[Announce] Samba 3.5.9 Available for Download

Tue Jun 14 06:28:49 MDT 2011

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				 My schedule is already full."

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

Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.9 include:

o  Sgid bit lost on folder rename (bug #7996).
o  ACL can get lost when files are being renamed (bug #7987).
o  Respect "allow trusted domains = no" in Winbind (bug #6966).

Changes since 3.5.8:
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o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 6911: Kerberos authentication from Vista to Samba fails when security
      blob size is greater than 16 kB.
    * BUG 7080: Quota only shown when logged as root.
    * BUG 7528: Fix Solaris with NIS autohome.
    * BUG 7987: ACL can get lost when files are being renamed.
    * BUG 7996: sgid bit lost on folder rename.
    * BUG 8040: Fix 'smbclient' segfaults when a Cyrillic netbios name or
      workgroup is configured.
    * BUG 8072: Fix panic in create_file_acl_common.
    * BUG 8038: Fix is_myname_or_ipaddr() to be robust against strange DNS
      setups.
    * BUG 8083: "inherit owner = yes" doesn't interact correctly with
      vfs_acl_xattr or vfs_acl_tdb module.
    * BUG 8088: Fix segfault in rpccli_samr_chng_pswd_auth_crap if any input
      blobs are null.
    * BUG 8111: CIFS VFS: Fix unexpected error on SMB posix open.
    * BUG 8157: Fix parsing CUPS printcap files in std_pcap_cache_reload().
    * BUG 8163: Fix our asn.1 parser to handle negative numbers.
    * BUG 8211: "inherit owner = yes" doesn't interact correctly with "inherit
      permissions = yes".

o   Christian Ambach <ambi at samba.org>
    * BUG 8008: Fix a segfault in the krb5 locator plugin.
    * BUG 8012: Use getgrset() instead of initgroups() + getgroups() when
      getgrouplist() is not defined.
    * BUG 8031: Convert gpfs:sharemodes and gpfs:leases parameters from a
      global setting to a per share setting.

o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 7893: Don't ever ask for machine$ principals as a target.

o   Björn Baumbach <bb at sernet.de>
    * BUG 8074: Fix debug message.

o   Dmitry Butskoy <dmitry at butskoy.name>
    * BUG 6966: Respect "allow trusted domains = no" in Winbind.

o   Marc A. Dahlhaus <mad at wol.de>
    * BUG 8047: Fix mdns registration if "interfaces=" is used.

o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 7993: Make sure we don't crash when publishing a single printer.
    * BUG 8085: Fix incorrect timeout handling in ncacn_ip_tcp client code.
    * BUG 8132: Fix filling printers location field when using CUPS.

o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at suse.de>
    * BUG 7836: Make newly added printers visible to clients.
    * BUG 7994: Use printcap IDL for IPC.

o   Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
    * BUG 7825: Fix GNU ld version detection with old gcc releases.
    * BUG 8033: Add explicit configure option whether to enable dmapi
      support or not.

o   Sergey Korsak <skif at 1plus1.net>
    * BUG 8099: setpwent() actually does endpwent() on FreeBSD.

o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 8009: Fix getting username in 'net rap session'.
    * BUG 8011: Fix memory corruption in shadow_copy2.
    * BUG 8016: Fix gpfs_get_xattr.
    * BUG 8042: File creation on OS/X.
    * BUG 8054: Winbind cache stores/retrieves wrong sizes for 16-bit ints.
    * BUG 8066: Fix wrong output in 'smbget'.
    * BUG 8087: Fix wbcChangeUserPasswordEx in RESPONSE mode.

o   Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya at gmail.com>
    * BUG 8010: Fix inode generation so nautilus can count total dir size
      correctly.

o   Jim McDonough <jmcd at samba.org>
    * BUG 6364: Pull realm from supplied username on libnet join.
    * BUG 8166: Don't lockout users when offline.

o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 7383: Normalize IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses in both directions.
    * BUG 8034: SEC_STD_DELETE is always granted to the owner of a file.

o   Larry Reid <lcreid at jadesystems.ca>
    * BUG 8055: Can't see Parts of DFS CIFS share.

o   Simo Sorce <idra at samba.org>
    * BUG 7610: winbindd_cache.tdb grows too large when scaled.

o   Martin Vogt <martin.vogt at itwm.fraunhofer.de>
    * BUG 6762: Fix ctdb on gpfs error with MS Office.

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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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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-3.5.9.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