-What's new in Samba 4 alpha6
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha8
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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 alpha6 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha8 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 alpha8 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 alpha7
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 Alpha5 was released in June 2008, Samba has
+In the time since Samba4 alpha7 was released in Feburary 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).
+ Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008
- The tevent library has been split out and is now usable on its own.
+ LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of
+ users and groups much more efficiently
- Several crash bugs and memory leaks in the registry library have been fixed.
-
- The Python modules have been extended and are no longer generated using SWIG.
-
- Stream renames are now supported.
-
- 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.
-
-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.
+These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in
+the past few months. More details of the work done 'under the hood'
+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
- distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
- expected during the next alpha cycle
-
-- 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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