- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha2 Oct 21st 1997
- =======================================
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha24
+ 14th May 2003
+ ==============================
-This is NOT a production release of Samba code.
-For production servers please run Samba 1.9.17p4
-or later releases in the 1.9.17 series.
+This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
+Use at your own risk.
-This release contains some experimental features and
-changes and is being made available so people can
-test and provide feedback and patches for ongoing
-Samba development.
+The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
+new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have
+officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are
+concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0
+release we need as many people as possible to start testing these alpha
+releases, and hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs
+fixing.
-Please note that only the Domain controler code
-is truly experimental. The other changes have
-been extensively tested and are of the same
-quality as normal Samba alpha releases. The
-Domain controler code is disabled in the Makefile
-by default and is being made available to Samba
-programmers in the interests of advancing a
-public implementation of this important protocol.
+Note that Samba 3.0 is not feature complete yet. There is a more
+coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have done already more
+widely tested we will have a hard time doing a stable release in a
+reasonable time frame.
-This release contains three major changes to the
-1.9.17 series and much re-written code.
+Major new features:
+-------------------
-The main changes are :
+- Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
+ as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.
-1). Oplock support now operational.
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+- Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and
+ internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
+ and UNICODE character sets.
-Samba now supports 'exclusive' and 'batch' oplocks.
-These are an advanced networked file system feature
-that allows clients to obtain a exclusive use of a
-file. This allows a client to cache any changes it
-makes locally, and greatly improves performance.
+- New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
+ been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
+ but the new auth system is also very configurable.
-Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
-release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
-could be faster in some situations.
+- new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
+ completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
+ persistently. This needs lots of testing.
-The oplock code in Samba has been extensively
-tested and is believed to be completely stable.
+- new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
+ somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
+ to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
+ subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
+ implemented.
-Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias.
+- Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
+ improves error handling a lot.
-2). Experimental Domain controler code.
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-
-Samba now contains a *VERY* experimental
-implementation of part of the Windows NT
-4.x Domain Controler specification, as
-published by Paul Ashton (now a Samba Team
-member). This code is not enabled in the
-Makefile by default, and to work on this
-code you must read the file :
-
- docs/NTDOMAIN.txt
-
-Please note that as this code is not complete.
-It is being made available as part of this
-release to allow interested parties to contribute
-and help the Samba Team in implementing this
-important feature.
-
-Please do not expect to be able to replace your
-NT Domain Controlers with Samba until this code
-is finished, tested and an announcement is made.
-
-At present the Domain Controler code is for
-programmers and people interested in Microsoft
-protocols only.
-
-3). New Internationalization support.
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-
-With this release Samba no longer needs to be
-separately compiled for Japanese (Kanji) support,
-the same binary will serve both Kanji and non-Kanji
-clients.
-
-A new method of dynamically loading client code pages
-has been added to allow the case insensitivity to
-be done dependent on the code page of the client.
-
-Note that Samba still will only handle one client
-code page at a time. This will be fixed when
-Samba is fully UNICODE enabled.
-
-Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage
-for details on adding additional client code page
-support.
-
-Changed code.
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+- better w2k printing support including publishing printer
+ attributes in active directory
-Samba no longer needs the libdes library to support
-encrypted passwords. Samba now contains a restricted
-version of DES that can only be used for authentication
-purposes (to comply with the USA export encryption
-regulations and to allow USA Mirror sites to carry
-Samba source code). The 'encrypt passwords' parameter
-may now be used without recompiling.
+- new loadable RPC modules
-Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
-to support the oplock and Domain controler changes.
+- new dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance
-New parameters in smb.conf.
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+- support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain
-New Global parameters.
-----------------------
+- support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
+ domain controllers
-Documented in the smb.con man pages :
+Plus lots of other changes!
-"bind interfaces only"
-"username level"
-Not yet documented in the smb.conf man page, please
-read docs/NTDOMAIN.txt for information on the next
-parameters.
-
-"domain sid"
-"domain groups"
-"logon drive"
-"logon home"
-
-New Share level parameters.
----------------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.con man pages :
-
-"delete veto files"
-"oplocks"
-
-
-Reporting bugs.
