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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2005-01-21 20:19:50 +0000
committerGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2005-01-21 20:19:50 +0000
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r4908: Draft of release notessamba-3.0.11pre2
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- ==================================
- Release Notes for Samba 3.0.11pre1
- Jan 4, 2005
+ ==================================
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.0.11pre2
+ Jan 21, 2005
===================================
This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.11 code base and
@@ -9,6 +9,170 @@ for production servers. However, there have been several bug
fixes since 3.0.10 that we feel are important to make available
to the Samba community for wider testing.
+Common bugs fixed in 3.0.11pre2 include:
+
+ o Ineffeciencies when searching non-AD LDAP directories.
+ o Failure to expand variables in user domain attributes
+ in tdbsam and ldapsam.
+ o Memory leaks.
+ o Failure to retrieve certain attribute when migrating from
+ a Windows DC to a Samba DC via 'net rpc vampire'.
+
+Additional features introduced in Samba 3.0.11pre1:
+
+ o Support for the Windows privilege model to assign rights
+ to specific SIDs.
+ o New adminstrative options to the 'net rpc' command.
+
+
+
+######################################################################
+Changes
+#######
+
+Changes since 3.0.10
+--------------------
+
+smb.conf changes
+----------------
+ Parameter Name Action
+ -------------- ------
+ enable privileges New
+ ldap password sync Alias
+
+
+commits
+-------
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * Fixes for libsmbclient to ensure that interrupted system calls
+ are restarted minus the already expired portion of the timeout
+ (based on work by Derrell Lipman).
+ * More unicode string parsing fixes.
+ * Convert the winreg pipe to use WERROR returns.
+ * Make all LDAP timeouts consistent (input from Joe Meadows
+ <jameadows@webopolis.com>).
+ * BUG 2231: Remove double "\\" from client findfirst.
+ * BUG 2238: Fix memory leak in shadow copy vfs.
+ * Return correct DOS/NT error code on transact named pipe on
+ closed pipe handle.
+ * BUG 2211: Fix security descriptor parsing bug (based on work by
+ Mrinal Kalakrishnan <mail@mrinal.net>).
+ * BUG 2270: Fix memory leaks in cups printing backend support
+ (based on work by Lars Mueller).
+ * BUG 2255: Fix debug level in kerberos error messages.
+
+
+o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
+ * Don't store the auth-user credentials with the cli_state* as
+ this can cause the schannel setup to fail when the auth-user
+ domain is not our primary domain.
+
+
+o Grigory Batalov <bga@altlinux.org>
+ * Fix encoding while receiving of a message which was actually
+ sent using STR_ASCII.
+
+
+o Daniel Beschorner <db@unit-netz.de>
+ * BUG 603: Correct access mask check for _samr_lookup_domain()
+ to work with Windows RAS server
+
+
+o Jerome Borsboom <j.borsboom@erasmusmc.nl>
+ * Fix missing printer_tdb reference decrement.
+
+
+o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
+ * Re-instantiate previous semantics for calling init_unistr2()
+ with a NULL source buffer.
+ * Support Windows privilege model for assigning rights
+ to specific SIDs. Based on work by Simo Sorce in the trunk
+ svn branch. This feature is controlled by the 'enable
+ privileges = [yes|no]' smb.conf(5) option.
+ * Add some smb.conf scripts for add/delete/change shares and
+ deleting cups printers.
+ * Expand variables in the profile path, logon home and logon script
+ values when using either tdbsam or ldapsam.
+ * Add Domain Admins (Full Control) to the default printer security
+ descriptor if we are a DC.
+
+
+o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * Allow rpcclient to define a port to use when connecting
+ to a remote server.
+ * Allow Account Lockout with Lockout Duration "forever" (until
+ admin unlocks) to be set and displayed in User Manager.
+ * Allow to set acb_mask in rpcclient's enumdomusers.
+ * Add more generic rootDSE inspection function to check
+ for given controls or extensions and remember these on a
+ per server basis.
+ * Improve LDAP search efficiency by passing the acb_mask to
+ pdb_setsampwent().
+ * Fixes for ldapsam_enum_group_memberships().
+ * Add createdomgroup to rpcclient.
+ * Add "net rpc user RENAME"-command.
+ * Display sam_user_info_7 in rpcclient.
+ * Make multi-domain-mode in idmap_rid accessible from outside
+ (can be compiled with -DIDMAP_RID_SUPPORT_TRUSTED_DOMAINS).
+ * When vampiring account policy AP_LOCK_ACCOUNT_DURATION honor
+ "Lockout Duration: Forever".
+
+
+o Rob Foehl <rwf@loonybin.net>
+ * Implement caching of names from printcap to support a true
+ 'printcap cache time'.
+
+
+o Jeff Hardy <hardyjm@potsdam.edu>
+ * Example script for 'add print command' when using CUPS.
+
+
+o William Jojo <jojowil@hvcc.edu>
+ * AIX 5.3 compile fixes.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * Initial work to allow support for multiple pipe opens on a
+ single cli_state*.
+ * Ensure that we still retrieve the netbios name of any DC
+ listed as a 'password server' to work around cases where the
+ DC was defined using an IP address or fqdn.
+ * Fix memleak in winbindd connection code.
+ * Fix cli_samr_queryuseraliases.
+ * Allow wbinfo --user-sids to expand expand domain local groups.
+
+
+o Jim McDonough <jmcd@us.ibm.com>
+ * BUG 2198: Set password last change time when running 'net rpc
+ vampire'.
+ * Add "refuse machine password change" policy field.
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * autogen.sh fixes.
+
+
+o James Peach <jpeach@sgi.com>
+ * Fix rewinddir -> rewind_dir when using VFS macros.
+
+
+o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
+ * Allows the add/change share command to create the shared
+ directory directory on disk.
+
+o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
+ * Fixes for pdb_mysql.
+
+
+Changes for older versions follow below:
+
+ --------------------------------------------------
+
+ ==================================
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.0.11pre1
+ Jan 4, 2005
+ ===================================
+
Common bugs fixed in 3.0.11pre1 include:
o Numerous printing bugs bugs including memory
@@ -265,9 +429,6 @@ o Shiro Yamada <shiro@miraclelinux.com>
not UTF-8.
-
-Changes for older versions follow below:
-
--------------------------------------------------
==============================
Release Notes for Samba 3.0.10