1 This file contains a history of changes since the first Samba 4 Technology
2 Preview. For a general introduction to Samba 4, see the README file in this
3 directory. The NEWS file contains a list of differences between
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8 Release date: UNRELEASED
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11 * Make ldb async internally (idra)
13 * Use HDB-LDB as the keytab (abartlet)
15 * Call the wins hook script again (metze)
17 * Make sure no more then 25 records are added in the WINS database (metze)
19 * Documentation updates (jelmer)
21 * Fix termination issue in winreg server (metze)
23 * AES fix for Samba 4 <-> Samba4 (abartlet)
25 * Better conformance to FHS (abartlet, jelmer)
27 * Improve internal API and code quality in smbclient (jelmer)
29 * Add testsuite for smbclient (jelmer)
31 * Remove support for password as an optional second parameter in
34 * Various warning fixes (metze)
36 * Several clarifications of comments (abartlet)
38 * Remove use of pstring in some places (jelmer)
40 * Re-add the global -k option to enable kerberos (abartlet)
42 * Various memory allocation fixes (abartlet)
44 * Add new cifsdd client (jpeach)
46 * Add tests for even more insane delete-on-close semantics (jra, tridge)
48 * Initial work on BASE-DELETE test passing (tridge)
50 * Optimizations in tdb (tridge)
52 * Improvements to ldb documentation (idra, Brad Hards)
54 * Check attribute names to obey rfc2251 (idra)
56 * Allow WINS replication with NT4SP6A (metze)
58 * Add ManageDSAIT control (Pete Rowley, idra)
60 * Add tests for LDB controls (idra)
62 * Various LDB crash fixes (idra)
64 * Initial work on vlv LDB control (idra)
66 * Add -p option to smbtorture (jpeach)
68 * Several improvements to the SMB URL and UNC parsing (jpeach)
70 * Make DCE/RPC connect functions work async (rafal)
72 * Fix invalid steal on supportedControls (closes: #3525) (abartlet)
74 * Start parsing saslauthd requests (metze)
76 * Split the NBT-WINSREPLICATION test into multiple tests (metze)
78 * Add new ACB-bits as seen in acct_flags in the PAC info3 (gd)
80 * Move header files out of include/ (jelmer)
82 * Create separate library for generic utility functions (jelmer)
84 * Add highestCommittedUSN, uSNChanged and uSNCreated support to LDB (tridge)
86 * Allow more control over the the winbindd socket location (abartlet)
88 * Allow messaging without a server messaging context (abartlet)
90 * Make GSSAPI SASL mech work (abartlet)
92 * Write out Samba4 version when provisioning (idra)
94 * Allow servers to bind to non-broadcast interfaces (tridge, abartlet)
96 * Initialize some ASN.1 elements that are optional (metze)
98 * Various improvements to RPC-SCHANNEL (abartlet)
100 * Make Samba4 pass some of the newer schannel tests (abartlet)
102 * Better handling of connections without SPNEGO (abartlet)
104 * Generate seperate headers for RPC client functions (jelmer)
106 * Improve NTLMSSP tests (abartlet, vl)
108 * Support any size pointers in pidl (tridge)
110 * Large overhaul of the opendb code to pass BASE-DELETE (tridge)
112 * Use doxygen for documenting lib/util and lib/registry (jelmer)
114 * Add registration mechanism for modules and backends in ldb (idra, jelmer)
116 * Support building shared libraries in the build system (metze, jelmer)
118 * Install headers in a sane location (jelmer)
120 * Fix BASE-NEGNOWAIT (tridge)
122 * Add prefixes to most of the SMB-related functions (metze)
124 * Get rid of proto.h (jelmer)
126 * Reduce number of headers included in includes.h (jelmer)
128 * Support header dependencies (jelmer)
130 * Add RAW-NOTIFY (tridge, metze)
132 * Fix 'your password has expired' on every login (abartlet)
134 * Improvements to RPC-SAMSYNC (abartlet)
136 * Work on supporting change notify (tridge, metze)
138 * Reopen log files after SIGHUP (metze)
140 * Add BUGS.txt (#3523) (jelmer)
142 * Add summary to configure (#3442) (metze, jelmer)
146 * Improve NBT-WINSREPLICATION-OWNED test (metze)
148 * Fix a lot of compiler warnings (metze)
150 * Several code improvements found by static code checker (tridge, metze)
152 * Force correct alignment when in ASCII mode (#2921) (tridge)
154 * Fix coverity bug #127 (vl)
156 * Add support for changing process titles (metze)
158 * Support raw NTLMSSP (abartlet)
160 * Fix debug levels in several places (abartlet)
162 * Work to unify the ntvfs structures for smb and smb2 (metze, tridge)
164 * A lot of small cleanups and typo fixes
165 (metze, abartlet, idra, jpeach, tridge, jelmer)
167 (up to date until revno 14554)