Announce: Samba 4.16.0rc1 Available for Download
This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.16. 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 4.16 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
UPGRADING
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NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
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New samba-dcerpcd binary to provide DCERPC in the member server setup ---------------------------------------------------------------------
In order to make it much easier to break out the DCERPC services from smbd, a new samba-dcerpcd binary has been created.
samba-dcerpcd can be used in two ways. In the normal case without startup script modification it is invoked on demand from smbd or winbind --np-helper to serve DCERPC over named pipes. Note that in order to run in this mode the smb.conf [global] section has a new parameter "rpc start on demand helpers = [true|false]". This parameter is set to "true" by default, meaning no changes to smb.conf files are needed to run samba-dcerpcd on demand as a named pipe helper.
It can also be used in a standalone mode where it is started separately from smbd or winbind but this requires changes to system startup scripts, and in addition a change to smb.conf, setting the new [global] parameter "rpc start on demand helpers = false". If "rpc start on demand helpers" is not set to false, samba-dcerpcd will refuse to start in standalone mode.
Note that when Samba is run in the Active Directory Domain Controller mode the samba binary that provides the AD code will still provide its normal DCERPC services whilst allowing samba-dcerpcd to provide services like SRVSVC in the same way that smbd used to in this configuration.
The parameters that allowed some smbd-hosted services to be started externally are now gone (detailed below) as this is now the default setting.
samba-dcerpcd can also be useful for use outside of the Samba framework, for example, use with the Linux kernel SMB2 server ksmbd or possibly other SMB2 server implementations.
Certificate Auto Enrollment
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Certificate Auto Enrollment allows devices to enroll for certificates from Active Directory Certificate Services. It is enabled by Group Policy. To enable Certificate Auto Enrollment, Samba's group policy will need to be enabled by setting the smb.conf option `apply group policies` to Yes. Samba Certificate Auto Enrollment depends on certmonger, the cepces certmonger plugin, and sscep. Samba uses sscep to download the CA root chain, then usescertmonger paired with cepces to monitor the host certificate templates. Certificates are installed in /var/lib/samba/certs and private keys are installed in /var/lib/samba/private/certs.
Ability to add ports to dns forwarder addresses in internal DNS backend
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The internal DNS server of Samba forwards queries non-AD zones to one or more
configured forwarders. Up until now it has been assumed that these forwarders
listen on port 53. Starting with this version it is possible to configure the
port using host:port notation. See smb.conf for more details. Existing setups
are not affected, as the default port is 53.
CTDB changes
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* The "recovery master" role has been renamed "leader"
Documentation and logs now refer to "leader".
The following ctdb tool command names have changed:
recmaster -> leader
setrecmasterrole -> setleaderrole
Command output has changed for the following commands:
status
getcapabilities
The "[legacy] -> recmaster capability" configuration option has been renamed and moved to the cluster section, so this is now:
[cluster] -> leader capability
* The "recovery lock" has been renamed "cluster lock"
Documentation and logs now refer to "cluster lock".
The "[cluster] -> recovery lock" configuration option has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use "[cluster] -> cluster lock" instead.
If the cluster lock is enabled then traditional elections are not done and leader elections use a race for the cluster lock. This avoids various conditions where a node is elected leader but can not take the cluster lock. Such conditions included:
- At startup, a node elects itself leader of its own cluster before connecting to other nodes
- Cluster filesystem failover is slow
The abbreviation "reclock" is still used in many places, because a better abbreviation eludes us (i.e. "clock" is obvious bad) and changing all instances would require a lot of churn. If the abbreviation "reclock" for "cluster lock" is confusing, please consider mentally prefixing it with "really excellent".
* CTDB now uses leader broadcasts and an associated timeout to determine if an election is required
The leader broadcast timeout can be configured via new configuration option
[cluster] -> leader timeout
This specifies the number of seconds without leader broadcasts before a node calls an election. The default is 5.
REMOVED FEATURES
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SMB1 CORE and LANMAN1 protocol wildcard copy, unlink and rename removed =======================================================================
In preparation for the removal of the SMB1 server, the unused SMB1 command SMB_COM_COPY (SMB1 command number 0x29) has been removed from the Samba smbd server. In addition, the ability to process file name wildcards in requests using the SMB1 commands SMB_COM_COPY (SMB1 command number 0x2A), SMB_COM_RENAME (SMB1 command number 0x7), SMB_COM_NT_RENAME (SMB1 command number 0xA5) and SMB_COM_DELETE (SMB1 command number 0x6) have been removed.
This only affects clients using MS-DOS based versions of
SMB1, the last release of which was Windows 98. Users requiring support for these features will need to use older versions
of Samba.
No longer using Linux mandatory locks for sharemodes
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smbd mapped sharemodes to Linux mandatory locks. This code in the Linux kernel
was broken for a long time, and is planned to be removed with Linux 5.15. This
Samba release removes the usage of mandatory locks for sharemodes and the "kernel share modes" config parameter is changed to default to "no". The Samba
VFS interface is kept, so that file-system specific VFS modules can still use
private calls for enforcing sharemodes.
smb.conf changes
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Parameter Name Description Default
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kernel share modes New default No
dns forwarder Changed
rpc_daemon Removed
rpc_server Removed
rpc start on demand helpers Added true
KNOWN ISSUES
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https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.16#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-4.16.0rc1.WHATSNEW.txt
Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
( https://bugzilla.samba.org/)
--Enjoy
The Samba Team
Samba 4.16.0rc1 has been released for testing. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
