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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 2cd22c1892d..b13fef7dc07 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ================================= Release Notes for Samba 3.4.0pre1 - + April 30, 2009 ================================= @@ -18,12 +18,18 @@ o Samba4 and Samba3 sources are included in the tarball Authentication Changes: o Changed the way smbd handles untrusted domain names given during user - authentication + authentication. + +Printing Changes: +o Support for Windows Vista Printer Change Notification has been added. +o Various fixes for Samba spoolss print server. Internal changes: -o The ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and spoolss subsystems have been converted - to IDL. +o The remaining hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services (ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog + and spoolss) were replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL. o Samba3 and Samba4 do now share a common tevent library. +o The code has been cleaned up and the major basic interfaces are shared with + Samba4 now. General Changes @@ -63,10 +69,21 @@ parameter "map untrusted to domain" can be enabled to revert to the legacy behavior. +Printing Changes +================ + +Support for Windows Vista Printer Change Notification has been added to Samba. + +The spoolss was replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL. That fixes +several printing issues on Samba print servers and will stabilize the printing +functionality generally. + + Internal Changes ================ -The ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and spoolss subsystems have been converted to IDL. +The remaining hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services (ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and +spoolss) were replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL. So Günther Deschner finally corrected one of the biggest mistakes in the development of Samba: Hand-marshalled RPC stubs. @@ -74,6 +91,35 @@ Thanks a lot! :-) Samba3 and Samba4 do now share a common tevent library for fd and timer events. +The code has been cleaned up and Samba3 and Samba4 do share the major basic +interfaces now. That is why the libraries were moved to the toplevel directory. +That is one of the first steps to share code and minimize the gap between +these two versions. + + +###################################################################### +Changes +####### + +smb.conf changes +---------------- + + Parameter Name Description Default + -------------- ----------- ------- + access based share enum New No + dedicated keytab file New "" + kerberos method New default + map untrusted to domain New No + max open files Changed Default auto detected + perfcount module New "" + use kerberos keytab Removed + + +New [sub]commands +----------------- + + net eventlog + ###################################################################### Reporting bugs & Development Discussion |