[Announce] Samba 3.5.2 Available for Download

Wed Apr 7 05:15:01 MDT 2010

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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.5.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.2 include:

  o Fix smbd segfaults in _netr_SamLogon for clients sending null domain
    (bug #7237).
  o Fix smbd segfaults in "waiting for connections" message (bug #7251).
  o Fix an uninitialized variable read in smbd (bug #7254).
  o Fix a memleak in Winbind (bug #7278).
  o Fix Winbind reconnection to it's own domain (bug #7295).

Changes since 3.5.1
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 7231: Fix automatic building of vfs_tsmsm if gpfs and dmapi are
      present.
    * BUG 7232: Fix race conditions in CTDB persistent transactions.
    * BUG 7313: Make 'net conf addshare' atomic.
    * BUG 7314: Eliminate race condition in creating/scanning sorted subkeys in
      the registry backend.

o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 7075: Fix bug in vfs_scannedonly rmdir implementation.
    * BUG 7159: Fix handling of bad server data returns in client rpc_transport.
    * BUG 7234: Symlink delete fails but incorrectly reports success to client.
    * BUG 7255: Fix "printer admin" functionality.
    * BUG 7283: Fix smbd segfault if using vfs_acl_tdb.
    * BUG 7297: Fix smbd crashes with CUPS printers and no [printers] share defined.
    * BUG 7310: Fix DOS attribute inconsistency with MS Office.

o   Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
    * BUG 7290: Fix core dump in 'ntlm_auth' with "gss-spnego" helper.

o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 6727: Fix several printing issues.
    * BUG 7237: Fix smbd segfaults in _netr_SamLogon for clients sending
      null domain.
    * BUG 7256: Fix value-needed calculation in_spoolss_EnumPrinterData().
    * BUG 7258: Fix _winreg_QueryValue crash bugs and implement Windows
      behavior.

o   Holger Hetterich <hhetter at novell.com>
    * BUG 7203: Fix 'net share' command.

o   Michael Karcher <samba at mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
    * BUG 7269: Fix job management commands for CUPS queues.

o   Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
    * BUG 6853: Fix race condition in mount.cifs that allows user to replace
      mountpoint with a symlink.

o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 5198: Fix parsing of the gecos field.
    * BUG 7202: Fix access by multi-threaded applications.
    * BUG 7212: Fix returning of group members with 'getent group'.
    * BUG 7216: Fix the build of net_afs.c with --fake-kaserver=yes.
    * BUG 7229: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in smbd.
    * BUG 7232: Fix race conditions in CTDB persistent transactions.
    * BUG 7254: Fix an uninitialized variable read in smbd.
    * BUG 7278: Fix a memleak in Winbind.

o   Roel van Meer <rolek at alt001.com>
    * BUG 6814: Fix valgrind warning.

o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 7170: Never mark external domains as internal in Winbind.
    * BUG 7225: Make Winbind logs more verbose for troubleshooting.
    * BUG 7251: Fix smbd segfault in "waiting for connections" message.
    * BUG 7295: Fix Winbind reconnection to it's own domain.
    * BUG 7316: Winbind possibly segfaults when trying a trusted domain without
      inbound trust.

o   SATOH Fumiyasu <fumiyas at osstech.co.jp>
    * BUG 1206: Fix segfault if hide files or veto files has no ".AppleDouble".

o   Simo Sorce <idra at samba.org>
    * BUG 7204: Fix DN parsing name was always null.

o   Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org>
    * BUG 7312: Many disconnecting clients render clustered Samba unusuable
      for some time.

o   Bo Yang <boyang at samba.org>
    * BUG 7206: Signals are processed twice in child.

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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 3.5 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).

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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
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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/stable

The release notes are available online at:

        http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.2.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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