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=================================
Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
Oct XX, 2007
Jan 16, 2008
=================================
This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
o Support for IPv6 connections.
Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
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.
o New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so)
Users & Groups:
@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
Documentation:
o Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
o Inclusion of an HTML version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
from O'Reilly Publishing.
@ -50,12 +52,12 @@ Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
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
distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility 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
The original announcement is available on-line at
http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
@ -63,12 +65,12 @@ The original announcement is available on-line at
New Security Defaults for Authentication
========================================
Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
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
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.
@ -78,10 +80,10 @@ Registry Configuration Backend
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.
"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
More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
pages.
@ -110,7 +112,8 @@ smb.conf changes
ctdb socket New ""
lanman auth Changed Default No
mangle map Removed
open files database hashsize Removed
min receive file size New 0
open files database hash size Removed
read bmpx Removed
registry shares New No
winbind expand groups New 1
@ -120,6 +123,97 @@ smb.conf changes
Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
-----------------------
o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
* Add vfs_zfsacl plugin.
* Refactor and consolidate logic for retrieving the machine
trust password information.
* BUG 4801: Correctly implement LSA lookup levels for LookupNames.
o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* Added support for IPv6 client and server connections.
* Add in the recvfile entry to the VFS layer.
* Removal of pstring data type.
* Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
* Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
(based on work from Andreas Schneider).
* Additional work on the session data privacy for clients
implementing the Unix CIFS Extensions.
o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
* Add Winbind client library.
* Decouple static linking between smbd and winbindd's client
interface.
o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
* Enhance client and server remote registry access.
* Add client calls for remotely joining a computer to a domain
(including calls from "net dom" command).
* Add libnetapi.so library for joining domains including
sample GTK+ app.
o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
* Integrate 2 out of 3 --with-fhs patches from Debian packaging
for better adherence to the FHS standard.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* Add talloc_stackframe() and talloc_pool() features.
* Removal of pstring data type.
* Add generic a in-memory cache.
* Import the Linux red-black tree implementation.
* Remove large amount of global variables.
* Add vfs_ea_tdb module for file systems that do not implement xattrs.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* Refactor Winbind internal parent-child interface tables
to achieve better unit testing support.
* Add nss_wrapper API for local Winbind unit tests.
* Networking fixes to the libreplace library.
* Pidl fixes.
* Remove unused Winbind pipe calls.
o James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
* Add support for DNS Service Discovery. Based on work from
Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>.
o Andreas Schneider <anschneider@suse.de>
* Don't restart winbind if a corrupted tdb is found during
initialization.
o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
* Add net rap file user.
o David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
* BUG 5073: Allow "delete readonly = yes" to correctly override
deletion of a file.
o Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>
* Register the smb service with mDNS if mDNS is supported.
* Add smbclient support for basic mDNS browsing.
o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
* Fix padding between Winbind 32bit/64bit client library in
the request/response structures.
* Added a syncops VFS module for file systems which do not
guarantee meta-data operations are immediately committed to
disk in stable form.
o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
* Additional portability support for building shared libraries.
Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
---------------------------
@ -134,16 +228,16 @@ o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
* 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
* 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
@ -151,7 +245,7 @@ o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
* Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
* Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
servers.
@ -165,7 +259,7 @@ o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
* 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
(based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
Peach).
@ -182,7 +276,7 @@ o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
* Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
to come up.
to come up.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
@ -192,7 +286,7 @@ o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* 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
* Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
packet processing code.
* Add "net sam rights" command.