbind when running nscd.
172 * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
173 * Add support for GNU linker scripts when build shared libraries
174 (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
178 o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
179 * Additional support for decoding and downloading group policy
180 objects from Active Directory.
181 * Improvements to "net ads keytab" command.
182 * Fixes for linking against Heimdal Kerberos client libs.
183 * Support LDAP range retrieval searches.
184 * Fixes for failure to refresh user ticket caches in Winbind.
185 * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
186 * Add KDC locator plugin for MIT kerberos 1.6 or later.
189 o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
190 * Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
194 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
195 * Merge experimental cluster support patches from the ctdb branch.
196 * Add tdb storage abstraction for ctdb.
197 * Use IDL for internal message passing system.
198 * Add client support for the SamLogonEx() authentication request.
199 * Implement RPC proxy stubs in the Samba server code to allow
200 replacing implementation functions one by one.
201 * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
202 packet processing code.
203 * Add "net sam rights" command.
204 * Support for storing xattrs in tdb files
205 * Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
206 * Implement a generic in-memory cache based on rb-trees
207 * Add implicit temporary talloc contexts via talloc_stack()
210 o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
211 * Fixes for mount.cfs Linux utility.
214 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
215 * Fixes for libreplace.
216 * Add support for LDAP digital signing policy.
217 * Experimental clustered file system support.
220 o Lars Mueller <lars@samba.org>
221 * Makefile and build fixes.
222 * Add pam_pwd_expire for pam_winbind (original patch from Andreas
226 o James Peach <jpeach@apple.com>
227 * Fixes for setgroups() and *BSD and Darwin.
228 * Support membership of >16 groups on Darwin.
231 o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
232 * Added vfs_vfsacl module.
235 o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
236 * Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
237 * Cleanup internal passdb functions.
238 * Improve error messages of net subcommands.
239 * Add 'net rap file user'.
240 * Change LDAP search filter to find machine accounts which
241 are not located in the user suffix.
244 o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
245 * Fixes for IDmap and Passdb backends.
248 o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
249 * Port ldb from the Samba 4 tree and add ldb group mapping plugin.
250 * Move several file serving related tdb files to use the dbwrap
252 * Cleanup the GPFS VFS plugin.
253 * Experimental clustered file system support.
256 o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
257 * Implement NDR basic to support utilizing IDL files from Samba 4
258 tree for general DCE/RPC parsing stubs.
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263 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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266 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
267 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
269 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
270 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
271 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
272 be filed under the Samba 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
273 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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277 == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
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