Release Announcements
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-This is the first preview release of Samba 4.13. 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 4.13 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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-Python 3.6 Required
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+LDB no longer a standalone tarball
+----------------------------------
-Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
-3.5 with samba 4.12. Samba 4.13 raises this minimum version to Python
-3.6 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version
-we test with in our CI infrastructure.
+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.
-(Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not
-changed)
+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
+--------------------------------------
+
+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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smb.conf changes
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- Parameter Name Description Default
- -------------- ----------- -------
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
KNOWN ISSUES
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-https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.13#Release_blocking_bugs
+https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.21#Release_blocking_bugs
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
-joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
+joining the #samba-technical:matrix.org matrix room, or
+#samba-technical IRC channel on irc.libera.chat
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