-What's new in Samba 4 alpha6
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
============================
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha6 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha6 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha7 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
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE Alpha5
+CHANGES SINCE alpha6
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 Alpha5 was released in June 2008, Samba has
+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):
- The source code for various libraries that are used by both Samba 3 and
- Samba 4 are now shared between the two rather than duplicated
- (and being slightly diverged).
+ Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated
+ for the OpenLDAP-Backend.
- The tevent library has been split out and is now usable on its own.
+ OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the
+ OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).
- Several crash bugs and memory leaks in the registry library have been fixed.
+ Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
- The Python modules have been extended and are no longer generated using SWIG.
+ Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
- Stream renames are now supported.
+ A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
+ updated for easier use outside Samba4
- The provision script now has an interactive mode.
+ 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
- The (broken) copy of CTDB has been removed.
-
- More work towards supporting an OpenLDAP backend.
-
- Initial work on using the Microsoft LDAP schema.
-
- The storage of schemas in LDB is now much more efficient.
-
- Support for extended DNs in LDB has been added.
-
- Incoming trusts are now supported.
-
- Compatibility of the registry server with several Windows versions has been
- improved.
-
- Improvements to LSA.idl for better functionality in the usrmgr.exe.
-
- Improved handling of non-standard characters in passwords.
-
- The embedded JavaScript library has been removed in favor of Python.
-
- The WMI implementation has been re-added, but does not completely work yet.
-
- xpress compression is now supported in the NDR layer.
-
- The main binary is now named "samba" rather than "smbd".
-
- A simple script for setting the expiration of a user was added.
-
- It is now possible to use the system-installed Heimdal using the
- experimental --enable-external-heimdal option to configure.
-
- The LDB library is now completely asynchronous internally.
-
- Various unknowns and correctness issues in the drsblobs and drsuapi RPC
- interface implementations have been fixed.
-
- It is now possible to connect to an LDAP backend using SASL credentials.
-
- Multi-fragment NTtrans request support has been added.
-
- The DCE/RPC server can now listen on a separate pipe to allow DCE/RPC
- connections forwarded from Samba 3. The user credentials are provided
- by the client.
-
- A large number of bugs in the SMB2 implementation have been fixed.
-
- Auxiliary classes in LDAP schema conversion are now collapsed.
-
- Several tests have been added to the SMB testsuite.
-
- Object GUIDs in DCE/RPC connections are now dealt with properly.
-
- The correctness of the LSA and NETLOGON implementations has been
- improved.
-
- Multi Master Replication configuration can now be generated
- for OpenLDAP.
-
-These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
-months. More details can be found in our GIT history.
+ 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.
CHANGES
- Clock Synchronisation is critical. Many 'wrong password' errors are
actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
- and server. (The NTP work in the previous alpha is partly to assist
+ and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
-- Samba4 alpha6 is currently only portable to recent Linux
+- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux
distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
- expected during the next alpha cycle
+ expected during the next alpha cycles
-- Samba4 alpha6 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and
- recent Ubuntu releases. GnuTLS use may be disabled using the
- --disable-gnutls argument to ./configure. (otherwise 'make test' and
- LDAPS operations will hang).
RUNNING Samba4
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