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Andrew Bartlett 2007-12-21 22:55:02 -06:00 committed by Stefan Metzmacher
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What's new in Samba 4 alpha1
What's new in Samba 4 alpha2
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Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
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production environments. Note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file,
which aims to document what should and should not work.
Samba4 alpha1 is the culmination of 4.5 years of development under our
belt since Tridge first proposed a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer
for Samba3 (a project which eventually lead to our Active Directory
efforts), and 1.5 years since we first released a Technology Preview,
we wish to allow users, managers and developers to see how we have
progressed, and to invite feedback and support.
Samba4 alpha2 follows on from our first alpha release, made in
September, and the Technology Preview series we have offered for some
time now.
WARNINGS
========
Samba4 alpha1 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
Samba4 alpha2 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
statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad
deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to
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VFS is backed with an extensive automated test suite.
A new scripting interface has been added to Samba 4, allowing
JavaScript programs to interface to Samba's internals.
Python programs to interface to Samba's internals.
The Samba 4 architecture is based around an LDAP-like database that
can use a range of modular backends. One of the backends supports
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We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
CHANGES SINCE TP5
=================
CHANGES SINCE Alpha 1
=====================
In the time since TP5 was released in June 2007, Samba has
In the time since Samba4 Alpha1 was released in September 2007, Samba has
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
Group Policy Support: Basic group policies may be defined, and are
enforced by Windows clients
MMC Support: The Active Directory Users and Computers console now
works, supporting most operations.
handles group membership correctly.
Winbind: Kai Blin has been working hard on his Google Summer of
Code project, creating a winbind implementation for Samba4.
member/memberOf: These and other linked attributes are now kept in
sync
Heimdal update: A Heimdal 1.0 snapshot is now included as the
internal Kerberos library in Samba4.
subtree renames: Renaming a subtree of LDAP objects is now possible,
with all linked attributes being kept consistant.
In the past few weeks, many small but significant bugs have been
fixed, particularly thanks to Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mwallnoefer@yahoo.de>
Python Bindings: Bindings for a future move to Python as the
internal scripting language have been created.
Shared library use: In support of projects such as OpenChange,
which depend on Samba4, more of Samba4 is built as shared libraries.
These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
months. More details can be found in our SVN history.
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- There is no printing support in the current release.
- Support for managing groups is currently poor (as the
memberOf/member linked attributes are not kept in sync).
- Renaming and deleting subtrees (containers) in the the LDB tree will
have unexpected results.
- The Samba4 port of the CTDB clustering support is not yet complete
- Clock Synchronisation is critical. Many 'wrong password' errors are