4 This is the first pre release of Samba 4.15. 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 4.15 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
18 The GPG release key for Samba releases changed from:
20 pub dsa1024/6F33915B6568B7EA 2007-02-04 [SC] [expires: 2021-02-05]
21 Key fingerprint = 52FB C0B8 6D95 4B08 4332 4CDC 6F33 915B 6568 B7EA
22 uid [ full ] Samba Distribution Verification Key <samba-bugs@samba.org>
23 sub elg2048/9C6ED163DA6DFB44 2007-02-04 [E] [expires: 2021-02-05]
25 to the following new key:
27 pub rsa4096/AA99442FB680B620 2020-12-21 [SC] [expires: 2022-12-21]
28 Key fingerprint = 81F5 E283 2BD2 545A 1897 B713 AA99 442F B680 B620
29 uid [ultimate] Samba Distribution Verification Key <samba-bugs@samba.org>
30 sub rsa4096/97EF9386FBFD4002 2020-12-21 [E] [expires: 2022-12-21]
32 Starting from Jan 21th 2021, all Samba releases will be signed with the new key.
34 See also GPG_AA99442FB680B620_replaces_6F33915B6568B7EA.txt
39 - bind DLZ: Added the ability to set allow/deny lists for zone
41 Up to now, any client could use a DNS zone transfer request
42 to the bind server, and get an answer from Samba.
43 Now the default behaviour will be to deny those request.
44 Two new options have been added to manage the list of
45 authorized/denied clients for zone transfer requests.
46 In order to be accepted, the request must be issued by a client
47 that is in the allow list and NOT in the deny list.
49 Improved command line user experience
50 -------------------------------------
52 Samba utilities did not consistently implement their command line interface. A
53 number of options were requiring to specify values in one tool and not in the
54 other, some options meant different in different tools.
56 These should be stories of the past now. A new command line parser has been
57 implemented with sanity checking. Also the command line interface has been
58 simplified and provides better control for encryption, singing and kerberos.
60 Also several command line options have a smb.conf variable to control the
63 All tools are logging to stderr by default. You can use --debug-stdout to
69 --client-protection=off|sign|encrypt
72 --kerberos -> --use-kerberos=required|desired|off
73 --krb5-ccache -> --use-krb5-ccache=CCACHE
74 --scope -> --netbios-scope=SCOPE
75 --use-ccache -> --use-winbind-ccache
79 -C removed from --use-winbind-ccache
80 -i removed from --netbios-scope
84 ### Duplicates in command line utils
86 ldbadd/ldbsearch/ldbdel/ldbmodify/ldbrename:
87 -e is not available for --editor anymore
88 -s is not used for --configfile anymore
91 -l is not available for --load-dso anymore
94 -l is not available for --long anymore
97 -V is not available for --viewsddl anymore
100 --user -> --quota-user
103 --log-stdout -> --debug-stdout
106 --log-stdout -> --debug-stdout
109 --log-stdout -> --debug-stdout
115 Tru64 ACL support has been removed from this release. The last
116 supported release of Tru64 UNIX was in 2012.
118 NIS support has been removed from this release. This is not
119 available in Linux distributions anymore.
121 The DLZ DNS plugin is no longer built for Bind versions 9.8 and 9.9,
122 which have been out of support since 2018.
127 Parameter Name Description Default
128 -------------- ----------- -------
129 client use kerberos New desired
130 client protection New default
136 https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.15#Release_blocking_bugs
139 #######################################
140 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
141 #######################################
143 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
144 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
146 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
147 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
148 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
149 be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
150 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
153 ======================================================================
154 == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
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