-What's new in Samba 4 alpha5
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
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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 alpha5 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 alpha5 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 Alpha4
+CHANGES SINCE alpha6
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 Alpha4 was released in June 2008, Samba has
-continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
+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):
- LDAP backend support restored (issues preventing the use of the LDAP
- backend in alpha4 have been addressed).
+ Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated
+ for the OpenLDAP-Backend.
- SMB2 Support: The SMB2 server, while still disabled, has improved,
- and now supports SMB2 signing.
+ OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the
+ OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).
- OpenChange support: Updates have been made since alpha4 to better
- support OpenChange's use of Samba4's libraries.
+ Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
- Faster ldb loading: A fix to avoid calling 'init_module' (which was
- not defined by Samba modules, but was by the C library) will fix
- some of the slowness in authentication.
+ Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
- SWAT Remains Disabled: Due to a lack of developer time and without a
- long-term web developer to maintain it, the SWAT web UI remains been
- disabled (and would need to be rewritten in python in any case).
+ A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
+ updated for easier use outside Samba4
- GNU Make: To try and simplfy our build system, we rely on GNU Make
- to avoid autogenerating a massive single makefile.
+ 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
-
-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 alpha5 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 alpha5 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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