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| author | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2009-12-08 14:11:45 +1100 |
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| committer | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2009-12-09 00:16:17 +1100 |
| commit | 193e40cd344b53aaaafb40556c20a3b45434bc0c (patch) | |
| tree | 5b8ad11a5e571d08dbc7e22eaac5ac4df17e39d1 /WHATSNEW4.txt | |
| parent | dd650edff2e1e5a22e9ba89a7bda811256a136b1 (diff) | |
| download | samba-193e40cd344b53aaaafb40556c20a3b45434bc0c.tar.gz | |
A WHATSNEW for alpha10
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt index 4513f22d564..75e2482854b 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -What's new in Samba 4 alpha9 +What's new in Samba 4 alpha10 ============================ Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being @@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above. -Samba4 alpha9 follows on from the alpha release series we have been +Samba4 alpha10 follows on from the alpha release series we have been publishing since September 2007 WARNINGS ======== -Samba4 alpha9 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference +Samba4 alpha10 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to @@ -62,31 +62,12 @@ working on modules to map between AD-like behaviours and this backend. We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large directories. -CHANGES SINCE alpha8 +CHANGES SINCE alpha9 ===================== -In the time since Samba4 alpha8 was released in June 2009, Samba has -continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas -(in no particular order): - - Samba4 now includes the full set of user interface strings (display Specifiers) - required to have the Microsoft Management Console operate - - LDB (the core Samba4 database library) has again been reworked for - better performance - - Replication between Samba4 and Active Directory domains using the - native replication protocol (DRS) has been demonstrated. - - Access Control Lists (in nTSecurityDescriptor) are now set correctly - on objects in the directory, based on the same rules as Windows 2008. - (Searches and still use a simplistic administrator/not administrator - criteria) - -These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in -the past few months. More details of the work done 'under the hood' -can be found in our GIT history. - +Alpha9 was released last week, but in the time since the release we +have found and fixed an important segfault, and improved the +experimental DRS replication. CHANGES ======= |