svn commit: samba r26390 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE: .
abartlet at samba.org
abartlet at samba.org
Tue Dec 11 02:53:40 GMT 2007
Author: abartlet
Date: 2007-12-11 02:53:40 +0000 (Tue, 11 Dec 2007)
New Revision: 26390
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba&rev=26390
Log:
Start on a WHATSNEW for the alpah2 release.
Andrew Bartlett
Modified:
branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt
Changeset:
Modified: branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt
===================================================================
--- branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt 2007-12-11 02:10:46 UTC (rev 26389)
+++ branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt 2007-12-11 02:53:40 UTC (rev 26390)
@@ -70,24 +70,24 @@
CHANGES SINCE TP5
=================
-In the time since TP5 was released in June 2007, Samba has
+In the time since Sama4 Alpha1 was released in September 2007, Samba has
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
- Group Policy Support: Basic group policies may be defined, and are
- enforced by Windows clients
-
MMC Support: The Active Directory Users and Computers console now
- works, supporting most operations.
+ handles group membership correctly.
- Winbind: Kai Blin has been working hard on his Google Summer of
- Code project, creating a winbind implementation for Samba4.
+ member/memberOf: These and other linked attributes are now kept in
+ sync
- Heimdal update: A Heimdal 1.0 snapshot is now included as the
- internal Kerberos library in Samba4.
+ subtree renames: Renaming a subtree of LDAP objects is now possible,
+ with all linked attributes being kept consistant.
- In the past few weeks, many small but significant bugs have been
- fixed, particularly thanks to Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mwallnoefer at yahoo.de>
+ Python Bindings: Bindings for a future move to python as the
+ internal scripting language have been created.
+ Shared library use: In support of projects such as OpenChange,
+ which depend on Samba4, more of Samba4 is built as shared libraries.
+
These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
months. More details can be found in our SVN history.
@@ -106,12 +106,6 @@
- There is no printing support in the current release.
-- Support for managing groups is currently poor (as the
- memberOf/member linked attributes are not kept in sync).
-
-- Renaming and deleting subtrees (containers) in the the LDB tree will
- have unexpected results.
-
- The Samba4 port of the CTDB clustering support is not yet complete
- Clock Synchronisation is critical. Many 'wrong password' errors are
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