[SCM] Samba Website Repository - branch master updated
Lars Müller
lmuelle at samba.org
Tue Aug 9 15:53:08 MDT 2011
The branch, master has been updated
via cb9c66b Add some common include virtual and list libs
from e1f7031 WHATSNEW: Correct default value of smb2 max credits.
http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba-web.git;a=shortlog;h=master
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commit cb9c66b31c7e6f368eaefaa882191d9f0728a9b5
Author: Lars Müller <lars at samba.org>
Date: Tue Aug 9 23:49:49 2011 +0200
Add some common include virtual and list libs
Acked by obnox and kai.
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Summary of changes:
news/releases/3.6.0.html | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/news/releases/3.6.0.html b/news/releases/3.6.0.html
index 6c66f54..d504675 100644
--- a/news/releases/3.6.0.html
+++ b/news/releases/3.6.0.html
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
-<h3><a name="3.6.0">Samba Team Releases Samba 3.6</a></h3>
+<!--#include virtual="/samba/header.html" -->
+ <title>Samba - opening windows to a wider world</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/samba/hack_samba_menu.html" -->
+
+
+<h2><a name="3.6.0">Samba Team Releases Version 3.6</a></h2>
-<div class="article">
<p>August 9th 2011.</p>
-The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.6, a major
+<p>The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.6, a major
new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and
-authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows ® clients.
+authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows® clients.</p>
-<h4>The First Free Software SMB2 Server</h4>
+<h3>The First Free Software SMB2 Server</h3>
<p>Samba 3.6 includes the first Free Software implementation of
Microsoft's new SMB2 file serving protocol. SMB2 within Samba is
@@ -18,14 +22,14 @@ Microsoft networking technology.</p>
<p>Samba's new SMB2 server has been tested by major vendors and has been
able to double the performance of some network applications when run
-in conjunction with Microsoft Windows 7 ® clients.</p>
+in conjunction with Microsoft Windows 7® clients.</p>
<p>Future developments of our SMB2 server and client suite, in
combination with our expanding number of SMB2 tests, will keep driving
the performance improvements and improved compatibility with Microsoft
Windows that Samba users have come to expect from our software.</p>
-<h4>Improved Printing Support</h4>
+<h3>Improved Printing Support</h3>
<p>The Samba 3.6 print subsystem has been completely re-written to use
automatically generated remote procedure calls (RPC) and provides
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ Microsoft SPOOLSS printing subsystem, and is the basis for our ongoing
work to create an implementation of Microsoft Windows printing
available separately from the Samba file server.</p>
-<h4>Improved Clustered File Server Support</h4>
+<h3>Improved Clustered File Server Support</h3>
<p>Building on our success as the first commercial implementation of a
clustered SMB/CIFS server, Samba 3.6 provides industry-leading
@@ -54,15 +58,15 @@ semantics.</p>
<p>Samba and ctdb has been shipped in production file serving products
for many years, to some of the most demanding customers in the world.</p>
-<h4>Simplified Identity Mapping</h4>
+<h3>Simplified Identity Mapping</h3>
-<p>Samba 3.6 has simplified the complex field of mapping Linux ® and
-UNIX ® identities to Windows users and groups. Samba 3.6 contains a
+<p>Samba 3.6 has simplified the complex field of mapping Linux® and
+UNIX® identities to Windows users and groups. Samba 3.6 contains a
new implementation of the identity mapping code which allows automatic
allocation of Linux and UNIX identities when Windows clients connect
to a Samba server, even in a clustered file serving configuration.</p>
-<h4>Greater Reliability</h4>
+<h3>Greater Reliability</h3>
<p>Samba 3.6 has been tested using our widely accepted smbtorture test
suite, created by the Samba Team to test Samba itself and now used by
@@ -73,29 +77,49 @@ In addition, Samba is one of eleven open source projects that leading
software integrity vendor Coverity has certified as "secure" and has
reached Coverity "Integrity Rung 2" certification.</p>
-<h4>Library Components</h4>
+<h3>Library Components</h3>
<p>As the Samba software matures, technologies created for use within
Samba have been spun-off as external libraries, available from the
following Web addresses:</p>
-<h5><a href=http://talloc.samba.org>Talloc</a>: Hierarchical memory allocator.</h5>
+<ul>
+
+<li>
+<h4><a href=http://talloc.samba.org>Talloc</a></h4>
+<p>Hierarchical memory allocator.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<h4><a href=http://tdb.samba.org>TDB</a></h4>
+<p>Super-fast key/value pair transactional database.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<h4><a href=http://ctdb.samba.org>Clustered TDB</a></h4>
+<p>A cluster-aware version of tdb and the code behind all
+ Samba clustered file serving implementations.</p>
+</li>
-<h5><a href=http://tdb.samba.org>TDB</a>: Super-fast key/value pair transactional database.</h5>
+<li>
+<h4><a href=http://ldb.samba.org>LDB</a></h4>
+<p>High performance LDAP-style database access for applications.</p>
+</li>
-<h5><a href=http://ctdb.samba.org>Clustered TDB</a>: A cluster-aware version of tdb and the code behind all
- Samba clustered file serving implementations.</h5>
+<li>
+<h4><a href=http://tevent.samba.org>Tevent</a></h4>
+<p>Asynchronous Event subsystem, the basis for the new SMB2
+ server implementation within Samba 3.6.</p>
+</li>
-<h5><a href=http://ldb.samba.org>LDB</a>: High performance LDAP-style database access for applications.</h5>
+</ul>
-<h5><a href=http://tevent.samba.org>Tevent</a>: Asynchronous Event subsystem, the basis for the new SMB2
- server implementation within Samba 3.6.</h5>
-These libraries have been adopted by other Free Software projects,
+<p>These libraries have been adopted by other Free Software projects,
showcasing Samba as one of the leading innovators in the Free Software
-community.
+community.</p>
-<h4>A Modular Toolbox For OEM Vendor Needs</h4>
+<h3>A Modular Toolbox For OEM Vendor Needs</h3>
<p>As Free Software, Samba 3.6 is the ideal choice for Original Equipment
Manufacturers (OEMs) to use for their file, print and authentication
@@ -112,7 +136,7 @@ allows external code to be easily integrated with Samba. Example
modules are provided as source code for vendors to customize as they
wish.</p>
-<h4>Samba is the leading choice for Microsoft Windows ® connectivity</h4>
+<h3>Samba is the leading choice for Microsoft Windows® connectivity</h3>
<p>Samba is the leading technology choice for Windows file serving on
Linux and UNIX platforms and in embedded Network Attached Storage
@@ -123,12 +147,12 @@ enabled and meets all mandates for modern network interoperability.</p>
<p>Commercial support is available for Samba from many different vendors.</p>
-<h4>Getting Samba 3.6</h4>
+<h3>Getting Samba 3.6</h3>
<p>Samba 3.6 source code is available now from the
<a href="http://www.samba.org">Samba Web site</a>.</p>
-<h4>About the Samba Team</h4>
+<h3>About the Samba Team</h3>
<p>The Samba Team is a worldwide group of computer professionals working
together via the Internet to produce the highest quality Free Software
@@ -147,4 +171,4 @@ for more information.</p>
<div align="center">Samba - <i>Opening Windows to a Wider World</i></div>
-</div>
+<!--#include virtual="/samba/footer.html" -->
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