svn commit: samba r19210 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE: .

Tue Oct 10 02:34:34 GMT 2006

Author: abartlet
Date: 2006-10-10 02:34:33 +0000 (Tue, 10 Oct 2006)
New Revision: 19210

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba&rev=19210

Log:
First stab at a WHATSNEW for TP3


Modified:
   branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt


Changeset:
Modified: branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt
===================================================================

--- branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt	2006-10-10 00:50:41 UTC (rev 19209)
+++ branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt	2006-10-10 02:34:33 UTC (rev 19210)
@@ -1,171 +1,99 @@
-This file contains a history of changes since the first Samba 4 Technology 
+This file contains a history of changes since the second Samba 4 Technology 
 Preview. For a general introduction to Samba 4, see the README file in this 
 directory. The NEWS file contains a list of differences between 
 Samba 3 and Samba 4.
 
 ========================================
-Changes in Samba4-TP2
-Release date: 22 March 2006
+Changes in Samba4-TP3
+Release date: XX October 2006
 ========================================
 
- * Make ldb async internally (idra)
+It has been 6 months since Samba4 TP2 was released, and since that
+time a lot of development has occurred.  While the new features are
+far from as ground-breaking as the TP1 release, we have been working
+hard, and it is now a good time to show the world what we have
+achieved.
 
- * Use HDB-LDB as the keytab (abartlet)
+What follows is a partial list of the major or significant changes
+made to Samba4 since TP3:
 
- * Call the wins hook script again (metze)
+Portability fixes 
+-----------------
 
- * Make sure no more than 25 records are added in the WINS database (metze)
- 
- * Documentation updates (jelmer)
+ * Samba4 now uses the common libreplace code, shared with all Samba
+   3.0 and the ldb and talloc projects.  (metze, tridge)
 
- * Fix termination issue in winreg server (metze)
+ * By using the Build Farm, many portability issues have been
+   addressed, across a wide range of platforms.
 
- * AES fix for Samba 4 <-> Samba4 (abartlet)
+LDAP Backend
+------------
 
- * Better conformance to FHS (abartlet, jelmer)
+ * Samba4 can now use an OpenLDAP 2.3 server as it's data backend (abartlet)
+ 
+ * Support for other standards-compliant LDAP servers expected soon (abartlet)
 
- * Improve internal API and code quality in smbclient (jelmer)
+ * Update ldb_map to new async ldb (mkuhl)
 
- * Add testsuite for smbclient (jelmer)
+ * Implement mappings for OpenLDAP (abartlet)
 
- * Remove support for password as an optional second parameter in 
-   smbclient (jelmer)
+File Server
+-----------
 
- * Various warning fixes (metze)
-
- * Several clarifications of comments (abartlet)
-
- * Remove use of pstring in some places (jelmer)
-
- * Re-add the global -k option to enable kerberos (abartlet)
-
- * Various memory allocation fixes (abartlet)
-
- * Add new cifsdd client (jpeach)
-
- * Add tests for even more insane delete-on-close semantics (jra, tridge)
+ * SMB2 server-side implementation (metze)
  
- * Initial work on BASE-DELETE test passing (tridge)
+ * Initial POSIX CIFS VFS backend (sfrench)
 
- * Optimizations in tdb (tridge)
+ * Change notify support (tridge)
 
- * Improvements to ldb documentation (idra, Brad Hards)
+ * LDB share configuration backend (simo)
 
- * Check attribute names to obey rfc2251 (idra)
+Domain Controller
+-----------------
+ * Extended LSA and SAMR pipe implementations
 
- * Allow WINS replication with NT4SP6A (metze)
+SWAT
+---
+ * Initial User Manager GUI, using AJAX (sree)
 
- * Add ManageDSAIT control (Pete Rowley, idra)
-
- * Add tests for LDB controls (idra)
-
- * Various LDB crash fixes (idra)
-
- * Initial work on vlv LDB control (idra)
-
- * Add -p option to smbtorture (jpeach)
-
- * Several improvements to the SMB URL and UNC parsing (jpeach)
-
- * Make DCE/RPC connect functions work async (rafal)
-
- * Fix invalid steal on supportedControls (closes: #3525) (abartlet)
-
- * Start parsing saslauthd requests (metze)
-
- * Split the NBT-WINSREPLICATION test into multiple tests (metze)
-
- * Add new ACB-bits as seen in acct_flags in the PAC info3 (gd)
-
- * Move header files out of include/ (jelmer)
+Infrastructure
+--------------
+ * Improved talloc, with greater type safety (tridge)
  
