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Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:41:08 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-001
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Hi Cygwin friends and users,


I just released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release,
now called 1.7.34-001.  Nothing much has changed compared to the former
test release 1.7.33-0.8.  The new subversion number 001 is used because
the dot in the number seem to make problems in the Setup installer.


If you want to help testing this new release (which I seriously hope
for), you can find it in your setup-x86.exe or setup-x86_64.exe as
"test" release.


The major change in this new release is the new method to read account
(passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly,
without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to
generate Unix-like uid and gid.

For your convenience I wrote new documentation.  Since this is a TEST
prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet.
Rather have a look at

  https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html

If you read it
(which I seriously hope for) and it's all just incomprehensible
gobbledygook to you, please say so on the mailing list

  cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

so we have a chance to improve the documentation.

Please give this TEST release a try.

If you find problems in the new features or regressions compared to the
current stable release 1.7.33, please report them to the public mailing
list

  cygwin AT cygwin DOT com


Following is a list of changes in this new release:


What's new:
-----------

- Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows
  user databases (local SAM or Active Directory), thus allowing to run
  Cygwin without having to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
  Introduce /etc/nsswitch.conf file to configure passwd/group handling.

  For bordercase which require to use /etc/passwd and /etc/group files,
  change mkpasswd/mkgroup to generate passwd/group entries compatible
  with the entries read from SAM/AD.

- Add -b/--remove-all option to setfacl to reduce the ACL to only the
  entries representing POSIX permission bits.

- Provide Cygwin documentation (PDFs and HTML) for offline usage in
  /usr/share/doc/cygwin-${version}.


What changed:
-------------

- Revamp Solaris ACL implementation to more closely work like POSIX ACLs
  are supposed to work.  Finally implement a CLASS_OBJ emulation.  Update
  getfacl(1)/setfacl(1) accordingly.

- The xdr functions are no longer exported for newly built executables.
  Use libtirpc-devel instead.


To install 32-bit Cygwin use http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe
To install 64 bit Cygwin use http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe

If you're already running a 32 bit version of Cygwin on 64 bit Windows
machines, you can continue to do so.  If you're planning a new install
of Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows machine, consider to use the new 64 bit
Cygwin version, unless you need certain packages not yet available in
the 64 bit release.


Have fun,
Corinna

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