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Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
- Oct XX, 2007
+ Jan 16, 2008
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This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
+ o Support for IPv6 connections.
Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
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.
+ o New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so)
Users & Groups:
Documentation:
- o Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
+ o Inclusion of an HTML version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
from O'Reilly Publishing.
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 improvecompatibility with other
-licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
+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
+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
+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
+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.
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.
+"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
+More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
pages.
client plaintext auth Changed Default No
clustering New No
cluster addresses New ""
+ debug class New No
ctdb socket New ""
lanman auth Changed Default No
mangle map Removed
- open files database hashsize Removed
+ min receive file size New 0
+ open files database hash size Removed
read bmpx Removed
registry shares New No
winbind expand groups New 1
Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
-----------------------
+o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
+ * Add library for access to the registry configuration data.
+ * BUG 5023: Separate NFS4 and POSIX ACL code in file access checks.
+ * BUG 4308: Fix Excel save operation ACL bug.
+ * Refactor and consolidate logic for retrieving the machine
+ trust password information.
+ * VFS API cleanup.
+ * BUG 4801: Correctly implement LSA lookup levels for LookupNames.
+ * Add new option "debug class" to control printing of the debug class.
+ in debug headers.
+ * Enable building of the zfsacl and notify_fam vfs modules.
+ * BUG 5083: Fix memleak in solarisacl module.
+ * BUG 5063: Fix build on RHEL5.
+
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * Added support for IPv6 client and server connections.
+ * Add in the recvfile entry to the VFS layer.
+ * Removal of pstring data type.
+ * Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
+ * Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
+ (based on work from Andreas Schneider).
+ * Additional work on the session data privacy for clients
+ implementing the Unix CIFS Extensions.
+
+
+o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
+ * Add Winbind client library.
+ * Decouple static linking between smbd and winbindd's client
+ interface.
+
+
+o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * Enhance client and server remote registry access.
+ * Add client calls for remotely joining a computer to a domain
+ (including calls from "net dom" command).
+ * Add libnetapi.so library for joining domains including
+ sample GTK+ app.
+
+
+o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ * Integrate 2 out of 3 --with-fhs patches from Debian packaging
+ for better adherence to the FHS standard.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * Add talloc_stackframe() and talloc_pool() features.
+ * Removal of pstring data type.
+ * Add generic a in-memory cache.
+ * Import the Linux red-black tree implementation.
+ * Remove large amount of global variables.
+ * Add vfs_ea_tdb module for file systems that do not implement xattrs.
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * Refactor Winbind internal parent-child interface tables
+ to achieve better unit testing support.
+ * Add nss_wrapper API for local Winbind unit tests.
+ * Networking fixes to the libreplace library.
+ * Pidl fixes.
+ * Remove unused Winbind pipe calls.
+
+
+o James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
+ * Add support for DNS Service Discovery. Based on work from
+ Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>.
+
+
+o Andreas Schneider <anschneider@suse.de>
+ * Don't restart winbind if a corrupted tdb is found during
+ initialization.
+
+
+o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
+ * Add net rap file user.
+
+
+o David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+ * BUG 5073: Allow "delete readonly = yes" to correctly override
+ deletion of a file.
+
+
+o Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>
+ * Register the smb service with mDNS if mDNS is supported.
+ * Add smbclient support for basic mDNS browsing.
+
+
+o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
+ * Fix padding between Winbind 32bit/64bit client library in
+ the request/response structures.
+ * Added a syncops VFS module for file systems which do not
+ guarantee meta-data operations are immediately committed to
+ disk in stable form.
+
+
+o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
+ * Additional portability support for building shared libraries.
+
+
Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
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* 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
+ * 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
o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
- * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
+ * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
servers.
* Fix lockups 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
+ (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
Peach).
o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
* Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
- to come up.
+ to come up.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* 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
+ * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
packet processing code.
* Add "net sam rights" command.
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