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============================= Release Notes for Samba 4.5.0 September 7, 2016 ============================= This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.5 release series. UPGRADING ========= NTLMv1 authentication disabled by default ----------------------------------------- In order to improve security we have changed the default value for the "ntlm auth" option from "yes" to "no". This may have impact on very old clients which doesn't support NTLMv2 yet. The primary user of NTLMv1 is MSCHAPv2 for VPNs and 802.1x. By default, Samba will only allow NTLMv2 via NTLMSSP now, as we have the following default "lanman auth = no", "ntlm auth = no" and "raw NTLMv2 auth = no". NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== Support for LDAP_SERVER_NOTIFICATION_OID ---------------------------------------- The ldap server has support for the LDAP_SERVER_NOTIFICATION_OID control. This can be used to monitor the Active Directory database for changes. KCC improvements for sparse network replication ----------------------------------------------- The Samba KCC will now be the default knowledge consistency checker in Samba AD. Instead of using full mesh replication between every DC, the KCC will set up connections to optimize replication latency and cost (using site links to calculate the routes). This change should allow larger domains to function significantly better in terms of replication traffic and the time spent performing DRS replication. VLV - Virtual List View ----------------------- The VLV Control allows applications to page the LDAP directory in the way you might expect a live phone book application to operate, without first downloading the entire directory. DRS Replication for the AD DC ----------------------------- DRS Replication in Samba 4.5 is now much more efficient in handling linked attributes, particularly in large domains with over 1000 group memberships or other links. Replication is also much more reliable in the handling of tree renames, such as the rename of an organizational unit containing many users. Extensive tests have been added to ensure this code remains reliable, particularly in the case of conflicts between objects added with the same name on different servers. Schema updates are also handled much more reliably. samba-tool drs replicate with new options ----------------------------------------- 'samba-tool drs replicate' got two new options: The option '--local-online' will do the DsReplicaSync() via IRPC to the local dreplsrv service. The option '--async-op' will add DRSUAPI_DRS_ASYNC_OP to the DsReplicaSync(), which won't wait for the replication result. replPropertyMetaData Changes ---------------------------- During the development of the DRS replication, tests showed that Samba stores the replPropertyMetaData object incorrectly. To address this, be aware that 'dbcheck' will now detect and offer to fix all objects in the domain for this error. For further information and instructions how to fix the problem, see https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba#Fixing_replPropertyMetaData_Attributes Linked attributes on deleted objects ------------------------------------ In Active Directory, an object that has been tombstoned or recycled has no linked attributes. However, Samba incorrectly maintained such links, slowing replication and run-time performance. 'dbcheck' now offers to remove such links, and they are no longer kept after the object is tombstoned or recycled. Improved AD DC performance -------------------------- Many other improvements have been made to our LDAP database layer in the AD DC, to improve performance, both during 'samba-tool domain provision' and at runtime. Other dbcheck improvements -------------------------- - 'samba-tool dbcheck' can now find and fix a missing or corrupted 'deleted objects' container. - BUG 11433: samba-dbcheck no longer offers to resort auxiliary class values in objectClass as these were then re-sorted at the next dbcheck indefinitely. Tombstone Reanimation --------------------- Samba now supports tombstone reanimation, a feature in the AD DC allowing tombstones, that is objects which have been deleted, to be restored with the original SID and GUID still in place. Multiple DNS Forwarders on the AD DC ------------------------------------ Previously, the Samba internal DNS server supported only one DNS forwarder. The "dns forwarder" option has been enhanced and now supports a space-separated list of multiple DNS server IP addresses. As a result, Samba is now able to fall back to alternative DNS servers. In case that a DNS query to the first server timed out, it is sent to the next DNS server listed in the option. Password quality plugin support in the AD DC -------------------------------------------- The check password script now operates correctly in the AD DC. pwdLastSet is now correctly honoured ------------------------------------ BUG 9654: The pwdLastSet attribute is now correctly handled (this previously permitted passwords that expire next). net ads dns unregister ---------------------- It is now possible to remove the DNS entries created with 'net ads register' with the matching 'net ads unregister' command. samba-tool improvements ------------------------ Running 'samba-tool' on the command line should now be a lot snappier. The tool now only loads the code specific to the subcommand that you wish to run. SMB 2.1 Leases enabled by default --------------------------------- Leasing is an SMB 2.1 (and higher) feature which allows clients to aggressively cache files locally above and beyond the caching allowed by SMB 1 oplocks. This feature was disabled in previous releases, but the SMB2 leasing