[PATCH] Release Notes Samba 4.4.0rc1

Thu Jan 21 00:23:41 UTC 2016

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:12:49PM +0100, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please find attached a patch to add some content to the release notes.
> Please review and push.
> 
> Thanks!

LGTM - pushed !


> -- 
> Karolin Seeger			https://samba.org/~kseeger/
> Release Manager Samba Team	https://samba.org
> Senior Consultant SerNet	https://sernet.de

> From e3121dfe62445b817e3411fb506007ad562c5a5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Karolin Seeger <kseeger at samba.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:08:57 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Extend release notes for Samba 4.4.0rc1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karolin Seeger <kseeger at samba.org>
> ---
>  WHATSNEW.txt | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 122 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
> index 53f7860..e0603a6 100644
> --- a/WHATSNEW.txt
> +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  Release Announcements
>  =====================
>  
> -This is the first preview release of Samba 4.4.  This is *not*
> +This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.4.  This is *not*
>  intended for production environments and is designed for testing
>  purposes only.  Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
>  system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
> @@ -14,33 +14,94 @@ UPGRADING
>  
>  Nothing special.
>  
> -NEW FEATURES
> -============
> +NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
> +====================
> +
> +Asynchronous flush requests
> +---------------------------
>  
>  Flush requests from SMB2/3 clients are handled asynchronously and do
>  not block the processing of other requests. Note that 'strict sync'
>  has to be set to 'yes' for Samba to honor flush requests from SMB
>  clients.
>  
> +s3: smbd
> +--------
> +
> +Remove '--with-aio-support' configure option. We no longer would ever prefer
> +POSIX-RT aio, use pthread_aio instead.
> +
> +samba-tool sites
> +----------------
> +
> +The 'samba-tool sites' subcommand can now be run against another server by
> +specifying an LDB URL using the '-H' option and not against the local database
> +only (which is still the default when no URL is given).
> +
> +samba-tool domain demote
> +------------------------
> +
> +Add '--remove-other-dead-server' option to 'samba-tool domain demote'
> +subcommand. The new version of this tool now can remove another DC that is
> +itself offline.  The '--remove-other-dead-server' removes as many references
> +to the DC as possible.
> +
> +samba-tool drs clone-dc
> +-----------------------
> +
> +Add '--include-secrets' option. This allows the creation of domain clones
> +that have no secrets, and so make it safer to examine databases that
> +demonstrate issues.
> +
> +pdbedit
> +-------
> +
> +Add '--set-nt-hash' option to pdbedit to update user password from nt-hash
> +hexstring. 'pdbedit -vw' shows also password hashes.
> +
> +s4-rpc_server
> +-------------
> +
> +Add a GnuTLS based backupkey implementation.
> +
> +ntlm_auth
> +---------
> +
> +Using the '--offline-logon' enables ntlm_auth to use cached passwords when the
> +DC is offline.
> +
> +Allow '--password' force a local password check for ntlm-server-1 mode.
> +
> +vfs_offline
> +-----------
> +
> +A new VFS module called vfs_offline has been added to mark all files in the
> +share as offline. It can be useful for shares mounted on top of a remote file
> +system (either through a samba VFS module or via FUSE).
> +
> +KCC
> +---
> +
> +The Samba KCC has been improved, but is still disabled by default.
> +
> +DNS
> +---
> +
> +There were several improvements concerning the Samba DNS server.
> +
> +Active Directory
> +----------------
> +
> +There were some improvements in the Active Directory area.
> +
>  WINS nsswitch module
> -====================
> +--------------------
>  
>  The WINS nsswitch module has been rewritten to address memory issues and to
>  simplify the code. The module now uses libwbclient to do WINS queries. This
>  means that winbind needs to be running in order to resolve WINS names using
>  the nss_wins module. This does not affect smbd.
>  
> -######################################################################
> -Changes
> -#######
> -
> -smb.conf changes
> -----------------
> -
> -  Parameter Name		Description		Default
> -  --------------		-----------		-------
> -  aio max threads               New                     100
> -
>  CTDB changes
>  ------------
>  
> @@ -52,6 +113,51 @@ CTDB changes
>    Configurations containing CTDB_SET_EventScriptTimeoutCount=<n> will
>    cause CTDB to fail at startup.  Useful messages will be logged.
>  
> +
> +REMOVED FEATURES
> +================
> +
> +Public headers
> +--------------
> +
> +Several public headers are not installed any longer. They are made for internal
> +use only. More public headers will very likely be removed in future releases.
> +
> +The following headers are not installed any longer:
> +dlinklist.h, gen_ndr/epmapper.h, gen_ndr/mgmt.h, gen_ndr/ndr_atsvc_c.h,
> +gen_ndr/ndr_epmapper_c.h, gen_ndr/ndr_epmapper.h, gen_ndr/ndr_mgmt_c.h,
> +gen_ndr/ndr_mgmt.h,gensec.h, ldap_errors.h, ldap_message.h, ldap_ndr.h,
> +ldap-util.h, pytalloc.h, read_smb.h, registry.h, roles.h, samba_util.h,
> +smb2_constants.h, smb2_create_blob.h, smb2.h, smb2_lease.h, smb2_signing.h,
> +smb_cli.h, smb_cliraw.h, smb_common.h, smb_composite.h, smb_constants.h,
> +smb_raw.h, smb_raw_interfaces.h, smb_raw_signing.h, smb_raw_trans2.h,
> +smb_request.h, smb_seal.h, smb_signing.h, smb_unix_ext.h, smb_util.h,
> +torture.h, tstream_smbXcli_np.h.
> +
> +vfs_smb_traffic_analyzer
> +------------------------
> +
> +The SMB traffic analyzer VFS module has been removed, because it is not
> +maintained any longer and not widely used.
> +
> +vfs_scannedonly
> +---------------
> +
> +The scannedonly VFS module has been removed, because it is not maintained
> +any longer.
> +
> +smb.conf changes
> +----------------
> +
> +  Parameter Name		Description		Default
> +  --------------		-----------		-------
> +  aio max threads               New                     100
> +  ldap page size		Changed default		1000
> +  max protocol			Changed default		SMB3
> +  min protocol			Changed default		LANMAN1
> +  server max protocol		Chanegd default		SMB3
> +
> +
>  KNOWN ISSUES
>  ============
>  
> @@ -67,7 +173,7 @@ joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
>  If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
>  feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
>  the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
> -be filed under the Samba 4.3 product in the project's Bugzilla
> +be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
>  database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
>  
>  
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