Samba 2.2.0alpha0 snapshot released

jeremy at valinux.com jeremy at valinux.com
Mon Oct 9 00:00:10 GMT 2000


Hi all,

		I have just released the first alpha snapshot
of what will become Samba 2.2.0.

It's available from the usual ftp sites, in the alpha
directory as :

<ftp mirror>:/pub/samba/alpha/samba-2.2.0-alpha0.tar.gz

If people could test this snapshot out and provide feedback
about what is broken (probably lots at the moment :-) and
let the lists know that would help.

The Team will be monitoring the feedback and this will help
for the next alpha.

Please note that the documentation is not currently up to
date, and the POSIX ACL mapping feature is currently missing,
but most of the other improvements are all there, and this code
has been running under memory overrun/leak detectors for weeks
now without problems.

Having said that - *please* don't use this on a production
system :-) :-).

There are several patches missing from this code that *will*
be added in future alphas as we get nearer to release, so
don't worry if your favourite patch isn't in there - just
remember to complain :-).

The release notes follow :

Regards,

		Jeremy Allison,
		Samba Team.

------------------------------------------------------------
              WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.2.0alpha0
              ==============================

This is the first alpha release of the new 2.2.0 codebase
for Samba. This version must not be run in production.

This code will almost certainly have some bugs and is
intended to help the Samba Team prepare an official 2.2.0
release.

The documentation in this alpha snapshot is not up to date,
there are many new parameters since 2.0.7. This will be
corrected in a later alpha release.

The upcoming 2.2.0 Samba release will include the following
new features:

Support for native Windows NT4/2000 printing RPCs.
This includes support for automatic printer driver download. 

Rewritten internal locking semantics for more robustness.
This alpha supports full 64 bit locking semantics on all
(even 32 bit) platforms. SMB locks are mapped onto POSIX
locks (32 bit or 64 bit) as the underlying system allows.

Conversion of various internal flat data structures to use
database records for increased performance and flexibility. 

Support for acting as a MS-DFS server 

Compile time option for enabling a VFS layer 

Support for server supported Access Control Lists (ACLs).
This support will require a specific pluggable backend to
be written for each filesystem ACL implementation to be
supported. The stable 2.2.0 release should contain
support for the following filesystems: 
								
    Solaris 2.6+ 
    HPUX
    SGI Irix 
    Linux Kernel 2.2 with German ACL patch 

Currently in this alpha snapshot (alpha0) this feature
is not enabled - the VFS layer has been modified to allow
it, but the code is still under development and should
be in a later alpha snapshot. Other platforms will be
supported as resources are available to test and implement
the encessary modules. If you are interested in writing
the support for a particular ACL filesystem, please join the
samba-technical mailing list and coordinate your efforts. 

=====================================================================

If you think you have found a bug please email a report to :

     samba at samba.org

As always, all bugs are our responsibility.

	Regards,

        The Samba Team.  

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