Version 3.4.3was released 29 October 2009. This is the first release that includes both Samba 3 and Samba 4 source code. Version 3.3.0 was released 27 January 2009 and is now at version 3.3.9 in this branch. It will be updated on an as-needed basis for security issues only and its current release is 3.2.15 from 1 October 2009. Version 3.2.0 was released on 1 July 2008. The main technical change in version 3.2 was to autogenerate much of the DCE/RPC-code that used to be handcrafted. New features will only be added when a major release is done, point-releases will be only for bug fixes. New major releases, such as 3.3, 3.4 etc will appear every 6 months. With version 3.2, the project decided to move to time-based releases. Version 3.1 was used only for development. The 3.0.x series officially reached end-of-life on 5 August 2009. Currently, the latest release in this series is 3.0.37, released 1 October 2009, and shipped on a voluntary basis. Samba gained the ability to join Active Directory as a member, though not as a domain controller.Subsequent point-releases to 3.0 have added minor new features. Version 3.0.0, released on, was a major upgrade. Version 2.0.0 was released in January 1999, and version 2.2.0 in April 2001. Tridgell considers the adoption of CVS in May 1996 to mark the birth of the Samba Team, though there had been contributions from other people, especially Jeremy Allison, previously. Versions 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9 followed relatively quickly, with the latter being released in January 1995. The name "Samba" was derived by running the Unix command grep through the system dictionary looking for words that contained the letters S, M, and B, in that order. However, Tridgell got a trademark notice from the company "Syntax", who sold a product named TotalNet Advanced Server and owned the trademark for "SMBserver". Midway through the 1.5-series, the name was changed to smbserver. Also, at this time GPL2 was chosen as license. This release was the first to include client-software as well as a server. With a focus on interoperability with Microsoft's LAN Manager, Tridgell released "netbios for unix", nbserver, version 1.5 in December 1993. At the time of version 1.0, he realized that he "had in fact implemented the netbios protocol" and that "this software could be used with other PC clients". At the time of the first releases, versions 0.1, 0.5 and 1.0, all from the first half of January 1992, it didn't have a proper name, and Tridgell just called it "a Unix file server for Dos Pathworks". We bet that many exciting features will be prepared for the ReactOS 0.5 release, but one that caught our attention recently is the improved msstyles (Microsoft Windows styles) support for ReactOS, which is currently being polished by a contributor who goes by the name Giannis.Andrew Tridgell developed the first version of Samba Unix in December 1991 and January 1992, as a PhD student at the Australian National University, using a packet sniffer to do network analysis of the protocol used by DEC PATHWORKS server software. While some of you have already managed to install ReactOS 0.4.4 on their personal computers, you should know that the development team is currently working hard on the next major update, ReactOS 0.5. ReactOS 0.4.4 arrived last week as the latest maintenance update to the stable 0.4 series of the open source Windows-compatible operating system, bringing better rendering for many applications and initial printing support.
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