From: Andrew Bartlett Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 02:39:40 +0000 (+1200) Subject: WHATSNEW: Document new GnuTLS 3.4.7 requirement X-Git-Tag: tevent-0.10.1~137 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b406b928242c95d34568a79c10e4b004779da085;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git WHATSNEW: Document new GnuTLS 3.4.7 requirement Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett Reviewed-by: Gary Lockyer Autobuild-User(master): Andrew Bartlett Autobuild-Date(master): Tue Aug 27 06:01:50 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-184 --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 9abc4538125..c3b99dbee80 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -17,6 +17,28 @@ NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== +GnuTLS 3.4.7 required +--------------------- + +Samba is making efforts to remove in-tree cryptographic functionality, +and to instead rely on externally maintained libraries. To this end, +Samba has chosen GnuTLS as our standard cryptographic provider. + +Samba now requires GnuTLS 3.4.7 to be installed (including development +headers at build time) for all configurations, not just the Samba AD +DC. + +NOTE WELL: The use of GnuTLS means that Samba will honour the +system-wide 'FIPS mode' (a reference to the US FIPS-140 cryptographic +standard) and so will not operate in many still common situations if +this system-wide parameter is in effect, as many of our protocols rely +on outdated cryptography. + +A future Samba version will mitigate this to some extent where good +cryptography effectively wraps bad cryptography, but for now that above +applies. + + REMOVED FEATURES ================