Samba 4.15.0rc1 Available for Download
This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.15. This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
Samba 4.15 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
UPGRADING
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Removed SMB (development) dialects
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The following SMB (development) dialects are no longer
supported: SMB2_22, SMB2_24 and SMB3_10. They are were
only supported by Windows technical preview builds.
They used to be useful in order to test against the
latest Windows versions, but it's no longer useful
to have them. If you have them explicitly specified
in your smb.conf or an the command line,
you need to replace them like this:
- SMB2_22 => SMB3_00
- SMB2_24 => SMB3_00
- SMB3_10 => SMB3_11
Note that it's typically not useful to specify
"client max protocol" or "server max protocol"
explicitly to a specific dialect, just leave
them unspecified or specify the value "default".
New GPG key
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The GPG release key for Samba releases changed from:
pub dsa1024/6F33915B6568B7EA 2007-02-04 [SC] [expires: 2021-02-05] Key fingerprint = 52FB C0B8 6D95 4B08 4332 4CDC 6F33 915B 6568 B7EA uid [ full ] Samba Distribution Verification Key
sub elg2048/9C6ED163DA6DFB44 2007-02-04 [E] [expires: 2021-02-05]
to the following new key:
pub rsa4096/AA99442FB680B620 2020-12-21 [SC] [expires: 2022-12-21] Key fingerprint = 81F5 E283 2BD2 545A 1897 B713 AA99 442F B680 B620 uid [ultimate] Samba Distribution Verification Key
sub rsa4096/97EF9386FBFD4002 2020-12-21 [E] [expires: 2022-12-21]
Starting from Jan 21th 2021, all Samba releases will be signed with the new key.
See also GPG_AA99442FB680B620_replaces_6F33915B6568B7EA.txt
NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
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- bind DLZ: Added the ability to set allow/deny lists for zone transfer clients.
Up to now, any client could use a DNS zone transfer request to the bind server, and get an answer from Samba.
Now the default behaviour will be to deny those request.
Two new options have been added to manage the list of
authorized/denied clients for zone transfer requests.
In order to be accepted, the request must be issued by a client that is in the allow list and NOT in the deny list.
"server multi channel support" no longer experimental
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This option is enabled by default starting with to 4.15 (on Linux and FreeBSD).
Due to dependencies on kernel APIs of Linux or FreeBSD, it's only possible to use this feature on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
samba-tool available without the ad-dc
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The samba-tool command is now available when samba is configured --without-ad-dc. Not all features will work, and some ad-dc specific optionshave been disabled. The samba-tool domain options, for example, are limited when no ad-dc is present. Samba must still be built with ads in order to enable
samba-tool.
Improved command line user experience
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Samba utilities did not consistently implement their command line interface. A
number of options were requiring to specify values in one tool and not in the
other, some options meant different in different tools.
These should be stories of the past now. A new command line parser has been implemented with sanity checking. Also the command line interface has been simplified and provides better control for encryption, singing and kerberos.
Also several command line options have a smb.conf variable to control the default now.
All tools are logging to stderr by default. You can use --debug-stdout to change the behavior.
### Common parser:
Options added:
--client-protection=off|sign|encrypt
Options renamed:
--kerberos -> --use-kerberos=required|desired|off
--krb5-ccache -> --use-krb5-ccache=CCACHE
--scope -> --netbios-scope=SCOPE
--use-ccache -> --use-winbind-ccache
Options removed:
-e|--encrypt
-C removed from --use-winbind-ccache
-i removed from --netbios-scope
-S|--signing
### Duplicates in command line utils
ldbadd/ldbsearch/ldbdel/ldbmodify/ldbrename:
-e is not available for --editor anymore
-s is not used for --configfile anymore
ndrdump:
-l is not available for --load-dso anymore
net:
-l is not available for --long anymore
sharesec:
-V is not available for --viewsddl anymore
smbcquotas:
--user -> --quota-user
nmbd:
--log-stdout -> --debug-stdout
smbd:
--log-stdout -> --debug-stdout
winbindd:
--log-stdout -> --debug-stdout
Scanning of trusted domains and enterprise principals
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As an artifact from the NT4 times, we still scanned the list of trusted domains
on winbindd startup. This is wrong as we never can get a full picture in Active
Directory. It is time to change the default value to "No". Also with this change
we always use enterprise principals for Kerberos so that the DC will be ableto redirect ticket requests to the right DC. This is e.g. needed for one waytrusts. The options `winbind use krb5 enterprise principals` and `winbind scan trusted domains` will be deprecated in one of the next releases.
REMOVED FEATURES
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Tru64 ACL support has been removed from this release. The last supported release of Tru64 UNIX was in 2012.
NIS support has been removed from this release. This is not available in Linux distributions anymore.
The DLZ DNS plugin is no longer built for Bind versions 9.8 and 9.9, which have been out of support since 2018.
smb.conf changes
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Parameter Name Description Default -------------- ----------- -------
client use kerberos New desired client max protocol Values Removed
client min protocol Values Removed
client protection New default client smb3 signing algorithms New see man smb.conf client smb3 encryption algorithms New see man smb.conf preopen:posix-basic-regex New No preopen:nomatch_log_level New 5 preopen:match_log_level New 5 preopen:nodigits_log_level New 1 preopen:founddigits_log_level New 3 preopen:reset_log_level New 5 preopen:push_log_level New 3 preopen:queue_log_level New 10 server max protocol Values Removed
server min protocol Values Removed
server multi channel support Changed Yes (on Linux and FreeBSD)
server smb3 signing algorithms New see man smb.conf server smb3 encryption algorithms New see man smb.conf winbind use krb5 enterprise principals Changed Yes winbind scan trusted domains Changed No
KNOWN ISSUES
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https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.15#Release_blocking_bugs
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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
If you do report problems then please try to send high quality feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla database ( https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded from:
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/rc/
The release notes are available online at:
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/rc/samba-4.15.0rc1.WHATSNEW.txt
Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
( https://bugzilla.samba.org/)
--Enjoy
The Samba Team
The Samba Team has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Samba 4.15.0.
