- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17alpha5 - July 31st 1997.
- ==========================================
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha24
+ 14th May 2003
+ ==============================
+
+This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
+Use at your own risk.
-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.
---------------------------
-
-Samba now should support propagation of browse lists
-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 (or later).
-
-Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new
-code on their corporate network.
-
-
-Improved share mode handling
-----------------------------
-
-The handling of share modes has been completely rewritten.
-Samba can now run agressive PC Benchmarks (Ziff-Davis
-NetBench) correctly with many hundreds of concurrent PC's.
-The confidence level on share mode handling in Samba
-is now much higher than it was previously. PC database
-packages should be much safer when run against a
-Samba share. Thanks to Silicon Graphics for testing
-this code for us.
-
-If at all possible compile Samba to use the new share
-mode handling with shared memory (set the flags
-FAST_SHARE_MODES in the Makefile). This will be *much* faster
-than old file-based share modes. FAST_SHARE_MODES have
-been turned on by default on the following platforms in
-the Makefile :
-
- Linux
- Solaris
- BSDI
- IRIX 5.x.x
- FreeBSD
-
-Updated smb.conf documentation
-------------------------------
-All options are now documented we believe.
-
-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.
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-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.
-
-Remember - this is new code so there may be
-bugs or problems.
-
-As always, all bugs are our responsibility -
-please report them to :
-
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-
-
-Regards,
-
- The Samba Team.
+The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
+new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have
+officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are
+concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0
+release we need as many people as possible to start testing these alpha
+releases, and hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs
+fixing.
+
+Note that Samba 3.0 is not feature complete yet. There is a more
+coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have done already more
+widely tested we will have a hard time doing a stable release in a
+reasonable time frame.
+
+Major new features:
+-------------------
+
+- Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
+ as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.
+
+- Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and
+ internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
+ and UNICODE character sets.
+
+- New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
+ been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
+ but the new auth system is also very configurable.
+
+- new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
+ completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
+ persistently. This needs lots of testing.
+
+- new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
+ somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
+ to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
+ subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
+ implemented.
+
+- Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
+ improves error handling a lot.
+
+- better w2k printing support including publishing printer
+ attributes in active directory
+
+- new loadable RPC modules
+
+- new dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance
+
+- support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain
+
+- support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
+ domain controllers
+
+Plus lots of other changes!
+
+
+Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
+---------------------------------------
+
+Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
+joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
+
+If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
+feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
+the problem then you will probably be ignored.
+
+
+Changes in alpha24:
+-------------------
+
+ LDAP Schema Changes
+ -------------------
+ A new objectclass (sambaSamAccount) has been introduced to replace the old
+ sambaAccount. This change aids us in the renaming of attributes to prevent
+ clashes with attributes from other vendors. There is a conversion script
+ (examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount) to modify and LDIF file to the new schema.
+
+ Example:
+
+ $ ldapsearch .... -b "ou=people,dc=..." > old.ldif
+ $ convertSambaAccount <DOM SID> old.ldif new.ldif
+
+ The <DOM SID> can be obtained by running 'net getlocalsid <DOMAINNAME>'
+ on the Samba PDC as root.
+
+ The sambaDomain and sambaGroupMapping objects have also been modified
+ to use the new attribute naming conventions as well. There are no
+ conversion scripts for this data since the old schema was never published
+ in a stable release.
+
+ The old sambaAccount schema may still be used by specifying the
+ "ldapsam_compat" passdb backend.
+
+ Parameters
+ ----------
+
+ Removed Parameters
+
+ * total print jobs
+
+ Known Issues
+ ------------
+
+ The following are known issues with this release and will be corrected
+ in future versions:
+
+ 1) Automatically generating accounts for users and groups from
+ trusted domains when Samba is acting as a PDC
+ 2) Maintaining idmap ID's in a LDAP directory in order to implement
+ a distributed winbind solution
+
+ ChangeLog
+ ---------
+
+ See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many
+ smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
+
+1) Fix policy handle leak and crash bug in rpc printing code
+2) Changed the order of checking whether a SID is a UID or a GID
+ in posix acls
+3) Merge of winbind nss cleanup from HEAD branch
+4) Inclusion of idmap backend for mapping SIDs to uids/gids
+5) Fix for very subtle POSIX lock interaction race condition
+6) Re-fix close of delete semantics
+7) Inclusion of schannel functionality (merged from SAMBA_TNG)
+8) Remove unixsam passdb
+9) Add debugging code to decode the Win2k PAC
+10) Very large amounts of documentation fixes (including the move from
+ SGML->XML DocBook)
+11) Fix support for local_password_change() in pam_smbpass
+12) Ensure we have WinXP-like semantics for checking TIDs and FIDs
+13) More print job change notify fixes
+14) Handle deep referrals in MS-DFS code
+15) Add echo named pipe for testing purposes
+16) Workaround streams leak on SCO openserver 5.0.x
+17) Lots of popt changes to command line tools
+18) Use the new modules system for passdb (merge from HEAD)
+19) Inclusion of editreg.c for editing Windows NT+registry files off line
+20) Fix byte ordering when using CIDR notation in hosts allow/deny (again)
+21) Replace smbgroupedit tool with 'net groupmap'
+22) Merge SMB Signing, NTLMv2 and NTLMSSP fixes from HEAD branch
+23) Merge of trusted domain code from HEAD branch
+24) Fix up crashes in lanman printing code (e.g. disable spoolss = yes)
+25) Store the IP address in the utmp record when possible
+26) Fix bug in FindFirst code and OS/2 clients
+27) Fix local master browsing bug when synchronizing browse lists
+28) Fix browse synchronization when primary interface is no listed
+ in the interfaces list and "bind interfaces only" is enabled.
+29) removed ldapsam_nua and tdbsam_nua passdb backends (replaced by idmap)
+30) Include support for storing next rid value in LDAP using a
+ sambaDomain object
+31) Removed "printing = SOFTQ" option
+32) Fix winbindd dual mode
+33) Revert from wins.tdb back to wins.dat (flat text file)
+34) More Trust relationship fixes
+35) More quota fixes (including server support for NT quota info levels)
+36) VFS API has been stabilized and is feature full for final release
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