code is now considered mature and stable enough to be enabled by default. Open File Description (OFD) Locks --------------------------------- On systems that support them (currently only Linux), the fileserver now uses Open File Description (OFD) locks instead of POSIX locks to implement client byte range locks. As these locks are associated with a specific file descriptor on a file this allows more efficient use when multiple descriptors having file locks are opened onto the same file. An internal tunable "smbd:force process locks = true" may be used to turn off OFD locks if there appear to be problems with them. Password sync as Active Directory domain controller --------------------------------------------------- The new commands 'samba-tool user getpassword' and 'samba-tool user syncpasswords' provide access and syncing of various password fields. If compiled with GPGME support (--with-gpgme) it's possible to store cleartext passwords in a PGP/OpenGPG encrypted form by configuring the new "password hash gpg key ids" option. This requires gpgme devel and python packages to be installed (e.g. libgpgme11-dev and python-gpgme on Debian/Ubuntu). Python crypto requirements -------------------------- Some 'samba-tool' subcommands require python-crypto and/or python-m2crypto packages to be installed. SmartCard/PKINIT improvements ----------------------------- 'samba-tool user create' accepts "--smartcard-required" and 'samba-tool user setpassword' accepts "--smartcard-required" and "--clear-smartcard-required". Specifying "--smartcard-required" results in the UF_SMARTCARD_REQUIRED flags being set in the userAccountControl attribute. At the same time, the account password is reset to a random NTHASH value. Interactive password logons are rejected, if the UF_SMARTCARD_REQUIRED bit is set in the userAccountControl attribute of a user. When doing a PKINIT based Kerberos logon the KDC adds the required PAC_CREDENTIAL_INFO element to the authorization data. That means the NTHASH is shared between the PKINIT based client and the domain controller, which allows the client to do NTLM based authentication on behalf of the user. It also allows an offline logon using a smartcard to work on Windows clients. CTDB changes ------------ * New improved 'ctdb tool' 'ctdb tool' has been completely rewritten using new client API. Usage messages are much improved. * Sample CTDB configuration file is installed as ctdbd.conf. * The use of real-time scheduling when taking locks has been narrowed to limit potential performance impacts on nodes. * CTDB_RECOVERY_LOCK now supports specification of an external helper to take and hold the recovery lock. See the RECOVERY LOCK section in ctdb(7) for details. Documentation for writing helpers is provided in doc/cluster_mutex_helper.txt. * "ctdb natgwlist" has been replaced by a top level "ctdb natgw" command that has "master", "list" and "status" subcommands. * The 'onnode' command no longer supports the "recmaster", "lvs" and "natgw" node specifications. * Faster resetting of TCP connections to public IP addresses during failover. * Tunables MaxRedirectCount, ReclockPingPeriod, DeferredRebalanceOnNodeAdd are now obsolete/ignored. * "ctdb listvars" now lists all variables, including the first one. * "ctdb xpnn", "ctdb rebalanceip" and "ctdb rebalancenode" have been removed. These are not needed because "ctdb reloadips" should do the correct rebalancing. * Output for the following commands has been simplified: ctdb getdbseqnum ctdb getdebug ctdb getmonmode ctdb getpid ctdb getreclock ctdb getpid ctdb pnn These now simply print the requested output with no preamble. This means that scripts no longer need to strip part of the output. "ctdb getreclock" now prints nothing when the recovery lock is not set. * Output for the following commands has been improved: ctdb setdebug ctdb uptime * 'ctdb process-exists' has been updated to only take a PID argument. The PNN can be specified with -n <PNN>. Output also cleaned up. * LVS support has been reworked - related commands and configuration variables have changed. 'ctdb lvsmaster' and 'ctdb lvs' have been replaced by a top level 'ctdb lvs' command that has 'master', 'list' and 'status' subcommands. See the LVS sections in ctdb(7) and ctdbd.conf(5) for details, including configuration changes. * Improved sample NFS Ganesha call-out. New shadow_copy2 options ------------------------ * shadow:snapprefix With growing number of snapshots file-systems need some mechanism to differentiate one set of snapshots from other, e.g. monthly, weekly, manual, special events, etc. Therefore, these file-systems provide different ways to tag snapshots, e.g. provide a configurable way to name snapshots, which is not just based on time. With only shadow:format it is very difficult to filter these snapshots. With this optional parameter, one can specify a variable prefix component for names of the snapshot directories in the file-system. If this parameter is set, together with the shadow:format and shadow:delimiter parameters it determines the possible names of snapshot directories in the file-system. The option only supports Basic Regular Expression (BRE). * shadow:delimiter This optional parameter is used as a delimiter between "shadow:snapprefix" and "shadow:format". This parameter is used only when "shadow:snapprefix" is set. Default: shadow:delimiter = "_GMT" REMOVED FEATURES ================ "only user" and "username" parameters ------------------------------------- These two parameters have long been deprecated and superseded by "valid users" and "invalid users". smb.conf changes ================ Parameter Name Description Default -------------- ----------- ------- kccsrv:samba_kcc Changed default yes ntlm auth