The Samba Team is proud to announce the availability of the
first beta release of the Samba 3.0.0 code base. While we are
significantly closer to the final release, I will remind you that
this is a non-production release provided for testing only.
The source code can be downloaded from :
http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/beta/
The uncompressed tarball and patch file have been signed using
GnuPG. The Samba public key is available at
http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-pubkey.asc
Binary packages for RedHat, also signed by the Samba public key,
have been released and can be found at
http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/
Others will be available as they are submitted by
volunteers.
A simplified version of the CVS log of updates since 3.0alpha24
can be found in the the download directory under the name
ChangeLog-3.0alpha24-3.0.0beta1. The Release Notes are available
on-line at
http://www.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta.html
We are also taking this opportunity to beta test our new
Bugzilla server. The intent is to replace the old jitterbug
installation (bugs.samba.org/).
The new bug tracking system is located at
Please search for existing bugs before filing new reports. As
always, all bugs are our responsibility.
–Enjoy
The Samba Team