-What's new in Samba 4 alpha11
-============================
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha14
+=============================
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
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
-publishing since September 2007
+Samba4 alpha14 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+publishing since September 2007.
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha11 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha14 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
behaviour. We have to recommend against upgrading production servers
from Samba 3 to Samba 4 at this stage, because there may be the features on
which you may rely that are not present, or the mapping of
-your configuration and user database may not be complete.
+your configuration and user database may not be complete.
If you are upgrading, or looking to develop, test or deploy Samba4, you should
backup all configuration and data.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha10
+CHANGES SINCE alpha13
=====================
-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
+We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
+AD implementation and therefore achieved also this time big steps forward.
-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.
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
-Any deployments of Samba4 before this alpha are very strongly
-encouraged to upgrade. Assistance may be found in the
-upgradeprovision script, and the advise of the Samba Team should be
-sought to determine the impact of these issues in your particular
-deployment.
+Beside this the release includes (among a lot of other things):
+
+* a script for backuping production provision
+Although still in development, samba4 is already used in a couple of production sites
+and such kind of use case is intensifying. This script is intendended for administrators
+to allow them to make a periodic backup of the provision in case of problem.
+
+* the 'net' command has been renamed to 'samba-tool'
CHANGES
=======
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
+- The DRS replication code 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
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
==============
-A short guide to setting up Samba 4 can be found in the howto.txt file
-in root of the tarball.
+A short guide to setting up Samba 4 can be found on the wiki:
+
+ http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO
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.
+that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.
The Samba Wiki at http://wiki.samba.org should detail some of these
development plans.
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