Samba 4.5.0rc4 or final?

Martin Schwenke martin at meltin.net
Wed Sep 7 00:56:21 UTC 2016


On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:52:28 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld
<mmuehlfeld at samba.org> wrote:

> Am 06.09.2016 um 15:27 schrieb Stefan Metzmacher:
> > I'm wondering if there's anything worth waiting for,
> > before we release 4.5.0.  

> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12204
> would be great if it could be finalized and be part of 4.5.0.
> It already has a working patch (thanks, Andrew) attached, but needs some
> more attention. If this gets into 4.5.0, a 2012 DC is able to join a
> Samba AD and does not break the replication any more.
> 
> I already prepared a documentation about joining 2012. It's not straight
> forward and you have to pay attention to some things. However it's
> working with a few additional steps. I spend some nights working on
> figuring everything out, did a lot of testing and providing logs to
> Andrew, etc.
> 
> If the patch could be finalized and get into 4.5.0, it would be great. I
> have a prepared test environment for that scenario here and can test
> patches in the short term.

Given that this doesn't appear to be a regression, is it the sort of
thing we can mention in the release notes and target to 4.5.1?

peace & happiness,
martin



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