-What's new in Samba 4 beta1
-=============================
-
-Samba 4.0 will be the next version of the Samba suite and incorporates
-all the technology found in both the Samba4 alpha series and the
-stable 3.x series. The primary additional features over Samba 3.6 are
-support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000
-and above.
-
-
-WARNINGS
-========
+Release Announcements
+=====================
-Samba4 beta1 is not a final Samba release, however we are now making
-good progress towards a Samba 4.0 release, of which this is a preview.
-Be aware the this release contains the best of all of Samba's
-technology parts, both a file server (that you can reasonably expect
-to upgrade existing Samba 3.x releases to) and the AD domain
-controller work previously known as 'samba4'.
+This is the first preview release of Samba 4.3. 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/.
-Samba4 is subjected to an awesome battery of tests on an automated
-basis, we have found Samba 4.0 to be very stable in it's behavior.
-However, we still recommend against upgrading production servers from
-Samba 3.x release to Samba 4.0 beta at this stage.
+Samba 4.3 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
-In particular note that the new default configuration 's3fs' may have
-different stability characteristics compared with our previous default
-file server. We are making this release so that we can find and fix
-any of these issues that arise in the real world. New AD DC
-installations can provision or join with --use-ntvfs to obtain the
-previous default file server. Existing installations will be
-unaffected at this stage.
-If you are upgrading, or looking to develop, test or deploy Samba 4.0
-beta releases, you should backup all configuration and data.
+UPGRADING
+=========
NEW FEATURES
============
-Samba 4.0 beta supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon
-environment used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain
-join and domain logon operations with these clients.
-
-Our Domain Controller (DC) implementation includes our own built-in
-LDAP server and Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) as well as the
-Samba3-like logon services provided over CIFS. We correctly generate
-the infamous Kerberos PAC, and include it with the Kerberos tickets we
-issue.
-
-Samba 4.0 beta ships with two distinct file servers. We now use the
-file server from the Samba 3.x series 'smbd' for all file serving by
-default. For pure file server work, the binaries users would expect
-from that series (nmbd, winbindd, smbpasswd) continue to be available.
-
-Samba 4.0 also ships with the 'NTVFS' file server. This file server
-is what was used in all previous alpha releases of Samba 4.0, and is
-tuned to match the requirements of an AD domain controller. We
-continue to support this, not only to provide continuity to
-installations that have deployed it as part of an AD DC, but also as a
-running example of the NT-FSA architecture we expect to move smbd to in
-the longer term.
-
-As mentioned above, this change to the default file server may cause
-instability, as we learn about the real-world interactions between
-these two key components.
-
-As DNS is an integral part of Active Directory, we also provide a DNS
-solution, using the BIND DLZ mechanism in versions 9.8 and 9.9.
-During the provision, a configuration file will be generated for bind
-to make it use this plugin. We also have a project to provide a
-minimal internal DNS server from within the Samba process, for easier
-'out of the box' configuration. Note however that this is not yet
-complete (pending addition of secure DNS update support).
-
-To provide accurate timestamps to Windows clients, we integrate with
-the NTP project to provide secured NTP replies.
-
-Finally, a new scripting interface has been added to Samba 4, allowing
-Python programs to interface to Samba's internals, and many tools and
-internal workings of the DC code is now implemented in python.
-
-
-CHANGES SINCE alpha21
-=====================
-
-For a list of changes since alpha21, please see the git log.
-
-$ git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git
-$ cd samba.git
-$ git log samba-4.0.0alpha21..samba-4.0.0beta1
+The logging code now supports logging to multiple backends. In
+addition to the previously available syslog and file backends, the
+backends for logging to the systemd-journal, lttng and gpfs have been
+added. Please consult the section for the 'logging' parameter in the
+smb.conf manpage for details.
-Some major user-visible changes include:
+Spotlight
+=========
-The internal DNS server has had some stability improvements, and
-now handles forwarded DNS replies in an async manner.
+Support for Apple's Spotlight has been added by integrating with Gnome
+Tracker.
-The build of libtdb.so and libtalloc.so has been removed from the
-autoconf build. Use the build in lib/talloc and lib/tdb to build
-this software for use across the system.
+For detailed instructions how to build and setup Samba for Spotlight,
+please see the Samba wiki: <https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight>
-The smbclient and nmblookup binaries have been renamed in the top
-level build, so smbclient/nmblookup are now the implementations from
-the Samba 3.x heritage.
+######################################################################
+Changes
+#######
-Improved handling of the cleanup of smbd child processes (removing a
-number of scary warnings from our log output).
+smb.conf changes
+----------------
-Much improved support for FreeBSD, including extended attribute
-support on the filesystem for the AD DC.
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
+ logging New (empty)
KNOWN ISSUES
============
-- We are making this beta release to gain real-world use of the 's3fs'
- file server combination we will use for the Samba 4.0 release.
- Users should expect some rough edges: in particular, there are
- warnings about invalid parameters from the two respective parameter
- parsing engines.
-
-- Replication of DNS data from one AD server to another may not work.
- The DNS data used by the internal DNS server and bind9_dlz is stored
- in an application partition in our directory. The replicaton of
- this partition is not yet reliable.
-
-- Replication may fail on FreeBSD due to getaddrinfo() rejecting names
- containing _. A workaround will be in the next beta.
-
-- upgradeprovision should not be run when upgrading to this release
- from a recent release. No important database format changes have
- been made since alpha16.
-
-- Installation on systems without a system iconv (and developer
- headers at compile time) is known to cause errors when dealing with
- non-ASCII characters.
-
-- Domain member support in the 'samba' binary is in it's infancy, and
- is not comparable to the support found in winbindd. As such, do not
- use the 'samba' binary (provided for the AD server) on a member
- server.
-
-- There is no NetBIOS browsing support (network neighbourhood) in the
- 'samba' binary (use nmbd and smbd instead)
-
-- Clock Synchronisation is critical. Many 'wrong password' errors are
- actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
- and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
- with this problem).
-
-- The DRS replication code may fail. Please contact the team if you
- experience issues with DRS replication, as we have fixed many issues
- here in response to feedback from our production users.
-
-
-RUNNING Samba 4.0 as an AD DC
-=============================
-
-A short guide to setting up Samba 4 as an AD DC can be found on the wiki:
-
- http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO
#######################################
Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
-be filed under the Samba 4.0 product in the project's Bugzilla
+be filed under the Samba 4.3 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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