-What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
-============================
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha12
+=============================
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
-developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
+developed in parallel to the stable 3.x series. The main emphasis in
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha7 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha12 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
Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features
you may have relied on simply are not there yet.
-For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active
+For example, while Samba 3 is an excellent member of a Active
Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller, and it is
in this role where it has seen deployment into production.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha6
+CHANGES SINCE alpha11
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has
-continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas
-(in no particular order):
+We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
+AD implementation and therefore achieved also this time big steps forward.
- Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated
- for the OpenLDAP-Backend.
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
- OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the
- OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).
+Beside this the release includes:
- Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
+* enhancements in Samba4 winbind to provide a fairly good implementation of the
+most important functions needed by "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind"
+The use of this two components allows a user/group mapping for Windows accounts
+on UNIX and UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to
+connect to services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on.
+More informations available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
+and for winbind in general, "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" in the Samba 3.X
+documentation.
- Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
+* server side NT ACLs manipulation
+These can now also be set on the command line directly on the server. See
+"net acl" for further informations.
- A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
- updated for easier use outside Samba4
+* dynamic DNS updates
+A new DNS upgrade mechanism has been introduced which works with newer bind9
+releases.
- spoolss IDL updates to bring Samba3 to use PIDL code, and to merge
- the corrected IDL back into Samba4
-
- Fixes to allow use of C++ compilers and to increase portability
+* registry improvements
+The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the
+new torture tests written by gd and some additional testing against Windows
+("regedit" - Windows Registry Editor and "regedt32" - Windows NT Registry Editor).
+Also some real bugs were fixed.
- Fixed TLS (SSL) support with modern versions of GnuTLS
-
-These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past
-month. More details can be found in our GIT history.
+* new Kerberos HEIMDAL release
+Abartlet imported a new release with various bugfixes
+* DCE/RPC code unification work
+Metze started his work to unify these codebases between s3 and s4
+
+* And much more
+We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of our
+program.
CHANGES
=======
and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
-- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux
- distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
- expected during the next alpha cycles
+- The DRS replication code often fails, and is very new
+
+- Users upgrading existing databases to Samba4 should carefully
+ consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in
+ this release that should make it easier to upgrade in future.
+ Btw: there exists also a script under the "setup" directory of the
+ source distribution called "upgrade_from_s3" which should allow a step-up
+ from Samba3 to Samba4. It's not included yet in the binary distributions
+ since it's completely experimental!
+- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
+ Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed soon.
RUNNING Samba4
==============
DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
========================
+
+We need your help! Projects as Samba 4 live from the community feedback. If you
+provide expressive bug reports, some documentation snippets on the wiki or some
+real patches - all is appreciated if it meets our quality criterias. Here you
+can find the links:
+
Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/ but please be aware
that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.
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