De ontwikkelaars van Samba zijn druk bezig en de eerste preview van versie 3.0.21 staat al weer op de planken. Samba draait op onder andere Linux-servers en is in staat om file- en/of printer-services aan Windows-clients te bieden. Het volledige changelog is helaas te lang om hier te vermelden maar de release notes zien er als volgt uit:
This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.21 code base and is provided for testing only. This release is *not* intended for production servers. There has been a substantial amount of development since the 3.0.20 series of stable releases. We would like to ask the Samba community for help in testing these changes as we work towards the next significant production upgrade Samba 3.0 release.
Common bugs fixed in 3.0.21pre1 include:New features introduced in Samba 3.0.21pre1 include:
- Missing groups in a user's token when logging in via kerberos
- Incompatibilities with newer MS Windows hotfixes and embedded OS platforms
- Complete NTLMv2 support by consolidating authentication mechanism used at the CIFS and RPC layers.
- The capability to manage Unix services using the Win32 Service Control API.
- The capability to view external Unix log files via the Microsoft Event Viewer.
- New libmsrpc share library for application developers.
- Rewrite of CIFS oplock implementation.
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