svn commit: samba r11610 - in branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE: .
jerry at samba.org
jerry at samba.org
Wed Nov 9 17:53:50 GMT 2005
Author: jerry
Date: 2005-11-09 17:53:48 +0000 (Wed, 09 Nov 2005)
New Revision: 11610
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba&rev=11610
Log:
updating release notes for 3.0.21rc1
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt
Changeset:
Modified: branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt
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--- branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt 2005-11-09 14:00:31 UTC (rev 11609)
+++ branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt 2005-11-09 17:53:48 UTC (rev 11610)
@@ -1,3 +1,181 @@
+ =================================
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.0.21rc1
+ Nov 9, 2005
+ =================================
+
+This is a release candidate of the 3.0.21 code base and is provided
+for testing purposes only. While close to the final stable release,
+this snapshot is *not* intended for production servers.
+
+
+Common bugs fixed in 3.0.21rc1 include:
+
+ o Portability and crash bugs.
+ o Performance issues in winbindd.
+
+New features introduced in Samba 3.0.21rc1 include:
+
+ o Performance Counter external daemon.
+
+
+
+######################################################################
+Changes
+#######
+
+smb.conf changes
+----------------
+
+ Parameter Name Action
+ -------------- ------
+ dfree cache time New
+ dfree command Per share
+
+
+Changes since 3.0.21pre1
+------------------------
+
+commits
+-------
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
+ * BUG 3192: Adds a "dfree cache time" parameter.
+ * Fix acl evaluation bug found by Marc Cousin. Only evaluate
+ the S_IWGRP mask in the absence of a POSIX ACL.
+ * Remove use of 'long long' in libsmbclient code.
+ * Ensure the new canonicalize_servicename() in name/snum hash
+ is multi-byte safe.
+ * BUG 2922: Integration of FreeBSD AIO patches from Timur
+ Bakeyev.
+ * BUG 3216: Put directory opens into the share mode db so we
+ can treat them similarly to file opens (delete on close,
+ share mode violations etc.).
+ * Fix bug in name mangling code when case sensitivity is enabled.
+ * Remove external dependencies from the sharemodes library.
+ * BUG 3212: Ignore bogus OS/2 set EA values on trans2 calls.
+ * Don't misinterpret wild card characters in file names on disk
+ as they are actually valid characters.
+ * BUG 3223: Fix bug in account policy management when
+ account_pol.tdb settings have been migrating to an LDAP
+ backend.
+ * Allow the hash size of the tdb open (locking) database to be
+ set in local.h.
+ * Fix error code returns on client spoolss code.
+ * Remove unneeded strncpy use.
+ * Fix uninitialized variables warnings.
+ * Cleanup smbcacls security descriptor parsing and error codes.
+ * BUG 3224: Correctly use machine_account_name and client_name
+ when doing netlogon credential setup. Fixes winbindd running
+ on a Samba PDC.
+ * Backport Samba 4 time zone handling.
+ * Fix core dump if setmntent() returns NULL.
+
+
+o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
+ * Remove another ancient NTLMSSP implementation.
+ * Allow machine account logons work if the client gives the
+ appropriate flags.
+
+
+o Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org>
+ * Add POSIX statvfs() to VFS api.
+
+
+o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry at samba.org>
+ * Fix linking problem on Solaris when including ACL support.
+ * Give root a free pass to open the eventlog tdb files.
+ * Fix segfault in addprinter due to mixing talloc() and
+ malloc()'d memory.
+ * fix invalid read reported by valgrind in the spoolss
+ backchannel connection.
+ * Remove use of 'long long' in perfcounter registry code.
+ * BUG 3201: make sure request structure is cleared prior to
+ sending the request to winbindd.
+ * Don't count open pipes in the num_files_open on a connection
+ (regression from Samba 2.2).
+ * Ensure servername hashing code normalizes the name.
+ * Fix checks for connect() in -lnsl[_s].
+ * Convert eventlog API to use NTSTATUS return codes rather
+ than WERROR.
+ * Fix segv in winbindd caused by an uninitialized variable
+ in winbindd_dual_getsidaliases()
+
+
+o Guenther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
+ * Add small helper function to return a PAC_LOGON_INFO.
+ * Use LDAP bitwise matching rule when searching for groups
+ in ADS.
+
+
+o Paul Green <paulg at samba.org>
+ * Update to the latest config.guess and config.sub files.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
+ * Fix an annoying timeout in winbindd when nmbd is not running.
+ * Speed up loading smb.conf for large numbers of share
+ definitions by adding an internal hashing of names to snums.
+ Thanks to Michael Adam.
+ * Fix potential segv in rpcclient's lsarpc calls.
+ * Fix bugs in winbindd's use of rpccli_netlogon_getdcname().
+ * Fix alignment in getdc response.
+ * Allow pdbedit to set the domain for a user account.
+ * Fix fallback logic in rpc binds.
+ * Fix memleak in message handling code.
+ * Fix connection bug to port 445 and 139 after a successful
+ getdcname response.
+ * Add additional calls to initialize_krb5_error_table() for
+ kerberos client code.
+ * Implement the possibility to have AFS users as SIDs in pts.
+
+
+o Derrell Lipman <derrell at samba.org>
+ * Cleanup libmsrpc version numbers.
+
+
+o Alex Masterov <alex at infobit.ru>
+ * BUG 3218: Fix XATTR calls on *BSD systems.
+
+
+o Jim McDonough <jmcd at us.ibm.com>
+ * Speed up string_to_sid by removing next_token calls and
+ unneeded strncmp() calls.
+ * Implement user rename for smbpasswd and LDAP backends.
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
+ * Use lp_socket_address() when binding to port 138/udp in nmbd.
+
+
+o Brian Moran <bmoran at centeris.com>
+ * Fix typo when creating Eventlog source DLL registry paths.
+ * Add simple script to tail syslog and write records to
+ eventlog tdb.
+
+
+o Lars Müller <lmuelle at samba.org>
+ * Only install smbsh manpage if smbwrapper has been successfully
+ built.
+
+o Chris Nicholls <skel at samba.org>
+ * Fix libmsrpc build of on the Sun compiler by removing empty
+ structure declarations.
+
+
+o Marcin Porwit <mporwit at centeris.com>
+ * Added basic Performance Counter daemon which can feed data
+ for the Windows perfmon.exe tool.
+
+
+o Simo Sorce <idra at samba.org>
+ * Update Debian packaging.
+
+
+
+Release Notes for older release follow:
+
+ --------------------------------------------------
+
==================================
Release Notes for Samba 3.0.21pre1
Oct 18, 2005
@@ -3,11 +181,4 @@
==================================
-This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.21 code base and
-is provided for testing only. This release is *not* intended
-for production servers. There has been a substantial amount
-of development since the 3.0.20 series of stable releases.
-We would like to ask the Samba community for help in testing
-these changes as we work towards the next significant production
-upgrade Samba 3.0 release.
Common bugs fixed in 3.0.21pre1 include:
@@ -153,12 +324,11 @@
o Joel Smith <joel.j.smith at novell.com>
* Add iPrint printing backend support.
+
o Toomas Soome <Toomas.Soome at mls.ee>
* Implement host lookups in nss_winbind.so.1 on Solaris
-Release Notes for older release follow:
-
--------------------------------------------------
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Release Notes for Samba 3.0.20b
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