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   3 <h3>Roadmap to 3.0</h3>
   4 <p><em>Page Last Updated</em> : 5 Mar, 2003
   5 <p><em>Estimated shipdate</em> : When it is ready.
   6 <p><em>Current Alpha Release</em> : <a href="/samba/ftp/alpha/samba-3.0alpha22.tar.gz">Samba-3.0alpha22</a>
   7
   8 <h3>Road to 3.0</h3>
   9
  10 <ul>
  11   <li>(5th Mar, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0alpha22 RPMS for Redhat 6.x, 7.x and 8.0 available</em>
  12   <p>Binary packages for RedHat Linux 6.x, 7.x and 8.0 systems of the Samba 3.0alpha22
  13   release are ready for download from the
  14   <a href="http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat">Binary_Packages/RedHat</a> directory.
  15   </li>
  16 </ul>
  17
  18 <ul>
  19   <li>(26th Nov, 2002) <em>Samba-3.0alpha21 RPMS for Redhat 7.x and 8.0 available</em>
  20   <p>Binary packages for RedHat Linux 7.x and 8.0 systems of the Samba 3.0alpha21
  21   release are ready for download from the
  22   <a href="http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat">Binary_Packages/RedHat</a> directory.
  23   </li>
  24 </ul>
  25
  26 <ul>
  27   <li>(26th Sept, 2002) <em>SAMBA_3_0 cvs branch</em>
  28   <p>With the release of 3.0alpha20, the SAMBA_3_0 cvs branch is now being
  29   officially maintained in an effort to stabilize certain features.  If you would
  30   like to continue to test the soon-to-be-3.0 code base, please use this branch
  31   tag when checking out the cvs tree.
  32 </ul>
  33
  34 <h3>Roadmap Overview</h3>
  35
  36 <p>This is a feature list/roadmap for the 3.0 release.  A lot of discussion
  37 has gone on about this.  Implementation is a separate discussion :-)
  38 If a feature is already done, I marked it as "Req".  It should be obvious
  39 from this roadmap that one the major hurdles for releasing the 3.0 code base
  40 is the completion of documentation updates.
  41
  42 <ul>
  43   <li>X = done
  44   <li>o = TODO
  45   <li>- = unknown
  46 </ul>
  47
  48 <p>
  49 Some features have been through basic testing that have
  50 <b>o</b>'s beneath testing column since we are not done.
  51 Items are ordered by maturity, not by importance.  If it
  52 is marked as <em>Required</em>, then it must be completed
  53 for a stable 3.0 release.
  54
  55 <p>
  56 <table border="0" width="100%">
  57   <tr>
  58     <td width=50%><h3>Feature</h3></td>
  59     <td align=center><h3>Required?</h3></td>
  60     <td align=center><h3>Code</h3></td>
  61     <td align=center><h3>Test</h3></td>
  62     <td align=center><h3>Document</h3></td>
  63   </tr>
  64
  65   <tr>
  66     <td><em><u>Release Delaying Features</u></em></td>
  67   </tr>
  68
  69   <tr>
  70     <td width=50%>UNICODE support</td>
  71     <td align=center>yes</td>
  72     <td align=center>X</td>
  73     <td align=center>X</td>
  74     <td align=center>o</td>
  75   </tr>
  76
  77   <tr>
  78     <td width=50%>Windows 2000 AD client support</td>
  79     <td align=center>yes</td>
  80     <td align=center>X</td>
  81     <td align=center>X</td>
  82     <td align=center>o</td>
  83   </tr>
  84
  85   <tr>
  86     <td width=50%>winbind dual-daemon implementation</td>
  87     <td align=center>yes</td>
  88     <td align=center>X</td>
  89     <td align=center>X</td>
  90     <td align=center>o</td>
  91   </tr>
  92
  93   <tr>
  94     <td width=50%>pluggable passdb support</td>
  95     <td align=center>yes</td>
  96     <td align=center>X</td>
  97     <td align=center>X</td>
  98     <td align=center>X</td>
  99   </tr>
 100
 101   <tr>
 102     <td width=50%>Windows NT 4.0 Style Trust Relationship</td>
 103     <td align=center>yes</td>
 104     <td align=center>X</td>
 105     <td align=center>o</td>
 106     <td align=center>o</td>
 107   </tr>
 108
 109   <tr>
 110     <td width=50%>NTLMv2</td>
 111     <td align=center>yes</td>
 112     <td align=center>X</td>
 113     <td align=center>o</td>
 114     <td align=center>o</td>
 115   </tr>
 116
 117   <tr>
 118     <td width=50%>One Time Migration script from a Windows NT
 119       4.0 PDC to a Samba PDC</td>
 120     <td align=center>yes</td>
 121     <td align=center>X</td>
 122     <td align=center>o</td>
 123     <td align=center>o</td>
 124   </tr>
 125
 126   <tr>
 127     <td width=50%>Winbind working with Samba PDC</td>
 128     <td align=center>yes</td>
 129     <td align=center>X</td>
 130     <td align=center>o</td>
 131     <td align=center>o</td>
 132   </tr>
 133
 134   <tr>
 135     <td width=50%>Loadable RPC implementations</td>
 136     <td align=center>yes</td>
 137     <td align=center>X</td>
 138     <td align=center>o</td>
 139     <td align=center>o</td>
 140   </tr>
 141
 142   <tr>
 143     <td width=50%>hook for utilizing a centralized winbindd id map database</td>
 144     <td align=center>yes</td>
 145     <td align=center>o</td>
 146     <td align=center>o</td>
 147     <td align=center>o</td>
 148   </tr>
 149
 150   <tr>
 151     <td width=50%>Group Mapping support(privileges need some work, etc...)</td>
 152     <td align=center>yes</td>
 153     <td align=center>o</td>
 154     <td align=center>o</td>
 155     <td align=center>o</td>
 156   </tr>
 157
 158   <tr>
 159     <td width=50%>Publishing printers in AD (probably will make 3.0 but will not delay release)</td>
 160     <td align=center>yes</td>
 161     <td align=center>X</td>
 162     <td align=center>o</td>
 163     <td align=center>o</td>
 164   </tr>
 165
 166   <tr>
 167     <td><em><u>Non-Release Delaying Features</u></em></td>
 168   </tr>
 169
 170   <tr>
 171     <td width=50%>Stackable VFS</td>
 172     <td align=center>no</td>
 173     <td align=center>X</td>
 174     <td align=center>o</td>
 175     <td align=center>X</td>
 176   </tr>
 177     <td width=50%>SAM replication (full implementation still lacks
 178       some decoding work; post 3.0)</td>
 179     <td align=center>no</td>
 180     <td align=center>-</td>
 181     <td align=center>-</td>
 182     <td align=center>-</td>
 183   </tr>
 184
 185   <tr>
 186     <td width=50%>SMB signing (needs more research; not a show stopper)</td>
 187     <td align=center>no</td>
 188     <td align=center>-</td>
 189     <td align=center>-</td>
 190     <td align=center>-</td>
 191   </tr>
 192
 193   <tr>
 194     <td width=50%>schannel, ntlmv2 sign &amp; seal (needs more research)</td>
 195     <td align=center>no</td>
 196     <td align=center>in-progress</td>
 197     <td align=center>-</td>
 198     <td align=center>-</td>
 199   </tr>
 200
 201 </table>
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 203
 204 <p>
 205 Plus the following interesting, but non-show stopping projects
 206
 207 <ul>
 208   <li>background updates of print queues via a dedicated process
 209   <li>WINS replication with Windows NT WINS servers
 210   <li>alternative backend for WINS database (there is a patch that still needs some work)
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