-What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
-============================
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha14
+=============================
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
-developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
+developed in parallel to the stable 3.x series. The main emphasis in
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
-publishing since September 2007
+Samba4 alpha14 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+publishing since September 2007.
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha7 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha14 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
Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features
you may have relied on simply are not there yet.
-For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active
+For example, while Samba 3 is an excellent member of a Active
Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller, and it is
in this role where it has seen deployment into production.
behaviour. We have to recommend against upgrading production servers
from Samba 3 to Samba 4 at this stage, because there may be the features on
which you may rely that are not present, or the mapping of
-your configuration and user database may not be complete.
+your configuration and user database may not be complete.
If you are upgrading, or looking to develop, test or deploy Samba4, you should
backup all configuration and data.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha6
+CHANGES SINCE alpha13
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has
-continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas
-(in no particular order):
+We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
+AD implementation and therefore achieved also this time big steps forward.
- Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated
- for the OpenLDAP-Backend.
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
- OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the
- OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).
-
- Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
-
- Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
-
- A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
- updated for easier use outside Samba4
-
- spoolss IDL updates to bring Samba3 to use PIDL code, and to merge
- the corrected IDL back into Samba4
-
- Fixes to allow use of C++ compilers and to increase portability
-
- Fixed TLS (SSL) support with modern versions of GnuTLS
-
-These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past
-month. More details can be found in our GIT history.
+Beside this the release includes (among a lot of other things):
+* a script for backuping production provision
+Although still in development, samba4 is already used in a couple of production sites
+and such kind of use case is intensifying. This script is intendended for administrators
+to allow them to make a periodic backup of the provision in case of problem.
CHANGES
=======
and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
-- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux
- distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
- expected during the next alpha cycles
+- The DRS replication code fails, and is very new
+- Users upgrading existing databases to Samba4 should carefully
+ consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in
+ this release that should make it easier to upgrade in future.
+ Btw: there exists also a script under the "setup" directory of the
+ source distribution called "upgrade_from_s3" which should allow a step-up
+ from Samba3 to Samba4. It's not included yet in the binary distributions
+ since it's completely experimental!
RUNNING Samba4
==============
DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
========================
+
+We need your help! Projects as Samba 4 live from the community feedback. If you
+provide expressive bug reports, some documentation snippets on the wiki or some
+real code patches - all is appreciated if it meets our quality criterias. Here
+you can find further references:
+
Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/ but please be aware
-that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.
+that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.
The Samba Wiki at http://wiki.samba.org should detail some of these
development plans.
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