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2 Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
3 Mar 04, 2008
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6 This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
7 intended for production environments and is designed for testing
8 purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
9 system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
11 Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under the version 3
12 of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING
13 file that accompanies these release notes for further licensing details.
15 Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
17 File Serving:
18 o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC
19 interfaces.
20 o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on
21 filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
22 o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
23 o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
24 o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
25 o Support for IPv6 in the server, and client tools and libraries.
26 o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
27 o Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
28 o Support for Vista clients authenticating via Kerberos.
30 Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
31 o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts
32 and one-way domain trusts.
33 o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS
34 lookups.
35 o Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
36 o Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
37 o New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so).
39 Joining:
40 o New NetApi library for domain join related queries (libnetapi.so)
41 and example GTK+ Domain join gui.
42 o New client and server support for remotely joining and unjoining
43 Domains.
44 o Support for joining into Windows 2008 domains.
46 Users & Groups:
47 o New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
48 o Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.
51 Documentation:
52 o Inclusion of an HTML version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
53 from O'Reilly Publishing.
56 Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
57 ================================
59 The Samba Team has adopted the Version 3 of the GNU General Public
60 License for the 3.2 and later releases. The GPLv3 is the updated
61 version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
62 distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other
63 licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
64 improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
65 Software in the 21st Century.
67 The original announcement is available on-line at
69 http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
72 New Security Defaults for Authentication
73 ========================================
75 Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
76 applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
77 disabled by default in client utilities such as smbclient and all
78 libsmbclient based applications. This will affect connection both
79 to and from hosts running DOS, Windows 9x/ME, and OS/2. Please refer
80 to the "Changes" section for details on the exact parameters that were
81 updated.
84 Registry Configuration Backend
85 ==============================
87 Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
88 supplement smb.conf setting. This feature may be enabled by setting
89 "config backend = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
90 section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
92 More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
93 pages.
96 Removed Features
97 ================
99 Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
100 removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.
102 As smbfs is no longer supported in current kernel versions, smbmount has
103 been removed in this Samba version. Please use cifs (mount.cifs) instead.
104 See examples/scripts/mount/mount.smbfs as an example for a wrapper which
105 calls mount.cifs instead of smbmount/mount.smbfs.
108 Modified API for libsmbclient
109 ==============================================================================
111 Maintaining ABI compatibility for libsmbclient has become increasingly
112 difficult to accomplish, while also keeping the code organization such that it
113 is easily readable. Towards the goal of maintaining ABI compatibility and
114 also keeping the code easy to maintain and enhance, the API has been enhanced.
115 In particular, the fields in the SMBCCTX context structure are no longer
116 intended to be read/write by the user, and are marked as deprecated. An
117 application that previously accessed the members of the SMBCCTX context
118 structure will now encounter warnings if recompiled. This is intentional, to
119 encourage implementation of the small changes required for the new interface.
120 The number of changes is expected to be quite small for the vast majority of
121 applications, and no changes need be made for many applications. The changes
122 required for KDE (konqueror) to conform to the new interface, for example, are
123 only four lines in only one file.
