-This file contains a history of changes since the first Samba 4 Technology
-Preview. For a general introduction to Samba 4, see the README file in this
-directory. The NEWS file contains a list of differences between
-Samba 3 and Samba 4.
+'Samba4 TP5' presents you with a snapshot into Samba4's ongoing
+development, as we move towards our first alpha releases. This Technology
+Preview (TP) is snapshot of Samba4's development, as at June 2007.
-========================================
-Changes in Samba4-TP2
-Release date: UNRELEASED
-========================================
+In the time since TP4 was released in January 2007, Samba has
+continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
- * Use HDB-LDB as the keytab (abartlet)
+ Work has continued on SWAT, the the libnet API behind it. These we
+ hope will grow into a full web-based management solution for both
+ local and remote Samba and windows servers.
- * Call the wins hook script again (metze)
+ The DRSUAPI research effort has largely concluded, and an initial
+ implementation of AD replication is present, included in torture
+ test-cases. This includes the decryption of the AD passwords, which
+ were specially and separately encrypted. This should be recognised
+ as vital milestone.
- * Make sure no more then 25 records are added in the WINS database (metze)
-
- * Documentation updates (jelmer)
+ Likewise, the LDAP Backend project has moved from a research
+ implementation into something that can be easily deployed outside
+ the test infrastructure.
- * Fix termination issue in winreg server (metze)
+ Testing has been an area of great work, with renewed vigour to
+ increase our test coverage over the past few months. In doing so,
+ we now demonstrate PKINIT and many other aspects of kerberos, as
+ well as command-line authentication handling in our testsuite.
- * AES fix for Samba 4 <-> Samba4 (abartlet)
+ The testsuite infrastructure has been rewritten in perl and
+ extended, to setup multiple environments: allowing testing of the
+ domain member, as well as the domain controller, roles. Samba4's
+ initial implementation of winbind has been revived, to fill in these
+ tests.
- * Better conformance to FHS (abartlet, jelmer)
+ In clustering, work on CTDB (an implementation of a clustered Samba)
+ has moved ahead very well, but the current code has not
+ been merged into Samba4 in time for this release.
- * Improve internal API and code quality in smbclient (jelmer)
+ To support better management, we have investigated group policy
+ support, and include the infrastructure required. Unfortunately
+ without MMC write support, you will need to place the polices into
+ the directory by hand.
- * Add testsuite for smbclient (jelmer)
+As we move forward, we have many of the features we feel are required
+for a Samba4 Alpha. Similarly, we know enough about the data
+formats (particularly those that are encrypted) to be confident that
+we won't need to change the LDB format. Our plan is to publish a
+Samba4 alpha in the next few months.
- * Remove support for password as an optional second parameter in
- smbclient (jelmer)
+These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
+months. More details can be found in our SVN history.
- * Various warning fixes (metze)
- * Several clarifications of comments (abartlet)
- * Remove use of pstring in some places (jelmer)
-
- * Re-add the global -k option to enable kerberos (abartlet)
-
- * Various memory allocation fixes (abartlet)
-
- * Add new cifsdd client (jpeach)
-
- * Add tests for even more insane delete-on-close semantics (jra, tridge)
-
- * Initial work on BASE-DELETE test passing (tridge)
-
- * Optimizations in tdb (tridge)
-
- * Improvements to ldb documentation (idra, Brad Hards)
-
- * Check attribute names to obey rfc2251 (idra)
-
- * Allow WINS replication with NT4SP6A (metze)
-
- * Add ManageDSAIT control (Pete Rowley, idra)
-
- * Add tests for LDB controls (idra)
-
- * Various LDB crash fixes (idra)
-
- * Initial work on vlv LDB control (idra)
-
- * Add -p option to smbtorture (jpeach)
-
- * Several improvements to the SMB URL and UNC parsing (jpeach)
-
- * Make DCE/RPC connect functions work async (rafal)
-
- * Fix invalid steal on supportedControls (closes: #3525) (abartlet)
-
- * Initial work on making ldb async (idra)
-
- * Start parsing saslauthd requests (metze)
-
- * Split the NBT-WINSREPLICATION test into multiple tests (metze)
-
- * Add new ACB-bits as seen in acct_flags in the PAC info3 (gd)
-
- * Move header files out of include/ (jelmer)
-
- * Create separate library for generic utility functions (jelmer)
-
- * Add highestCommittedUSN, uSNChanged and uSNCreated support to LDB (tridge)
-
- * Allow more control over the the winbindd socket location (abartlet)
-
- * Allow messaging without a server messaging context (abartlet)
-
- * Make GSSAPI SASL mech work (abartlet)
-
- * Write out Samba4 version when provisioning (idra)
-
- * Allow servers to bind to non-broadcast interfaces (tridge, abartlet)
-
- * Initialize some ASN.1 elements that are optional (metze)
-
- * Various improvements to RPC-SCHANNEL (abartlet)
-
- * Make Samba4 pass some of the newer schannel tests (abartlet)
-
- * Better handling of connections without SPNEGO (abartlet)
-
- * Improve NTLMSSP tests (abartlet, vl)
-
- * A lot of small cleanups and typo fixes
- (metze, abartlet, idra, jpeach, tridge, jelmer)
-
-(up to date until revno 13732)