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author | Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2005-07-12 16:30:13 +0000 |
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committer | Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2005-07-12 16:30:13 +0000 |
commit | 8498a9ca06d509b83d3a7117064c71fda4a11338 (patch) | |
tree | 940c2bbe04443ec86487eed126f1e0580fc9cf3a | |
parent | 9ae71625edb2e5da44d338f1208a8820d75758dd (diff) | |
download | samba-8498a9ca06d509b83d3a7117064c71fda4a11338.tar.gz |
r8383: update release notes
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1 files changed, 185 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 128ba30ee51..a9b78b35028 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,23 +1,27 @@ ================================== - Release Notes for Samba 3.0.20pre1 - June 21, 2005 + Release Notes for Samba 3.0.20pre2 + Jul 12, 2005 ================================== This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.20 code base and is provided for testing only. This release is *not* intended for production servers. There has been a substantial amount of development since the 3.0.14a stable release (and since the -3.015pre2 release as well). We would like to ask the Samba +3.0.20pre1 release as well). We would like to ask the Samba community for help in testing these changes as we work towards -the next official, production Samba 3.0 release. +the next official, production Samba 3.0 release. This is +the last anticipated preX release before moving onto the +Release Candidate state of testing. -Additional features introduced in Samba 3.0.20pre1 include: +Additional features introduced in Samba 3.0.20pre2 include: - o New asynchronous winbindd. - o Support for Microsoft Print Migrator. - o New Windows NT registry file I/O library. - o New user right (SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege) added. - o New "net share migrate" options. + o Experimental, asynchronous IO file serving support. + o Completed Support for Microsoft Print Migrator. + o New Winbind IDmap plugin (ad) for retrieving uid and gid + from AD servers which maintain the SFU user and group + attributes. + o Rewritten support for POSIX pathnames when utilizing + the Linux CIFS fs client. What happened to 3.0.15 - 3.0.19? @@ -36,6 +40,177 @@ be found in the samba mailing list archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=111721010206997&w=2 +Support for Microsoft Print Migrator +==================================== + +Samba 3.0.20pre2 includes full support for migrating printers from +Windows servers or other Samba servers via the Microsoft Print +Migrator tool. Restoring printers requires a working "add printer +command" defined in smb.conf. Current; support also allows +administrators to create a master list of printer drivers which +can be restored in bulk on new (or existing) Samba installations. + + +Asynchronous IO Support +======================= + +Experimental support for async IO has been added to smbd for +certain platforms. To enable this new feature, Samba must be +compiled to include the --with-aio-support configure option. +In addition, the "aio read size" and "aio write size" to non-zero +values. See the smb,conf(5) man page for more details on these +settings. + + +###################################################################### +Changes +####### + +Changes since 3.0.20pre1 +------------------------ + + Parameter Name Action + -------------- ------ + acl map full control New + aio read size New + aio write size New + winbindd nss info New + + +commits +------- + +o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> + * Add support for client setting capabilities to select posix + pathnames on the wire. + * Stop using C++ reserved words so that Samba can be compiled + using g++. Also allows VFS modules in C++. + * More fixes to allow better large directory scaling. + * BUG 2827: Ensure we call the vfs connection hook before + doing a vfs stat. Allows database vfs backends to initialize + with a working connection. + * BUG 2826: Ensure the correct return value for symlink and + readlink in the VFS. + * Merge handling of ASN.1 objects bigger than 64k from Samba 4. + * Added AIO support to smbd. + * Add "acl map full control", true by default, to allow people + to change mapping of rwx to full control or not. + * Transition smbd to use NTcreate&X for internal file opens. + + +o David.Collier-Brown <David.Collier-Brown@sun.com> + * Added panic action script for Solaris. + + +o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org> + * Cleanup of winreg API functions. + * Add server stubs for RegSetKeySec() and RegGetKeySec(). + * Map generic