[WHATSNEW] Samba AD with MIT Kerberos + Version change

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 08:43:59 -0700
Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 09:22:56AM +0100, Rowland Penny via
> samba-technical wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:45:42 +0200
> > Andreas Schneider via samba-technical
> > <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > as you can build Samba AD with MIT Kerberos now, I propose to
> > > change the version number to 5.0.0.
> > > 
> > > It is time that we stop talking about Samba 3 and Samba 4.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The attachd patch adds a section for Samba AD with MIT KRB5 to
> > > WHATSNEW and changes the version number.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Review and push much appreciated!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	Andreas
> > 
> > Sorry, but NACK!
> > 
> > Just because you have got MIT kerberos working with a Samba AD DC
> > (and great respect to you for doing so) isn't a good enough reason
> > to bump the version up to 5. If Heimdal was removed at the same
> > time perhaps, but, from my understanding, this cannot be done yet.
> 
> Actually I think that's a really good metric for moving to
> Samba5 !
> 
> Let's do the change when we finally git remove the Heimdal
> code :-).

That's basically what I said, move to MIT instead of Heimdal and change
the version to 5 at the same time.

> 
> And this is notice ?

How about putting something on the Samba webpage, it would make a
change from all the out of date info ;-)

The other question is, How do I use MIT instead of Heimdal on debian ?

Rowland