Release Announcements
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-This is the first pre release of Samba 4.19. This is *not*
+This is the first pre release of Samba 4.21. This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
-Samba 4.19 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
+Samba 4.21 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
UPGRADING
NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
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-Migrated smbget to use common command line parser
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+LDB no longer a standalone tarball
+----------------------------------
-The smbget utility implemented its own command line parsing logic. After
-discovering an issue we decided to migrate it to use the common command line
-parser. This has some advantages as you get all the feature it provides like
-Kerberos authentication. The downside is that breaks the options interface.
-The support for smbgetrc has been removed. You can use an authentication file
-if needed, this is documented in the manpage.
+LDB, Samba's LDAP-like local database and the power behind the Samba
+AD DC, is no longer available to build as a distinct tarball, but is
+instead provided as an optional public library.
-Please check the smbget manpage or --help output.
+If you need ldb as a public library, say to build sssd, then use
+ ./configure --private-libraries='!ldb'
+
+This re-integration allows LDB tests to use the Samba's full selftest
+system, including our knownfail infrastructure, and decreases the work
+required during security releases as a coordinated release of the ldb
+tarball is not also required.
+
+This approach has been demonstrated already in Debian, which is already
+building Samba and LDB is this way.
+
+As part of this work, the pyldb-util public library, not known to be
+used by any other software, is made private to Samba.
+
+LDB Module API Python bindings removed
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+
+The LDB Modules API, which we do not promise a stable ABI or API for,
+was wrapped in python in early LDB development. However that wrapping
+never took into account later changes, and so has not worked for a
+number of years. Samba 4.21 and LDB 2.10 removes this unused and
+broken feature.
REMOVED FEATURES
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KNOWN ISSUES
============
-https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.19#Release_blocking_bugs
+https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.21#Release_blocking_bugs
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