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-              WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17alpha3 - June 6th 1997.
+              WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17alpha5 - July 31st 1997.
               ==========================================
 
+Last Alpha before full release.
+-------------------------------
+
+It is our intention that 1.9.17alpha5 be the last alpha
+before the full 1.9.17 release. If you are concerned that
+Samba 1.9.17 compile cleanly out of the box on your platform
+please try 1.9.17alpha5 and make sure it compiles for your
+particular platform. Please let samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
+know if you have problems.
+
+The differences between 1.9.17alpha4 and 1.9.17alpha5 are
+mainly tidying code to ensure portability over different
+platforms (although some new code has been added).
+
+Thanks to Cisco for the new netbios alias code support.
+
 Improved browsing support. 
 --------------------------
 
@@ -9,12 +25,12 @@ across subnets correctly. Look in the file docs/BROWSING.txt
 as it has been largely re-written to explain how to do this.
 
 *IMPORTANT* All Samba servers acting as local/domain master
-browsers must be running 1.9.17alpha3, as should the nmbd
-set up as the WINS server.
+browsers must be running 1.9.17alpha3 (or later).
 
 Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new 
 code on their corporate network.
 
+
 Improved share mode handling
 ----------------------------
 
@@ -42,31 +58,33 @@ the Makefile :
 
 Updated smb.conf documentation
 ------------------------------
-
 All options are now documented we believe.
 
-Many small bugfixes and improvements
-------------------------------------
+Many bugfixes and improvements
+------------------------------
 From around the 'net around the world. Many
 thanks to everyone who contributed.
 
+Some of the changes since alpha4 are:
+
+*** Alias names for Samba servers.
+*** Fixes for smbtar.
+*** New "follow symlinks" option can prevent any 
+    symlink following for security reasons.
+*** Authentication for Kerberos 5 clients (note that
+    this is not the same as the Kerberos 5 Microsoft
+    will be using, that has not yet been documented).
+*** smbpasswd can now add users to the smbpasswd file.
+*** Hex dump style of debug packets.
+
 Remaining known issues with cross-subnet browsing.
 --------------------------------------------------
-
 When nmbd is acting as a WINS server it doesn't handle
 de-registering of members of a WORKGROUP<1e> name correctly.
 The first machine to de-register will remove the name. This
 should be fixed in a later release when group names are 
 handled correctly in the WINS code.
 
-Propagation of servers between local master browsers and
-the domain master browser doesn't take into account the
-fact that only names seen by the local master browser on
-the local subnet should be propagated. This causes machines
-that have stopped serving to be propagated between browse
-masters. This issue will be fixed in the smbd code in a
-later release.
-
 Remember - this is new code so there may be
 bugs or problems.
 
@@ -79,4 +97,3 @@ samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
 Regards,
 
        The Samba Team.
-