-This file contains a history of changes since the first Samba 4 Technology
-Preview. For a general introduction to Samba 4, see the README file in this
-directory. The NEWS file contains a list of differences between
-Samba 3 and Samba 4.
+The Samba Team is proud to present our first alpha release of Samba4.
-========================================
-Changes in Samba4-TP2
-Release date: 22 March 2006
-========================================
+Samba4 aims to be a compatible replacement for
- * Make ldb async internally (idra)
+In the time since TP5 was released in June 2007, Samba has
+continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
- * Use HDB-LDB as the keytab (abartlet)
+ Group Policy Support: Basic group policies may be defined, and are
+ enforced by Windows clients
- * Call the wins hook script again (metze)
+ MMC Support: The Active Directory Users and Computers console now
+ works, supporting most operations.
- * Make sure no more then 25 records are added in the WINS database (metze)
-
- * Documentation updates (jelmer)
+ Winbind: Kai Blin has been working hard on his Google Summer of
+ Code project, creating a winbind implementation for Samba4.
- * Fix termination issue in winreg server (metze)
+ Heimdal update: A Heimdal 1.0 snapshot is now included as the
+ internal Kerberos library in Samba4.
- * AES fix for Samba 4 <-> Samba4 (abartlet)
+ In the past few weeks, many small but significant bugs have been
+ fixed, particularly thanks to Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mwallnoefer@yahoo.de>
- * Better conformance to FHS (abartlet, jelmer)
+These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
+months. More details can be found in our SVN history.
- * Improve internal API and code quality in smbclient (jelmer)
- * Add testsuite for smbclient (jelmer)
- * Remove support for password as an optional second parameter in
- smbclient (jelmer)
-
- * Various warning fixes (metze)
-
- * Several clarifications of comments (abartlet)
-
- * Remove use of pstring in some places (jelmer)
-
- * Re-add the global -k option to enable kerberos (abartlet)
-
- * Various memory allocation fixes (abartlet)
-
- * Add new cifsdd client (jpeach)
-
- * Add tests for even more insane delete-on-close semantics (jra, tridge)
-
- * Initial work on BASE-DELETE test passing (tridge)
-
- * Optimizations in tdb (tridge)
-
- * Improvements to ldb documentation (idra, Brad Hards)
-
- * Check attribute names to obey rfc2251 (idra)
-
- * Allow WINS replication with NT4SP6A (metze)
-
- * Add ManageDSAIT control (Pete Rowley, idra)
-
- * Add tests for LDB controls (idra)
-
- * Various LDB crash fixes (idra)
-
- * Initial work on vlv LDB control (idra)
-
- * Add -p option to smbtorture (jpeach)
-
- * Several improvements to the SMB URL and UNC parsing (jpeach)
-
- * Make DCE/RPC connect functions work async (rafal)
-
- * Fix invalid steal on supportedControls (closes: #3525) (abartlet)
-
- * Start parsing saslauthd requests (metze)
-
- * Split the NBT-WINSREPLICATION test into multiple tests (metze)
-
- * Add new ACB-bits as seen in acct_flags in the PAC info3 (gd)
-
- * Move header files out of include/ (jelmer)
-
- * Create separate library for generic utility functions (jelmer)
-
- * Add highestCommittedUSN, uSNChanged and uSNCreated support to LDB (tridge)
-
- * Allow more control over the the winbindd socket location (abartlet)
-
- * Allow messaging without a server messaging context (abartlet)
-
- * Make GSSAPI SASL mech work (abartlet)
-
- * Write out Samba4 version when provisioning (idra)
-
- * Allow servers to bind to non-broadcast interfaces (tridge, abartlet)
-
- * Initialize some ASN.1 elements that are optional (metze)
-
- * Various improvements to RPC-SCHANNEL (abartlet)
-
- * Make Samba4 pass some of the newer schannel tests (abartlet)
-
- * Better handling of connections without SPNEGO (abartlet)
-
- * Generate seperate headers for RPC client functions (jelmer)
-
- * Improve NTLMSSP tests (abartlet, vl)
-
- * Support any size pointers in pidl (tridge)
-
- * Large overhaul of the opendb code to pass BASE-DELETE (tridge)
-
- * Use doxygen for documenting lib/util and lib/registry (jelmer)
-
- * Add registration mechanism for modules and backends in ldb (idra, jelmer)
-
- * Support building shared libraries in the build system (metze, jelmer)
-
- * Install headers in a sane location (jelmer)
-
- * Fix BASE-NEGNOWAIT (tridge)
-
- * Add prefixes to most of the SMB-related functions (metze)
-
- * Get rid of proto.h (jelmer)
-
- * Reduce number of headers included in includes.h (jelmer)
-
- * Support header dependencies (jelmer)
-
- * Add RAW-NOTIFY (tridge, metze)
-
- * Fix 'your password has expired' on every login (abartlet)
-
- * Improvements to RPC-SAMSYNC (abartlet)
-
- * Work on supporting change notify (tridge, metze)
-
- * Reopen log files after SIGHUP (metze)
-
- * Add BUGS.txt (#3523) (jelmer)
-
- * Add summary to configure (#3442) (metze, jelmer)
-
- * Swig fixes (idra)
-
- * Improve NBT-WINSREPLICATION-OWNED test (metze)
-
- * Fix a lot of compiler warnings (metze)
-
- * Several code improvements found by static code checker (tridge, metze)
-
- * Force correct alignment when in ASCII mode (#2921) (tridge)
-
- * Fix coverity bug #127 (vl)
-
- * Add support for changing process titles (metze)
-
- * Support raw NTLMSSP (abartlet)
-
- * Fix debug levels in several places (abartlet)
-
- * Work to unify the ntvfs structures for smb and smb2 (metze, tridge)
-
- * Initial work on asynchronous libnet (rafal)
-
- * Improvements to the wide character set functions (tridge)
-
- * Several heimdal build improvements (abartlet, jelmer)
-
- * A lot of small cleanups and typo fixes
- (metze, abartlet, idra, jpeach, tridge, jelmer)
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