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| author | Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> | 2020-02-20 14:19:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org> | 2020-02-21 10:46:08 +0000 |
| commit | 9b6e4da57d73136cc1a2e3bce198ce3ff327269f (patch) | |
| tree | 72ab6548120565eded74b84e4c93e9c7634f56b1 | |
| parent | 828b834706f2656b9b669dd6c87f81bedc5b10be (diff) | |
| download | samba-9b6e4da57d73136cc1a2e3bce198ce3ff327269f.tar.gz | |
WHATSNEW: Announce new Spotlight backend for Elasticsearch
Signed-off-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
Autobuild-User(v4-12-test): Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(v4-12-test): Fri Feb 21 10:46:08 UTC 2020 on sn-devel-184
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index f6276ccd71c..d3ef2a3f95b 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -64,6 +64,29 @@ Samba no longer includes a local copy of zlib in our source tarball. By removing this we do not need to ship (even where we did not build) the old, broken zip encryption code found there. +New Spotlight backend for Elasticsearch +--------------------------------------- + +Support for the macOS specific Spotlight search protocol has been enhanced +significantly. Starting with 4.12 Samba supports using Elasticsearch as search +backend. Various new parameters have been added to configure this: + + spotlight backend = noindex | elasticsearch | tracker + elasticsearch:address = ADDRESS + elasticsearch:port = PORT + elasticsearch:use tls = BOOLEAN + elasticsearch:index = INDEXNAME + elasticsearch:mappings = PATH + elasticsearch:max results = NUMBER + +Samba also ships a Spotlight client command "mdfind" which can be used to search +any SMB server that runs the Spotlight RPC service. See the manpage of mdfind +for details. + +Note that when upgrading existing installations that are using the previous +default Spotlight backend Gnome Tracker must explicitly set "spotlight backend = +tracker" as the new default is "noindex". + "net ads kerberos pac save" and "net eventlog export" ----------------------------------------------------- @@ -233,6 +256,12 @@ smb.conf changes Parameter Name Description Default -------------- ----------- ------- + elasticsearch:address New localhost + elasticsearch:port New 9200 + elasticsearch:use tls New No + elasticsearch:index New _all + elasticsearch:mappings New DATADIR/elasticsearch_mappings.json + elasticsearch:max results New 100 nfs4:acedup Changed default merge rndc command Removed write cache size Removed |