-What's new in Samba 4 alpha10
-============================
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha13
+=============================
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 alpha10 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
-publishing since September 2007
+Samba4 alpha13 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+publishing since September 2007. Since this file has referred to alpha 12
+for a while before any release happened and since Debian packages
+have been published that presumed the existance of a alpha12 release
+we are skipping alpha12 and going straight to alpha13.
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha10 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha13 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 alpha9
+CHANGES SINCE alpha11
=====================
-Alpha9 was released last week, but in the time since the release we
-have found and fixed an important segfault, and improved the
-experimental DRS replication.
+We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
+AD implementation and therefore achieved also this time big steps forward.
+
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
+
+Beside this the release includes (among a lot of other things):
+
+* a new build system based on WAF
+Andrew Tridgell (tridge) invested much time to bring this up. He achieved a
+marvellous work which brings us faster building, easier management and smaller
+binaries.
+
+* enhancements in Samba4 winbind to provide a fairly good implementation of the
+most important functions needed by "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind"
+This two components allow a user/group mapping for Windows accounts on UNIX and
+UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to connect to
+services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on.
+More informations available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
+and for winbind in general, "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" in the Samba 3.X
+documentation.
+
+* server side NT ACLs manipulation
+These can now also be set on the command line directly on the server. See
+"net acl" for further informations.
+
+* dynamic DNS updates
+Up-to-date DNS entries are essential for Active Directory deployments. As for
+the moment Samba4 isn't yet capable to interoperate with Microsofts AD DNS
+server (regarding RPCs, ADs zone entries...) a kind of update script has been
+developed. It also permits the update of the "grant" and "resource" lists.
+
+* registry improvements
+The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the
+new torture tests written by gd and some additional testing against Windows
+("regedit" - Windows Registry Editor and "regedt32" - Windows NT Registry Editor).
+Also some real bugs were fixed.
+
+* new Kerberos HEIMDAL release
+Andrew Bartlett (abartlet) imported a new release with various bugfixes
+
+* DCE/RPC code unification work
+Stefan Metzmacher (metze) started his work to unify these codebases between s3
+and s4
+
+* And much more
+We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of our
+program.
CHANGES
=======
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 Alpha10.
-
RUNNING Samba4
==============
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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