[Samba] [Announce] Samba 4.16.0 Available for Download

Peter Eriksson pen at lysator.liu.se
Thu Mar 24 13:09:33 UTC 2022


Build of Samba 4.16.0 fails for me on FreeBSD 12.3 with:

…
PYTHONHASHSEED=1 WAF_MAKE=1  ./buildtools/bin/waf build
Waf: Entering directory `/export/software/Build/samba/samba-4.16.0/bin/default'
	Selected embedded Heimdal build
Checking project rules ...
ERROR: target pamwinbind.objlist: dependency target samba_intl is missing samba_builtin_subsystem

Reported:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15030 <https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15030>

Dunno what to do about it (probably needs to add samba_builtin_subsystem to some large samba_intl but… :-)

- Peter

> On 21 Mar 2022, at 13:40, Jule Anger via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> Release Announcements
> ---------------------
> 
> This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.16 release series.
> Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading.
> 
> 
> NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
> ====================
> 
> New samba-dcerpcd binary to provide DCERPC in the member server setup
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> In order to make it much easier to break out the DCERPC services
> from smbd, a new samba-dcerpcd binary has been created.
> 
> samba-dcerpcd can be used in two ways. In the normal case without
> startup script modification it is invoked on demand from smbd or
> winbind --np-helper to serve DCERPC over named pipes. Note that
> in order to run in this mode the smb.conf [global] section has
> a new parameter "rpc start on demand helpers = [true|false]".
> This parameter is set to "true" by default, meaning no changes to
> smb.conf files are needed to run samba-dcerpcd on demand as a named
> pipe helper.
> 
> It can also be used in a standalone mode where it is started
> separately from smbd or winbind but this requires changes to system
> startup scripts, and in addition a change to smb.conf, setting the new
> [global] parameter "rpc start on demand helpers = false". If "rpc
> start on demand helpers" is not set to false, samba-dcerpcd will
> refuse to start in standalone mode.
> 
> Note that when Samba is run in the Active Directory Domain Controller
> mode the samba binary that provides the AD code will still provide its
> normal DCERPC services whilst allowing samba-dcerpcd to provide
> services like SRVSVC in the same way that smbd used to in this
> configuration.
> 
> The parameters that allowed some smbd-hosted services to be started
> externally are now gone (detailed below) as this is now the default
> setting.
> 
> samba-dcerpcd can also be useful for use outside of the Samba
> framework, for example, use with the Linux kernel SMB2 server ksmbd or
> possibly other SMB2 server implementations.
> 
> Heimdal-8.0pre used for Samba Internal Kerberos, adds FAST support
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Samba has since Samba 4.0 included a snapshot of the Heimdal Kerberos
> implementation.  This snapshot has now been updated and will closely
> match what will be released as Heimdal 8.0 shortly.
> 
> This is a major update, previously we used a snapshot of Heimdal from
> 2011, and brings important new Kerberos security features such as
> Kerberos request armoring, known as FAST.  This tunnels ticket
> requests and replies that might be encrypted with a weak password
> inside a wrapper built with a stronger password, say from a machine
> account.
> 
> In Heimdal and MIT modes Samba's KDC now supports FAST, for the
> support of non-Windows clients.
> 
> Windows clients will not use this feature however, as they do not
> attempt to do so against a server not advertising domain Functional
> Level 2012.  Samba users are of course free to modify how Samba
> advertises itself, but use with Windows clients is not supported "out
> of the box".
> 
> Finally, Samba also uses a per-KDC, not per-realm 'cookie' to secure part of
> the FAST protocol.  A future version will align this more closely with
> Microsoft AD behaviour.
> 
> If FAST needs to be disabled on your Samba KDC, set
> 
>  kdc enable fast = no
> 
> in the smb.conf.
> 
> The Samba project wishes to thank the numerous developers who have put
> in a massive effort to make this possible over many years.  In
> particular we thank Stefan Metzmacher, Joseph Sutton, Gary Lockyer,
