-What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha11
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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 alpha7 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
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-Samba4 alpha7 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.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha6
+CHANGES SINCE alpha10
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has
-continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas
-(in no particular order):
+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
- Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated
- for the OpenLDAP-Backend.
+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.
- OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the
- OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).
-
- Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
-
- Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
-
- A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
- updated for easier use outside Samba4
-
- spoolss IDL updates to bring Samba3 to use PIDL code, and to merge
- the corrected IDL back into Samba4
-
- Fixes to allow use of C++ compilers and to increase portability
-
- Fixed TLS (SSL) support with modern versions of GnuTLS
-
-These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past
-month. More details can be found in our GIT history.
+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
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and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
-- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux
- distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
- expected during the next alpha cycles
+- The DRS replication code often 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
+ this release that should make it easier to upgrade in future.
+ Btw: there exists also a script under the "setup" directory of the
+ source distribution called "upgrade_from_s3" which should allow a step-up
+ 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
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DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
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+
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.
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