Author: jerry Date: 2007-02-28 17:57:33 +0000 (Wed, 28 Feb 2007) New Revision: 21596
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba&rev=21596 Log: safety checking of release notes and give others a chance to start reviewing Modified: branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt Changeset: Modified: branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt =================================================================== --- branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt 2007-02-28 17:27:35 UTC (rev 21595) +++ branches/SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt 2007-02-28 17:57:33 UTC (rev 21596) @@ -1,3 +1,178 @@ + ================================== + Release Notes for Samba 3.0.25pre1 + Feb 28, 2007 + ================================== + +This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.25 code base and +is provided for testing only. This release is *not* intended +for production servers. There has been a substantial amount +of development since the 3.0.23/3.0.24 series of stable releases. +We would like to ask the Samba community for help in testing +these changes as we work towards the next significant production +upgrade Samba 3.0 release. + +Major Featuers included in the 3.0.25 code base include: + + o Significant improvements in the winbind offline logon + support + o Support for secure DDNS updates as part of the 'net + ads join' process + o + +Major bug fixes in 3.0.25pre1 include: + + o Compatibilities issues with Windows Vista + + + +###################################################################### +Changes +####### + +Changes since 3.0.24 +-------------------- + +commits +------- + + +o Michael Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Patch to lib/sysquotas_linux.c replacing some "get"s + by "set"s. This makes the difference between the get + and set calls for SMB_USER_FS_QUOTA_TYPE and + SMB_GROUP_FS_QUOTA_TYPE. + + +o Jeremy Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * winbind offline logon fixes. + * Support for AD sites when locating domain controllers. + * Fix libsmbclient bug with Konqueror and NetApp filers + that need a leading / in OpenAndX calls. + * BUG 4187: Possible crash in signing on/off code. + * Fix memory leaks in pam_winbind.c. + * Fix a bugin the sequence number store/fetch routines in + winbindd_cache.tdb. + * Fix the problem with Linux clients requesting O_WRONLY + on write-only files. + * Fix a class of memory allocation bugs in the handling + of user tokens. + * Fix crash bug in winbindd caused by a bug ni the + messaging dispatch code. + * Fix memory bloat in trans calls caused by talloc()'ing + memory off the wrong context. + * Fix wildcard renames with SMBmv. + + +o Danilo Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Add additional debug support for pam_winbind. + * Add support for listing multiple groups in pam_winbind's + require-membership-of option which act as a logical OR. + + +o Andrew Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * BUG 4290: Properly compute time to password expiration + in message from pam_winbind. + + + +o Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Match Windows NTLMSSP flags. + + +o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Implement plugable "winbind nss info" interface. + * Removal of unmaintained smbwrapper utility. + * Fix server affinity bugs in the 'net ads join' + code to include support for AD sites. + * Implement DDNS update client code. + + +o Alex Deiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + +o Mathias Dietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Initial implementation of the GPFS VFS module. + * Work on NFSv4 ACL VFS plugin. + + +o Guenther Deschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * winbind offline logon fixes. + * Support for AD sites when locating domain controllers. + * Various fixes for 'net ads' user management functions. + * Add an CLDAP client written in perl. + * Cleanups to the Krb5 ticket refresh code in winbindd. + + +o Krishna Ganugapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Implement DDNS update client code. + + +o David Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * BUG 4267: Fix memory leaks in ldpasam. + + +o Bjoern Jacke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * BUG 4244: Limit stat cache to a default of 1MB. + + +o Volker Lendecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Allow changing of the hashsize when runing tdbbackup. + * Implement secure DDNS update code + * Klocwork fixes. + * BUG 4273: Fix crash in 'net rpc vampire' + * Refactor older SMB file serving code. + * Implement support for inotify when serving CIFS change + notification requests. + + +o Herb Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Cleanups to sharesec utility. + * Compilter warning cleanups. + + +o Jim McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Bug fixes for GPFS VFS module. + + +o Gomati Mohanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Work on NFSv4 ACL VFS plugin. + + +o James Peach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Replace exit_server with exit_server_cleanly where appropriate. + * Add docs for VFS modules. + + +o J Raynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Make sure we are privileged when doing DMAPI operations + on systems that don't have capability support. + + +o Karolin Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Improvements to 'net sam policy' + + +o Simo Sorce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Initial implementation of new IdMap interface. + * Fix crash in pam_winbind caused by referencing a + pointer after the memory had been freed. + + +o Peter Somogyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Work on NFSv4 ACL VFS plugin. + + +o Andrew Tridgell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + +o Don Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Fixes for 'net rpc vampire' and the guest account + + + +Release Notes for older release follow: + + -------------------------------------------------- ============================== Release Notes for Samba 3.0.24 Feb 5, 2007 @@ -3,9 +178,4 @@ ============================== -This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version -that production Samba servers should be running for all current -bug-fixes. Please read the changes in this section and for the -original 3.0.23 release regarding new features and difference -in behavior from previous releases. Important issues addressed in 3.0.24 include:
