Samba 4 is now slated for release on November 27

Samba 4.0 – complete with a Microsoft-compatible Active Directory controller – is now slated for release on November 27 — for real. 

The fourth release candidate of the open source  platform was released today and the fifth release candidate is slated for release on November 13. If all goes well, the final version is expected to be released by the end of November, one Samba project manager said today.