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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