125 Instead of the application manually changing or reading values in the context
126 structure, there are now setter and getter functions for each configurable
127 member in that structure. Similarly, the smbc_option_get() and
128 smbc_option_set() functions are deprecated in favor of the setter/getter
129 interface. The setters and getters are all documented in libsmbclient.h
130 under these comment blocks:
132 Getters and setters for CONFIGURATION
133 Getters and setters for OPTIONS
134 Getters and setters for FUNCTIONS
135 Callable functions for files
136 Callable functions for directories
137 Callable functions applicable to both files and directories
139 Example changes that may be required to eliminate "deprecated" warnings:
141 /* Set the debug level */
142 context->debug = 99;
143 changes to:
144 smbc_setDebug(context, 99);
146 /* Specify the authentication callback function */
147 context->callbacks.auth_fn = auth_smbc_get_data;
148 changes to:
149 smbc_setFunctionAuthData(context, auth_smbc_get_data);
151 /* Specify the new-style authentication callback with context parameter */
152 smbc_option_set("auth_function", auth_smbc_get_data_with_ctx);
153 changes to:
154 smbc_setFunctionAuthDataWithContext(context, auth_smbc_get_data_with_ctx);
156 /* Set kerberos flags */
157 context->flags = (SMB_CTX_FLAG_USE_KERBEROS |
158 SMB_CTX_FLAG_FALLBACK_AFTER_KERBEROS);
159 changes to:
160 smbc_setOptionUseKerberos(context, 1);
161 smbc_setOptionFallbackAfterKerberos(context, 1);
166 ######################################################################
167 Changes
168 #######
170 smb.conf changes
171 ----------------
173 Parameter Name Description Default
174 -------------- ----------- -------
175 client lanman auth Changed Default No
176 client ldap sasl wrapping New plain
177 client plaintext auth Changed Default No
178 clustering New No
179 cluster addresses New ""
180 config backend New file
181 ctdb socket New ""
182 debug class New No
183 administrative share New No
184 lanman auth Changed Default No
185 ldap debug level New 0
186 ldap debug threshold New 10
187 mangle map Removed
188 min receive file size New 0
189 open files database hashsize Removed
190 read bmpx Removed
191 registry shares New No
192 winbind expand groups New 1
193 winbind rpc only New No
196 Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
197 -----------------------
199 o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
200 * Add library for access to the registry configuration data.
201 * BUG 5023: Separate NFS4 and POSIX ACL code in file access checks.
202 * BUG 4308: Fix Excel save operation ACL bug.
203 * Refactor and consolidate logic for retrieving the machine
204 trust password information.
205 * VFS API cleanup (remove redundant parameter).
206 * BUG 4801: Correctly implement LSA lookup levels for LookupNames.
207 * Add new option "debug class" to control printing of the debug class.
208 in debug headers.
209 * Enable building of the zfsacl and notify_fam vfs modules.
210 * BUG 5083: Fix memleak in solarisacl module.
211 * BUG 5063: Fix build on RHEL5.
212 * New smb.conf parameter "config backend = registry" to enable registry
213 only configuration.
214 * Move "net conf" functionality into a separate module libnet_conf.c
215 * Restructure registry code, eliminating the dynamic overlay.
216 Make use of reg_api instead of backend code in most places.
217 * Add support for intercepting LDAP libraries' debug output and print
218 it in Samba's debugging system.
219 * Libreplace fixes.
220 * Build fixes.
221 * Initial support for using subsystems as shared libraries.
222 Use talloc, tdb, and libnetapi as shared libraries internally.
225 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
226 * Added support for IPv6 client and server connections.
227 * Add in the recvfile entry to the VFS layer.
228 * Removal of pstring data type.
229 * Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
230 * Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
231 (based on work from Andreas Schneider).
232 * Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
235 o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
236 * Added support for an SMB_CONF_PATH environment variable
237 containing the path to smb.conf.
238 * Various fixes to ntlm_auth.
239 * make test now supports more extensive SPOOLSS testing using vlp.
240 * Correctly handle mixed-case hostnames in NTLMv2 authentication.
243 o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
244 * Add Winbind client library.
245 * Decouple static linking between smbd and winbindd's client
246 interface.
249 o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
250 * Enhance client and server remote registry access.
251 * Add client calls for remotely joining a computer to a domain
252 (including calls from "net dom" command).
253 * Add libnetapi.so library for joining domains including
254 sample GTK+ app.
255 * Fixes for Vista SP1 Kerberos authdata handling to only pickup
256 the PAC.
257 * Various error code and error message fixes.
258 * Add initial draft of libnetconf to allow programmatic
259 configuration changes.
260 * Add libnet_join internal library for programmatically joining
261 and unjoining Domains.
262 * Add various fixes and new calls to libnetapi.so library.
