Release Announcements
=====================
-This is the first pre release of Samba 4.19. This is *not*
+This is the first pre release of Samba 4.21. This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
-Samba 4.19 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
+Samba 4.21 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
UPGRADING
NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
====================
-Migrated smbget to use common command line parser
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+LDB no longer a standalone tarball
+----------------------------------
-The smbget utility implemented its own command line parsing logic. After
-discovering an issue we decided to migrate it to use the common command line
-parser. This has some advantages as you get all the feature it provides like
-Kerberos authentication. The downside is that breaks the options interface.
-The support for smbgetrc has been removed. You can use an authentication file
-if needed, this is documented in the manpage.
+LDB, Samba's LDAP-like local database and the power behind the Samba
+AD DC, is no longer available to build as a distinct tarball, but is
+instead provided as an optional public library.
-Please check the smbget manpage or --help output.
+If you need ldb as a public library, say to build sssd, then use
+ ./configure --private-libraries='!ldb'
-gpupdate changes
-----------------
+This re-integration allows LDB tests to use the Samba's full selftest
+system, including our knownfail infrastructure, and decreases the work
+required during security releases as a coordinated release of the ldb
+tarball is not also required.
-The libgpo.get_gpo_list function has been deprecated in favor of
-an implementation written in python. The new function can be imported via
-`import samba.gp`. The python implementation connects to Active Directory
-using the SamDB module, instead of ADS (which is what libgpo uses).
+This approach has been demonstrated already in Debian, which is already
+building Samba and LDB is this way.
-Improved winbind logging and a new tool for parsing the winbind logs
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+As part of this work, the pyldb-util public library, not known to be
+used by any other software, is made private to Samba.
-Winbind logs (if smb.conf 'winbind debug traceid = yes' is set) contain new
-trace header fields 'traceid' and 'depth'. Field 'traceid' allows to track the
-trace records belonging to the same request. Field 'depth' allows to track the
-request nesting level. A new tool samba-log-parser is added for better log
-parsing.
-
-AD database prepared to FL 2016 standards for new domains
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-
-While Samba still provides only Functional Level 2008R2 by default,
-Samba as an AD DC will now, in provision ensure that the blank
-database is already prepared for Functional Level 2016, with AD Schema
-2019.
-
-This preparation is of the default objects in the database, adding
-containers for Authentication Policies, Authentication Silos and AD
-claims in particular. These DB objects must be updated to allow
-operation of the new features found in higher functional levels.
-
-Kerberos Claims, Authentication Silos and NTLM authentication policies
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-
-An initial, partial implementation of Active Directory Functional
-Level 2012, 2012R2 and 2016 is available in this release.
-
-In particular Samba will issue Active Directory "Claims" in the PAC,
-for member servers that support these, and honour in-directory
-configuration for Authentication Policies and Authentication Silos.
-
-The primary limitation is that while Samba can read and write claims
-in the directory, and populate the PAC, Samba does not yet use them
-for access control decisions.
-
-While we continue to develop these features, existing domains can
-test the feature by selecting the functional level in provision or
-raising the DC functional level by setting
-
- ad dc functional level = 2016
-
-in the smb.conf
-
-The smb.conf file on each DC must have 'ad dc functional level = 2016'
-set to have the partially complete feature available. This will also,
-at first startup, update the server's own AD entry with the configured
-functional level.
-
-For new domains, add these parameters to 'samba-tool provision'
-
---option="ad dc functional level = 2016" --function-level=2016
-
-The second option, setting the overall domain functional level
-indicates that all DCs should be at this functional level.
-
-To raise the domain functional level of an existing domain, after
-updating the smb.conf and restarting Samba run
-samba-tool domain schemaupgrade --schema=2019
-samba-tool domain functionalprep --function-level=2016
-samba-tool domain level raise --domain-level=2016 --forest-level=2016
-
-Kerberos Armoring (FAST) Support for Windows clients
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-
-In domains where the domain controller functional level is set, as
-above, to 2012, 2012_R2 or 2016, Windows clients will, if configured
-via GPO, use FAST to protect user passwords between (in particular) a
-workstation and the KDC on the AD DC. This is a significant security
-improvement, as weak passwords in an AS-REQ are no longer available
-for offline attack.
-
-Claims compression in the AD PAC
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-
-Samba as an AD DC will compress "AD claims" using the same compression
-algorithm as Microsoft Windows.
-
-Resource SID compression in the AD PAC
+LDB Module API Python bindings removed
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-Samba as an AD DC will now correctly populate the various PAC group
-membership buffers, splitting global and local groups correctly.
-
-Additionally, Samba marshals Resource SIDs, being local groups in the
-member server's own domain, to only consume a header and 4 bytes per
-group in the PAC, not a full-length SID worth of space each. This is
-known as "Resource SID compression".
+The LDB Modules API, which we do not promise a stable ABI or API for,
+was wrapped in python in early LDB development. However that wrapping
+never took into account later changes, and so has not worked for a
+number of years. Samba 4.21 and LDB 2.10 removes this unused and
+broken feature.
-New samba-tool support for silos, claims, sites and subnets.
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-
-samba-tool can now list, show, add and manipulate Authentication Silos
-(silos) and Active Directory Authentication Claims (claims).
-
-samba-tool can now list and show Active Directory sites and subnets.
-
-A new Object Relational Model (ORM) based architecture, similar to
-that used with Django, has been built to make adding new samba-tool
-subcommands simpler and more consistent, with JSON output available
-standard on these new commands.
-
-Updated GnuTLS requirement / in-tree cryptography removal
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-
-Samba requires GnuTLS 3.6.13 and prefers GnuTLS 3.6.14 or later.
-
-This has allowed Samba to remove all of our in-tree cryptography,
-except that found in our Heimdal import. Samba's runtime cryptography
-needs are now all provided by GnuTLS.
-
-(The GnuTLS vesion requirement is raised to 3.7.2 on systems without
-the Linux getrandom())
-
-We also use Python's cryptography module for our testing.
-
-The use of well known cryptography libraries makes Samba easier for
-end-users to validate and deploy, and for distributors to ship. This
-is the end of a very long journey for Samba.
-
-Updated Heimdal import
-----------------------
-
-Samba's Heimdal branch (known as lorikeet-heimdal) has been updated to
-the current pre-8.0 (master) tree from upstream Heimdal, ensuring that
-this vendored copy, included in our release remains as close as
-possible to the current upstream code.
-
-Revocation support in Heimdal KDC for PKINIT certificates
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-
-Samba will now correctly honour the revocation of 'smart card'
-certificates used for PKINIT Kerberos authentication.
-
-This list is reloaded each time the file changes, so no further action
-other than replacing the file is required. The additional krb5.conf
-option is:
-
- [kdc]
- pkinit_revoke = FILE:/path/to/crl.pem
-
-Information on the "Smart Card login" feature as a whole is at:
- https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_Smart_Card_Login
-
-Protocol level testsuite for (Smart Card Logon) PKINIT
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-
-Previously Samba's PKINIT support in the KDC was tested by use of
-shell scripts around the client tools of MIT or Heimdal Kerberos.
-Samba's independently written python testsuite has been extended to
-validate KDC behaviour for PKINIT.
-
-
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REMOVED FEATURES
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Parameter Name Description Default
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- winbind debug traceid Add traceid No
- directory name cache size Removed
KNOWN ISSUES
============
-https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.19#Release_blocking_bugs
+https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.21#Release_blocking_bugs
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