Release Announcements
=====================
-This is the first preview release of Samba 4.8. This is *not*
+This is the first preview release of Samba 4.13. This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
-Samba 4.8 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
+Samba 4.13 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
UPGRADING
NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
====================
-Using x86_64 Accelerated AES Crypto Instructions
-================================================
+Python 3.6 Required
+-------------------
-Samba on x86_64 can now be configured to use the Intel accelerated AES
-instruction set, which has the potential to make SMB3 signing and
-encryption much faster on client and server. To enable this, configure
-Samba using the new option --accel-aes=intelaesni.
+Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
+3.5 with samba 4.12. Samba 4.13 raises this minimum version to Python
+3.6 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version
+we test with in our CI infrastructure.
-This is a temporary solution that is being included to allow users
-to enjoy the benefits of Intel accelerated AES on the x86_64 platform,
-but the longer-term solution will be to move Samba to a fully supported
-external crypto library.
+(Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not
+changed)
-The third_party/aesni-intel code will be removed from Samba as soon as
-external crypto library performance reaches parity.
-The default is to build without setting --accel-aes, which uses the
-existing Samba software AES implementation.
-
-smb.conf changes
+REMOVED FEATURES
================
- Parameter Name Description Default
- -------------- ----------- -------
-
-NT4-style replication based net commands removed
-================================================
-
-The following commands and sub-commands have been removed from the
-"net" utility:
-net rpc samdump
-net rpc vampire ldif
-
-Also, replicating from a real NT4 domain with "net rpc vampire" and
-"net rpc vampire keytab" has been removed.
-
-The NT4-based commands were accidentially broken in 2013, and nobody
-noticed the breakage. So instead of fixing them including tests (which
-would have meant writing a server for the protocols, which we don't
-have) we decided to remove them.
+smb.conf changes
+================
-For the same reason, the "samsync", "samdeltas" and "database_redo"
-commands have been removed from rpcclient.
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
-"net rpc vampire keytab" from Active Directory domains continues to be
-supported.
KNOWN ISSUES
============
-https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.8#Release_blocking_bugs
+https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.13#Release_blocking_bugs
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