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author | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2007-01-25 23:49:17 +0000 |
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committer | Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2007-10-10 14:44:20 -0500 |
commit | 7281af469a3ffa2af37c1e42931cd0546b59a589 (patch) | |
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r21022: Trying out a new style for some of our WHATSNEW and README
documentation, prepareing for TP4.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 86b5c558fa976065a76d6aa1d61b7c9f91ecc578)
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index ef131d2f1b..7f46f5efee 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,171 +1,72 @@ -This file contains a history of changes since the first Samba 4 Technology -Preview. For a general introduction to Samba 4, see the README file in this -directory. The NEWS file contains a list of differences between -Samba 3 and Samba 4. +'Samba4 TP4' presents you with an opportunity to see a Technology +Preview (TP) snapshot of Samba4's development, as at January 2007. + +In the last few months since TP3 was released in October 2006, +significant work has been done across many parts of Samba4. Since that +time, we have added the basis for some new and exciting features: + + PKINIT support to Samba4's KDC will allow, smart-card login to a + Samba4 domain. TP4 demonstrates this with static key files, but + work will continue to enable actual hardware cards. + + Clustering support was always a design goal of Samba4, and with TP4 + we have the ctdb framework, a cluster-aware shared database. This + allows Samba4 to share a shared cluster file-system with it's clients. + Presented at this year's linux.conf.au, including a highly rigged + demo, you can expect to see this mature over the next few months. + + Non-blocking and Asynchronous IO support, has always been a design + goal in Samba4, and TP4 will use new Linux Kernel features to + implement event driven asynchronous IO. This makes Samba more + efficient on systems where some data may be 'further away' than a + local disk, such as HSM systems. This allows the Kernel to handle + reading the returned data from the disk, only notifying Samba when + the data is ready for dispatch to the client. + + Our web-management console, known as SWAT, is being revamped, and in + TP4 you can find a new Web 2.0 style user interface, being used to + support a web-based ldb browser. We hope this new system will allow + things simple not possible with the form-submit style of web + management. + + Using LDB LDAP back-end integration has improved in this release, with an + improved mapping module allowing the start of Fedora DS back-end + support. + +In continuing our research effort, TP4 includes the work to better +understand and implement the DRSUAPI replication protocols. By better +understanding the needs of replication now, we can structure our +databases so that their format will have to change less in future. + +We hope to use this replication function to replace the SamSync based +Vampire process so effectively demonstrated since TP1, and to +eventually join an Active Directory domain, as a replicating partner. + +Behind the scenes, much of the core infrastructure of Samba4 continues +development: + + In Kerberos, we have continued to track the development of the + Heimdal Kerberos implementation, and reduce the custom diff between + our branch and upstream. Heimdal now provides plug-in APIs for + almost all of the hooks we need, including management and validation + of the PAC. + + In testing, our test infrastructure has undergone a quiet + revolution, as we improve our unit test framework. Likewise, the + tests themselves have continued to expand, as we follow our + test-driven development pattern. + + In providing an abstraction above our raw RPC layer, the libnet + library continues to expand, becoming a C and JS management API for + Samba4 and remote servers. + + To ensure that, as an administrator and developer, you can easily + read and edit our internal databases, our LDB layer has been + optimised for speed. The aim here is to avoid needing to use the faster, but + more opaque, TDB layer. + +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. -======================================== -Changes in Samba4-TP2 -Release date: 22 March 2006 -======================================== - * Make