From: Karolin Seeger Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 04:48:47 +0000 (+0200) Subject: WHATSNEW: Start release notes for Samba 4.14.0pre1. X-Git-Tag: talloc-2.3.2~1130 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=92b1078e1e0ff89e190e9ee9941de778f7bc6d27;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git WHATSNEW: Start release notes for Samba 4.14.0pre1. Signed-off-by: Karolin Seeger Autobuild-User(master): Karolin Seeger Autobuild-Date(master): Thu Jul 9 08:43:25 UTC 2020 on sn-devel-184 --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 58bcf9ba20a..cd75f6741c0 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Release Announcements ===================== -This is the first release condidate of Samba 4.13. This is *not* +This is the first pre release of Samba 4.14. 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/. @@ -16,41 +16,6 @@ UPGRADING NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== -Python 3.6 Required -------------------- - -Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python -3.5 with samba 4.12. Samba 4.13 raises this minimum version to Python -3.6 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version -we test with in our CI infrastructure. - -(Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not -changed) - -wide links functionality ------------------------- - -For this release, the code implementing the insecure "wide links = yes" -functionality has been moved out of the core smbd code and into a separate -VFS module, vfs_widelinks. Currently this vfs module is implicitly loaded -by smbd as the last but one module before vfs_default if "wide links = yes" -is enabled on the share (note, the existing restrictions on enabling wide -links around the SMB1 "unix extensions" and the "allow insecure wide links" -parameters are still in force). The implicit loading was done to allow -existing users of "wide links = yes" to keep this functionality without -having to make a change to existing working smb.conf files. - -Please note that the Samba developers recommend changing any Samba -installations that currently use "wide links = yes" to use bind mounts -as soon as possible, as "wide links = yes" is an inherently insecure -configuration which we would like to remove from Samba. Moving the -feature into a VFS module allows this to be done in a cleaner way -in future. - -A future release to be determined will remove this implicit linkage, -causing administrators who need this functionality to have to explicitly -add the vfs_widelinks module into the "vfs objects =" parameter lists. -The release notes will be updated to note this change when it occurs. REMOVED FEATURES ================ @@ -62,13 +27,12 @@ smb.conf changes Parameter Name Description Default -------------- ----------- ------- - smb2 disable lock sequence checking No KNOWN ISSUES ============ -https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.13#Release_blocking_bugs +https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.14#Release_blocking_bugs #######################################