Release Announcements
=====================

This is the first release candidate of Samba 3.5.  This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only.  Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.0 include:

General changes:
o Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution

Protocol changes:
o Experimental implementation of SMB2

Printing Changes:
o Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server

Winbind changes:
o Major refactoring
o Asynchronous


General changes:
================

Support for full Windows timestamp resolution has been added. This effectively
makes us use Windows' full 100ns timestamp resolution if supported by the
kernel (2.6.22 and higher) and the glibc (2.6 and higher).

Protocol changes
================

An EXPERIMENTAL implementation of the SMB2 protocol has been added. SMB2 can be
enabled by setting "max protocol = smb2". SMB2 is a new implementation of the
SMB protocol used by Windows Vista and higher.

Printing Changes
================

A new parameter "cups encrypt" has been added to control whether connections to
CUPS servers will be encrypted or not. The default is to use unencrypted
connections.

Winbind changes
===============

The Winbind daemon has been refactored internally to be asynchronous. The new
Winbind will not be blocked by running 'wbinfo -g' or 'wbinfo -u'.


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Changes
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smb.conf changes
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   Parameter Name                      Description     Default
   --------------                      -----------     -------

   create krb5 conf                    New             yes
   ctdb timeout                        New             0
   cups encrypt                        New             no
   debug hires timestamp               Changed Default yes
   ldap deref                          New             auto
   ldap follow referral                New             auto


New configure options
---------------------

--enable-external-libtdb        Enable external tdb
--enable-netapi                 Turn on netapi support
--enable-pthreadpool            Enable pthreads pool helper support
--with-cifsumount               Include umount.cifs (Linux only) support
--with-codepagedir=DIR          Where to put codepages


Commit Highlights
=================

o   Björn Jacke <[email protected]>
    * Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution.
    * Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server.


o   Volker Lendecke <[email protected]>
    * Major internal refactoring of the Winbind daemon.
    * Make Winbind asynchronous.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
    * Implement the new SMB2 protocol (experimental).


Changes since 3.5.0pre2
-----------------------

o   Jeremy Allison <[email protected]>
    * BUG 6837: Fix "Too many open files" when trying to access large number of
      files with Windows 7.
    * BUG 6939: Fix long filenames when "mangling method" is set to "hash".
    * BUG 7020: Fix smbd using 2G memory.
    * Ensure dos_mode can return FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, then filter the returned
      attributes by protocol level.
    * Vector correctly through reply_openerror() (which uses the same logic).
    * Fix bugs with the full Windows ACL support.


o   Kai Blin <[email protected]>
    * Add a few missing gettext calls to the 'net' command.
    * Fix up a share type translation and translate some more strings in 'net'.


o   Günther Deschner <[email protected]>
    * Allow to call "pdbedit -N description -u user" without specifiyng "-r".
    * Add spoolss_DriverInfo7.
    * Fix rpcclient after setprinter IDL fixes.
    * Use generated krb5.conf in 'net ads testjoin'.


o   Jonas Gorski <[email protected]>
    * BUG 6992: make test for getgrouplist cacheable.


o   André Hentschel <[email protected]>
    * Add some German translations for the 'net' command.


o   Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]>
    * Update mount.cifs man page with nounix option.


o   Volker Lendecke <[email protected]>
    * Fix _samr_GetAliasMembership for results with 0 rids.
    * Fix an error case in cli_negprot.
    * Add a lower-cost alternative to wbinfo -t: wbinfo --ping-dc.
    * Restore correct timeouts for SMB requests.
    * Fix a 64-bit error in libsmb.
    * Replace IS_DOMAIN_OFFLINE by a function in Winbind.
    * Simplify/cleanup Winbind code.


o   Kamen Mazdrashki <[email protected]>
    * Fix write behind memory block in libtalloc.
    * Fix result check for getaddrinfo().


o   Jim McDonough <[email protected]>
    * BUG 7014: Fix Winbind crash when retrieving empty group members.


o   Brian Lu <[email protected]>
    * BUG 6991: Create symbol links to shared libraries.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
    * Add tsocket_address_bsd_sockaddr() and tsocket_address_bsd_from_sockaddr()
      to tsocket.
    * Always set tdb->tracefd to -1 to be safe on goto fail in libtdb.
    * Add TDB_DISALLOW_NESTING and make TDB_ALLOW_NESTING the default behavior.
    * Fix standalone 'make installdocs'.


o   Peter Rosin <[email protected]>
    * Output %p as unsigned in snprintf replacement.


o   Ronnie Sahlberg <[email protected]>
    * New attempt at TDB transaction nesting allow/disallow.


o   Kirill Smelkov <[email protected]>
    * Remove swig stuff from libtdb.
    * Reset tdb->fd to -1 in tdb_close() in libtdb.


o   Simo Sorce <[email protected]>
    * Change the way mksysms work in libtalloc.


o   Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>
    * Also build and install tdb manpages from standalone tdb.


o   Bo Yang <[email protected]>
    * Fix infinite loop in NCACN_IP_TCP as there is no timeout.
    * Make winbindd_cache.c aware of domain offline to avoid unnecessary backend
      query.
    * List trusted domains from wcache when domain is offline.


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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 3.5 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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== The Samba Team
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