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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha5
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha8
 ============================
 
 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 alpha5 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha8 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
 publishing since September 2007
 
 WARNINGS
 ========
 
-Samba4 alpha5 is not a final Samba release.  That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha8 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
@@ -62,35 +62,21 @@ 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 Alpha4
+CHANGES SINCE alpha7
 =====================
 
-In the time since Samba4 Alpha4 was released in June 2008, Samba has
-continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
+In the time since Samba4 alpha7 was released in Feburary 2009, Samba has
+continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas 
+(in no particular order):
 
-  LDAP backend support restored (issues preventing the use of the LDAP
-  backend in alpha4 have been addressed).
+ Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008
 
-  SMB2 Support:  The SMB2 server, while still disabled, has improved,
-  and now supports SMB2 signing. 
+ LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of
+ users and groups much more efficiently
 
-  OpenChange support:  Updates have been made since alpha4 to better
-  support OpenChange's use of Samba4's libraries. 
-
-  Faster ldb loading:  A fix to avoid calling 'init_module' (which was
-  not defined by Samba modules, but was by the C library) will fix
-  some of the slowness in authentication. 
-
-  SWAT Remains Disabled: Due to a lack of developer time and without a
-  long-term web developer to maintain it, the SWAT web UI remains been
-  disabled (and would need to be rewritten in python in any case).
-
-  GNU Make: To try and simplfy our build system, we rely on GNU Make
-  to avoid autogenerating a massive single makefile. 
-
-
-These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
-months.  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
@@ -113,18 +99,9 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
 
 - Clock Synchronisation is critical.  Many 'wrong password' errors are
   actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
-  and server.  (The NTP work in the previous alpha is partly to assist
+  and server.  (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
   with this problem).
 
-- Samba4 alpha5 is currently only portable to recent Linux
-  distributions.  Work to return support for other Unix varients is
-  expected during the next alpha cycle
-
-- Samba4 alpha5 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and
-  recent Ubuntu releases.  GnuTLS use may be disabled using the
-  --disable-gnutls argument to ./configure. (otherwise 'make test' and
-  LDAPS operations will hang).
-
 RUNNING Samba4
 ==============