WHATSNEW: Mention performance improvements for SMB3 encryption

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
Autobuild-User(master): Ralph Böhme <slow@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Thu Oct 10 09:41:26 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-184

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index 2a774ace6d70a368c317eafa8c340d6fc8c9adc6..dccb44dbd27ea78e1d7b6fee35e7ac37db6ec0e5 100644 (file)
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ Samba now requires GnuTLS 3.4.7 to be installed (including development
 headers at build time) for all configurations, not just the Samba AD
 DC.
 
+Using GnuTLS for SMB3 encryption you will notice huge performance and copy
+speed improvements. Tests with the CIFS Kernel client from Linux Kernel 5.3
+show a 3x speed improvement for writing and a 2.5x speed improvement for reads!
+
 NOTE WELL: The use of GnuTLS means that Samba will honour the
 system-wide 'FIPS mode' (a reference to the US FIPS-140 cryptographic
 standard) and so will not operate in many still common situations if