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Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
Oct XX, 2007
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This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
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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/.
Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under the version 3
of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING
file that accompanies these release notes for further licensing details.
Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
File Serving:
o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC
interfaces.
o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on
filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts
and one-way domain trusts
o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS
lookups.
o Support in pam_winbind for logging on using the userPrincipalName.
o Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
o Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
Users & Groups:
o New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
o Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.
Documentation:
o Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
from O'Reilly Publishing.
Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
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The Samba Team has adopted the Version 3 of the GNU General Public
License for the 3.2 and later releases. The GPLv3 is the updated
version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
distributed. It has been updated to improvecompatibility with other
licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
Software in the 21st Century.
The original announcement is available on-line at
http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
New Security Defaults for Authentication
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Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
disabled by default in client utilities such as smbclient and all
libsmbclient based applications. This will affect connection both
to and from hosts running DOS, Windows 9x/ME, and OS/2. Please refer
to the "Changes" section for details on the exact parameters that were
updated.
Registry Configuration Backend
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Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
supplement smb.conf setting. This feature may be enabled by setting
"include = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
pages.
Removed Features
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Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.
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Changes
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smb.conf changes
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Parameter Name Description Default
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client lanman auth Changed Default No
client ldap sasl wrapping New plain
client plaintext auth Changed Default No
clustering New No
cluster addresses New ""
ctdb socket New ""
lanman auth Changed Default No
mangle map Removed
open files database hashsize Removed
read bmpx Removed
registry shares New No
winbind expand groups New 1
winbind rpc only New No
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Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
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Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
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o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
* Unified POSIX ACL detection including support for FreeBSD and
HP-UX.
* Performance improvements for Winbind's lookup functions (names,
SIDs, and group membership) when joined to an AD domain.
* Winbind cache validation support.
* Store domain trust passwords for Samba domain controller's in
the domain's passdb backend.
* Merged \winreg server code from the SAMBA_3_2 development branch.
* Fixes for libreplace.
* Implement new registry configuration backend.
o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* Add support for file system objectIDs.
* Winbind cache validation support.
* Add in the UNIX capability for 24-bit readX.
* Improve Delete-on-Close semantics.
* Removal of static file and path name buffers in SMB file serving
code.
o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
* Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
ads join".
o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
* Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
servers.
o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
* Implement support for one-way trusts and two-way cross-forest
transitive trust in winbindd.
* Fixes for Winbind's offline/disconnected logon support when
using remote idmap backends.
* Fix LookupNames and LookupSids to use the same resolution
heuristics as Windows XP.
* Fix lockups in Winbind when running nscd.
* UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
* Add support for GNU linker scripts when build shared libraries
(based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
Peach).
o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
* Additional support for decoding and downloading group policy
objects from Active Directory.
* Improvements to "net ads keytab" command.
* Fixes for linking against Heimdal Kerberos client libs.
* Support LDAP range retrieval searches.
* Fixes for failure to refresh user ticket caches in Winbind.
* UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
* Add KDC locator plugin for MIT kerberos 1.6 or later.
o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
* Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
to come up.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* Merge experimental cluster support patches from the ctdb branch.
* Add tdb storage abstraction for ctdb.
* Use IDL for internal message passing system.
* Add client support for the SamLogonEx() authentication request.
* Implement RPC proxy stubs in the Samba server code to allow
replacing implementation functions one by one.
* Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
packet processing code.
* Add "net sam rights" command.
o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
* Fixes for mount.cfs Linux utility.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* Fixes for libreplace.
* Add support for LDAP digital signing policy.
* Experimental clustered file system support.
o Lars Mueller <lars@samba.org>
* Makefile and build fixes.
* Add pam_pwd_expire for pam_winbind (original patch from Andreas
Schneider).
o James Peach <jpeach@apple.com>
* Fixes for setgroups() and *BSD and Darwin.
* Support membership of >16 groups on Darwin.
o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
* Added vfs_vfsacl module.
o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
* Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
* Cleanup internal passdb functions.
o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
* Fixes for IDmap and Passdb backends.
o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
* Port ldb from the Samba 4 tree and add ldb group mapping plugin.
* Move several file serving related tdb files to use the dbwrap
API internally.
* Cleanup the GPFS VFS plugin.
* Experimental clustered file system support.
o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
* Implement NDR basic to support utilizing IDL files from Samba 4
tree for general DCE/RPC parsing stubs.
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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
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 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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