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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-What's new in Samba 4 alpha5
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha7

 ============================
 
 Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
 ============================
 
 Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being


@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
 this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
 by Windows 2000 and above.
 
 this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
 by Windows 2000 and above.
 

-Samba4 alpha5 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been

 publishing since September 2007
 
 WARNINGS
 ========
 
 publishing since September 2007
 
 WARNINGS
 ========
 

-Samba4 alpha5 is not a final Samba release.  That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha7 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
 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


@@ -62,35 +62,35 @@ 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.
 
 We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
 directories.
 

-CHANGES SINCE Alpha4
+CHANGES SINCE alpha6

 =====================
 
 =====================
 

-In the time since Samba4 Alpha4 was released in June 2008, Samba has
-continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
+In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has
+continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas 
+(in no particular order):

 
 

-  LDAP backend support restored (issues preventing the use of the LDAP
-  backend in alpha4 have been addressed).
+ Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated 
+ for the OpenLDAP-Backend.

 
 

-  SMB2 Support:  The SMB2 server, while still disabled, has improved,
-  and now supports SMB2 signing. 
+ OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the 
+ OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).

 
 

-  OpenChange support:  Updates have been made since alpha4 to better
-  support OpenChange's use of Samba4's libraries. 
+ Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain

 
 

-  Faster ldb loading:  A fix to avoid calling 'init_module' (which was
-  not defined by Samba modules, but was by the C library) will fix
-  some of the slowness in authentication. 
+ Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed

 
 

-  SWAT Remains Disabled: Due to a lack of developer time and without a
-  long-term web developer to maintain it, the SWAT web UI remains been
-  disabled (and would need to be rewritten in python in any case).
+ A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
+ updated for easier use outside Samba4

 
 

-  GNU Make: To try and simplfy our build system, we rely on GNU Make
-  to avoid autogenerating a massive single makefile. 
+ spoolss IDL updates to bring Samba3 to use PIDL code, and to merge
+ the corrected IDL back into Samba4
+ 
+ Fixes to allow use of C++ compilers and to increase portability

 
 

-
-These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
-months.  More details can be found in our GIT history.
+ Fixed TLS (SSL) support with modern versions of GnuTLS
+ 
+These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past 
+month.  More details can be found in our GIT history.

 
 
 CHANGES
 
 
 CHANGES


@@ -113,17 +113,13 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
 
 - Clock Synchronisation is critical.  Many 'wrong password' errors are
   actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
 
 - Clock Synchronisation is critical.  Many 'wrong password' errors are
   actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client

-  and server.  (The NTP work in the previous alpha is partly to assist
+  and server.  (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist

   with this problem).
 
   with this problem).
 

-- Samba4 alpha5 is currently only portable to recent Linux
+- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux

   distributions.  Work to return support for other Unix varients is
   distributions.  Work to return support for other Unix varients is

-  expected during the next alpha cycle
+  expected during the next alpha cycles

 
 

-- Samba4 alpha5 is incompatible with GnuTLS 2.0, found in Fedora 9 and
-  recent Ubuntu releases.  GnuTLS use may be disabled using the
-  --disable-gnutls argument to ./configure. (otherwise 'make test' and
-  LDAPS operations will hang).

 
 RUNNING Samba4
 ==============
 
 RUNNING Samba4
 ==============