WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX
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+Changes in alpha19
+ - Virtual registry framework with printing hooks (jerry)
+ - Heavy registry updates (jerry)
+ - Use 850 as the default DOS character set in smb.conf (tpot)
+ - printer fixes - removed encoding of queueid in job number (jra)
+ - A lot of small fixes (jra)
+ - Don't crash on setfileinfo on printer fsp(jra)
+ - fixed line buffer mode in XFILE(jra)
+ - update samba.schema from 2.2 (jerry,idra)
+ - Fix problem with oplock breaks and win2k -
+ noticed by Lev Iserovich <lev@ciprico.com> (jra)
+ - Update smbgroupedit to document -d - thanks to metze (abartlet)
+ - Support weird behaviour used by win9x pass-through auth (abartlet,tpot)
+ - Support for duplicating stderr in log files (abartlet)
+ - Move startup time initialisation to server.c (abartlet)
+ - *A lot* of fixes and cleanups (abartlet)
+ - Fix up compiler warnings (abartlet)
+ - Few small fixes (tpot)
+ - Renamed new_cli_netlogon_* -> cli_netlogon_* (tpot)
+ - Fixed segfault in net time when host is unavailable (tridge)
+ - Ensure to be root when opening printer backend tdb (jra)
+ - Merges from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot,jerry)
+ - configure updates (tridge)
+ - getgrouplist() updates (tridge)
+ - Support for pdbedit to query account policy values (abartlet)
+ - Allow one to create trusting domain account using smbpasswd (mimir,abartlet)
+ - 'Net rpc trustdom list' (mimir, abartlet)
+ - Fix fallback to anonymous connection (mimir, abartlet)
+ - Fix for pdb_ldap and OpenLDAP 2.1
+ - Added support in swat to determine whether winbind is running (idra)
+ - Add 'hide unwritable' option (idra)
+ - Correct pickup of [homes] share after subsequent session setups (abartlet)
+ - Update rebind code in pdb_ldap (abartlet)
+ - Add some info levels to RPC srvsvc code -
+ thanks to Nigel Williams" <nigel@veritas.com> (abartlet)
+ - Small doc fixes (tridge)
+ - good security patch from Timothy.Sell@unisys.com (tridge)
+ - fix minor nits in nmbd from adtam@cup.hp.com (tridge)
+ - make sure async dns nmbd child dies (tridge)
+ - interim fix for nmbd not registering DOMAIN#1b (tridge)
+ - fix for smbtar filename matching (tridge)
+ - Better quote handling in smb.conf (abartlet)
+ - Support browsers setting multiple languages in swat (idra)
+ - Changed str_list_make to be able to use a different separator string (idra)
+ - Samsync support to insert account info into the pdb (tpot)
+ - Don't hide unwritable dirs when 'hide unwritable' is enabled -
+ suggested by Alexander Oswald <oswald@is.haw-hamburg.de> (idra)
+ - Fix for handling sparse files in smbd (tridge)
+ - Merges from 2_2 (jerry)
+ - Minor printer fixes (jerry)
+ - Add some checks to SID lookup code (abartlet)
+ - Cascaded VFS (Alexander Bokovoy, idra)
+ - Some netbios-less connections support in ADS mode (tridge)
+ - ADS tweaks (tridge)
+ - Fix plaintext passwords with win2k (tridge)
+ - 'net ads info' reports IP of LDAP server (tridge)
+ - Add some more RPC functions (jmcd)
+ - Add 'smb ports = ' option (tridge)
+ - Various small fixes (tridge)
+ - Passdb security checks (abartlet)
+ - Large winbind updates (abartlet)
+ - Moved rpc client routines from libsmb to rpc_client (tpot)
+ - Few nmbd fixes (jmcd)
+ - Fix swat to handle new debug level code (idra)
+ - Fix name length bug in namequeries (tridge)
+ - Don't have client binaries depend on libs they don't use -
+ patch from Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> (abartlet)
+ - Printing change notification (merged from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry)
+ - fix delete printer driver (from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry)
+ - Added pdb_xml and pdb_mysql (jelmer)
+ - Update pdb_test (jelmer)
+ - Fix security issues with %m (abartlet)
+ - Support for service joins from win2k AND use SPNEGO (jmcd)
+ - pdbedit -i and -e fix, add -b (idra)
+ - textdocs converted to sgml (jelmer, jerry)
+ - Merge netbios namecache code from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot)
+ - Fix segs in new NTLMSSP code (abartlet)
+ - Always make guest rid 501 (abartlet)
+
+Changes in alpha18
+ - huge number of changes! really too many to list ... (and its 1am
