Roadmap
Introduction
This page describes the bigger next steps in the development of Samba. The purpose is to point out the broader direction into which Samba is heading.
If a feature listed below is flagged as FUNDED, this means that someone is currently being paid to work on it. Hence there are realistic chances that this feature might be completed in a reasonably short time frame. For all other features, further involvement is needed: Otherwise it could even take years to complete even if a feature is flagged as work in progress (WIP), since these are usually being worked on in someone's spare time.
Involvement is highly welcome and can come in various guises: manpower for coding, testing, documentation, ...
Contact the Samba Team go get involved!
Features
File Server (smbd)
Infrastructure
- s4u2self (Correct authorization in complex AD topologies on Linux AD member for non-SMB acccess)
- ksmbd integration
SMB2/SMB3
- SMB3 Compression
- Clustering, Scale-out
Clustering - CTDB
- Split up locking.tdb for better scaling of per-file concurrent access
File Systems
Support for special features of various file systems, especially cluster file systems, typically through VFS modules.
- gpfs (FUNDED)
- CephFS (FUNDED)
Performance
Performance tuning and optimizations:
- Fully leverage iouring for zero-copy IO minimizing context switches (FUNDED)
- Performance in clusters, TDB/CTDB
- Parallel, small I/O (HyperV) workload
Print Server (smbd|spoolssd)
- 'MS-PAR'
- SPOOLSS
- Improve Spoolss Server performance
- Improve Spoolss Testsuite
- Improve Winreg performance
Active Directory Server
- S4U2Self, S4U2Proxy, PKINIT ... You can find more details at: Roadmap_MIT_KDC
- Two-way forest trusts
- The_Samba_AD_DNS_Back_Ends
- Directory Replication Service (DRS)
- sysvol Replication (FRS/DFSR)
- Read-only Domain Controller (RODC)
- Subdomain support
- One way trusts
- Support all LSA and Netlogon server functions
DCERPC infrastructure
The RPC server infrastructure component is of crucial importance for both the file server and the active directory server. A few tasks in for the RPC server are prerequisites for higher level features in the file server and the active directory server. See DCERPC for details.
- Merge source3 and source4 client implementations
- Make RPC client implementation fully asynchronuous
- Merge endpoint mapper implementations
- Async schannel (NETLOGON) client
- Merge crypto handling for samlogon cred validation
- Merge libnetjoin interfaces