Karolin Seeger
2010-Jan-26 15:43 UTC
[Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.0rc2 Available for Download
Release Announcements
====================
This is the second 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
o The Using Samba HTML book has been removed.
o 'net', 'smbclient' and libsmbclient can use credentials cached
by Winbind.
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
VFS modules:
o New vfs_scannedonly module has been added.
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).
The Using Samba HTML book has been removed from the Samba tarball.
It is still available at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html.
Samba client tools like 'net', 'smbclient' and libsmbclient can
use the user
credentials cached by Winbind at logon time. This is very useful e.g. when
connecting to a Samba server using Nautilus without re-entering username and
password. This feature is enabled by default and can be disabled per application
by setting the LIBSMBCLIENT_NO_CCACHE environment variable.
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 'getent group' or 'getent
passwd'.
VFS modules
==========
A new VFS module "scannedonly" has been added. This is a filter that
talks to an antivirus-engine and stores whether a file is clean or not.
Users do only see clean files on their filesystem.
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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 Bj?rn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
* Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution.
* Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server.
o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
* Major internal refactoring of the Winbind daemon.
* Make Winbind asynchronous.
* Make 'net', 'smbclient' and libsmbclient use the logon
credentials cached
by Winbind.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
* Implement the new SMB2 protocol (experimental).
Changes since 3.5.0rc1
----------------------
o Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
* BUG 4347: Check password history before increasing
"badPasswordCount".
o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
* BUG 5202: Fix changing of ACLs on writable file with "dos
filemode=yes".
* BUG 6876: Fix deletion of an object whose parent folder does not have
delete
rights fails even if the delete right is set on the object in
vfs_acl_xattr and vfs_acl_tdb.
* BUG 7033: Fix SMBrmdir error message when deleting a directory fails.
* BUG 7036: Fix 'net rpc getsid' in hardened Windows environments.
* BUG 7045: Fix bad (non memory copying) interfaces in smbc_setXXXX calls.
o Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com>
* BUG 7029: Disable sanity check in NetShareEnum for better compatibility
with Windows.
o Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
* BUG 7039: Fix compile error with WITH_DNS_UPDATE. Update .po files.
o G?nther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
* BUG 7043: Fix crash bug in libsmbclient.
o Andr? Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de>
* BUG 7039: Complete German translation of 'net'.
o Bj?rn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
* BUG 7039: Improve some German translations in 'net'.
o William Jojo <w.jojo at hvcc.edu>
* BUG 7052: Fix DFS on AIX.
o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
* BUG 6981: Fix large paged search with DirX LDAP servers.
* BUG 7027: Fix a segfault in winbindd_dual_ccache_ntlm_auth().
* BUG 7037: Fix a Winbind segfault in "trusted_domains".
* BUG 7046: Fix libsmbclient crash against OpenSolaris CIFS server.
* BUG 7062: Make 'net', 'smbclient' and libsmbclient use the
logon
credentials cached by Winbind.
* Lock down some srvsvc calls according to what w2k3 seems to do.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
* BUG 6157: Restore Samba 3.0.x behavior and use the first "uid"
value in
pdb_ldap.
o SASAJIMA Toshihiro <sasajima_t at jp.fujitsu.com>
* BUG 7034: Fix segfault in vfs_cap.
o Olivier Sessink <oliviersessink at gmail.com>
* BUG 7028: Add new scannedonly VFS module.
Changes since 3.5.0pre2
-----------------------
o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
* 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 <kai at samba.org>
* Add a few missing gettext calls to the 'net' command.
* Fix up a share type translation and translate some more strings in
'net'.
o G?nther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
* 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 <jonas.gorski+samba at gmail.com>
* BUG 6992: make test for getgrouplist cacheable.
o Andr? Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de>
* Add some German translations for the 'net' command.
o Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>
* Update mount.cifs man page with nounix option.
o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
* 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 <kamen.mazdrashki at postpath.com>
* Fix write behind memory block in libtalloc.
