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See the 67 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc4.html">Release Notes</a> for more details. 68 </li> 69</ul> 70<ul> 71 <li>(8th Sep, 2003) <em>The third release candidate of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download</em> 72 <p>Samba-3.0.0rc3 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the 73 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc3.html">Release Notes</a> for more details. 74 </li> 75</ul> 76<ul> 77 <li>(29th Aug, 2003) <em>The second release candidate of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download</em> 78 <p>Samba-3.0.0rc2 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the 79 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc2.html">Release Notes</a> for more details. 80 </li> 81</ul> 82<ul> 83 <li>(16th Aug, 2003) <em>The first release candidate of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download</em> 84 <p>Samba-3.0.0rc1 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the 85 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc1.html">Release Notes</a> for more details. 86 </li> 87</ul> 88<ul> 89 <li>(16th Jul, 2003) <em>The third beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download</em> 90 <p>Samba-3.0.0beta3 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the 91 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta3.html">Release Notes</a> for more details. This 92 could be the last beta release before moving onto 3.0.0 release candidates. 93 </li> 94</ul> 95<ul> 96 <li>(1st Jul, 2003) <em>The second beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download</em> 97 <p>Samba-3.0.0beta2 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the 98 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta2.html">Release Notes</a> for more details. 99 </li> 100</ul> 101<ul> 102 <li>(7th Jun, 2003) <em>The first beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download</em> 103 <p>Samba-3.0.0beta1 is now available in source form from samba.org. See the 104 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta1.html">Release Notes</a> for more details. 105 </li> 106</ul> 107<ul> 108 <li>(14th May, 2003) <em>The Feature Freeze is in place with the 3.0alpha24 release</em> 109 <p>The 3.0alpha24 release is provided to aid developers in testing Samba 110 in preparation for the first beta release of 3.0 tenatively planned for May 26. 111 Refer to the <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/samba.html">main page on samba.org</a> 112 for download locations. 113 </li> 114</ul> 115 116<ul> 117 <li>(5th May, 2003) <em>Feature Freeze and Samba 3.0 beta release dates</em> 118 <p>The Samba Team has agreed to push the feature freeze for Samba 3.0 119 development to May 12, 2003. Following this will be two weeks of testing 120 with the first planned beta release of Samba 3.0 on May 26. Following 121 the open-ended beta period will be preview (preX) releases, followed by 122 release candidate builds (rcX) and finally 3.0.0. There is no estimated 123 shipping date on the initial stable 3.0.0 release. 124 <p>Here is the <a href="http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2003-May/044597.html">mail 125 sent to samba-technical</a> describing the reasons for the delay. 126 </li> 127</ul> 128 129 130<ul> 131 <li>(31st Mar, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0alpha23 RPMS for Redhat 6.x, 7.x and 8.0 available</em> 132 <p>Binary packages for RedHat Linux 6.x, 7.x and 8.0 systems of the Samba 3.0alpha23 133 release are ready for download from the 134 <a href="http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat">Binary_Packages/RedHat</a> directory. 135 </li> 136</ul> 137 138 139<h3>Roadmap Overview</h3> 140 141<p>This is a feature list/roadmap for the 3.0 release. A lot of discussion 142has gone on about this. Implementation is a separate discussion :-) 143If a feature is already done, I marked it as "Req". It should be obvious 144from this roadmap that one the major hurdles for releasing the 3.0 code base 145is the completion of documentation updates. 146 147<ul> 148 <li>X = done 149 <li>o = TODO 150 <li>- = unknown 151</ul> 152 153<p> 154Some features have been through basic testing that have 155<b>o</b>'s beneath testing column since we are not done. 156Items are ordered by maturity, not by importance. If it 157is marked as <em>Required</em>, then it must be completed 158for a stable 3.0 release. 159 160<p> 161<table border="0" width="100%"> 162 <tr> 163 <td width=50%><h3>Feature</h3></td> 164 <td align=center><h3>Required?