From: Andreas Schneider Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:38:57 +0000 (+0200) Subject: WHATSNEW: Mention performance improvements for SMB3 encryption X-Git-Tag: talloc-2.3.1~384 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=04b9369656d4a7cec1c12ea614286fbfc5495eb0;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git WHATSNEW: Mention performance improvements for SMB3 encryption Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett Reviewed-by: Ralph Boehme Autobuild-User(master): Ralph Böhme Autobuild-Date(master): Thu Oct 10 09:41:26 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-184 --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 2a774ace6d7..dccb44dbd27 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ 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. +Using GnuTLS for SMB3 encryption you will notice huge performance and copy +speed improvements. Tests with the CIFS Kernel client from Linux Kernel 5.3 +show a 3x speed improvement for writing and a 2.5x speed improvement for reads! + 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