263 * Various fixes for DsGetDcName and conversion to IDL based
264 structures.
265 * Fixes for pidl to correctly generate WERROR based client calls.
266 * Fixes for pidl to generate output that complies to coding
267 conventions.
268 * Various IDL fixes.
269 * Add ads_get_joinable_ous() to libads to get list of joinable ous.
270 * Add get_logon_hours_from_pdb() to comply with new IDL based
271 structures.
272 * Add debugging capabilities to dump AD connections to libads
273 (using ndr_print).
274 * Add "dump-domain-list" command for smbcontrol to retrieve better
275 debugging information out of winbindd.
276 * Migration of the entire client and server DCE/RPC code to IDL
277 based structures and autogenerated code for DSSETUP, LSA, SAMR
278 and NETLOGON.
279 * Started migration of client and server DCE/RPC code to IDL based
280 structures and autogenerated code for NTSSVC, SVCCTL and
281 EVENTLOG.
282 * Use IDL and autogenerated code for samlogoncache and Kerberos
283 PAC handling.
284 * Various fixes and cleanup of Kerberos PAC handling.
285 * Fix segfault in _srv_net_file_enum.
286 * Conversion of client join and unjoin code to libnet_join.
287 * Add remote join/unjoin server-side implementation.
288 * Removed a lot of code which has become obsolete.
291 o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
292 * Integrate 2 out of 3 --with-fhs patches from Debian packaging
293 for better adherence to the FHS standard.
296 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
297 * Add talloc_stackframe() and talloc_pool() features.
298 * Removal of pstring data type.
299 * Add generic a in-memory cache.
300 * Import the Linux red-black tree implementation.
301 * Remove large amount of global variables.
302 * Support for storing xattrs in tdb files.
303 * Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
304 * Implement a generic in-memory cache based on rb-trees.
305 * Add implicit temporary talloc contexts via talloc_stack().
306 * Speed up the smbclient "get" command
307 * Add the aio_fork module
309 o Derrell Lipman <derrell@samba.org>
310 * Modified libsmbclient API for more easily maintaining ABI compatibility
311 while adding new features to libsmbclient.
313 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
314 * Refactor Winbind internal parent-child interface tables
315 to achieve better unit testing support.
316 * Add nss_wrapper API for local Winbind unit tests.
317 * Networking fixes to the libreplace library.
318 * Pidl fixes.
319 * Remove unused Winbind pipe calls.
320 * Build fixes.
321 * Fix for a crash bug in pidl generated client code.
322 This could have happend with [in,out,unique] pointers
323 when the client sends a valid pointer, but the server
324 responds with a NULL pointer (as samba-3.0.26a does for some calls).
325 * Change NTSTATUS into enum ndr_err_code in librpc/ndr.
326 * Remove unused calls in the struct based winbindd protocol.
327 * Add --configfile option to wbinfo.
328 * Convert winbind_env_set(), winbind_on() and winbind_off() into macros.
329 * Return rids and other_sids arrays in WBFLAG_PAM_INFO3_TEXT mode.
330 * Implement wbcErrorString() and wbcAuthenticateUserEx().
331 * Convert auth_winbind to use wbcAuthenticateUserEx().
334 o James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
335 * Add support for DNS Service Discovery. Based on work from
336 Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>.
339 o Andreas Schneider <anschneider@suse.de>
340 * Don't restart winbind if a corrupted tdb is found during
341 initialization.
342 * Fix Windows 2008 (Longhorn) join.
343 * Fix crashbug in winbindd.
344 * Add share parameter "administrative share".
347 o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
348 * Improve error messages of net subcommands.
349 * Add 'net rap file user'.
350 * Change LDAP search filter to find machine accounts which
351 are not located in the user suffix.
352 * Remove smbmount.
355 o David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
356 * BUG 5073: Allow "delete readonly = yes" to correctly override
357 deletion of a file.
360 o Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>
361 * Register the smb service with mDNS if mDNS is supported.
