4 This is the first preview release of Samba 4.8. This is *not*
5 intended for production environments and is designed for testing
6 purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
7 system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
9 Samba 4.8 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
22 Adds Group Policy support for the samba kdc. Applies password policies
23 (minimum/maximum password age, minimum password length, and password
24 complexity) and kerberos policies (user/service ticket lifetime and
27 Adds the samba_gpoupdate script for applying and unapplying
28 policy. Can be applied automatically by setting
30 'server services = +gpoupdate'.
35 Parameter Name Description Default
36 -------------- ----------- -------
38 gpo update command New
39 oplock contention limit Removed
40 prefork children New 1
43 NT4-style replication based net commands removed
44 ================================================
46 The following commands and sub-commands have been removed from the
52 Also, replicating from a real NT4 domain with "net rpc vampire" and
53 "net rpc vampire keytab" has been removed.
55 The NT4-based commands were accidentially broken in 2013, and nobody
56 noticed the breakage. So instead of fixing them including tests (which
57 would have meant writing a server for the protocols, which we don't
58 have) we decided to remove them.
60 For the same reason, the "samsync", "samdeltas" and "database_redo"
61 commands have been removed from rpcclient.
63 "net rpc vampire keytab" from Active Directory domains continues to be
66 vfs_aio_linux module removed
67 ============================
69 The current Linux kernel aio does not match what Samba would
70 do. Shipping code that uses it leads people to false
71 assumptions. Samba implements async I/O based on threads by default,
72 there is no special module required to see benefits of read and write
73 request being sent do the disk in parallel.
75 smbclient reparse point symlink parameters reversed
76 ===================================================
78 A bug in smbclient caused the 'symlink' command to reverse the
79 meaning of the new name and link target parameters when creating a
80 reparse point symlink against a Windows server. As this is a
81 little used feature the ordering of these parameters has been
82 reversed to match the parameter ordering of the UNIX extensions
83 'symlink' command. The usage message for this command has also
84 been improved to remove confusion.
89 https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.8#Release_blocking_bugs
92 #######################################
93 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
94 #######################################
96 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
97 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
99 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
100 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
101 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
102 be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
103 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
106 ======================================================================
107 == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
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