Release Announcements
====================
This is the third release candidate of Samba 4.10. 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/.
Samba 4.10 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
UPGRADING
========
NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
===================
GPO Improvements
----------------
A new 'samba-tool gpo export' command has been added that can export a
set of Group Policy Objects from a domain in a generalised XML format.
A corresponding 'samba-tool gpo restore' command has been added to
rebuild the Group Policy Objects from the XML after generalization.
(The administrator needs to correct the values of XML entities between
the backup and restore to account for the change in domain).
KDC prefork
-----------
The KDC now supports the pre-fork process model and worker processes will be
forked for the KDC when the pre-fork process model is selected for samba.
Prefork 'prefork children'
--------------------------
The default value for this smdb.conf parameter has been increased from 1 to
4.
Netlogon prefork
----------------
DCERPC now supports pre-forked NETLOGON processes. The netlogon processes are
pre-forked when the prefork process model is selected for samba.
Offline domain backups
----------------------
The 'samba-tool domain backup' command has been extended with a new
'offline'
option. This safely creates a backup of the local DC's database directly
from
disk. The main benefits of an offline backup are it's quicker, it stores
more
database details (for forensic purposes), and the samba process does not have
to be running when the backup is made. Refer to the samba-tool help for more
details on using this command.
Group membership statistics
---------------------------
A new 'samba-tool group stats' command has been added. This provides
summary
information about how the users are spread across groups in your domain.
The 'samba-tool group list --verbose' command has also been updated to
include
the number of users in each group.
Prefork process restart
-----------------------
The pre-fork process model now restarts failed processes. The delay between
restart attempts is controlled by the "prefork backoff increment"
(default = 10)
and "prefork maximum backoff" (default = 120) smbd.conf parameters. A
linear
back off strategy is used with "prefork backoff increment" added to
the
delay between restart attempts up until it reaches "prefork maximum
backoff".
Using the default sequence the restart delays (in seconds) are:
0, 10, 20, ..., 120, 120, ...
Standard process model
----------------------
When using the standard process model samba forks a new process to handle ldap
and netlogon connections. Samba now honours the 'max smbd processes'
smb.conf
parameter. The default value of 0, indicates there is no limit. The limit
is applied individually to netlogon and ldap. When the process limit is
exceeded Samba drops new connections immediately.
python3 support
---------------
This is the first release of Samba which has full support for Python 3.
Samba 4.10 still has support for Python 2, however, Python 3 will be used by
default, i.e. 'configure' & 'make' will execute using
python3.
To build Samba with python2 you *must* set the 'PYTHON' environment
variable
for both the 'configure' and 'make' steps, i.e.
'PYTHON=python2 ./configure'
'PYTHON=python2 make'
This will override the python3 default.
Alternatively, it is possible to produce Samba Python bindings for both
Python 2 and Python 3. To do so, specify
'--extra-python=/usr/bin/python2'
as part of the 'configure' command. Note that python3 will still be used
as
the default in this case.
Note that Samba 4.10 supports Python 3.4 onwards.
Future Python support
---------------------
Samba 4.10 will be the last release that comes with full support for
Python 2. Unfortunately, the Samba Team doesn't have the resources to
support
both Python 2 and Python 3 long-term.
Samba 4.11 will not have any runtime support for Python 2. This means if
you use Python 2 bindings it is time to migrate to Python 3 now.
If you are building Samba using the '--disable-python' option (i.e.
you're
excluding all the run-time Python support), then this will continue to work
on a system that supports either python2 or python3.
Also note that Samba 4.11 will most likely only support Python 3.6 onwards.
JSON logging
------------
Authentication messages now contain the Windows Event Id "eventId" and
logon
type "logonType". The supported event codes and logon types are:
Event codes:
4624 Successful logon
4625 Unsuccessful logon
Logon Types:
2 Interactive
3 Network
8 NetworkCleartext
The version number for Authentication messages is now 1.1, changed from 1.0
Password change messages now contain the Windows Event Id "eventId",
the
supported event Id's are:
4723 Password changed
4724 Password reset
The version number for PasswordChange messages is now 1.1, changed from 1.0
Group membership change messages now contain the Windows Event Id
"eventId",
the supported event Id's are:
4728 A member was added to a security enabled global group
4729 A member was removed from a security enabled global group
4732 A member was added to a security enabled local group
4733 A member was removed from a security enabled local group
4746 A member was added to a security disabled local group
4747 A member was removed from a security disabled local group
4751 A member was added to a security disabled global group
4752 A member was removed from a security disabled global group
4756 A member was added to a security enabled universal group
4757 A member was removed from a security enabled universal group
4761 A member was added to a security disabled universal group
4762 A member was removed from a security disabled universal group
The version number for GroupChange messages is now 1.1, changed from 1.0. Also
A GroupChange message is generated when a new user is created to log that the
user has been added to their primary group.
