-What's new in Samba 4 alpha8
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha11
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Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
-developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
+developed in parallel to the stable 3.x series. The main emphasis in
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha8 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha8 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha11 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
Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features
you may have relied on simply are not there yet.
-For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active
+For example, while Samba 3 is an excellent member of a Active
Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller, and it is
in this role where it has seen deployment into production.
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha7
+CHANGES SINCE alpha10
=====================
-In the time since Samba4 alpha7 was released in Feburary 2009, Samba has
-continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas
-(in no particular order):
+Since the alpha10 release, we have fixed a number of serious bugs in
+the implementation of AD-compatible 'Directory Replication Services'.
+We can now join an AD domain as a read-write DC
- Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008
+Importantly, since alpha10, the following serious issues were
+addressed:
+ - We now allocate RID values safely (previous implementations would
+ add users and groups without regard to allocated RID pools, possibly
+ creating duplicates)
+ - In previous Samba4 versions, a failure to 'prepare' a transaction
+ would silently commit the transaction.
- LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of
- users and groups much more efficiently
-
-These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in
-the past few months. More details of the work done 'under the hood'
-can be found in our GIT history.
+Any deployments of Samba4 before this alpha are very strongly
+encouraged to upgrade. Assistance may be found in the
+upgradeprovision script, and the advice of the Samba Team should be
+sought to determine the impact of these issues in your particular
+deployment.
+Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
CHANGES
=======
and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
+- The DRS replication code often fails, and is very new
+
+- Users upgrading existing databases to Samba4 should carefully
+ consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in
+ this release that should make it easier to upgrade in future.
+ Btw: there exists also a script under the "setup" directory of the
+ source distribution called "upgrade_from_s3" which should allow a step-up
+ from Samba3 to Samba4. It's not included yet in the binary distributions
+ since it's completely experimental!
+
+- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
+ Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed in Alpha12.
+
RUNNING Samba4
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DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
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+
Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/ but please be aware
that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.
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