-What's new in Samba 4 alpha11
-============================
+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.x series. The main emphasis in
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha11 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
CHANGES SINCE alpha11
=====================
-Since the alpha10 release, we have fixed a number of serious bugs in
-the implementation of AD-compatible 'Directory Replication Services'.
-We can now join an AD domain as a read-write DC
-
-This release includes changes related to:
-
-* winbind, to allow a fairly good implementation of functions needed by
-libnss_winbind and pam_winbind.
-The usage of this two library allow to have domain users and groups information
-available on the unix and unix-like side. It allow to be able to use domain user
-to connect to all the services (ssh, login, X session, ...)
-More information available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
-
-* server side NTACL manipulation, NTACL of shared file can now be set from the command line
-directly on the server. See net acl for more information.
-
-CHANGES SINCE alpha10
-=====================
-
-Since the alpha10 release, we have fixed a number of serious bugs in
-the implementation of AD-compatible 'Directory Replication Services'.
-We can now join an AD domain as a read-write DC
-
-Importantly, since alpha10, the following serious issues were
-addressed:
- - We now allocate RID values safely (previous implementations would
- add users and groups without regard to allocated RID pools, possibly
- creating duplicates)
- - In previous Samba4 versions, a failure to 'prepare' a transaction
- would silently commit the transaction.
-
-Any deployments of Samba4 before this alpha are very strongly
-encouraged to upgrade. Assistance may be found in the
-upgradeprovision script, and the advice of the Samba Team should be
-sought to determine the impact of these issues in your particular
-deployment.
+We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
+AD implementation and therefore achieved also this time big steps forward.
Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
+Beside this the release includes:
+
+* 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
=======
from Samba3 to Samba4. It's not included yet in the binary distributions
since it's completely experimental!
-- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
- Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha12.
-
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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