s4: update What's new and explain how to upgrade a samba4 provision

[samba.git] / WHATSNEW4.txt

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha9
 ============================
 
 Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 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
+Samba4 alpha9 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 alpha9 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
@@ -62,32 +62,30 @@ working on modules to map between AD-like behaviours and this backend.
 We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
 directories.
 
-CHANGES SINCE alpha6
+CHANGES SINCE alpha8
 =====================
 
-In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has
+In the time since Samba4 alpha8 was released in June 2009, Samba has
 continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas 
 (in no particular order):
 
- OpenLDAP Multi Master Replication can now also replicate the OpenLDAP
- configuration itself.
+ Samba4 now includes the full set of user interface strings (display Specifiers) required to
+ have the Microsoft Management Console operate
 
- Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
+ LDB (the core Samba4 database library) has again been reworked for
+ better performance
 
- Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
+ Replication between Samba4 and Active Directory domains using the
+ native replication protocol (DRS) has been demonstrated.
 
- A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
- updated for easier use outside Samba4
+ Access Control Lists (in nTSecurityDescriptor) are now set correctly
+ on objects in the directory, based on the same rules as Windows 2008.
+ (Searches and modifications still use a simplistic administrator/not
+ administrator criteria)
 
- 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.
+These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in
+the past few months.  More details of the work done 'under the hood'
+can be found in our GIT history.
 
 
 CHANGES
@@ -113,10 +111,14 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
   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 often 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. 
 
+- 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
 ==============