-Copyright (C) 1997-1999 - Samba-Team
+Copyright (C) 1997-2014 Samba-Team
The Samba-Team are committed to an aggressive program to deliver quality
controlled software to a well defined roadmap.
-The current Samba release 2.0.4 is called the "NT Security update".
-
-It correctly implements the Windows NT specific SMB calls,
-and will operate correctly as a client in a Windows NT
-Domain environment.
-
-In addition, the first implementation of the Web-based GUI
-management tool ships with 2.0.0, thus fullfilling some of
-the commitments made in the 1.9.18 release Roadmap document.
-
-Some work has been done on ensuring compatibility with
-Windows NT 5.0 (now Windows 2000 :-) although this is
-a somewhat (slowly) moving target.
+Please also look at the Release planning pages of wiki.samba.org for more
+information.
The following development objectives for future releases
-are in place:
-
+are in progress:
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-2.0.x - "NT Security update" - Allowing Windows NT Clients to
- manipulate file security and ownership using native tools.
-
-Note that the "NT Security update" part of the Roadmap has been
-achieved with the Samba 2.0.4 release.
-
-2.0.xx - "Thin Server" mode, allowing a Samba server to be
- inserted into a network with no UNIX setup required.
- Some management capabilities for Samba using native NT tools.
- Provision of command-line equivalents to native NT tools.
+Samba-3.6.x This release turned into security maintenance mode since we
+ released 4.1.
-2.X - "Domain Controller" - able to serve as a Windows NT PDC.
+Samba-4.0.x Our previous release including the AD domain controller
+ feature, the file server and other functionality
+ from Samba 3.6 as well as the new SMB3 protocol.
-X.XX - "Full Domain Integration" - allowing both PDC and BDC modes.
+Samba-4.1.x Our current release.
-Note that it is a given that the Samba Team will continue to track
-Windows (NT/2000) update releases, ensuring that Samba will work
-well with whatever "Beta" releases Redmond throws our way :-).
-You may also note that the release numbers get fuzzier the
-further into the future the objectives get. This is intentional
-as we cannot yet commit to exact timeframes.
+Note that it is a given that the Samba-Team will continue to track
+Windows releases, ensuring that Samba will work
+well with whatever releases Redmond throws our way :-).