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                   WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha23
 st March 2003
                   ==============================
 This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
 Use at your own risk.
 The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
 new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have
 officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are
 concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0
 release we need as many people as possible to start testing these alpha
 releases, and hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs
 fixing.
 Note that Samba 3.0 is not feature complete yet. There is a more
 coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have done already more
 widely tested we will have a hard time doing a stable release in a
 reasonable time frame.
 Major new features:
 -------------------
 - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
   as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.
 - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and
   internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
   and UNICODE character sets.
 - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
   been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
   but the new auth system is also very configurable.
 - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
   completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
   persistently. This needs lots of testing.
 - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
   somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
   to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
   subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
   implemented.
 - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
   improves error handling a lot.
 - better w2k printing support including publishing printer
   attributes in active directory
 - new loadable RPC modules
 - new dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance
 - support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain
 - support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
   domain controllers
 Plus lots of other changes!
 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
 ---------------------------------------
 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.
 Changes in alpha23:
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   LDAP Group Mapping
   ------------------
   pdbedit -i -e sets all SAM_ACCOUNT elements to CHANGED to
   satisfy the new pdb_ldap.c handling.   pdbedit -g transfers group
   mappings. I made this separate from the user database, as current
   installations have to live with a split backend.  So, if you are
   running 3_0 alphas with LDAP as a backend and upgrade to 3.0alpha23,
   you must call
     root# pdbedit -i tdbsam -e ldapsam -g
   to transfer your group mapping database to LDAP.
   All groups must be represented as posixGroup objects in
   the directory and adapt the LDAP schema to support the
   sambaGroupMapping before running this command.  Refer to
   examples/LDAP/samba.schema for details on the objectclass.
   Parameters
   ----------
   Modified Parameters (see smb.conf(5) for details):
   * passdb backend
   Added Parameters
   * ldap del only sam attr
   * ldap delete dn
   ChangeLog
   ---------
   See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details.  There are many
   smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
 )  Include security fix from Samba 2.2.8
 )  Fix interop bug in tconX on port 445 with Windows 2000
 )  Interpret missing SMB_ACL_USER_OBJ, SMB_ACL_GROUP_OBJ, or
     SMB_ACL_OTHER as "preserve current value" instead of attempting
     to build one ourself.
 )  Rearrange set_nt_acl() such that chown is only done before
     setting ACLs if there is either no change of owning user, or
     change of owning user is towards the current user. Otherwise
     chown is done after setting ACLs.
 )  Continuing work on NTLMSSP-based SMB signing
 )  When opening an existing DB, don't require the hash_size
     specified to the open call to be the same as that of the
     existing tdb.  The specified hash_size is only used if the
     tdb needs to be (re)created.
 )  Add support for "WinXP" and "Win2K3" client architectures.
 )  Fixed the unmarshalling of the queryaliasmem SAMR call
 )  Windows 2000 can take much longer than the specified time to
     respond to a lock - so to make the torture tests valid I give
     it a grace time of 10 seconds instead of 2
 )  Continued work on string handling paranoia
 ) Merge new statcache.c from HEAD
 ) Add new 'net ads dn' option
 ) Sync up SessionSetup code to HEAD, including Luke Howard's
     session key and auth verifier patches
 ) Work on cleaning up winbindd's mutex locking
 ) Add support for LDAP based Windows group mapping
 ) Improve LDAP update routines
 ) Fix memory leaks found by Valgrind
 ) Add a 'privileged' mode to Winbindd
 ) Work around platforms that have broken getgrnam() implementations
 ) Merge real time signal fixes for kernel oplock code from HEAD
 ) fix CIDR hosts allow/deny notation
 ) Fixup tcon&X server responses and error codes
 ) Set domain for users in passdb created by "net rpc vampire"
 ) More scalable printing updates
                   ===============================
 Changes in older alpha releases follow:
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 Changes in alpha22:
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   Added Parameters
   * client NTLMv2 auth
   * client lanman auth
   * client signing
   * client use spnego
   * max reported print jobs
   * msdfs proxy
 )  remove the global_myname string and replace with wrapper function
     global_myname()
 )  create vfs/ and pdb/ subdirectories for library installs
 )  Fixup of ordered cleanup of get_dc_list()
 )  Added more autoconf tests for Stratus VOS
 )  Fixed nasty bug where file writes with start offsets in the
     range 0x80000000 -> 0xFFFFFFFF would fail as they were being cast
     from IVAL (uint32) to SMB_OFF_T (off_t or off64_t, both *signed*
     types).   The sign extension would cause the offset to be treated
     as negative.
