Release Announcements
====================
This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.14. 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 4.14 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
UPGRADING
========
New GPG key
-----------
The GPG release key for Samba releases changed from:
pub dsa1024/6F33915B6568B7EA 2007-02-04 [SC] [expires: 2021-02-05]
Key fingerprint = 52FB C0B8 6D95 4B08 4332 4CDC 6F33 915B 6568 B7EA
uid [ full ] Samba Distribution Verification Key
<samba-bugs at samba.org>
sub elg2048/9C6ED163DA6DFB44 2007-02-04 [E] [expires: 2021-02-05]
to the following new key:
pub rsa4096/AA99442FB680B620 2020-12-21 [SC] [expires: 2022-12-21]
Key fingerprint = 81F5 E283 2BD2 545A 1897 B713 AA99 442F B680 B620
uid [ultimate] Samba Distribution Verification Key
<samba-bugs at samba.org>
sub rsa4096/97EF9386FBFD4002 2020-12-21 [E] [expires: 2022-12-21]
Starting from Jan 21th 2021, all Samba releases will be signed with the new key.
See also GPG_AA99442FB680B620_replaces_6F33915B6568B7EA.txt
NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
===================
Here is a copy of a clarification note added to the Samba code
in the file: VFS-License-clarification.txt.
--------------------------------------------------------------
A clarification of our GNU GPL License enforcement boundary within the Samba
Virtual File System (VFS) layer.
Samba is licensed under the GNU GPL. All code committed to the Samba
project or that creates a "modified version" or software "based
on" Samba must
be either licensed under the GNU GPL or a compatible license.
Samba has several plug-in interfaces where external code may be called
from Samba GNU GPL licensed code. The most important of these is the
Samba VFS layer.
Samba VFS modules are intimately connected by header files and API
definitions to the part of the Samba code that provides file services,
and as such, code that implements a plug-in Samba VFS module must be
licensed under the GNU GPL or a compatible license.
However, Samba VFS modules may themselves call third-party external
libraries that are not part of the Samba project and are externally
developed and maintained.
As long as these third-party external libraries do not use any of the
Samba internal structure, APIs or interface definitions created by the
Samba project (to the extent that they would be considered subject to the GNU
GPL), then the Samba Team will not consider such third-party external
libraries called from Samba VFS modules as "based on" and/or creating
a
"modified version" of the Samba code for the purposes of GNU GPL.
Accordingly, we do not require such libraries be licensed under the GNU GPL
or a GNU GPL compatible license.
VFS
---
The effort to modernize Samba's VFS interface has reached a major milestone
with
the next release Samba 4.14.
For details please refer to the documentation at source3/modules/The_New_VFS.txt
or
visit the <https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/The_New_VFS>.
Printing
--------
Publishing printers in AD is more reliable and more printer features are
added to the published information in AD. Samba now also supports Windows
drivers for the ARM64 architecture.
Client Group Policy
-------------------
This release extends Samba to support Group Policy functionality for Winbind
clients. Active Directory Administrators can set policies that apply Sudoers
configuration, and cron jobs to run hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.
To enable the application of Group Policies on a client, set the global
smb.conf option 'apply group policies' to 'yes'. Policies are
applied on an
interval of every 90 minutes, plus a random offset between 0 and 30 minutes.
Policies applied by Samba are 'non-tattooing', meaning that changes can
be
reverted by executing the `samba-gpupdate --unapply` command. Policies can be
re-applied using the `samba-gpupdate --force` command.
To view what policies have been or will be applied to a system, use the
`samba-gpupdate --rsop` command.
Administration of Samba policy requires that a Samba ADMX template be uploaded
to the SYSVOL share. The samba-tool command `samba-tool gpo admxload` is
provided as a convenient method for adding this policy. Once uploaded, policies
can be modified in the Group Policy Management Editor under Computer
Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates. Alternatively, Samba policy
may be managed using the `samba-tool gpo manage` command. This tool does not
require the admx templates to be installed.
Python 3.6 or later required
----------------------------
Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
3.6 with samba 4.13. Samba 4.14 raises this minimum version to Python
3.6 also to build Samba. It is no longer possible to build Samba
(even just the file server) with Python versions 2.6 and 2.7.
As Python 2.7 has been End Of Life upstream since April 2020, Samba
is dropping ALL Python 2.x support in this release.
NT4-like 'classic' Samba domain controllers
-------------------------------------------
Samba 4.13 deprecates Samba's original domain controller mode.
Sites using Samba as a Domain Controller should upgrade from the
NT4-like 'classic' Domain Controller to a Samba Active Directory DC
to ensure full operation with modern windows clients.
SMBv1 only protocol options deprecated
--------------------------------------
A number of smb.conf parameters for less-secure authentication methods
which are only possible over SMBv1 are deprecated in this release.
Miscellaneous samba-tool changes
--------------------------------
The samba-tool commands to manage AD objects (e.g. users, computers and
groups) now consistently use the "add" command when adding a new
object to
the AD. The previous deprecation warnings when using the "add"
commands
have been removed. For compatibility reasons, both the "add" and
"create"
commands can be used now.
Users, groups and contacts can now be renamed with the respective rename
commands.
Locked users can be unlocked with the new "samba-tool user unlock"
command.
The "samba-tool user list" and "samba-tool group
listmembers" commands
provide additional options to hide expired and disabled user accounts
(--hide-expired and --hide-disabled).
CTDB CHANGES
===========
* The NAT gateway and LVS features now uses the term "leader" to refer
to the main node in a group through which traffic is routed and
"follower" for other members of a group. The command for
determining the leader has changed to "ctdb natgw leader" (from
"ctdb natgw master"). The configuration keyword for indicating that
a node can not be the leader of a group has changed to
"follower-only" (from "slave-only"). Identical changes
were made
for LVS.
* Remove "ctdb isnotrecmaster" command. It isn't used by
CTDB's
scripts and can be checked by users with "ctdb pnn" and "ctdb
recmaster".
REMOVED FEATURES
===============
The deprecated "ldap ssl ads" smb.conf option has been removed.
smb.conf changes
===============
Parameter Name Description Default
-------------- ----------- -------
smb encrypt Removed
ldap ssl ads Removed
client plaintext auth Deprecated no
client NTLMv2 auth Deprecated yes
client lanman auth Deprecated no
client use spnego Deprecated yes
domain logons Deprecated no
raw NTLMv2 auth Deprecated no
async dns timeout New 10
client smb encrypt New default
honor change notify privilege New No
smbd force process locks New No
server smb encrypt New default
KNOWN ISSUES
===========
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.14#Release_blocking_bugs
#######################################
Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
#######################################
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 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
======================================================================= Our
Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
=====================================================================
===============Download Details
===============
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded
from:
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/rc/
The release notes are available online at:
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/rc/samba-4.14.0rc1.WHATSNEW.txt
Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)
--Enjoy
The Samba Team
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