WHATSNEW: Added samba-tool 'backup offline' and 'groups stats'

Signed-off-by: Tim Beale <timbeale@catalyst.net.nz>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index 2177988c25f..98ada34e5c6 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,32 @@ netlogon prefork
 DCERPC now supports pre-forked NETLOGON processes. The netlogon processes are
 pre-forked when the prefork process model is selected for samba.
 
+Offline domain backups
+----------------------
+
+The 'samba-tool domain backup' command has been extended with a new 'offline'
+option. This safely creates a backup of the local DC's database directly from
+disk. The main benefits of an offline backup are it's quicker, it stores more
+database details (for forensic purposes), and the samba process does not have
+to be running when the backup is made. Refer to the samba-tool help for more
+details on using this command.
+
+Group membership statistics
+---------------------------
+
+A new 'samba-tool group stats' command has been added. This provides summary
+information about how the users are spread across groups in your domain.
+The 'samba-tool group list --verbose' command has also been updated to include
+the number of users in each group.
+
 REMOVED FEATURES
 ================
 
+samba_backup
+------------
+
+The samba_backup script has been removed. This has now been replaced by the
+'samba-tool domain backup offline' command.
 
 smb.conf changes
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