bits to specific bits in reg_open_entry() + requests. + * Add write support to registry tdb and printing backends. + * Use tdb lookups rather than hard-coding certain registry + value names and data. + * BUG 2808: don't try to install man pages if they are not + present. + * Fix initialized variables reported by valgrind. + * Normalize key lookups in ntprinters.tdb. + * Mark "enumports command" as deprecated. + * Add missing class file for python share command example. + * Fix smbclient build issue on Solaris. + + +o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org> + * Add 'recycle:touch_mtime = true' vfs option for the recycle bin. + * More "net rpc share migrate" fixes. + * Merge PADL's idmap_ad plugin (taken from the latest + xad_oss_plugins-tarball). + * Add support for "idmap backend = ad" when "security = ads". + * Add home directory and shell support from AD via "winbindd nss + support = sfu" and "security = ads". + * Provide better feedback when we fail share-manipulation + due to missing scripts. + * Correctly substitute "\" as default winbind separator in + generate_parm_table.py example share command script. + + +o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de> + * Added ioctl constants reported by msbackup.exe and filemon.exe. + + +o Kevin Jamieson <bugzilla@kevinjamieson.com> + * BUG 2819: Fix typo when checking for ".." in smbd's statcache. + + +o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> + * Fix the bug where users show up as trusting domains. + * Fix an assertion failure in winbindd. + * Fix a memleak in vfs_afsacl. + * Various compiler warning fixes. + * Fix compile when --enable-socket-wrapper is defined. + * Fixes for top level acls in vfs_acl.c. + + +o Jim McDonough <jmcd@us.ibm.com> + * Added subcommands to "net rpc vampire" (mostly done by Don + Watson <dwatson@us.ibm.com>) to allow data to be put into an + ldif file instead of actually writing to the passdb. + + +o Lars Mueller <lmuelle@suse.de> + * Fix argv parsing in "net rpc". + * Add support to create position independent executable (PIE) + code if the compiler supports it. + + +o Marcel Müller <mueller@maazl.de> + * Fix for bug in SMBwriteBraw that incorrectly returned the + number of bytes written. + + +o Ricky Nance <ricky.nance@gmail.com> + * Implemented mklogon script generator for domain logon scripts. + + +o James Peach <jpeach@sgi.com> + * MS-DFS tidyup patches. + * Build fixes on IRIX. + + +o Marcin Porwit <mporwit@centeris.com> + * Fix a memleak in the eventlog code. + + +o Smitty <smitty@plainjoe.org> + * Include LUID values to match Windows privileges since + apparently this matters to printmig.exe + + +o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org> + * Randomize reloading as to not overload cupsd. + + +o Brett Trotter <blt@iastate.edu> + * Fix definition of global_sid_* in vfs_acl.c. + + + +Release Notes for older release follow: + + -------------------------------------------------- + ================================== + Release Notes for Samba 3.0.20pre1 + June 21, 2005 + ================================== + +Additional features introduced in Samba 3.0.20pre1 include: + + o New asynchronous winbindd. + o Support for Microsoft Print Migrator. + o New Windows NT registry file I/O library. + o New user right (SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege) added. + o New "net share migrate" options. + + Asynchronous Winbind Implementation =================================== @@ -49,21 +224,6 @@ internal structure changes, it is required (more so than normal) that you install the nss_winbind.so library included in this release. -Support for Microsoft Print Migrator -==================================== - -Samba 3.0.20pre1 supports backing up print drivers and queues -using the Microsoft Print Migrator (printmig.exe) tool. Currently -only support for restoring drivers onto a Samba server has been -implemented. The final 3.0.20 release will include for -restoring the print queues and printer settings as well. This -will allow organizations to easily migrate or consolidate from a -Windows print server environment to a Samba print server without -having to individually reinstall drivers and printers. The current -restore support also allows administrators to create a master list -of drivers which can be installed on a new Samba host in a single -action. - ###################################################################### Changes @@ -398,9 +558,6 @@ o Qiao Yang <qyang@stbernard.com> * Use our own DC when getting the SID for a domain. - -Release Notes for older release follow: - -------------------------------------------------- ================================== Release Notes for Samba 3.0.15pre2 |