-What's new in Samba 4 alpha5
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha6
============================
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 alpha6 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 alpha6 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 Alpha5
=====================
-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 Alpha5 was released in June 2008, 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).
+ 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).
- SMB2 Support: The SMB2 server, while still disabled, has improved,
- and now supports SMB2 signing.
+ The tevent library has been split out and is now usable on its own.
- OpenChange support: Updates have been made since alpha4 to better
- support OpenChange's use of Samba4's libraries.
+ Several crash bugs and memory leaks in the registry library have been fixed.
- 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.
+ The Python modules have been extended and are no longer generated using SWIG.
- 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).
+ Stream renames are now supported.
- GNU Make: To try and simplfy our build system, we rely on GNU Make
- to avoid autogenerating a massive single makefile.
+ The provision script now has an interactive mode.
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
and server. (The NTP work in the previous alpha is partly to assist
with this problem).
-- Samba4 alpha5 is currently only portable to recent Linux
+- Samba4 alpha6 is currently only portable to recent Linux
distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
expected during the next alpha cycle
-- Samba4 alpha5 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and
+- 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).
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