[Announce] Samba 3.5.0rc1 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

Release Announcements
=====================

This is the first release candidate of Samba 3.5.  This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only.  Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.0 include:

General changes:
o Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution

Protocol changes:
o Experimental implementation of SMB2

Printing Changes:
o Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server

Winbind changes:
o Major refactoring
o Asynchronous


General changes:
================

Support for full Windows timestamp resolution has been added. This effectively
makes us use Windows' full 100ns timestamp resolution if supported by the
kernel (2.6.22 and higher) and the glibc (2.6 and higher).

Protocol changes
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An EXPERIMENTAL implementation of the SMB2 protocol has been added. SMB2 can be
enabled by setting "max protocol = smb2". SMB2 is a new implementation of the
SMB protocol used by Windows Vista and higher.

Printing Changes
================

A new parameter "cups encrypt" has been added to control whether connections to
CUPS servers will be encrypted or not. The default is to use unencrypted
connections.

Winbind changes
===============

The Winbind daemon has been refactored internally to be asynchronous. The new
Winbind will not be blocked by running 'wbinfo -g' or 'wbinfo -u'.


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Changes
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smb.conf changes
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   Parameter Name                      Description     Default
   --------------                      -----------     -------

   create krb5 conf		       New	       yes
   ctdb timeout			       New	       0
   cups encrypt			       New	       no
   debug hires timestamp	       Changed Default yes
   ldap deref			       New	       auto
   ldap follow referral		       New	       auto


New configure options
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--enable-external-libtdb	Enable external tdb
--enable-netapi			Turn on netapi support
--enable-pthreadpool		Enable pthreads pool helper support
--with-cifsumount		Include umount.cifs (Linux only) support
--with-codepagedir=DIR		Where to put codepages


Commit Highlights
=================

o   Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
    * Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution.
    * Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * Major internal refactoring of the Winbind daemon.
    * Make Winbind asynchronous.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * Implement the new SMB2 protocol (experimental).


Changes since 3.5.0pre2
-----------------------

o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 6837: Fix "Too many open files" when trying to access large number of
      files with Windows 7.
    * BUG 6939: Fix long filenames when "mangling method" is set to "hash".
    * BUG 7020: Fix smbd using 2G memory.
    * Ensure dos_mode can return FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, then filter the returned
      attributes by protocol level.
    * Vector correctly through reply_openerror() (which uses the same logic).
    * Fix bugs with the full Windows ACL support.


o   Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
    * Add a few missing gettext calls to the 'net' command.
    * Fix up a share type translation and translate some more strings in 'net'.


o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * Allow to call "pdbedit -N description -u user" without specifiyng "-r".
    * Add spoolss_DriverInfo7.
    * Fix rpcclient after setprinter IDL fixes.
    * Use generated krb5.conf in 'net ads testjoin'.


o   Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski+samba at gmail.com>
    * BUG 6992: make test for getgrouplist cacheable.


o   André Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de>
    * Add some German translations for the 'net' command.


o   Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>
    * Update mount.cifs man page with nounix option.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * Fix _samr_GetAliasMembership for results with 0 rids.
    * Fix an error case in cli_negprot.
    * Add a lower-cost alternative to wbinfo -t: wbinfo --ping-dc.
    * Restore correct timeouts for SMB requests.
    * Fix a 64-bit error in libsmb.
    * Replace IS_DOMAIN_OFFLINE by a function in Winbind.
    * Simplify/cleanup Winbind code.


o   Kamen Mazdrashki <kamen.mazdrashki at postpath.com>
    * Fix write behind memory block in libtalloc.
    * Fix result check for getaddrinfo().


o   Jim McDonough <jmcd at samba.org>
    * BUG 7014: Fix Winbind crash when retrieving empty group members.


o   Brian Lu <brian.lu at sun.com>
    * BUG 6991: Create symbol links to shared libraries.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * Add tsocket_address_bsd_sockaddr() and tsocket_address_bsd_from_sockaddr()
      to tsocket.
    * Always set tdb->tracefd to -1 to be safe on goto fail in libtdb.
    * Add TDB_DISALLOW_NESTING and make TDB_ALLOW_NESTING the default behavior.
    * Fix standalone 'make installdocs'.


o   Peter Rosin <peda at lysator.liu.se>
    * Output %p as unsigned in snprintf replacement.


o   Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>
    * New attempt at TDB transaction nesting allow/disallow.


o   Kirill Smelkov <kirr at mns.spb.ru>
    * Remove swig stuff from libtdb.
    * Reset tdb->fd to -1 in tdb_close() in libtdb.


o   Simo Sorce <idra at samba.org>
    * Change the way mksysms work in libtalloc.


o   Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
    * Also build and install tdb manpages from standalone tdb.


o   Bo Yang <boyang at samba.org>
    * Fix infinite loop in NCACN_IP_TCP as there is no timeout.
    * Make winbindd_cache.c aware of domain offline to avoid unnecessary backend
      query.
    * List trusted domains from wcache when domain is offline.


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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 3.5 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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== The Samba Team
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