-What's new in Samba 4 alpha8
-============================
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha12
+=============================
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
-developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
+developed in parallel to the stable 3.x series. The main emphasis in
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha8 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha8 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha12 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
Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features
you may have relied on simply are not there yet.
-For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active
+For example, while Samba 3 is an excellent member of a Active
Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller, and it is
in this role where it has seen deployment into production.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha7
+CHANGES SINCE alpha11
=====================
-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):
+We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
+AD implementation and therefore achieved also this time big steps forward.
- Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
- LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of
- users and groups much more efficiently
+Beside this the release includes:
-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.
+* a new build system based on WAF
+Andrew Tridgell (tridge) invested much time to bring this up. He achieved a
+marvellous work which brings us faster building, easier management and smaller
+binaries.
+* enhancements in Samba4 winbind to provide a fairly good implementation of the
+most important functions needed by "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind"
+This two components allow a user/group mapping for Windows accounts on UNIX and
+UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to connect to
+services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on.
+More informations available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
+and for winbind in general, "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" in the Samba 3.X
+documentation.
+
+* server side NT ACLs manipulation
+These can now also be set on the command line directly on the server. See
+"net acl" for further informations.
+
+* dynamic DNS updates
+Up-to-date DNS entries are essential for Active Directory deployments. As for
+the moment Samba4 isn't yet capable to interoperate with Microsofts AD DNS
+server (regarding RPCs, ADs zone entries...) a kind of update script has been
+developed. It also permits the update of the "grant" and "resource" lists.
+
+* registry improvements
+The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the
+new torture tests written by gd and some additional testing against Windows
+("regedit" - Windows Registry Editor and "regedt32" - Windows NT Registry Editor).
+Also some real bugs were fixed.
+
+* new Kerberos HEIMDAL release
+Andrew Bartlett (abartlet) imported a new release with various bugfixes
+
+* DCE/RPC code unification work
+Stefan Metzmacher (metze) started his work to unify these codebases between s3
+and s4
+
+* And much more
+We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of our
+program.
CHANGES
=======
and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
+- The DRS replication code often fails, and is very new
+
+- Users upgrading existing databases to Samba4 should carefully
+ consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in
+ this release that should make it easier to upgrade in future.
+ Btw: there exists also a script under the "setup" directory of the
+ source distribution called "upgrade_from_s3" which should allow a step-up
+ from Samba3 to Samba4. It's not included yet in the binary distributions
+ since it's completely experimental!
+
RUNNING Samba4
==============
DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
========================
+
+We need your help! Projects as Samba 4 live from the community feedback. If you
+provide expressive bug reports, some documentation snippets on the wiki or some
+real code patches - all is appreciated if it meets our quality criterias. Here
+you can find further references:
+
Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/ but please be aware
that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.
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