- WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha23
- 30th March 2003
- ==============================
-
-This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
-Use at your own risk.
-
-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 alpha23:
--------------------
-
- LDAP Group Mapping
- ------------------
-
- pdbedit -i -e sets all SAM_ACCOUNT elements to CHANGED to
- satisfy the new pdb_ldap.c handling. pdbedit -g transfers group
- mappings. I made this separate from the user database, as current
- installations have to live with a split backend. So, if you are
- running 3_0 alphas with LDAP as a backend and upgrade to 3.0alpha23,
- you must call
-
- root# pdbedit -i tdbsam -e ldapsam -g
-
- to transfer your group mapping database to LDAP.
-
- All groups must be represented as posixGroup objects in
- the directory and you must adapt your LDAP schema to support the
- sambaGroupMapping before running this command. Refer to
- examples/LDAP/samba.schema for details on the objectclass.
-
-
- Parameters
- ----------
-
- Modified Parameters (see smb.conf(5) for details):
-
- * passdb backend
-
- Added Parameters
-
- * ldap del only sam attr
- * ldap delete dn
-
-
- ChangeLog
- ---------
-
- See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many
- smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
-
-0) Include security fix from Samba 2.2.8
-1) Fix interop bug in tconX on port 445 with Windows 2000
-2) Interpret missing SMB_ACL_USER_OBJ, SMB_ACL_GROUP_OBJ, or
- SMB_ACL_OTHER as "preserve current value" instead of attempting
- to build one ourself.
-3) Rearrange set_nt_acl() such that chown is only done before
- setting ACLs if there is either no change of owning user, or
- change of owning user is towards the current user. Otherwise
- chown is done after setting ACLs.
-4) Continuing work on NTLMSSP-based SMB signing
-5) When opening an existing TDB, don't require the hash_size
- specified to the open call to be the same as that of the
- existing tdb. The specified hash_size is only used if the
- tdb needs to be (re)created.
-6) Add support for "WinXP" and "Win2K3" client architectures.
-7) Fixed the unmarshalling of the queryaliasmem SAMR call
-8) Windows 2000 can take much longer than the specified time to
- respond to a lock - so to make the torture tests valid I give
- it a grace time of 10 seconds instead of 2
-9) Continued work on string handling paranoia
-10) Merge new statcache.c from HEAD
-11) Add new 'net ads dn' option
-12) Sync up SessionSetup code to HEAD, including Luke Howard's
- session key and auth verifier patches
-13) Work on cleaning up winbindd's mutex locking
-14) Add support for LDAP based Windows group mapping
-15) Improve LDAP update routines
-16) Fix memory leaks found by Valgrind
-17) Add a 'privileged' mode to Winbindd
-18) Work around platforms that have broken getgrnam() implementations
-19) Merge real time signal fixes for kernel oplock code from HEAD
-20) Fix CIDR hosts allow/deny notation
-21) Fixup tcon&X server responses and error codes
-22) Set domain for users in passdb created by "net rpc vampire"
-23) More scalable printing updates
-
-
- ===============================
-
-Changes in older alpha releases follow:
-
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-
-Changes in alpha22:
--------------------
-
- Added Parameters
-
- * client NTLMv2 auth
- * client lanman auth
- * client signing
- * client use spnego
- * max reported print jobs
- * msdfs proxy
-
-1) remove the global_myname string and replace with wrapper function
- global_myname()
-2) create vfs/ and pdb/ subdirectories for library installs
-3) Fixup of ordered cleanup of get_dc_list()
-4) Added more autoconf tests for Stratus VOS
-5) Fixed nasty bug where file writes with start offsets in the
- range 0x80000000 -> 0xFFFFFFFF would fail as they were being cast
- from IVAL (uint32) to SMB_OFF_T (off_t or off64_t, both *signed*
- types). The sign extension would cause the offset to be treated
- as negative.
-6) Add support to automatically retrieve the dns host name and domain
- name of an AD server
-7) Add support for PRINTER_INFO_7 and publishing printer attributes
- in active directory
-8) Fix for 64 bit issues with oplocks and allocation size
-9) Remove assert(count ==1) for multi-homed PDCs when resolving
- DOMAIN<0x1b>
-10) Ensure that change_trust_account_password() always talks to
- the PDC
-11) Add some docs on CUPS printing
-12) Fix rpcclient querygroup command
-13) The _abs time functions should not be converting from/to GMT
-14) Fix broken incremental tar in smbclient
-15) Adding supporting code for better testing using Valgrind
-16) Fix for old DOS client when veto files is set to /.*/
-17) Add win32 utility to query driver capabilities to publish
- (examples/printing/prtpub.c)
-18) Fix memory leak when constructing an driver_level_6 structure and
- no dependent files
-19) Add some friendly versions of NT_STATUS codes
-20) Protect nmbd against malformed reply packets
-21) Removal of unpopular winbind client environment variable
-22) Add msdfs proxy functionality; a CIFS share can directly be a
- stand-in for another share, and when clients connect to the first
- share, they will be redirected to the proxied share
-23) Make Samba compile cleanly with -Wwrite-strings
-24) Add new timegm() that actually works on solaris
-25) Add support for running smbd, nmbd, & winbindd under the daemontools
- package
-26) Move user password changes into the NTSTATUS era, and add support
- for the 'min password age' and 'min passwd len' concepts
-27) Add new gencache based namecache code
-28) Add profiles utility support to Samba 3.0.x
-29) Fix open problem with changing attributes on an existing file
-30) Efficiency fixes for internal messaging system
-31) Make sure to update print queue cache during timeout_processing()
- to send notify events
-32) Make -i flag work like it did in 2.2
-33) Merge some rpcclient and net functionality from HEAD
-34) Add support for compiling with Heimdal kerberos libraries
-35) Connect to the actual netbios name in smb.conf and not LOCALHOST
-36) Add support for CUPS-PRINTER_CLASS
-37) Add ntlm_auth tool and update NTLMSSP support
-38) require Autoconf 2.53 and remove configure from CVS
-39) Check for too many processes *before* the fork
-40) Fix delete on close semantics to match W2K.
-41) merge desired_access for open_printer_ex from HEAD, allowing
- cupsaddsmb to work again!
-42) Add support for dynamic RPC modules
-43) wrap all cm_get_XX calls and their subsequent requests in a retry loop
- in case we've temporarily lost connection to the DC. Makes winbindd
- more reliable
-44) Optimize user_ok() and user_in_group() when verifying group membership
-45) Add NTLMv2 client code (that works) and some SMB signing fixes
-46) Add caching of PRINTER_INFO_2 structures to open printer handles
-47) Add 1/3 second delay in OpenPrinter() reply to trigger a LAN/WAN
- optimization in Windows 2000 clients
-48) Add "WinXP" to the possible values of the %a variable
-49) Fix to allow blocking lock notification to be done rapidly (no wait for
- smb -> smb lock release). Adds new PENDING_LOCK type to lockdb (does
- not interfere with existing locks)
-50) Limit the unix domain sockets used by winbindd (also solves FD_SETSIZE
- problem in winbindd to boot !). Adds a "last_access" field to winbindd
- connections, and will close the oldest idle connection once the number
- of open connections goes over WINBINDD_MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_CLIENTS (defined
- in local.h as 200 currently)
-51) Limit the number of print jobs returned in EnumJobs()
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3 SVN
+ ========================
+This file is NOT maintained but will be created during releases.
+See the SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE branch for the current WHATSNEW.
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