4 This is the first preview release of Samba 4.8. This is *not*
5 intended for production environments and is designed for testing
6 purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
7 system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
9 Samba 4.8 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
19 Using x86_64 Accelerated AES Crypto Instructions
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22 Samba on x86_64 can now be configured to use the Intel accelerated AES
23 instruction set, which has the potential to make SMB3 signing and
24 encryption much faster on client and server. To enable this, configure
25 Samba using the new option --accel-aes=intelaesni.
27 This is a temporary solution that is being included to allow users
28 to enjoy the benefits of Intel accelerated AES on the x86_64 platform,
29 but the longer-term solution will be to move Samba to a fully supported
30 external crypto library.
32 The third_party/aesni-intel code will be removed from Samba as soon as
33 external crypto library performance reaches parity.
35 The default is to build without setting --accel-aes, which uses the
36 existing Samba software AES implementation.
41 Parameter Name Description Default
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48 https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.8#Release_blocking_bugs
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52 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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55 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
56 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
58 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
59 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
60 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
61 be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
62 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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66 == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
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