Na ruim vier maanden van stilte heeft het ontwikkelteam achter Samba een nieuwe versie uitgebracht van het gelijknamige programma. Aangezien er in deze release zoveel veranderingen zijn aangebracht heeft men besloten om van versie 3.0.14a meteen naar 3.0.20 te springen. Samba is bedoeld voor Linux-servers en is in staat om file- en/of printer-services aan Windows-clients te bieden. De broncode kan vanaf deze ftp-lokatie of via BitTorrent. In het laatste geval wordt aangeraden de download na afloop te verifiëren aan de hand van deze GPG-hantekening. De release notes van deze versie zien er als volgt uit:
Additional features introduced in Samba 3.0.20 include:What happened to 3.0.15 - 3.0.19?
- Support for several new Win32 rpc pipes.
- Improved support for OS/2 clients.
- New 'net rpc service' tool for managing Win32 services.
- Capability to set the owner on new files and directory based on the parent's ownership.
- Experimental, asynchronous IO file serving support.
- Completed Support for Microsoft Print Migrator.
- New Winbind IDmap plugin (ad) for retrieving uid and gid from AD servers which maintain the SFU user and group attributes.
- Rewritten support for POSIX pathnames when utilizing the Linux CIFS fs client.
- New asynchronous winbindd.
- Support for Microsoft Print Migrator.
- New Windows NT registry file I/O library.
- New user right (SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege) added.
- New "net share migrate" options.
After some discussion it was deemed that the amount of changes going into the next Samba 3.0 release needed something to catch people's attention. Skipping several releases was chosen as the best solution with the least overhead. There will be no 3.0.15 - 3.0.19 ever released. The next production release following 3.0.20 should be 3.0.21.[break]
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