+ here, and I'm too tired)
+ See the cvs tree at http://build.samba.org/
+
+
+Changes in alpha17
+- OpenLinux packaging updates (jht)
+- Locking updates - fix zero timeout (tridge, jra)
+- Default ACL support (jra, based on code from Olaf Frczyk <olaf@cbk.poznan.pl>)
+- printing updates - spoolss stuff (tpot)
+- 'make install' directory creation fixes (abartlet)
+- Lots of fixes for SID handling, local v domain sids etc
+- better mangle debugging (abartlet)
+- fixes to allow 'net' to return more than 1000 users from ADS (jmcd)
+ - winbind support to come very shortly
+- lock some more tdbs to allow concurrent access for backups
+- 'net' help cleanups (jmcd)
+- 'net join' automatic transport detection
+
+Changes in alpha16
+- LDAP schema updates (jerry)
+- initial ADS LDAP printer advertising (jmcd)
+- spoolss and printing updates (tpot, jerry)
+ (the is the major update in this alpha, and work continues)
+- Winbindd connection cache improvements (abartlet)
+- spnego segfault fixes (abartlet)
+- net ads segfault fixes ( Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net>)
+- header cleanups (tpot)
+- Serialise domain auth requests - win2k bug (tridge)
+- fix winbind talloced memory leak (dleducq@arkoon.net, tridge)
+- call unmangle in don_unmangle (abartlet)
+- UTF8 Charset functions - for ADS LDAP calls (Hasch@t-online.de)
+- Fix security tab for mapped drives on unicode clients (tridge)
+- Better configure tests for snprintf and immidiate structures (abartlet)
+- allow 'passdb backend = plugin : /path/to/plugin.so : plguin args'
+ (loads a passdb module) (Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@nl.linux.org>)
+- change the way we store our domain join info - you will need to
+rejoin the domain (tridge)
+- xcopy /o fixes (tridge)
+- fix the 'convert_string' level 0 debugs.
+- Patch for Domain users not showing up from "Ivan Zhakov" <vunny@mail.ru>
+- tdb backup support
+- The beginning of trusted and trusting domain support - net commands
+ (Rafal Szczesniak <mimir@diament.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>)
+- nmbd signal processing fixes (jra)
+- lseek-on-pipe support (jra)
+- Allow Samba to trust NT4 Domains (abartlet)
+- LDAPsam updates (abartlet):
+ - Now runtime selectable (when configured)
+ - ldap user suffix and ldap group suffix support.
+ - non unix account support
+ - select with 'passdb backend = ldapsam' or 'passdb backend =
+ ldapsam_nua'
+- start to allow NT4 domains to trust Samba, netlogon fixes (abartlet)
+- make default unix charset UTF8 (tridge)
+- Fix SIGSEGV on error message when trying to add a user to smbpasswd
+file without a unix account (jmcd)
+- better detection of dead ADS connections, so we have some chance of
+reconnecting (tridge)
+- removed bogus prepend_domain() call which was screwing up getpwuid()
+with the new default domain code
+- Domain/workstation SID fixes.
+- patch from Alexey Kotovich <a.kotovich@sam-solutions.net> that adds
+ the security decsriptor code for ADS workstation accounts.
+ (allow self password change, self remove)
+ (after much review and disscussion with abartlet and tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha15
+- Improvements in pam_winbind/winbindd_pam.c: (abartlet)
+ - Much better error reporting
+ - Password changing is now stackable
+ - now returns multiple PAM errors based on the NTSTATUS
+ that winbind got.
+ - returns an error string the client can use in their own logs.
+- Print form updates (tpot)
+- added 'wbinfo --sequence' to show sequence numbers of
+ all domains (tridge)
+- better winbind memory mangement (tridge)
+- make signal processing work correctly in winbindd
+ Michael Steffens <michael_steffens@hp.com>
+- Inital ADS printer publishing work. (jmcd)
+- Debian packaging
+- large debian packaging checking from Eloy. (merge by jerry)
+- Make smbgroupedit a little easier on the user (select groups
+ by name rather than by sid) (abartlet)
+- rework parts of smbtorture (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha14
+- 'Winbind Default Domain' support:
+ This allows winbind to supply usernames without a 'DOMAIN\'
+ prefix. Particularly handy for shell and e-mail servers,
+ as well as Unix workstations in NT domains.
