Author: abartlet Date: 2007-12-11 02:53:40 +0000 (Tue, 11 Dec 2007) New Revision: 26390
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba&rev=26390 Log: Start on a WHATSNEW for the alpah2 release. Andrew Bartlett Modified: branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt Changeset: Modified: branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt =================================================================== --- branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt 2007-12-11 02:10:46 UTC (rev 26389) +++ branches/SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE/WHATSNEW.txt 2007-12-11 02:53:40 UTC (rev 26390) @@ -70,24 +70,24 @@ CHANGES SINCE TP5 ================= -In the time since TP5 was released in June 2007, Samba has +In the time since Sama4 Alpha1 was released in September 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. + handles group membership correctly. - Winbind: Kai Blin has been working hard on his Google Summer of - Code project, creating a winbind implementation for Samba4. + member/memberOf: These and other linked attributes are now kept in + sync - Heimdal update: A Heimdal 1.0 snapshot is now included as the - internal Kerberos library in Samba4. + subtree renames: Renaming a subtree of LDAP objects is now possible, + with all linked attributes being kept consistant. - In the past few weeks, many small but significant bugs have been - fixed, particularly thanks to Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + Python Bindings: Bindings for a future move to python as the + internal scripting language have been created. + Shared library use: In support of projects such as OpenChange, + which depend on Samba4, more of Samba4 is built as shared libraries. + 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. @@ -106,12 +106,6 @@ - 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