-What's new in Samba 4 alpha5
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha10
============================
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 alpha5 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha10 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha5 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha10 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.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE Alpha4
+CHANGES SINCE alpha9
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 Alpha4 was released in June 2008, Samba has
-continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
-
- LDAP backend support restored (issues preventing the use of the LDAP
- backend in alpha4 have been addressed).
-
- SMB2 Support: The SMB2 server, while still disabled, has improved,
- and now supports SMB2 signing.
-
- OpenChange support: Updates have been made since alpha4 to better
- support OpenChange's use of Samba4's libraries.
-
- Faster ldb loading: A fix to avoid calling 'init_module' (which was
- not defined by Samba modules, but was by the C library) will fix
- some of the slowness in authentication.
-
- SWAT Remains Disabled: Due to a lack of developer time and without a
- long-term web developer to maintain it, the SWAT web UI remains been
- disabled (and would need to be rewritten in python in any case).
-
- GNU Make: To try and simplfy our build system, we rely on GNU Make
- to avoid autogenerating a massive single makefile.
-
-
-These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
-months. More details can be found in our GIT history.
-
+Alpha9 was released last week, but in the time since the release we
+have found and fixed an important segfault, and improved the
+experimental DRS replication.
CHANGES
=======
- 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 alpha is partly to assist
+ and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
-- Samba4 alpha5 is currently only portable to recent Linux
- distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
- expected during the next alpha cycle
+- The DRS replication code often fails, and is very new
-- Samba4 alpha5 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and
- recent Ubuntu releases. GnuTLS use may be disabled using the
- --disable-gnutls argument to ./configure. (otherwise 'make test' and
- LDAPS operations will hang).
+- 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!
+
+- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
+ Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha10.
RUNNING Samba4
==============
DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
========================
+
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.
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