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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Samba 4.0.0alpha1
From: "Andrew Bartlett" <abartlet@???>
Date: Thu, September 6, 2007 1:45 pm
To: samba-announce@???
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We are proud to a first alpha release of Samba 4.
What's new in Samba 4 alpha1
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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
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
[snip]
CHANGES SINCE TP5
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In the time since TP5 was released in June 2007, Samba has
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
Group Policy Support: Basic group policies may be defined, and are
enforced by Windows clients
MMC Support: The Active Directory Users and Computers console now
works, supporting most operations.
Winbind: Kai Blin has been working hard on his Google Summer of
Code project, creating a winbind implementation for Samba4.
Heimdal update: A Heimdal 1.0 snapshot is now included as the
internal Kerberos library in Samba4.
In the past few weeks, many small but significant bugs have been
fixed, particularly thanks to Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer
<mwallnoefer@???>
These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
months. More details can be found in our SVN history.
CHANGES
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Those familiar with Samba 3 can find a list of user-visible changes
since that release series in the NEWS file.
KNOWN ISSUES
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- Domain member support is in it's infancy, and is not comparable to
the support found in Samba3.
- There is no printing support in the current release.
- Support for managing groups is currently poor (as the
memberOf/member linked attributes are not kept in sync).
- Renaming and deleting subtrees (containers) in the the LDB tree will
have unexpected results.
- The Samba4 port of the CTDB clustering support is not yet complete
- Clock Synchronisation is critical. Many 'wrong password' errors are
actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
and server.
[snip]
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Download Details
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The release tarball is available from the following location:
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http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba4/samba-4.0.0alpha1.tar.gz
This release has been signed using GPG with Andrew Bartlett's GPG key
(28B436BB).
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http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba4/samba-4.0.0alpha1.tar.asc
To verify that the signature is correct, make sure that the tarball has
been unzipped and run:
$ gpg --verify samba-4.0.0alpha1.tar.asc
We are also planning on making Debian packages available. No packages
for other distributions are planned at the moment.
--
Vincent Riquer
