-Copyright (C) 1997-1998 - Samba-Team
+Copyright (C) 1997-2008 Samba-Team
-The Samba-Team are committed to an agressive program to deliver quality
+The Samba-Team are committed to an aggressive program to deliver quality
controlled software to a well defined roadmap.
-The current Samba release 1.9.18 is called the "Oplock Release"
-The following development objectives are in place:
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-Please Note: Development of the 1.9.19 and 1.9.20 releases is presently
- well ahead of schedule. This means that the release program
- may very well change radically from what is outlined below.
-
- If present developments continue then 1.9.19 will feature
- improved authentication and security capabilities as well as
- the long promised GUI (Web) based management tools.
+Please also look at the Samba3 and Samba4 pages of wiki.samba.org for more
+information.
- This being the case, then version 2.0 may become the long
- awaited Windows NT Domain Controller Release and version 2.1
- will become the Directory Services update.
-
- Should 1.9.19 roll out ahead of schedule then there will
- likely be a delay of up to 6 months before the NT Domain
- Controller release will be ready for prime-time business use.
+The following development objectives for future releases
+are in progress:
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+Samba-3.0.x This release turned into maintenance mode since we
+ released 3.2.
-Version / Codename Notes
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-1.9.19 An authentication update release to offer improved
-"Auth Code Release" security and password synchronisation capabilities.
- Also, support for Windows NT specific SMB calls.
-
-1.9.20 Introduction of new managment tools
-"GUI Config Release" Improved multi-language support.
+Samba-3.4.x This is the current stable Samba 3 release intended
+ for all Samba production server.
-2.0 The next generation Directory Services update
-"DSA Release"
+Samba-4 Danger Will Robinson, a big code clean up with major
+ system redesign. More will be announced as this work
+ starts to take shape.
-While no release date or content promises are made we are hoping to release
-the remainder of the 1.9 series relases within short time frame.
-Should a budding contributor spring into gear and deliver any of the above
-ahead of the above release sequence then we reserve the option to make an
-out of sequence release (but always keeping to a logical sequence code number).
+Note that it is a given that the Samba-Team will continue to track
+Windows (NT/200x) 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 commit to exact timeframes.
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