+- Associated cleanups in winbindd and smbd.
+ (Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net> and
+ abartlet)
+- Winbind protocol changes for better Squid intergration
+ (current version is 3) (abartlet)
+- pam_winbind password changing
+ (Samuel Ziegler <sam@xpedion.com>, tpot)
+- runtime selectable pluggable passdb interface.
+ (abartlet)
+- 'non unix account' support (abartlet)
+ (This allows machines and even users not to exist
+ in /etc/passwd)
+- Inital implementation of the WINS replication deamon
+ (jfm)
+- Changes for better winbind PDC/BDC failover support
+ (tpot)
+- Various Winbind/ADS mode stabilty and flexablity fixes
+ (tridge)
+- Mangle names like .bashrc properly (trige)
+- CIFS UNIX extensions (client and server) (jra)
+- Universal group support outside smbd (via a cache)
+ (Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net>)
+- Write cache fixes (jra)
+
+Changes in alpha13
+- updates to try to get more out-of-the-box compiles
+ (mostly kerberos and ldap stuff) (various)
+- 'net rpc shutdown' remote shutdown of servers
+ (abartlet, original code from idra)
+- authentication subsystem rework, including move to
+ new RPC client code (abartlet)
+- winbind changes:
+ - use new client code (abartlet)
+ - change winbind_auth_pam_crap interface for squid's
+ benifit. (abartlet)
+ - new interface versioning functionality (abartlet)
+ - cope better when inteface does change (tpot)
+ - better winbind trusted domain code (tpot)
+- doc updates (jerry)
+- new NTSTAUS -> DOS error map (abartlet)
+- large user list (> 1500) enumeration (jra)
+- dmalloc support (mbp)
+- spoolss changes (tpot)
+- talloc accounting (mbp)
+- rename fixes (jra)
+- smbmount trivial fixup (abartlet)
+- start of new unix extenions to CIFS (jra)
+
+Changes in alpha12
+- doc updates (jerry)
+- store domain sid on ADS join (tridge)
+- allow a winbind username on ADS connection (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha11
+- fixed fallback to "ads server" option (tridge)
+- fix ACL failure on HP HFS (jra)
+- net ads password and net ads chostpass commands (Remus Koos)
+- fixed valid char array generation (tridge)
+- fixed QFS_INFO for win98 long filenames (tridge)
+- added net lookup command (tridge)
+- fixed map to guest with spnego (tridge)
+- fixed irix warnings (tridge)
+
+
+Changes in alpha10
+- hide unreadable fix using acl fns (jra)
+- lsa_open_policy cleanup (jfm)
+- mangled directories fix (jra)
+- fix error return on bad pipe (jra)
+- fix homes share with no home dir (tpot)
+- fixed handling of dead or empty domains in winbindd (tridge)
+- added talloc torture program (mbp)
+- talloc debug code (mbp)
+- added trusted domains to winbindd/ADS (tridge)
+- fix trusted domains in auth code (tridge)
+- new gss error handling code (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net & tridge)
+- support mixed ADS/NT4 domains (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha9
+- nicer net error messages (tpot)
+- trust account patches (mimir)
+- solaris link option update (davecb)
+- added lsa_query_secobj() server fn (jfm)
+- spoolss changeid fix (jerry)
+- domain auth error fix (jmcd)
+- HPUX acl code (jra)
+- set filetime on close fix (jra)
+- allow select of org unit in ads join (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha8
+- fixed compile of wb_client.c (tridge)
+- fixed net time to use localtime (tridge)
+- net help cleanups (jmcd)
+- debug level fix (tpot)
+- utmp string length fixes (monyo)
+
+
+Changes in alpha7
+
+- added "net ads info" to probe basic into on your ads server without
+ any authentication
+- improved some error handling
+
+Changes in alpha6
+
+- added "net time zone" command (tridge)
+- pam_smbpass updates (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net)
+- irix updates (herb)
+- net rpc join handles existing machine acct (tridge)
+
Changes in alpha5
- added "net time" command (tridge)
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