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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-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
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
 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
@@ -62,18 +62,35 @@ working on modules to map between AD-like behaviours and this backend.
 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
-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):
 
- 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.
 
-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.
+ OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the 
+ OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).
+
+ Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
+
+ Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
+
+ A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
+ updated for easier use outside Samba4
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
@@ -96,17 +113,13 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
 
 - 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
 ==============