The start of a WHATSNEW for Samba4 alpha9

If you think what you did is missing, please edit.  Release of alpha9
will be this week.

Andrew Bartlett

diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt
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--- a/WHATSNEW4.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha8
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha9
 ============================
 
 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 alpha8 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha9 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 alpha9 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
@@ -62,17 +62,26 @@ 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 alpha7
+CHANGES SINCE alpha8
 =====================
 
 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):
 
- Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008
+ Samba4 now includes the full set of user interface strings (display Specifiers) required to
+ have the Microsoft Management Console operate
 
- LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of
- users and groups much more efficiently
+ LDB (the core Samba4 database library) has again been reworked for
+ better performance
+
+ Replication between Samba4 and Active Directory domains using the
+ native replication protocol (DRS) has been demonstrated.
+
+ Access Control Lists (in nTSecurityDescriptor) are now set correctly
+ on objects in the directory, based on the same rules as Windows 2008.
+ (Searches and modifications still use a simplistic administrator/not
+ administrator criteria)
 
 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'
@@ -102,6 +111,12 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
   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. 
+
 RUNNING Samba4
 ==============