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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
- and one-way domain trusts
+ and one-way domain trusts.
o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS
lookups.
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
========================================
-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.
-
Registry Configuration Backend
==============================
Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
supplement smb.conf setting. This feature may be enabled by setting
-"include = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
-section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
+"config backend = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
+section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
-More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
+More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
pages.
Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.
+As smbfs is no longer supported in current kernel versions, smbmount has
+been removed in this Samba version. Please use cifs (mount.cifs) instead.
+See examples/scripts/mount/mount.smbfs as an example for a wrapper which
+calls mount.cifs instead of smbmount/mount.smbfs.
+
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client plaintext auth Changed Default No
clustering New No
cluster addresses New ""
+ config backend New file
ctdb socket New ""
+ debug class New No
+ hidden New No
lanman auth Changed Default No
- mangle map Removed
+ ldap debug level New 0
+ ldap debug threshold New 10
+ mangle map Removed
open files database hashsize Removed
- read bmpx Removed
+ read bmpx Removed
registry shares New No
- winbind expand groups New 1
- winbind rpc only New No
+ winbind expand groups New 1
+ winbind rpc only New No
Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
-----------------------
+
+o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
+ * Add library for access to the registry configuration data.
+ * BUG 5023: Separate NFS4 and POSIX ACL code in file access checks.
+ * BUG 4308: Fix Excel save operation ACL bug.
+ * Refactor and consolidate logic for retrieving the machine
+ trust password information.
+ * VFS API cleanup (remove redundant parameter).
+ * BUG 4801: Correctly implement LSA lookup levels for LookupNames.
+ * Add new option "debug class" to control printing of the debug class.
+ in debug headers.
+ * Enable building of the zfsacl and notify_fam vfs modules.
+ * BUG 5083: Fix memleak in solarisacl module.
+ * 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.
+ Use talloc, tdb, and libnetapi as shared libraries internally.
+
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * Added support for IPv6 client and server connections.
+ * Add in the recvfile entry to the VFS layer.
+ * Removal of pstring data type.
+ * Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
+ * Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
+ (based on work from Andreas Schneider).
+ * 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
containing the path to smb.conf.
* Correctly handle mixed-case hostnames in NTLMv2 authentication.
+o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
+ * Add Winbind client library.
+ * Decouple static linking between smbd and winbindd's client
+ interface.
+
+
+o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * Enhance client and server remote registry access.
+ * Add client calls for remotely joining a computer to a domain
+ (including calls from "net dom" command).
+ * Add libnetapi.so library for joining domains including
+ sample GTK+ app.
+
+
+o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ * Integrate 2 out of 3 --with-fhs patches from Debian packaging
+ for better adherence to the FHS standard.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * Add talloc_stackframe() and talloc_pool() features.
+ * Removal of pstring data type.
+ * Add generic a in-memory cache.
+ * Import the Linux red-black tree implementation.
+ * Remove large amount of global variables.
+ * Support for storing xattrs in tdb files.
+ * Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
+ * Implement a generic in-memory cache based on rb-trees.
+ * Add implicit temporary talloc contexts via talloc_stack().
+ * Speed up the smbclient "get" command
+ * Add the aio_fork module
+
+
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* Fixes for libreplace.
+ * Pidl fixes.
* Build fixes.
* Add nss_wrapper support.
- * Start and test winbindd by 'make test'
+ * Start and test winbindd by 'make test'.
* Split up child_dispatch_table into domain, idmap and locator tables
in winbindd.
* Fix for a crash bug in pidl generated client code.
This could have happend with [in,out,unique] pointers
- when the clients sends a valid pointer, but the server
- reponse with a NULL pointer (as samba-3.0.26a do for some calls).
- * Change NTSTAUS into enum ndr_err_code in librpc/ndr.
+ when the client sends a valid pointer, but the server
+ responds with a NULL pointer (as samba-3.0.26a does for some calls).
+ * Change NTSTATUS into enum ndr_err_code in librpc/ndr.
* Remove unused calls in the struct based winbindd protocol.
* Add --configfile option to wbinfo.
* Convert winbind_env_set(), winbind_on() and winbind_off() into macros.
* Return rids and other_sids arrays in WBFLAG_PAM_INFO3_TEXT mode.
- * Implement wbcErrorString() and wbcAuthenticateUserEx()
- * Convert auth_winbind to use wbcAuthenticateUserEx()
+ * Implement wbcErrorString() and wbcAuthenticateUserEx().
+ * Convert auth_winbind to use wbcAuthenticateUserEx().
+
+
+o James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
+ * Add support for DNS Service Discovery. Based on work from
+ Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>.
+
+
+o Andreas Schneider <anschneider@suse.de>
+ * Don't restart winbind if a corrupted tdb is found during
+ initialization.
+ * Fix Windows 2008 (Longhorn) join.
+ * Fix crashbug in winbindd.
+ * Add share parameter "hidden".
o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
* Add 'net rap file user'.
* Change LDAP search filter to find machine accounts which
are not located in the user suffix.
+ * Remove smbmount.
+
+
+o David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+ * BUG 5073: Allow "delete readonly = yes" to correctly override
+ deletion of a file.
+
+
+o Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>
+ * Register the smb service with mDNS if mDNS is supported.
+ * Add smbclient support for basic mDNS browsing.
+
+
+o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
+ * Fix padding between Winbind 32bit/64bit client library in
+ the request/response structures.
+ * Added a syncops VFS module for file systems which do not
+ guarantee meta-data operations are immediately committed to
+ disk in stable form.
+
+
+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.
- * Support for storing xattrs in tdb files
- * Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
- * Implement a generic in-memory cache based on rb-trees
- * Add implicit temporary talloc contexts via talloc_stack()
o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
- * Fixes for mount.cfs Linux utility.
+ * Fixes for mount.cifs Linux utility.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
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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