----------------
-
-If you have problems, or think you have found a
-bug please email a report to :
-
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-
-Stating the version number of Samba that you
-are running, and *full details* of the steps
-we need to reproduce the problem.
-
-As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
-
-Regards,
+Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
+---------------------------------------
- The Samba Team.
+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.
+
+
+Changes in alpha24:
+-------------------
+
+ LDAP Schema Changes
+ -------------------
+ A new objectclass (sambaSamAccount) has been introduced to replace the old
+ sambaAccount. This change aids us in the renaming of attributes to prevent
+ clashes with attributes from other vendors. There is a conversion script
+ (examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount) to modify and LDIF file to the new schema.
+
+ Example:
+
+ $ ldapsearch .... -b "ou=people,dc=..." > old.ldif
+ $ convertSambaAccount <DOM SID> old.ldif new.ldif
+
+ The <DOM SID> can be obtained by running 'net getlocalsid <DOMAINNAME>'
+ on the Samba PDC as root.
+
+ The sambaDomain and sambaGroupMapping objects have also been modified
+ to use the new attribute naming conventions as well. There are no
+ conversion scripts for this data since the old schema was never published
+ in a stable release.
+
+ The old sambaAccount schema may still be used by specifying the
+ "ldapsam_compat" passdb backend.
+
+ Parameters
+ ----------
+
+ Removed Parameters
+
+ * total print jobs
+
+ Known Issues
+ ------------
+
+ The following are known issues with this release and will be corrected
+ in future versions:
+
+ 1) Automatically generating accounts for users and groups from
+ trusted domains when Samba is acting as a PDC
+ 2) Maintaining idmap ID's in a LDAP directory in order to implement
+ a distributed winbind solution
+
+ ChangeLog
+ ---------
+
+ See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many
+ smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
+
+1) Fix policy handle leak and crash bug in rpc printing code
+2) Changed the order of checking whether a SID is a UID or a GID
+ in posix acls
+3) Merge of winbind nss cleanup from HEAD branch
+4) Inclusion of idmap backend for mapping SIDs to uids/gids
+5) Fix for very subtle POSIX lock interaction race condition
+6) Re-fix close of delete semantics
+7) Inclusion of schannel functionality (merged from SAMBA_TNG)
+8) Remove unixsam passdb
+9) Add debugging code to decode the Win2k PAC
+10) Very large amounts of documentation fixes (including the move from
+ SGML->XML DocBook)
+11) Fix support for local_password_change() in pam_smbpass
+12) Ensure we have WinXP-like semantics for checking TIDs and FIDs
+13) More print job change notify fixes
+14) Handle deep referrals in MS-DFS code
+15) Add echo named pipe for testing purposes
+16) Workaround streams leak on SCO openserver 5.0.x
+17) Lots of popt changes to command line tools
+18) Use the new modules system for passdb (merge from HEAD)
+19) Inclusion of editreg.c for editing Windows NT+registry files off line
+20) Fix byte ordering when using CIDR notation in hosts allow/deny (again)
+21) Replace smbgroupedit tool with 'net groupmap'
+22) Merge SMB Signing, NTLMv2 and NTLMSSP fixes from HEAD branch
+23) Merge of trusted domain code from HEAD branch
+24) Fix up crashes in lanman printing code (e.g. disable spoolss = yes)
+25) Store the IP address in the utmp record when possible
+26) Fix bug in FindFirst code and OS/2 clients
+27) Fix local master browsing bug when synchronizing browse lists
+28) Fix browse synchronization when primary interface is no listed
+ in the interfaces list and "bind interfaces only" is enabled.
+29) removed ldapsam_nua and tdbsam_nua passdb backends (replaced by idmap)
+30) Include support for storing next rid value in LDAP using a
+ sambaDomain object
+31) Removed "printing = SOFTQ" option
+32) Fix winbindd dual mode
+33) Revert from wins.tdb back to wins.dat (flat text file)
+34) More Trust relationship fixes
+35) More quota fixes (including server support for NT quota info levels)
+36) VFS API has been stabilized and is feature full for final release
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