<p>The next major release will be <em>Samba 4.0</em>, an ambitious
reworking of the Samba code. This development is concurrent with Samba
-3.0 maintainence and development, and does not yet have a release
-schedule.</p>
+3.0 maintainence and development. A <a href="/samba/ftp/samba4/">technology
+preview release</a> is available.</p>
<br />
<ul>
<li><h4><em>SAMBA_4_0</em></h4>
- <p>This is the tree for the next major release. It is currently under heavy development. Though it hasn't yet reached an alpha release, it has reached the <a href="http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-October/037834.html">"Susan" stage</a>.</p>
+ <p>This is the tree for the next major release. It is currently under heavy development. Though it hasn't yet reached an alpha release, there is a
+<a href="/samba/ftp/samba4/">technology preview release</a> available.</p>
<p>For more information, see the <a href="roadmap-4.0.html">roadmap document</a>.</p>
<p>Example checkout command:</p></li>
</ul>
<div class="latest">
<ul>
- <li>Latest Release — <a href="/samba/#latest">Samba 3.0.21a</a></li>
- <li>Current Stable Release — <a href="/samba/#latest">Samba 3.0.21a</a></li>
+ <li>Latest Release — <a href="/samba/#latest">Samba 4.0.0TP1</a></li>
+ <li>Current Stable Release — <a href="/samba/#stable">Samba 3.0.21a</a></li>
<!-- Second link will point to #stable on this page when current release is a development release -->
</ul>
</div>
<h2>Current Release</h2>
- <h4><a name="latest">30 Dec 2005</a></h4>
+ <h4><a name="latest">24 Jan 2006</h4>
+ <p class="headline">Samba 4.0.0TP1 Available for Download</p>
+
+ <p>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
+ this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
+ by Windows 2000 and above.</p>
+
+ <p>Samba 4 is currently <b>not</b> yet in a state where it is usable in
+ production environments. Note the WARNINGS, and the STATUS file,
+ which aims to document what should and should not work.</p>
+
+ <p>With 3 years of development under our belt since Tridge first proposed
+ a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer for Samba3 (a project which
+ eventually lead to our Active Directory efforts), it was felt that we
+ should create something we could 'show off' to our users. This is a
+ Technology Preview (TP), aimed at allowing users, managers and
+ developers to see how we have progressed, and to invite feedback and
+ support.</p>
+
+ <p>The uncompressed tarball and patch files have been signed
+ using GnuPG (ID 1EEF5276). The source code can be
+ <a href="/samba/ftp/samba4/">downloaded now</a>. See the
+ <a href="/samba/history/samba-4.0.0tp1.html">release notes</a>
+ for more information.</p>
+
+
+ <h4><a name="stable">30 Dec 2005</a></h4>
<p class="headline">Samba 3.0.21a Available for Download</p>
<p>This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version
--- /dev/null
+ <h3><a name="4.0.0tp1">Samba 4.0.0TP1 Available for Download</a></h3>
+
+ <div class="article">
+ <p>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
+ this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
+ by Windows 2000 and above.</p>
+
+ <p>Samba 4 is currently <b>not</b> yet in a state where it is usable in
+ production environments. Note the WARNINGS, and the STATUS file,
+ which aims to document what should and should not work.</p>
+
+ <p>With 3 years of development under our belt since Tridge first proposed
+ a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer for Samba3 (a project which
+ eventually lead to our Active Directory efforts), it was felt that we
+ should create something we could 'show off' to our users. This is a
+ Technology Preview (TP), aimed at allowing users, managers and
+ developers to see how we have progressed, and to invite feedback and
+ support.</p>
+
+ <p>The uncompressed tarball and patch files have been signed
+ using GnuPG (ID 1EEF5276). The source code can be
+ <a href="/samba/ftp/samba4/">downloaded now</a>. See the
+ <a href="/samba/history/samba-4.0.0tp1.html">release notes</a>
+ for more information.</p>
+ </div>
+
+