 )  Add support to automatically retrieve the dns host name and domain
     name of an AD server
 )  Add support for PRINTER_INFO_7 and publishing printer attributes
     in active directory
 )  Fix for 64 bit issues with oplocks and allocation size
 )  Remove assert(count ==1) for multi-homed PDCs when resolving
     DOMAIN<0x1b>
 ) Ensure that change_trust_account_password() always talks to
     the PDC
 ) Add some docs on CUPS printing
 ) Fix rpcclient querygroup command
 ) The _abs time functions should not be converting from/to GMT
 ) Fix broken incremental tar in smbclient
 ) Adding supporting code for better testing using Valgrind
 ) Fix for old DOS client when veto files is set to /.*/
 ) Add win32 utility to query driver capabilities to publish
     (examples/printing/prtpub.c)
 ) Fix memory leak when constructing an driver_level_6 structure and
     no dependent files
 ) Add some friendly versions of NT_STATUS codes
 ) Protect nmbd against malformed reply packets
 ) Removal of unpopular winbind client environment variable
 ) Add msdfs proxy functionality; a CIFS share can directly be a
     stand-in for another share, and when clients connect to the first
     share, they will be redirected to the proxied share
 ) Make Samba compile cleanly with -Wwrite-strings
 ) Add new timegm() that actually works on solaris
 ) Add support for running smbd, nmbd, & winbindd under the daemontools
     package
 ) Move user password changes into the NTSTATUS era, and add support
     for the 'min password age' and 'min passwd len' concepts
 ) Add new gencache based namecache code
 ) Add profiles utility support to Samba 3.0.x
 ) Fix open problem with changing attributes on an existing file
 ) Efficiency fixes for internal messaging system
 ) Make sure to update print queue cache during timeout_processing()
     to send notify events
 ) Make -i flag work like it did in 2.2
 ) Merge some rpcclient and net functionality from HEAD
 ) Add support for compiling with Heimdal kerberos libraries
 ) Connect to the actual netbios name in smb.conf and not LOCALHOST
 ) Add support for CUPS-PRINTER_CLASS
 ) Add ntlm_auth tool and update NTLMSSP support
 ) require Autoconf 2.53 and remove configure from CVS
 ) Check for too many processes *before* the fork
 ) Fix delete on close semantics to match W2K.
 ) merge desired_access for open_printer_ex from HEAD, allowing
     cupsaddsmb to work again!
 ) Add support for dynamic RPC modules
 ) wrap all cm_get_XX calls and their subsequent requests in a retry loop
     in case we've temporarily lost connection to the DC. Makes winbindd
     more reliable
 ) Optimize user_ok() and user_in_group() when verifying group membership
 ) Add NTLMv2 client code (that works) and some SMB signing fixes
 ) Add caching of PRINTER_INFO_2 structures to open printer handles
 ) Add 1/3 second delay in OpenPrinter() reply to trigger a LAN/WAN
     optimization in Windows 2000 clients
 ) Add "WinXP" to the possible values of the %a variable
 ) Fix to allow blocking lock notification to be done rapidly (no wait for
     smb -> smb lock release). Adds new PENDING_LOCK type to lockdb (does
     not interfere with existing locks)
 ) Limit the unix domain sockets used by winbindd (also solves FD_SETSIZE
     problem in winbindd to boot !). Adds a "last_access" field to winbindd
     connections, and will close the oldest idle connection once the number
     of open connections goes over WINBINDD_MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_CLIENTS (defined
     in local.h as 200 currently)
 ) Limit the number of print jobs returned in EnumJobs()

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