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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2008-03-27 17:34:25 +1100
committerAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2008-03-27 17:34:25 +1100
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Prepare for Samba4 alpha3.
I need help with filling this list of changes out. Andrew Bartlett
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-What's new in Samba 4 alpha2
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha3
============================
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ Samba 4 is currently not yet in a state where it is usable in
production environments. Note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file,
which aims to document what should and should not work.
-Samba4 alpha2 follows on from our first alpha release, made in
+Samba4 alpha3 follows on from our first alpha release, made in
September, and the Technology Preview series we have offered for some
time now.
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha2 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha3 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
@@ -64,29 +64,27 @@ working on modules to map between AD-like behaviours and this backend.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE Alpha 1
+CHANGES SINCE Alpha2
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 Alpha1 was released in September 2007, Samba has
+In the time since Samba4 Alpha2 was released in December 2007, Samba has
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
- MMC Support: The Active Directory Users and Computers console now
- handles group membership correctly.
+ Python Bindings: Bindings for Python are now in place, and used for
+ Samba's provision script, slowly displacing EJS as the embedded
+ scripting language
- member/memberOf: These and other linked attributes are now kept in
- sync
+ SWAT Disabled: Due to a lack of developer time and without a
+ long-term web developer to maintain it, the SWAT web UI has been
+ disabled.
- subtree renames: Renaming a subtree of LDAP objects is now possible,
- with all linked attributes being kept consistant.
+ Oplock support: Samba4's file server now supports oplocks
- 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.
+ GNU Make: To try and simplfy our build system, we rely on GNU Make
+ to avoid autogenerating a massive single makefile.
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.
+months. More details can be found in our GIT history.
CHANGES
@@ -109,6 +107,7 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
and server.
+
RUNNING Samba4
==============