[Announce] Samba 3.3.3 Available for Download
Karolin Seeger
kseeger at samba.org
Wed Apr 1 13:51:34 GMT 2009
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nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone
may repay you."
Madame de Tencin
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest bugfix release release of the Samba 3.3 series.
Major enhancements in Samba 3.3.3 include:
o Migrating from 3.0.x to 3.3.x can fail to update passdb.tdb
correctly (bug #6195).
o Fix serving of files with colons to CIFS/VFS client (bug #6196).
o Fix "map readonly" (bug #6186).
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Changes
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Changes since 3.3.2:
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o Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
* BUG 6195: Don't let smbd child processes panic.
* Add backend_requires_messaging() method to libsmbconf.
* Add methods is_writeable() and wrapper smbconf_is_writeable() to libsmbconf.
* Fall back to file backend when no valid backend was found.
* Fix a memleak in dbwrap_rbt.
* Provide transaction_start|commit|cancel fns for the registry tdb.
* Speed up "net conf drop".
* Speed up "net conf import".
* Add transactions to the libsmbconf API.
* Reduce memory usage of "net conf import".
* Registry cleanup.
* Fix handling of SAMBA_VERSION_VENDOR_PATCH.
* Fix build of pam_winbind.so with static linking.
* Tidy up some convert_string_internal error cases.
o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
* BUG 6186: Fix map readonly.
* BUG 6195: Migrating from 3.0.x to 3.3.x can fail to update passdb.tdb
correctly.
* BUG 6196: Unable to serve files with colons to Linux CIFS/VFS client.
* BUG 6224: nmbd waits 5 minutes at startup before checking if it needs
to run elections.
* Allow DFS client paths to work when POSIX pathnames have been
selected.
* Try and fix the build farm RAW-STREAMS errors.
* Ensure files starting with multiple dots are hidden.
o Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
* BUG 6102: NetQueryDisplayInformation could return wrong information.
* BUG 6193: Avoid messing with sync_context in libnet_samsync_delta().
* Fix notify_printer_status_byname.
* Fix Coverity IDs 722, 762, 774, 775, 776.
o Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
* Fix build on old Heimdal based systems.
* Fix compile warning.
* Use parentheses in if condition to make negation clear.
o Andy Kelk <andy at mopoke.co.uk>
* Add dirsort module.
o Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
* BUG 6147: Fix detection of the GNU ld version.
o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
* BUG 6097: Fix smbd segfault.
* BUG 6130: Don't crash in winbindd_rpc lookup_groupmem() on unmapped
members.
* BUG 6139: Add missing whitespace in mount.cifs error message.
* Fix a malloc/talloc mismatch when cli_initialise() fails.
* Fix a valgrind error.
* Speed up "net conf list".
* Add sorted subkey cache.
* Use StrCaseCmp in the dirsort module.
* Document the dirsort module.
* Fix the build on HP/UX.
* Disable dns_sd by default.
* Add avahi detection to configure.
* Add event avahi binding.
* Use avahi to register _smb._tcp in smbd.
* Fix two memleaks in the encryption code.
* Fix a scary "fill_share_mode_lock failed" message.
o Derrell Lipman <derrell at dworkin.(none)>
* BUG 6228: Fix SMBC_open_ctx failure due to path resolve failure doesn't set
errno.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
* Don't use reserved words in smbconftort.
* Fix smb signing for fragmented trans/trans2/nttrans requests.
o Tim Prouty <tprouty at samba.org>
* Parse_packet can return NULL which is then dereferenced in
match_mailslot_name.
o Timur <timur at FreeBSD.org>
* Format the header check for netinet/ip.h more nicely.
* Fix detection of netinet/ip.h on FreeBSD.
o Alexander Zagrebin <alexz at visp.ru>
* Missing break in conversion function prevents tdb password database
update.
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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded
from:
http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/
The release notes are available online at:
http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/history/samba-3.3.3.html
Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from
http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/
Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)
--Enjoy
The Samba Team
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