</h3></td> 165 <td align=center><h3>Code</h3></td> 166 <td align=center><h3>Test</h3></td> 167 <td align=center><h3>Document</h3></td> 168 </tr> 169 170 <tr> 171 <td><em><u>Release Delaying Features</u></em></td> 172 </tr> 173 174 <tr> 175 <td width=50%>UNICODE support</td> 176 <td align=center>yes</td> 177 <td align=center>X</td> 178 <td align=center>X</td> 179 <td align=center>X</td> 180 </tr> 181 182 <tr> 183 <td width=50%>Windows 2000 AD client support</td> 184 <td align=center>yes</td> 185 <td align=center>X</td> 186 <td align=center>X</td> 187 <td align=center>X</td> 188 </tr> 189 190 <tr> 191 <td width=50%>winbind dual-daemon implementation</td> 192 <td align=center>yes</td> 193 <td align=center>X</td> 194 <td align=center>X</td> 195 <td align=center>X</td> 196 </tr> 197 198 <tr> 199 <td width=50%>pluggable passdb support</td> 200 <td align=center>yes</td> 201 <td align=center>X</td> 202 <td align=center>X</td> 203 <td align=center>X</td> 204 </tr> 205 206 <tr> 207 <td width=50%>Windows NT 4.0 Style Trust Relationship</td> 208 <td align=center>yes</td> 209 <td align=center>X</td> 210 <td align=center>X</td> 211 <td align=center>X</td> 212 </tr> 213 214 <tr> 215 <td width=50%>NTLMv2</td> 216 <td align=center>yes</td> 217 <td align=center>X</td> 218 <td align=center>X</td> 219 <td align=center>X</td> 220 </tr> 221 222 <tr> 223 <td width=50%>One Time Migration script from a Windows NT 224 4.0 PDC to a Samba PDC</td> 225 <td align=center>yes</td> 226 <td align=center>X</td> 227 <td align=center>X</td> 228 <td align=center>X</td> 229 </tr> 230 231 <tr> 232 <td width=50%>Winbind working with Samba PDC</td> 233 <td align=center>yes</td> 234 <td align=center>X</td> 235 <td align=center>X</td> 236 <td align=center>X</td> 237 </tr> 238 239 <tr> 240 <td width=50%>Loadable RPC implementations</td> 241 <td align=center>yes</td> 242 <td align=center>X</td> 243 <td align=center>X</td> 244 <td align=center>X</td> 245 </tr> 246 247 <tr> 248 <td width=50%>Utilizing a centralized winbindd id map database</td> 249 <td align=center>yes</td> 250 <td align=center>X</td> 251 <td align=center>X</td> 252 <td align=center>o</td> 253 </tr> 254 255 <tr> 256 <td width=50%>Mapping between Windows and UNIX groups</td> 257 <td align=center>yes</td> 258 <td align=center>X</td> 259 <td align=center>X</td> 260 <td align=center>X</td> 261 </tr> 262 263 <tr> 264 <td width=50%>Publishing printers in AD</td> 265 <td align=center>yes</td> 266 <td align=center>X</td> 267 <td align=center>X</td> 268 <td align=center>o</td> 269 </tr> 270 271 <tr> 272 <td> </td> 273 </tr> 274 275 <tr> 276 <td><em><u>Non-Release Delaying Features</u></em></td> 277 </tr> 278 279 <tr> 280 <td width=50%>Stackable VFS</td> 281 <td align=center>no</td> 282 <td align=center>X</td> 283 <td align=center>X</td> 284 <td align=center>X</td> 285 </tr> 286 <tr> 287 <td width=50%>SAM replication (full implementation still lacks 288 some decoding work; post 3.0)</td> 289 <td align=center>no</td> 290 <td align=center>-</td> 291 <td align=center>-</td> 292 <td align=center>-</td> 293 </tr> 294 295 <tr> 296 <td width=50%>SMB signing (needs more research; not a show stopper)</td> 297 <td align=center>no</td> 298 <td align=center>X</td> 299 <td align=center>X</td> 300 <td align=center>X</td> 301 </tr> 302 303 <tr> 304 <td width=50%>schannel, ntlmv2 sign & seal (needs more research)</td> 305 <td align=center>no</td> 306 <td align=center>X</td> 307 <td align=center>X</td> 308 <td align=center>X</td> 309 </tr> 310 311 <tr> 312 <td width=50%>alternative backend for WINS database (there is a patch that still needs some work)</td> 313 <td align=center>no</td> 314 <td align=center>in-progress</td> 315 <td align=center>-</td> 316 <td align=center>-</td> 317 </tr> 318 319 <tr> 320 <td width=50%>Group policy objects, profiles, and SYSVOL replication protocols</td> 321 <td align=center>no</td> 322 <td align=center>in-progress</td> 323 <td align=center>-</td> 324 <td align=center>-</td> 325 </tr> 326</table> 327 328 329<p> 330Plus the following interesting, but non-show stopping projects 331 332<ul> 333 <li>background updates of print queues via a dedicated process 334 <li>WINS replication with Windows NT WINS servers 335</ul> 336 337 338 339</td> 340<td></td> 341</tr> 342 343 <TR ALIGN="center"> 344 <TD COLSPAN="3"><BR><BR><BR><img src="/samba/images/bar1.gif" WIDTH="493" HEIGHT="26" BORDER="0" alt="=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-="></TD> 345 </TR> 346 <TR> 347 <TD COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center"> 348 <em>samba - opening windows to a wider world</em> 349 </TD> 350 </TR> 351</TABLE> 352 353<table align="center"> 354<tr><td> 355<form method="post" action="http://de.samba.org/cgi-bin/htsearch"> 356<input type="text" size="30" name="words" value=""> 357<input type="submit" value="Search"> 358</form> 359</td> 360</tr></table> 361 362<!--#include virtual="/samba/local_footer.html" --> 363</BODY> 364</HTML> 365