From: Karolin Seeger Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:04:19 +0000 (+0100) Subject: WHATSNEW: Remove old entry about accelerated AES X-Git-Tag: talloc-2.1.11~306 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8860f501cdcf3e6370a107329e6f1db50718c97d;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git WHATSNEW: Remove old entry about accelerated AES Signed-off-by: Karolin Seeger Reviewed-by: Jeremy Allison --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 9a7547e4e29..9960a62f499 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -16,25 +16,6 @@ UPGRADING NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== -Using x86_64 Accelerated AES Crypto Instructions -================================================ - -Samba on x86_64 can now be configured to use the Intel accelerated AES -instruction set, which has the potential to make SMB3 signing and -encryption much faster on client and server. To enable this, configure -Samba using the new option --accel-aes=intelaesni. - -This is a temporary solution that is being included to allow users -to enjoy the benefits of Intel accelerated AES on the x86_64 platform, -but the longer-term solution will be to move Samba to a fully supported -external crypto library. - -The third_party/aesni-intel code will be removed from Samba as soon as -external crypto library performance reaches parity. - -The default is to build without setting --accel-aes, which uses the -existing Samba software AES implementation. - KDC GPO application ------------------- @@ -55,6 +36,7 @@ smb.conf changes -------------- ----------- ------- oplock contention limit Removed + NT4-style replication based net commands removed ================================================