* Fix result check for getaddrinfo().
o Jim McDonough <jmcd at samba.org>
* BUG 7014: Fix Winbind crash when retrieving empty group members.
o Brian Lu <brian.lu at sun.com>
* BUG 6991: Create symbol links to shared libraries.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
* 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 <peda at lysator.liu.se>
* Output %p as unsigned in snprintf replacement.
o Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>
* New attempt at TDB transaction nesting allow/disallow.
o Kirill Smelkov <kirr at mns.spb.ru>
* Remove swig stuff from libtdb.
* Reset tdb->fd to -1 in tdb_close() in libtdb.
o Simo Sorce <idra at samba.org>
* Change the way mksysms work in libtalloc.
o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
* Also build and install tdb manpages from standalone tdb.
o Bo Yang <boyang at samba.org>
* 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.
Changes since 3.5.0pre1
-----------------------
o Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
* Fix the build when no external talloc and tdb are installed.
* Fix detection of CTDB headers on systems without system-libtalloc.
o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
* BUG 6802: A created folder does not properly inherit permissions from
parent in vfs_acl_xattr.
* BUG 6837: "Too many open files" when trying to access large
number of
files from Windows 7.
* BUG 6938 : No hook exists to check creation rights when using acl_xattr
module.
* Fix vfs_acl_xattr which was failing to call the NEXT connect function.
* Restructure the ACL code.
* Refactor reply_rmdir to use handle based code.
o Dan Cox <dan at wep.net>
* BUG 2350: Add LDAP Alias Dereferencing support.
o G?nther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
* BUG 6929: Fix build with recent heimdal.
* Fix several printing issues.
* Fix the build on Mac OS X 10.6.2.
* Fix net and rpcclient after setprinterdataex changes.
* Add full support for level 8 printer drivers.
* Add more spoolss architectures to IDL.
* Fix enumprinter key client and server.
* Fix crash in EnumPrinterDataEx.
o Bj?rn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
* Prefer posix_fallocate for doing "strict allocate".
o Matt Kraai <mkraai at beckman.com>
* BUG 6860: Fix shared library build on QNX.
o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
* BUG 6288: SWAT adds a second share when changing parameters of an existing
share.
* BUG 6435: Fix minor memory corruption.
* Restore "fake directory create times" as a share parameter.
* Fix explicit stat64 support.
* Add support for NetWkstaGetInfo 101 and 102.
* Add rpcclient wkssvc_enumerateusers.
* De-deprecate "write cache size" to prevent its removal without a
proper
alternative.
* Allow more than 1000 users in BUILTIN\Users.
o Jim McDonough <jmcd at samba.org>
* BUG 6967: Prevent glibc error on 'net ads join'.
o Lars M?ller <lars at samba.org>
* BUG 6710: Only install the cifs.upcall man page if CIFSUPCALL_PROGS was
set while configure.
o Ian Puleston <ipuleston at sonicwall.com>
* Complete support for NetWkstaGetInfo/NetWkstaEnumUsers.
o Karolin Seeger <kseeger at samba.org>
* Fix the build of the example VFS modules.
o Bo Yang <boyang at samba.org>
* BUG 6879: Fix crash in Winbind.
* Fix crash in free_file_list().
* Give the user a chance to change password when password will expire soon.
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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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Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
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Christian PERRIER
2010-Feb-01 06:05 UTC
[Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.0rc2 Available for Download
Quoting Karolin Seeger (kseeger at samba.org):> Release Announcements > ====================> > This is the second release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not*Debian packages for 3.5.0rc2 were uploaded to Debian experimental as of Sunday Jan 31st. Many special thanks to Michael Adam for bringing a new configure option for the *.dat files location. That allowed us, Debian maintainers, to drop the very last bit of code changes meant to deal with file locations that were not fitting the Debian view of the FHS. The Debian diff is now very minimally restricted to Debian specific changes that are not suitable for upstream inclusion (mostly documentation stuff). The Debian packaging team for Samba will now discuss the opportunity to bring 3.5 packages in Debian unstable: - release Debian squeeze with 3.5 instead of the now quite rock solid 3.4? - consequences for Ubuntu? Anyway, we again renew public thanks to Karolin's for her tremendous job in release management. The entire Samba Team also deserves thanks for their commitment to follow their release manager. A predictable upstream release policy is the best that can happen to distro packagers.