WHATSNEW: mention initial support for SMB3

Autobuild-User(master): Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Mon Jul  2 15:15:53 CEST 2012 on sn-devel-104

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index 710f6bd90f5dfcfbab877be191cb5c3e55da29fa..e1405cc9c73591aa838cf41183cc58c7784d4c14 100644 (file)
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ be an alias for SMB 2.1. Previously, the default SMB2 version of
 Samba was the original version 2.0 of SMB that was shipped with
 Windows Vista and 2008.
 
+Samba now offers basic experimental support for SMB3, the next version
+of the SMB protocol (formerly known as SMB 2.2) that will be available
+with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Negotiation of SMB3 can be
+activated by setting "max protocol" to "SMB3" in smb.conf.
+
 
 KNOWN ISSUES
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