The leading "JSON <message type>:" and source file prefix of
the JSON formatted
log entries has been removed to make the parsing of the JSON log messages
easier. JSON log entries now start with 2 spaces followed by an opening brace
i.e. " {"
SMBv2 samba-tool support
------------------------
On previous releases, some samba-tool commands would not work against a remote
DC that had SMBv1 disabled. SMBv2 support has now been added for samba-tool.
The affected commands are 'samba-tool domain backup|rename' and the
'samba-tool gpo' set of commands. Refer also bug #13676.
REMOVED FEATURES
===============
MIT Kerberos build of the AD DC
-------------------------------
While not removed, the MIT Kerberos build of the Samba AD DC is still
considered experimental. Because Samba will not issue security
patches for this configuration, such builds now require the explicit
configure option: --with-experimental-mit-ad-dc
For further details see
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Running_a_Samba_AD_DC_with_MIT_Kerberos_KDC
samba_backup
------------
The samba_backup script has been removed. This has now been replaced by the
'samba-tool domain backup offline' command.
SMB client Python bindings
--------------------------
The SMB client python bindings are now deprecated and will be removed in future
Samba releases. This will only affects users that may have used the Samba
Python bindings to write their own utilities, i.e. users with a custom Python
script that includes the line 'from samba import smb'.
smb.conf changes
===============
Parameter Name Description Default
-------------- ----------- -------
prefork backoff increment Delay added to process restart 10 (seconds)
between attempts.
prefork maximum backoff Maximum delay for process between 120 (seconds)
process restart attempts
smbd search ask sharemode Name changed, old name was
"smbd:search ask sharemode"
smbd async dosmode Name changed, old name was
"smbd:async dosmode"
smbd max async dosmode Name changed, old name was
"smbd:max async dosmode"
smbd getinfo ask sharemode New: similar to "smbd search ask yes
sharemode" but for SMB getinfo
CHANGES SINCE 4.10.0rc2
======================
o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
* BUG 13690: smbd: uid: Don't crash if 'force group' is added to
an existing
share connection.
* BUG 13770: s3: VFS: vfs_fruit. Fix the NetAtalk deny mode compatibility
code.
o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
* ldb: Release ldb 1.5.3
* BUG 13762: Avoid inefficient one-level searches.
* BUG 13772: The test api.py should not rely on order of entries in dict.
o Tim Beale <timbeale at catalyst.net.nz>
* BUG 13762: ldb: Avoid inefficient one-level searches.
o Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
* BUG 13776: tldap: Avoid use after free errors.
o Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
* BUG 13746: s3-smbd: Use fruit:model string for mDNS registration.
o David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
* BUG 13766: printing: Check lp_load_printers() prior to pcap cache update.
o Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org>
* BUG 13787: waf: Check for libnscd.
o Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
* BUG 13770: s3:vfs: Correctly check if OFD locks should be enabled or not.
* BUG 13778: Public ZERO_STRUCT() uses undefined C11 function memset_s().
CHANGES SINCE 4.10.0rc1
======================
o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
* BUG 13750: libcli: dns: Change internal DNS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT from 2 to 10
seconds.
o Tim Beale <timbeale at catalyst.net.nz>
* BUG 13676: samba-tool SMB/sysvol connections do not work if SMBv1 is
disabled.
* BUG 13747: join: Throw CommandError instead of Exception for simple errors.
o Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
* BUG 13774: s3-vfs: Add glusterfs_fuse vfs module.
o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
* BUG 13742: ctdb: Print locks latency in machinereadable stats.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
* BUG 13752: s4:server: Add support for 'smbcontrol samba shutdown'.
o Anoop C S <anoopcs at redhat.com>
* BUG 13330: vfs_glusterfs: Adapt to changes in libgfapi signatures.
* BUG 13774: s3-vfs: Use ENOATTR in errno comparison for getxattr.
o Justin Stephenson <jstephen at redhat.com>
* BUG 13727: s3:libsmb: Honor disable_netbios option in smbsock_connect_send.
KNOWN ISSUES
===========
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.10#Release_blocking_bugs
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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 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
======================================================================= Our
Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
=====================================================================
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===============
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from:
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/rc/
The release notes are available online at:
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/rc/samba-4.10.0rc3.WHATSNEW.txt
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