Fix bug #7288 - SMB job IDs in CUPS job names wrong.

[sfrench/samba-autobuild/.git] / WHATSNEW4.txt

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@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha10
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha11
 ============================
 
 Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
-developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
+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
+Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
 publishing since September 2007
 
 WARNINGS
 ========
 
-Samba4 alpha10 is not a final Samba release.  That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha11 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
 Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features
 you may have relied on simply are not there yet.
 
-For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active
+For example, while Samba 3 is an excellent member of a Active
 Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller, and it is
 in this role where it has seen deployment into production.
 
@@ -62,12 +62,29 @@ working on modules to map between AD-like behaviours and this backend.
 We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
 directories.
 
-CHANGES SINCE alpha9
+CHANGES SINCE alpha10
 =====================
 
-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. 
+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
+
+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. 
+
+Any deployments of Samba4 before this alpha are very strongly
+encouraged to upgrade.  Assistance may be found in the
+upgradeprovision script, and the advice of the Samba Team should be
+sought to determine the impact of these issues in your particular
+deployment. 
+
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
 
 CHANGES
 =======
@@ -103,7 +120,7 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
   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.
+  Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha12.
 
 RUNNING Samba4
 ==============