Changed default no only user Removed password hash gpg key ids New shadow:snapprefix New shadow:delimiter New _GMT smb2 leases Changed default yes username Removed KNOWN ISSUES ============ While a lot of schema replication bugs were fixed in this release Bug 12204 - Samba fails to replicate schema 69 (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12204) is still open. The replication fails if more than 133 schema objects are added at the same time. More open bugs are listed at: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.5#All_bugs CHANGES SINCE 4.5.0rc3 ====================== o Björn Baumbach <bb@sernet.de> * BUG 12194: idmap_script: fix missing "IDTOSID" argument in scripts command line. o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> * BUG 12178: samba-tool dbcheck fails to fix replPropertyMetaData. o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> * BUG 12177: Unexpected synthesized default ACL from vfs_acl_xattr. * BUG 12181: vfs_acl_common not setting filesystem permissions anymore. * BUG 12184: Loading shared RPC modules failed. o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org> * BUG 12245: fix _spoolss_GetPrinterDataEx by moving the keyname length check. o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org> * BUG 11994: smbclient fails to connect to Azure or Apple share spnego fails with no mechListMIC. o Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net> * BUG 12180: CTDB crashes running eventscripts. CHANGES SINCE 4.5.0rc2 ====================== o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> * BUG 12155: Some idmap backends don't perform range checks for the result of sids_to_xids. o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> * BUG 12115: Endless loop on drsuapi pull replication after schema changes. * BUG 12135: net ads gpo refresh can crash with null pointer deref.. * BUG 12139: Race between break oplock and check for share_mode. * BUG 12150: SMB2 snapshot query fails on DFS shares.. * BUG 12165: smbclient allinfo doesn't correctly return 'previous version' info over SMB1. * BUG 12166: smbclient allinfo doesn't correctly return 'previous version' info over SMB2. * BUG 12174: error: 'conn' undeclared. o Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz> * BUG 12143: misnamed attribute in samba_kcc causes exception in unusual circumstances. * BUG 12187: Backport changes for partial attribute set calculation for 4.5. o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> * BUG 12107: backport backupkey tests. * BUG 12115: Endless loop on drsuapi pull replication after schema changes. * BUG 12128: Correctly resolve replicated schema changes regarding linked attributes. o Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com> * BUG 12137: Fix printf format non-liternal warnings and printf format errors. * BUG 12138: Fix uninitialized timeout in ctdb_pmda. * BUG 12151: Drop resurrected ctdb commands in new ctdb tool. * BUG 12152: Fix ctdb addip; implementation to match ctdb delip. * BUG 12163: Fix missing arguments and format elements in format strings. * BUG 12168: Fix format-nonliteral warnings. o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org> * BUG 12108: Backport selftest/autobuild fixes to v4-5-test. * BUG 12114: In memory schema updated on non schema master. * BUG 12115: Endless loop on drsuapi pull replication after schema changes. * BUG 12128: Correctly resolve replicated schema changes regarding linked attributes. * BUG 12129: let samba-tool ldapcmp ignore whenChanged. o Garming Sam <garming@catalyst.net.nz> * BUG 12187: Backport changes for partial attribute set calculation for 4.5. o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org> * BUG 12175: smbget always prompts for a username. o Christof Schmitt <cs@samba.org> * BUG 12150: SMB2 snapshot query fails on DFS shares.. o Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net> * BUG 12157: Coverity and related fixes. * BUG 12158: CTDB release IP fixes. * BUG 12161: Fix CTDB cumulative takeover timeout. * BUG 12170: CTDB test runs can kill each other's ctdbd daemons. o Uri Simchoni <uri@samba.org> * BUG 12145: smbd: if inherit owner is enabled, the free disk on a folder should take the owner's quota into account. * BUG 12149: smbd: cannot load a Windows device driver from a Samba share via SMB2. * BUG 12172: a snapshot folder cannot be accessed via SMB1. CHANGES SINCE 4.5.0rc1 ====================== o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> * BUG 12005: parse_share_modes() chokes on ctdb tombstone record from ltdb. * BUG 12105: smbclient connection to not reachable IP eats 100% CPU. o Ira Cooper <ira@samba.org> * BUG 12133: source3/wscript: Add support for disabling vfs_cephfs. o Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com> * BUG 12121: ctdb-tools: Fix numerous Coverity IDs and other issues. * BUG 12122: If a transaction fails, it should be canceled and transaction handle should be freed. * BUG 12134: dbwrap: Fix structure initialization. o Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld@samba.org> * BUG 12023: man: Fix wrong option for parameter "ldap ssl" in smb.conf man page. o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org> * BUG 12104: ctdb-waf: Move ctdb tests to libexec directory. o Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net> * BUG 12104: ctdb-packaging: Move ctdb tests to libexec directory. * BUG 12109: Fixes several CTDB tests. * BUG 12110: Fix numerous Coverity IDs. * BUG 12113: ctdb-mutex: Avoid corner case where helper is already reparented to init. * BUG 12123: Fix ctdb tickle command and update documentation. * BUG 12125: CTDB overwrites working configuration due to packaging change. * BUG 12126: Fix broken CTDB log messages.