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Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
- Oct XX, 2007
+ Feb 29, 2008
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This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
- o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
-
+ o Support for IPv6 in the server, and client tools and libraries.
+ o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
+ o Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts
o Support in pam_winbind for logging on using the userPrincipalName.
o Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
o Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
+ o New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so)
Users & Groups:
License for the 3.2 and later releases. The GPLv3 is the updated
version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other
-licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
+licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
Software in the 21st Century.
-The original announcement is available on-line at
+The original announcement is available on-line at
http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
New Security Defaults for Authentication
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-Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
-applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
+Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
+applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
disabled by default in client utilities such as smbclient and all
-libsmbclient based applications. This will affect connection both
-to and from hosts running DOS, Windows 9x/ME, and OS/2. Please refer
-to the "Changes" section for details on the exact parameters that were
+libsmbclient based applications. This will affect connection both
+to and from hosts running DOS, Windows 9x/ME, and OS/2. Please refer
+to the "Changes" section for details on the exact parameters that were
updated.
* BUG 5063: Fix build on RHEL5.
* New smb.conf parameter "config backend = registry" to enable registry
only configuration.
+ * Move "net conf" functionality into a separate module libnet_conf.c
+ * Restructure registry code, eliminating the dynamic overlay.
+ Make use of reg_api instead of backend code in most places.
+ * Add support for intercepting LDAP libraries' debug output and print
+ it in Samba's debugging system.
* Libreplace fixes.
* Build fixes.
* Initial support for using subsystems as shared libraries.
* Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
* Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
(based on work from Andreas Schneider).
- * Additional work on the session data privacy for clients
- implementing the Unix CIFS Extensions.
-
+ * Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
* Added support for an SMB_CONF_PATH environment variable
o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
* Additional portability support for building shared libraries.
+o Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+ * Get Samba version or capability information from Windows user space
Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
* Merged \winreg server code from the SAMBA_3_2 development branch.
* Fixes for libreplace.
* Implement new registry configuration backend.
-
+
o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* Add support for file system objectIDs.
* Winbind cache validation support.
* Add in the UNIX capability for 24-bit readX.
* Improve Delete-on-Close semantics.
- * Removal of static file and path name buffers in SMB file serving
+ * Removal of static file and path name buffers in SMB file serving
code.
-
+
o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
* Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
- * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
+ * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
servers.
* Fix lockups in Winbind when running nscd.
* UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
* Add support for GNU linker scripts when build shared libraries
- (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
+ (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
Peach).
o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
* Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
- to come up.
+ to come up.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* Add client support for the SamLogonEx() authentication request.
* Implement RPC proxy stubs in the Samba server code to allow
replacing implementation functions one by one.
- * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
+ * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
packet processing code.
* Add "net sam rights" command.
o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
- * Added vfs_vfsacl module.
+ * Added vfs_zfsacl module.
o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
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