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A WHATSNEW for alpha10

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What's new in Samba 4 alpha9 What's new in Samba 4 alpha10
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Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
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this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above. by Windows 2000 and above.
Samba4 alpha9 follows on from the alpha release series we have been Samba4 alpha10 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007 publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS WARNINGS
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Samba4 alpha9 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference Samba4 alpha10 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a
statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad
deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to
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We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories. directories.
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In the time since Samba4 alpha8 was released in June 2009, Samba has Alpha9 was released last week, but in the time since the release we
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas have found and fixed an important segfault, and improved the
(in no particular order): experimental DRS replication.
Samba4 now includes the full set of user interface strings (display Specifiers)
required to have the Microsoft Management Console operate
LDB (the core Samba4 database library) has again been reworked for
better performance
Replication between Samba4 and Active Directory domains using the
native replication protocol (DRS) has been demonstrated.
Access Control Lists (in nTSecurityDescriptor) are now set correctly
on objects in the directory, based on the same rules as Windows 2008.
(Searches and still use a simplistic administrator/not administrator
criteria)
These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in
the past few months. More details of the work done 'under the hood'
can be found in our GIT history.
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