ldb async internally (idra) - * Use HDB-LDB as the keytab (abartlet) - - * Call the wins hook script again (metze) - - * Make sure no more than 25 records are added in the WINS database (metze) - - * Documentation updates (jelmer) - - * Fix termination issue in winreg server (metze) - - * AES fix for Samba 4 <-> Samba4 (abartlet) - - * Better conformance to FHS (abartlet, jelmer) - - * Improve internal API and code quality in smbclient (jelmer) - - * Add testsuite for smbclient (jelmer) - - * Remove support for password as an optional second parameter in - smbclient (jelmer) - - * Various warning fixes (metze) - - * Several clarifications of comments (abartlet) - - * Remove use of pstring in some places (jelmer) - - * Re-add the global -k option to enable kerberos (abartlet) - - * Various memory allocation fixes (abartlet) - - * Add new cifsdd client (jpeach) - - * Add tests for even more insane delete-on-close semantics (jra, tridge) - - * Initial work on BASE-DELETE test passing (tridge) - - * Optimizations in tdb (tridge) - - * Improvements to ldb documentation (idra, Brad Hards) - - * Check attribute names to obey rfc2251 (idra) - - * Allow WINS replication with NT4SP6A (metze) - - * Add ManageDSAIT control (Pete Rowley, idra) - - * Add tests for LDB controls (idra) - - * Various LDB crash fixes (idra) - - * Initial work on vlv LDB control (idra) - - * Add -p option to smbtorture (jpeach) - - * Several improvements to the SMB URL and UNC parsing (jpeach) - - * Make DCE/RPC connect functions work async (rafal) - - * Fix invalid steal on supportedControls (closes: #3525) (abartlet) - - * Start parsing saslauthd requests (metze) - - * Split the NBT-WINSREPLICATION test into multiple tests (metze) - - * Add new ACB-bits as seen in acct_flags in the PAC info3 (gd) - - * Move header files out of include/ (jelmer) - - * Create separate library for generic utility functions (jelmer) - - * Add highestCommittedUSN, uSNChanged and uSNCreated support to LDB (tridge) - - * Allow more control over the the winbindd socket location (abartlet) - - * Allow messaging without a server messaging context (abartlet) - - * Make GSSAPI SASL mech work (abartlet) - - * Write out Samba4 version when provisioning (idra) - - * Allow servers to bind to non-broadcast interfaces (tridge, abartlet) - - * Initialize some ASN.1 elements that are optional (metze) - - * Various improvements to RPC-SCHANNEL (abartlet) - - * Make Samba4 pass some of the newer schannel tests (abartlet) - - * Better handling of connections without SPNEGO (abartlet) - - * Generate seperate headers for RPC client functions (jelmer) - - * Improve NTLMSSP tests (abartlet, vl) - - * Support any size pointers in pidl (tridge) - - * Large overhaul of the opendb code to pass BASE-DELETE (tridge) - - * Use doxygen for documenting lib/util and lib/registry (jelmer) - - * Add registration mechanism for modules and backends in ldb (idra, jelmer) - - * Support building shared libraries in the build system (metze, jelmer) - - * Install headers in a sane location (jelmer) - - * Fix BASE-NEGNOWAIT (tridge) - - * Add prefixes to most of the SMB-related functions (metze) - - * Get rid of proto.h (jelmer) - - * Reduce number of headers included in includes.h (jelmer) - - * Support header dependencies (jelmer) - - * Add RAW-NOTIFY (tridge, metze) - - * Fix 'your password has expired' on every login (abartlet) - - * Improvements to RPC-SAMSYNC (abartlet) - - * Work on supporting change notify (tridge, metze) - - * Reopen log files after SIGHUP (metze) - - * Add BUGS.txt (#3523) (jelmer) - - * Add summary to configure (#3442) (metze, jelmer) - - * Swig fixes (idra) - - * Improve NBT-WINSREPLICATION-OWNED test (metze) - - * Fix a lot of compiler warnings (metze) - - * Several code improvements found by static code checker (tridge, metze) - - * Force correct alignment when in ASCII mode (#2921) (tridge) - - * Fix coverity bug #127 (vl) - - * Add support for changing process titles (metze) - - * Support raw NTLMSSP (abartlet) - - * Fix debug levels in several places (abartlet) - - * Work to unify the ntvfs structures for smb and smb2 (metze, tridge) - - * Initial work on asynchronous libnet (rafal) - - * Improvements to the wide character set functions (tridge) - - * Several heimdal build improvements (abartlet, jelmer) - - * A lot of small cleanups and typo fixes - (metze, abartlet, idra, jpeach, tridge, jelmer) |