- WHATS NEW IN Samba 3 SVN
- ========================
+ =================================
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
+ Oct XX, 2007
+ =================================
-This file is NOT maintained but will be created during releases.
-See the SAMBA_3_2_RELEASE branch for the current WHATSNEW.
+This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
+intended for production environments and is designed for testing
+purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
+system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
+
+Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under the version 3
+of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING
+file that accompanies these release notes for further licensing details.
+
+Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
+
+ File Serving:
+ o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC
+ interfaces.
+ o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on
+ filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
+ o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
+ o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
+ o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
+ o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
+
+
+ Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
+ o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts
+ and one-way domain trusts
+ o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS
+ lookups.
+ o Support in pam_winbind for logging on using the userPrincipalName.
+ o Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
+ o Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
+
+
+ Users & Groups:
+ o New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
+ o Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.
+
+
+ Documentation:
+ o Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
+ from O'Reilly Publishing.
+
+
+Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
+================================
+
+The Samba Team has adopted the Version 3 of the GNU General Public
+License for the 3.2 and later releases. The GPLv3 is the updated
+version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
+distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other
+licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
+improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
+Software in the 21st Century.
+
+The original announcement is available on-line at
+
+ http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
+
+
+New Security Defaults for Authentication
+========================================
+
+Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
+applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
+disabled by default in client utilities such as smbclient and all
+libsmbclient based applications. This will affect connection both
+to and from hosts running DOS, Windows 9x/ME, and OS/2. Please refer
+to the "Changes" section for details on the exact parameters that were
+updated.
+
+
+
+Registry Configuration Backend
+==============================
+
+Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
+supplement smb.conf setting. This feature may be enabled by setting
+"include = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
+section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
+
+More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
+pages.
+
+
+Removed Features
+================
+
+Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
+removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.
+
+
+
+######################################################################
+Changes
+#######
+
+smb.conf changes
+----------------
+
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
+ client lanman auth Changed Default No
+ client ldap sasl wrapping New plain
+ client plaintext auth Changed Default No
+ clustering New No
+ cluster addresses New ""
+ ctdb socket New ""
+ lanman auth Changed Default No
+ mangle map Removed
+ open files database hashsize Removed
+ read bmpx Removed
+ registry shares New No
+ winbind expand groups New 1
+ winbind rpc only New No
+
+
+Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
+-----------------------
+o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
+ * Added support for an SMB_CONF_PATH environment variable
+ containing the path to smb.conf.
+ * Various fixes to ntlm_auth.
+ * make test now supports more extensive SPOOLSS testing using vlp.
+ * Correctly handle mixed-case hostnames in NTLMv2 authentication.
+
+Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
+---------------------------
+o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
+ * Unified POSIX ACL detection including support for FreeBSD and
+ HP-UX.
+ * Performance improvements for Winbind's lookup functions (names,
+ SIDs, and group membership) when joined to an AD domain.
+ * Winbind cache validation support.
+ * Store domain trust passwords for Samba domain controller's in
+ the domain's passdb backend.
+ * Merged \winreg server code from the SAMBA_3_2 development branch.
+ * Fixes for libreplace.
+ * Implement new registry configuration backend.
+
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * Add support for file system objectIDs.
+ * Winbind cache validation support.
+ * Add in the UNIX capability for 24-bit readX.
+ * Improve Delete-on-Close semantics.
+ * Removal of static file and path name buffers in SMB file serving
+ code.
+
+
+o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
+ * Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
+ ads join".
+
+
+o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
+ * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
+ servers.
+
+
+o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
+ * Implement support for one-way trusts and two-way cross-forest
+ transitive trust in winbindd.
+ * Fixes for Winbind's offline/disconnected logon support when
+ using remote idmap backends.
+ * Fix LookupNames and LookupSids to use the same resolution
+ heuristics as Windows XP.
+ * Fix lookups in Winbind when running nscd.
+ * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
+ * Add support for GNU linker scripts when build shared libraries
+ (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
+ Peach).
+
+
+o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * Additional support for decoding and downloading group policy
+ objects from Active Directory.
+ * Improvements to "net ads keytab" command.
+ * Fixes for linking against Heimdal Kerberos client libs.
+ * Support LDAP range retrieval searches.
+ * Fixes for failure to refresh user ticket caches in Winbind.
+ * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
+ * Add KDC locator plugin for MIT kerberos 1.6 or later.
+
+
+o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ * Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
+ to come up.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * Merge experimental cluster support patches from the ctdb branch.
+ * Add tdb storage abstraction for ctdb.
+ * Use IDL for internal message passing system.
+ * Add client support for the SamLogonEx() authentication request.
+ * Implement RPC proxy stubs in the Samba server code to allow
+ replacing implementation functions one by one.
+ * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
+ packet processing code.
+ * Add "net sam rights" command.
+ * Support for storing xattrs in tdb files
+ * Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
+ * Implement a generic in-memory cache based on rb-trees
+ * Add implicit temporary talloc contexts via talloc_stack()
+
+
+o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
+ * Fixes for mount.cfs Linux utility.
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * Fixes for libreplace.
+ * Add support for LDAP digital signing policy.
+ * Experimental clustered file system support.
+
+
+o Lars Mueller <lars@samba.org>
+ * Makefile and build fixes.
+ * Add pam_pwd_expire for pam_winbind (original patch from Andreas
+ Schneider).
+
+
+o James Peach <jpeach@apple.com>
+ * Fixes for setgroups() and *BSD and Darwin.
+ * Support membership of >16 groups on Darwin.
+
+
+o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
+ * Added vfs_vfsacl module.
+
+
+o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
+ * Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
+ * Cleanup internal passdb functions.
+ * Improve error messages of net subcommands.
+ * Add 'net rap file user'.
+ * Change LDAP search filter to find machine accounts which
+ are not located in the user suffix.
+
+
+o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
+ * Fixes for IDmap and Passdb backends.
+
+
+o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
+ * Port ldb from the Samba 4 tree and add ldb group mapping plugin.
+ * Move several file serving related tdb files to use the dbwrap
+ API internally.
+ * Cleanup the GPFS VFS plugin.
+ * Experimental clustered file system support.
+
+
+o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
+ * Implement NDR basic to support utilizing IDL files from Samba 4
+ tree for general DCE/RPC parsing stubs.
+
+
+
+######################################################################
+Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
+#######################################
+
+Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
+joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
+
+If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
+feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
+the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
+be filed under the Samba 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
+database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
+
+
+======================================================================
+== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
+== The Samba Team
+======================================================================
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