- * Create separate library for generic utility functions (jelmer)
+ * Async infrastructure for auth subsystem (metze)
 
- * Add highestCommittedUSN, uSNChanged and uSNCreated support to LDB (tridge)
+ * Cyrus-SASL backend for GENSEC, to enable DIGEST-MD5 (abartlet)
 
- * Allow more control over the the winbindd socket location (abartlet)
+ * SASL and TLS wrapping of data streams now performed as socket
+   abstractions (abartlet)
 
- * Allow messaging without a server messaging context (abartlet) 
+ * Fixed GSSAPI SASL implementation (abartlet)
 
- * Make GSSAPI SASL mech work (abartlet)
+ * Added server-side StartTLS to LDAP (abartlet)
 
- * Write out Samba4 version when provisioning (idra)
+ * Fixed SASL sealing of LDAP streams (abartlet)
 
- * Allow servers to bind to non-broadcast interfaces (tridge, abartlet)
+ * Initail schema module (simo)
 
- * Initialize some ASN.1 elements that are optional (metze)
+ * Updated Heimdal snapshot 
 
- * Various improvements to RPC-SCHANNEL (abartlet)
+ * Vastly extended async libnet library (mimir)
 
- * Make Samba4 pass some of the newer schannel tests (abartlet)
+ * Improved IDL compiler and NDR layer (jelmer)
 
- * Better handling of connections without SPNEGO (abartlet)
+Testing
+-------
+ * Greatly expanded testsuite
 
- * Generate seperate headers for RPC client functions (jelmer)
+ * We now additionally run our SAMR, LSA and NETLOGON tests against
+   Samba4 as a DC
 
- * Improve NTLMSSP tests (abartlet, vl)
-
- * Support any size pointers in pidl (tridge)
-
- * Large overhaul of the opendb code to pass BASE-DELETE (tridge)
-
- * Use doxygen for documenting lib/util and lib/registry (jelmer)
-
- * Add registration mechanism for modules and backends in ldb (idra, jelmer)
-
- * Support building shared libraries in the build system (metze, jelmer)
-
- * Install headers in a sane location (jelmer)
-
- * Fix BASE-NEGNOWAIT (tridge)
-
- * Add prefixes to most of the SMB-related functions (metze) 
-
- * Get rid of proto.h (jelmer)
-
- * Reduce number of headers included in includes.h (jelmer)
-
- * Support header dependencies (jelmer)
-
- * Add RAW-NOTIFY (tridge, metze)
-
- * Fix 'your password has expired' on every login (abartlet)
-
- * Improvements to RPC-SAMSYNC (abartlet)
-
- * Work on supporting change notify (tridge, metze)
-
- * Reopen log files after SIGHUP (metze)
-
- * Add BUGS.txt (#3523) (jelmer)
-
- * Add summary to configure (#3442) (metze, jelmer)
-
- * Swig fixes (idra)
-
- * Improve NBT-WINSREPLICATION-OWNED test (metze)
-
- * Fix a lot of compiler warnings (metze)
-
- * Several code improvements found by static code checker (tridge, metze)
-
- * Force correct alignment when in ASCII mode (#2921) (tridge)
+ * Testsuite infrustructure, for more consistant error display (jelmer)
  
- * Fix coverity bug #127 (vl)
+ * Pregenerated test crypto certificates and keys for a faster 'make test' (abartlet)
 
- * Add support for changing process titles (metze)
+ * New 'make testenv', to start a terminal in the test environment
+   (abartlet)
 
- * Support raw NTLMSSP (abartlet)
+ * Scripted testing of Samba4 with Windows clients/servers using VMware (brad)
 
- * Fix debug levels in several places (abartlet)
-
- * Work to unify the ntvfs structures for smb and smb2 (metze, tridge)
-
- * Initial work on asynchronous libnet (rafal)
-
- * Improvements to the wide character set functions (tridge)
-
- * Several heimdal build improvements (abartlet, jelmer)
-
- * A lot of small cleanups and typo fixes 
-   (metze, abartlet, idra, jpeach, tridge, jelmer)

