From: Uri Simchoni Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 04:44:48 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Reset WHATSNEW.txt for 4.5.x series X-Git-Tag: tdb-1.3.10~1263 X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/samba.git/?p=vlendec%2Fsamba-autobuild%2F.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc3e224408afd18dd2fb7e53ce193e46d5893b04 Reset WHATSNEW.txt for 4.5.x series Signed-off-by: Uri Simchoni Reviewed-by: Jeremy Allison --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index d81e1ed610f..ae4f4c0bb9a 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ Release Announcements ===================== -This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.4. This is *not* +This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.5. This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/. -Samba 4.4 will be the next version of the Samba suite. +Samba 4.5 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING @@ -18,216 +18,14 @@ Nothing special. NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== -Asynchronous flush requests ---------------------------- - -Flush requests from SMB2/3 clients are handled asynchronously and do -not block the processing of other requests. Note that 'strict sync' -has to be set to 'yes' for Samba to honor flush requests from SMB -clients. - -s3: smbd --------- - -Remove '--with-aio-support' configure option. We no longer would ever prefer -POSIX-RT aio, use pthread_aio instead. - -samba-tool sites ----------------- - -The 'samba-tool sites' subcommand can now be run against another server by -specifying an LDB URL using the '-H' option and not against the local database -only (which is still the default when no URL is given). - -samba-tool domain demote ------------------------- - -Add '--remove-other-dead-server' option to 'samba-tool domain demote' -subcommand. The new version of this tool now can remove another DC that is -itself offline. The '--remove-other-dead-server' removes as many references -to the DC as possible. - -samba-tool drs clone-dc-database --------------------------------- - -Replicate an initial clone of domain, but do not join it. -This is developed for debugging purposes, but not for setting up another DC. - -pdbedit -------- - -Add '--set-nt-hash' option to pdbedit to update user password from nt-hash -hexstring. 'pdbedit -vw' shows also password hashes. - -smbstatus ---------- - -'smbstatus' was enhanced to show the state of signing and encryption for -sessions and shares. - -smbget ------- -The -u and -p options for user and password were replaced by the -U option that -accepts username[%password] as in many other tools of the Samba suite. -Similary, smbgetrc files do not accept username and password options any more, -only a single "user" option which also accepts user%password combinations. -The -P option was removed. - -s4-rpc_server -------------- - -Add a GnuTLS based backupkey implementation. - -ntlm_auth ---------- - -Using the '--offline-logon' enables ntlm_auth to use cached passwords when the -DC is offline. - -Allow '--password' force a local password check for ntlm-server-1 mode. - -vfs_offline ------------ - -A new VFS module called vfs_offline has been added to mark all files in the -share as offline. It can be useful for shares mounted on top of a remote file -system (either through a samba VFS module or via FUSE). - -KCC ---- - -The Samba KCC has been improved, but is still disabled by default. - -DNS ---- - -There were several improvements concerning the Samba DNS server. - -Active Directory ----------------- - -There were some improvements in the Active Directory area. - -WINS nsswitch module --------------------- - -The WINS nsswitch module has been rewritten to address memory issues and to -simplify the code. The module now uses libwbclient to do WINS queries. This -means that winbind needs to be running in order to resolve WINS names using -the nss_wins module. This does not affect smbd. - -CTDB changes ------------- - -* CTDB now uses a newly implemented parallel database recovery scheme - that avoids deadlocks with smbd. - - In certain circumstances CTDB and smbd could deadlock. The new - recovery implementation avoid this. It also provides improved - recovery performance. - -* All files are now installed into and referred to by the paths - configured at build time. Therefore, CTDB will now work properly - when installed into the default location at /usr/local. - -* Public CTDB header files are no longer installed, since Samba and - CTDB are built from within the same source tree. - -* CTDB_DBDIR can now be set to tmpfs[:] - - This will cause volatile TDBs to be located in a tmpfs. This can - help to avoid performance problems associated with contention on the - disk where volatile TDBs are usually stored. See ctdbd.conf(5) for - more details. - -* Configuration variable CTDB_NATGW_SLAVE_ONLY is no longer used. - Instead, nodes should be annotated with the "slave-only" option in - the CTDB NAT gateway nodes file. This file must be consistent - across nodes in a NAT gateway group. See ctdbd.conf(5) for more - details. - -* New event script 05.system allows various system resources to be - monitored - - This can be helpful for explaining poor performance or unexpected - behaviour. New configuration variables are - CTDB_MONITOR_FILESYSTEM_USAGE, CTDB_MONITOR_MEMORY_USAGE and - CTDB_MONITOR_SWAP_USAGE. Default values cause warnings to be - logged. See the SYSTEM RESOURCE MONITORING CONFIGURATION in - ctdbd.conf(5) for more information. - - The memory, swap and filesystem usage monitoring previously found in - 00.ctdb and 40.fs_use is no longer available. Therefore, - configuration variables CTDB_CHECK_FS_USE, CTDB_MONITOR_FREE_MEMORY, - CTDB_MONITOR_FREE_MEMORY_WARN and CTDB_CHECK_SWAP_IS_NOT_USED are - now ignored. - -* The 62.cnfs eventscript has been removed. To get a similar effect - just do something like this: - - mmaddcallback ctdb-disable-on-quorumLoss \ - --command /usr/bin/ctdb \ - --event quorumLoss --parms "disable" - - mmaddcallback ctdb-enable-on-quorumReached \ - --command /usr/bin/ctdb \ - --event quorumReached --parms "enable" - -* The CTDB tunable parameter EventScriptTimeoutCount has been renamed - to MonitorTimeoutCount - - It has only ever been used to limit timed-out monitor events. - - Configurations containing CTDB_SET_EventScriptTimeoutCount= will - cause CTDB to fail at startup. Useful messages will be logged. - -* The commandline option "-n all" to CTDB tool has been removed. - - The option was not uniformly implemented for all the commands. - Instead of command "ctdb ip -n all", use "ctdb ip all". - -* All CTDB current manual pages are now correctly installed - - REMOVED FEATURES ================ -Public headers --------------- - -Several public headers are not installed any longer. They are made for internal -use only. More public headers will very likely be removed in future releases. - -The following headers are not installed any longer: -dlinklist.h, gen_ndr/epmapper.h, gen_ndr/mgmt.h, gen_ndr/ndr_atsvc_c.h, -gen_ndr/ndr_epmapper_c.h, gen_ndr/ndr_epmapper.h, gen_ndr/ndr_mgmt_c.h, -gen_ndr/ndr_mgmt.h,gensec.h, ldap_errors.h, ldap_message.h, ldap_ndr.h, -ldap-util.h, pytalloc.h, read_smb.h, registry.h, roles.h, samba_util.h, -smb2_constants.h, smb2_create_blob.h, smb2.h, smb2_lease.h, smb2_signing.h, -smb_cli.h, smb_cliraw.h, smb_common.h, smb_composite.h, smb_constants.h, -smb_raw.h, smb_raw_interfaces.h, smb_raw_signing.h, smb_raw_trans2.h, -smb_request.h, smb_seal.h, smb_signing.h, smb_unix_ext.h, smb_util.h, -torture.h, tstream_smbXcli_np.h. - -vfs_smb_traffic_analyzer ------------------------- - -The SMB traffic analyzer VFS module has been removed, because it is not -maintained any longer and not widely used. - -vfs_scannedonly ---------------- - -The scannedonly VFS module has been removed, because it is not maintained -any longer. - smb.conf changes ---------------- Parameter Name Description Default -------------- ----------- ------- - aio max threads New 100 - ldap page size Changed default 1000 KNOWN ISSUES