From: Jule Anger Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:18:01 +0000 (+0200) Subject: WHATSNEW: add support for SMB3 over QUIC X-Git-Tag: samba-4.23.0rc3~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb9a042dab9a0dff66d652a5fd7ba6ebe6f66294;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git WHATSNEW: add support for SMB3 over QUIC Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 051fa2084de..c59c4c50b52 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -22,7 +22,29 @@ todo Add support for SMB3 over QUIC ------------------------------ -todo +The new "client smb transports" and "server smb transport" +allow a more flexible configuration for the used tcp +sockets. + +It also got the ability specify "quic" as possible transport. +If quic should be used in addition to the defaults something +like "server smb transports = +quic" can be used. + +For the client quic only works with name based uncs, +ip address based uncs are not supported. + +Note for the server 'quic' requires the quic.ko kernel module +for Linux from https://github.com/lxin/quic (tested with Linux 6.14). +Future Linux versions may support it natively, here's the +branch that will hopefully accepted upstream soon: +https://github.com/lxin/net-next/commits/quic/ + +For the client side there's a fallback to the userspace ngtcp2 +library if the quic kernel module is not available. + +Check the smb.conf manpage for additional hints +about the "client smb transports" and "server smb transport" +options and interactions with tls related options. Modern write time update logic ------------------------------