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| author | Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org> | 2019-10-01 17:38:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> | 2019-10-10 09:41:26 +0000 |
| commit | 04b9369656d4a7cec1c12ea614286fbfc5495eb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4014fee5e2f983e6092f600c591856d96befaf6f /WHATSNEW.txt | |
| parent | d7bb9f54250f170ea18aad08a98862f7054d8579 (diff) | |
| download | samba-04b9369656d4a7cec1c12ea614286fbfc5495eb0.tar.gz | |
WHATSNEW: Mention performance improvements for SMB3 encryption
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
Autobuild-User(master): Ralph Böhme <slow@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Thu Oct 10 09:41:26 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-184
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 2a774ace6d7..dccb44dbd27 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ Samba now requires GnuTLS 3.4.7 to be installed (including development headers at build time) for all configurations, not just the Samba AD DC. +Using GnuTLS for SMB3 encryption you will notice huge performance and copy +speed improvements. Tests with the CIFS Kernel client from Linux Kernel 5.3 +show a 3x speed improvement for writing and a 2.5x speed improvement for reads! + NOTE WELL: The use of GnuTLS means that Samba will honour the system-wide 'FIPS mode' (a reference to the US FIPS-140 cryptographic standard) and so will not operate in many still common situations if |