-What's new in Samba 4 alpha10
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha11
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Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha10 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
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-Samba4 alpha10 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha11 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a
statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad
deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha9
+CHANGES SINCE alpha10
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-Alpha9 was released last week, but in the time since the release we
-have found and fixed an important segfault, and improved the
-experimental DRS replication.
+Since the alpha10 release, we have fixed a number of serious bugs in
+the implementation of AD-compatible 'Directory Replication Services'.
+We can now join an AD domain as a read-write DC
+
+Importantly, since alpha10, the following serious issues were
+addressed:
+ - We now allocate RID values safely (previous implementations would
+ add users and groups without regard to allocated RID pools, possibly
+ creating duplicates)
+ - In previous Samba4 versions, a failure to 'prepare' a transaction
+ would silently commit the transaction.
+
+Any deployments of Samba4 before this alpha are very strongly
+encouraged to upgrade. Assistance may be found in the
+upgradeprovision script, and the advice of the Samba Team should be
+sought to determine the impact of these issues in your particular
+deployment.
+
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
CHANGES
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since it's completely experimental!
- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
- Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha10.
+ Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha12.
RUNNING Samba4
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