svn commit: samba r26557 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0: .

abartlet at samba.org abartlet at samba.org
Fri Dec 21 22:55:03 GMT 2007


Author: abartlet
Date: 2007-12-21 22:55:02 +0000 (Fri, 21 Dec 2007)
New Revision: 26557

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba&rev=26557

Log:
sync WHATSNEW with release branch of Samba4

Modified:
   branches/SAMBA_4_0/WHATSNEW.txt


Changeset:
Modified: branches/SAMBA_4_0/WHATSNEW.txt
===================================================================
--- branches/SAMBA_4_0/WHATSNEW.txt	2007-12-21 02:33:43 UTC (rev 26556)
+++ branches/SAMBA_4_0/WHATSNEW.txt	2007-12-21 22:55:02 UTC (rev 26557)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha1
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha2
 ============================
 
 Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
@@ -10,17 +10,14 @@
 production environments. Note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file,
 which aims to document what should and should not work.
 
-Samba4 alpha1 is the culmination of 4.5 years of development under our
-belt since Tridge first proposed a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer
-for Samba3 (a project which eventually lead to our Active Directory
-efforts), and 1.5 years since we first released a Technology Preview,
-we wish to allow users, managers and developers to see how we have
-progressed, and to invite feedback and support.
+Samba4 alpha2 follows on from our first alpha release, made in
+September, and the Technology Preview series we have offered for some
+time now. 
 
 WARNINGS
 ========
 
-Samba4 alpha1 is not a final Samba release.  That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha2 is not a final Samba release.  That is more a reference
 to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a
 statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad
 deployment yet.  If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to
@@ -58,7 +55,7 @@
 VFS is backed with an extensive automated test suite.
 
 A new scripting interface has been added to Samba 4, allowing
-JavaScript programs to interface to Samba's internals.
+Python programs to interface to Samba's internals.
 
 The Samba 4 architecture is based around an LDAP-like database that
 can use a range of modular backends.  One of the backends supports
@@ -67,27 +64,27 @@
 We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
 directories.
 
-CHANGES SINCE TP5
-=================
+CHANGES SINCE Alpha 1
+=====================
 
-In the time since TP5 was released in June 2007, Samba has
+In the time since Samba4 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 +103,6 @@
 
 - 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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