Samba
Roadmap to 3.0
Page Last Updated : 5 Mar, 2003
Estimated shipdate : When it is ready.
Current Alpha Release : Samba-3.0alpha22
Road to 3.0
Binary packages for RedHat Linux 6.x, 7.x and 8.0 systems of the Samba 3.0alpha22 release are ready for download from the Binary_Packages/RedHat directory.
Binary packages for RedHat Linux 7.x and 8.0 systems of the Samba 3.0alpha21 release are ready for download from the Binary_Packages/RedHat directory.
With the release of 3.0alpha20, the SAMBA_3_0 cvs branch is now being officially maintained in an effort to stabilize certain features. If you would like to continue to test the soon-to-be-3.0 code base, please use this branch tag when checking out the cvs tree.
Roadmap Overview
This is a feature list/roadmap for the 3.0 release. A lot of discussion has gone on about this. Implementation is a separate discussion :-) If a feature is already done, I marked it as "Req". It should be obvious from this roadmap that one the major hurdles for releasing the 3.0 code base is the completion of documentation updates.
Some features have been through basic testing that have o's beneath testing column since we are not done. Items are ordered by maturity, not by importance. If it is marked as Required, then it must be completed for a stable 3.0 release.
| Feature | Required? | Code | Test | Document |
| Release Delaying Features | ||||
| UNICODE support | yes | X | X | o |
| Windows 2000 AD client support | yes | X | X | o |
| winbind dual-daemon implementation | yes | X | X | o |
| pluggable passdb support | yes | X | X | X |
| Windows NT 4.0 Style Trust Relationship | yes | X | o | o |
| NTLMv2 | yes | X | o | o |
| One Time Migration script from a Windows NT 4.0 PDC to a Samba PDC | yes | X | o | o |
| Winbind working with Samba PDC | yes | X | o | o |
| Loadable RPC implementations | yes | o | o | o |
| hook for utilizing a centralized winbindd id map database | yes | o | o | o |
| Group Mapping support(privileges need some work, etc...) | yes | o | o | o |
| Publishing printers in AD (probably will make 3.0 but will not delay release) | yes | in-progress | o | o |
| Non-Release Delaying Features | ||||
| Stackable VFS | no | X | o | X |
| SAM replication (full implementation still lacks some decoding work; post 3.0) | no | - | - | - |
| SMB signing (needs more research; not a show stopper) | no | - | - | - |
| schannel, ntlmv2 sign & seal (needs more research) | no | in-progress | - | - |
Plus the following interesting, but non-show stopping projects
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