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WHATSNEW: Add release notes for Samba 4.12.0rc4.
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Signed-off-by: Karolin Seeger <[email protected]>
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Release Announcements
=====================

This is the third release candidate of Samba 4.12. This is *not*
This is the fourth release candidate of Samba 4.12. 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/.
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default Spotlight backend Gnome Tracker must explicitly set "spotlight backend =
tracker" as the new default is "noindex".

"net ads kerberos pac save" and "net eventlog export"
'net ads kerberos pac save' and 'net eventlog export'
-----------------------------------------------------

The "net ads kerberos pac save" and "net eventlog export" tools will
The 'net ads kerberos pac save' and 'net eventlog export' tools will
no longer silently overwrite an existing file during data export. If
the filename given exits, an error will be shown.

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A large number of issues have been found and fixed thanks to this
effort.

samba-tool improvements add contacts as member to groups
--------------------------------------------------------
'samba-tool' improvements add contacts as member to groups
----------------------------------------------------------

Previously "samba-tool group addmemers" can just add users, groups and
Previously 'samba-tool group addmemers' can just add users, groups and
computers as members to groups. But also contacts can be members of
groups. Samba 4.12 adds the functionality to add contacts to
groups. Since contacts have no sAMAccountName, it's possible that
there are more than one contact with the same name in different
organizational units. Therefore it's necessary to have an option to
handle group members by their DN.

To get the DN of an object there is now the --full-dn option available
To get the DN of an object there is now the "--full-dn" option available
for all necessary commands.

The MS Windows UI allows to search for specific types of group members
when searching for new members for a group. This feature is included
here with the new samba-tool group addmembers --object-type=OBJECTYPE
here with the new samba-tool group addmembers "--object-type=OBJECTYPE"
option. The different types are selected accordingly to the Windows
UI. The default samba-toole behaviour shouldn't be changed.

Allow filtering by OU or subtree in samba-tool
----------------------------------------------

A new --base-dn and --member-base-dn option is added to relevant
A new "--base-dn" and "--member-base-dn" option is added to relevant
samba-tool user, group and ou management commands to allow operation
on just one part of the AD tree, such as a single OU.

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don't want to mis-use filesystem symbolic links in this
way.


CTDB changes
============

* The ctdb_mutex_fcntl_helper periodically re-checks the lock file

The re-check period is specified using a 2nd argument to this
helper. The default re-check period is 5s.

If the file no longer exists or the inode number changes then the
helper exits. This triggers an election.


REMOVED FEATURES
================

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If required for specialist purposes, it can be recreated as a VFS
module.

BIND9_FLATFILE deprecated
-------------------------

The BIND9_FLATFILE DNS backend is deprecated in this release and will
be removed in the future. This was only practically useful on a single
domain controller or under expert care and supervision.

This release removes the "rndc command" smb.conf parameter, which
supported this configuration by writing out a list of DCs permitted to
make changes to the DNS Zone and nudging the 'named' server if a new
DC was added to the domain. Administrators using BIND9_FLATFILE will
need to maintain this manually from now on.

Retiring DES encryption types in Kerberos.
------------------------------------------
With this release, support for DES encryption types has been removed from
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The netatalk VFS module has been removed. It was unmaintained and is not needed
any more.

CTDB changes
------------

* The ctdb_mutex_fcntl_helper periodically re-checks the lock file
BIND9_FLATFILE deprecated
-------------------------

The re-check period is specified using a 2nd argument to this
helper. The default re-check period is 5s.
The BIND9_FLATFILE DNS backend is deprecated in this release and will
be removed in the future. This was only practically useful on a single
domain controller or under expert care and supervision.

If the file no longer exists or the inode number changes then the
helper exits. This triggers an election.
This release removes the 'rndc command' smb.conf parameter, which
supported this configuration by writing out a list of DCs permitted to
make changes to the DNS Zone and nudging the 'named' server if a new
DC was added to the domain. Administrators using BIND9_FLATFILE will
need to maintain this manually from now on.


smb.conf changes
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spotlight backend New noindex


CHANGES SINCE 4.12.0rc3
=======================

o Jeremy Allison <[email protected]>
* BUG 14269: s3: DFS: Don't allow link deletion on a read-only share.

o Douglas Bagnall <[email protected]>
* BUG 14284: pidl/wscript: configure should insist on Parse::Yapp::Driver.

o Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]>
* BUG 14270: ldb: Fix search with scope ONE and small result sets.
* BUG 14284: build: Do not check if system perl modules should be bundled.

o Volker Lendecke <[email protected]>
* BUG 14285: smbd fails to handle EINTR from open(2) properly.

o Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
* BUG 14270: ldb: version 2.1.1.


CHANGES SINCE 4.12.0rc2
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