Release Planning for Samba 3.4

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This is the upcoming Samba 3.4 release series:

Samba 3.4.0

Major enhancements of Samba 3.4.0

Configuration changes:

  • The default passdb backend has been changed to 'tdbsam'!

General changes:

  • Samba4 and Samba3 sources are included in the tarball

Authentication Changes:

  • Changed the way smbd handles untrusted domain names given during user authentication.

Printing Changes:

  • Various fixes including printer change notificiation for Samba spoolss print servers.

Internal changes:

  • The remaining hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services (ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and spoolss) were replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL.
  • Samba3 and Samba4 do now share a common tevent library.
  • The code has been cleaned up and the major basic interfaces are shared with Samba4 now.
  • An asynchronous API has been added.


Updated 05-June-2009

  • Tuesday, June 2 - Samba 3.4.0pre2 has been released
  • Thursday, April 30 - Samba 3.4.0pre1 has been released
  • Friday, June 19 - Samba 3.4.0rc1 has been released
  • Friday, July 3 - Samba 3.4.0 has been released