============================== Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0 July 1, 2008 ============================== This is the first stable release of Samba 3.2.0. Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under the version 3 of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING file that accompanies these release notes for further licensing details. Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include: File Serving: o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC interfaces. o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS. o Introduction of a registry based configuration system. o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support. o Experimental support for file serving clusters. o Support for IPv6 in the server, and client tools and libraries. o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs. o Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server. o Support for Vista clients authenticating via Kerberos. Winbind and Active Directory Integration: o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts and one-way domain trusts. o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS lookups. o Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls. o Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy. o New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so). o Support for establishing interdomain trust relationships with Windows 2008. Joining: o New NetApi library for domain join related queries (libnetapi.so) and example GTK+ Domain join gui. o New client and server support for remotely joining and unjoining Domains. o Support for joining into Windows 2008 domains.