WHATSNEW: unknown options now trigger an error in all tools

BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14828

Signed-off-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index fdadd38e7047a977e7b93a5387c518f2978932bf..e0c1222b284c8afe9335382a501b6c35890bf182 100644 (file)
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ These should be stories of the past now. A new command line parser has been
 implemented with sanity checking. Also the command line interface has been
 simplified and provides better control for encryption, signing and kerberos.
 
+Previously many tools silently ignored unknown options. To prevent unexpected
+behaviour all tools will now consistently reject unknown options.
+
 Also several command line options have a smb.conf variable to control the
 default now.