-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================== It may just be a storm in a teacup, but to the ant in the teacup it certainly feels like a typhoon. -- anonymous ==============================================================Release Announcements ==================== This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. This is a substantial upgrade from previous Samba 3.0.x releases. Please read the section "What happened to 3.0.15 - 3.0.19?" and the other major change descriptions. Additional features introduced in Samba 3.0.20 include: o Support for several new Win32 rpc pipes. o Improved support for OS/2 clients. o New 'net rpc service' tool for managing Win32 services. o Capability to set the owner on new files and directory based on the parent's ownership. o Experimental, asynchronous IO file serving support. o Completed Support for Microsoft Print Migrator. o New Winbind IDmap plugin (ad) for retrieving uid and gid from AD servers which maintain the SFU user and group attributes. o Rewritten support for POSIX pathnames when utilizing the Linux CIFS fs client. o New asynchronous winbindd. o Support for Microsoft Print Migrator. o New Windows NT registry file I/O library. o New user right (SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege) added. o New "net share migrate" options. A special thanks those members of the Samba Test Squad, Joerg Pulz, Thomas Bork, and Christoph Beyer in particular, for helping to test and stabilize several last minute critical bugs fixes. What happened to 3.0.15 - 3.0.19? ================================= After some discussion it was deemed that the amount of changes going into the next Samba 3.0 release needed something to catch people's attention. Skipping several releases was chosen as the best solution with the least overhead. There will be no 3.0.15 - 3.0.19 ever released. The next production release following 3.0.20 should be 3.0.21. The original announcement about the version number change can be found in the samba mailing list archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=111721010206997&w=2 Asynchronous Winbind Implementation ================================== Winbindd has been completely rewritten in this release to support an almost completely non-blocking, asynchronous request/reply model. This means that winbindd will scale much better in large domain environments and on high latency networks. Neither the client interface nor the command line tools (i.e. wbinfo) have changed in their calling conventions or syntax. However, due to internal structure changes, it is required (more so than normal) that you install the nss_winbind.so library included in this release. Support for Microsoft Print Migrator =================================== Samba 3.0.20 includes full support for migrating printers from Windows servers or other Samba servers via the Microsoft Print Migrator tool. Restoring printers requires a working "add printer command" defined in smb.conf. Current support also allows administrators to create a master list of printer drivers which can be restored in bulk on new (or existing) Samba installations. Asynchronous IO Support ====================== Experimental support for async IO has been added to smbd for certain platforms. To enable this new feature, Samba must be compiled to include the --with-aio-support configure option. In addition, the "aio read size" and "aio write size" to non-zero values. See the smb.conf(5) man page for more details on these settings. ===============Download Details =============== The uncompressed tarball and patch files have been signed using GnuPG (ID F17F9772). The source code can be downloaded from: http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/ The release notes are available online at: http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.20.html Binary packages are available at http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/ Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility. (https://bugzilla.samba.org/) --Enjoy The Samba Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDBkLsIR7qMdg1EfYRAhnIAKCCNf7CA8psZSHgrxsxzVpcVDigVwCgxAXD v9heGn4240JafMW7jTD4S6E=ykFx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----