362 * Add smbclient support for basic mDNS browsing.
365 o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
366 * Fix padding between Winbind 32bit/64bit client library in
367 the request/response structures.
368 * Added a syncops VFS module for file systems which do not
369 guarantee meta-data operations are immediately committed to
370 disk in stable form.
373 o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
374 * Additional portability support for building shared libraries.
377 o Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
378 * Get Samba version or capability information from Windows user space.
381 Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
382 ---------------------------
383 o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
384 * Unified POSIX ACL detection including support for FreeBSD and
385 HP-UX.
386 * Performance improvements for Winbind's lookup functions (names,
387 SIDs, and group membership) when joined to an AD domain.
388 * Winbind cache validation support.
389 * Store domain trust passwords for Samba domain controller's in
390 the domain's passdb backend.
391 * Merged \winreg server code from the SAMBA_3_2 development branch.
392 * Fixes for libreplace.
393 * Implement new registry configuration backend.
396 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
397 * Add support for file system objectIDs.
398 * Winbind cache validation support.
399 * Add in the UNIX capability for 24-bit readX.
400 * Improve Delete-on-Close semantics.
401 * Removal of static file and path name buffers in SMB file serving
402 code.
405 o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
406 * Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
407 ads join".
410 o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
411 * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
412 servers.
415 o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
416 * Implement support for one-way trusts and two-way cross-forest
417 transitive trust in winbindd.
418 * Fixes for Winbind's offline/disconnected logon support when
419 using remote idmap backends.
420 * Fix LookupNames and LookupSids to use the same resolution
421 heuristics as Windows XP.
422 * Fix lockups in Winbind when running nscd.
423 * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
424 * Add support for GNU linker scripts when build shared libraries
425 (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
426 Peach).
429 o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
430 * Additional support for decoding and downloading group policy
431 objects from Active Directory.
432 * Improvements to "net ads keytab" command.
433 * Fixes for linking against Heimdal Kerberos client libs.
434 * Support LDAP range retrieval searches.
435 * Fixes for failure to refresh user ticket caches in Winbind.
436 * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
437 * Add KDC locator plugin for MIT kerberos 1.6 or later.
440 o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
441 * Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
442 to come up.
445 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
446 * Merge experimental cluster support patches from the ctdb branch.
447 * Add tdb storage abstraction for ctdb.
448 * Use IDL for internal message passing system.
449 * Add client support for the SamLogonEx() authentication request.
450 * Implement RPC proxy stubs in the Samba server code to allow
451 replacing implementation functions one by one.
452 * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
453 packet processing code.
454 * Add "net sam rights" command.
457 o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
458 * Fixes for mount.cifs Linux utility.
461 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
462 * Fixes for libreplace.
463 * Add support for LDAP digital signing policy.
464 * Experimental clustered file system support.
467 o Lars Mueller <lars@samba.org>
468 * Makefile and build fixes.
469 * Add pam_pwd_expire for pam_winbind (original patch from Andreas
470 Schneider).
473 o James Peach <jpeach@apple.com>
474 * Fixes for setgroups() and *BSD and Darwin.
475 * Support membership of >16 groups on Darwin.
478 o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
479 * Added vfs_zfsacl module.
482 o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
483 * Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
484 * Cleanup internal passdb functions.
487 o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
488 * Fixes for IDmap and Passdb backends.
491 o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
492 * Port ldb from the Samba 4 tree and add ldb group mapping plugin.
493 * Move several file serving related tdb files to use the dbwrap
494 API internally.
495 * Cleanup the GPFS VFS plugin.
496 * Experimental clustered file system support.
499 o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
500 * Implement NDR basic to support utilizing IDL files from Samba 4
501 tree for general DCE/RPC parsing stubs.
505 ######################################################################
506 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
507 #######################################
509 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
510 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
512 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
513 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
514 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
515 be filed under the Samba 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
516 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
519 ======================================================================
520 == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
521 == The Samba Team
522 ======================================================================