From a1bfd410d6c31f58d6c7825cd1970c38d2ad713d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bartlett Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:52:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] r24633: Try to start on a set of release notes for Samba4 alpha1. I still have things to fix, but I think we are close to making this release. Andrew Bartlett --- WHATSNEW.txt | 61 ++++++++++++++++------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 72e3be35c52..6c0835883d1 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,49 +1,24 @@ -'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. +The Samba Team is proud to present our first alpha release of Samba4. -In the time since TP4 was released in January 2007, Samba has +Samba4 aims to be a compatible replacement for + +In the time since TP5 was released in June 2007, Samba has continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas: - 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. - - 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. - - Likewise, the LDAP Backend project has moved from a research - implementation into something that can be easily deployed outside - the test infrastructure. - - 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. - - 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. - - 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. - - 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. - -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. + Group Policy Support: Basic group policies may be defined, and are + enforced by Windows clients + + MMC Support: The Active Directory Users and Computers console now + works, supporting most operations. + + Winbind: Kai Blin has been working hard on his Google Summer of + Code project, creating a winbind implementation for Samba4. + + Heimdal update: A Heimdal 1.0 snapshot is now included as the + internal Kerberos library in Samba4. + + In the past few weeks, many small but significant bugs have been + fixed, particularly thanks to Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer 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. -- 2.34.1