> Isaac Boukris and Andrew Bartlett.  Samba's developers in turn thank
> their employers and in turn their customers who have supported this
> effort over many years.
> 
> Certificate Auto Enrollment
> ---------------------------
> 
> Certificate Auto Enrollment allows devices to enroll for certificates from
> Active Directory Certificate Services. It is enabled by Group Policy.
> To enable Certificate Auto Enrollment, Samba's group policy will need to be
> enabled by setting the smb.conf option `apply group policies` to Yes. Samba
> Certificate Auto Enrollment depends on certmonger, the cepces certmonger
> plugin, and sscep. Samba uses sscep to download the CA root chain, then uses
> certmonger paired with cepces to monitor the host certificate templates.
> Certificates are installed in /var/lib/samba/certs and private keys are
> installed in /var/lib/samba/private/certs.
> 
> Ability to add ports to dns forwarder addresses in internal DNS backend
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The internal DNS server of Samba forwards queries non-AD zones to one or more
> configured forwarders. Up until now it has been assumed that these forwarders
> listen on port 53. Starting with this version it is possible to configure the
> port using host:port notation. See smb.conf for more details. Existing setups
> are not affected, as the default port is 53.
> 
> CTDB changes
> ------------
> 
> * The "recovery master" role has been renamed "leader"
> 
>   Documentation and logs now refer to "leader".
> 
>   The following ctdb tool command names have changed:
> 
>     recmaster -> leader
>     setrecmasterrole -> setleaderrole
> 
>   Command output has changed for the following commands:
> 
>     status
>     getcapabilities
> 
>   The "[legacy] -> recmaster capability" configuration option has been
>   renamed and moved to the cluster section, so this is now:
> 
>     [cluster] -> leader capability
> 
> * The "recovery lock" has been renamed "cluster lock"
> 
>   Documentation and logs now refer to "cluster lock".
> 
>   The "[cluster] -> recovery lock" configuration option has been
>   deprecated and will be removed in a future version.  Please use
>   "[cluster] -> cluster lock" instead.
> 
>   If the cluster lock is enabled then traditional elections are not
>   done and leader elections use a race for the cluster lock.  This
>   avoids various conditions where a node is elected leader but can not
>   take the cluster lock.  Such conditions included:
> 
>   - At startup, a node elects itself leader of its own cluster before
>     connecting to other nodes
> 
>   - Cluster filesystem failover is slow
> 
>   The abbreviation "reclock" is still used in many places, because a
>   better abbreviation eludes us (i.e. "clock" is obvious bad) and
>   changing all instances would require a lot of churn.  If the
>   abbreviation "reclock" for "cluster lock" is confusing, please
>   consider mentally prefixing it with "really excellent".
> 
> * CTDB now uses leader broadcasts and an associated timeout to
>   determine if an election is required
> 
>   The leader broadcast timeout can be configured via new configuration
>   option
> 
>     [cluster] -> leader timeout
> 
>   This specifies the number of seconds without leader broadcasts
>   before a node calls an election.  The default is 5.
> 
> 
> REMOVED FEATURES
> ================
> 
> Older SMB1 protocol SMBCopy command removed
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> SMB is a nearly 30-year old protocol, and some protocol commands that
> while supported in all versions, have not seen widespread use.
> 
> One of those is SMBCopy, a feature for a server-side copy of a file.
> This feature has been so unmaintained that Samba has no testsuite for
> it.
> 
> The SMB1 command SMB_COM_COPY (SMB1 command number 0x29) was
> introduced in the LAN Manager 1.0 dialect and it was rendered obsolete
> in the NT LAN Manager dialect.
> 
> Therefore it has been removed from the Samba smbd server.
> 
> We do note that a fully supported and tested server-side copy is
> present in SMB2, and can be accessed with "scopy" subcommand in
> smbclient)
> 
> SMB1 server-side wildcard expansion removed
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Server-side wildcard expansion is another feature that sounds useful,
> but is also rarely used and has become problematic - imposing extra
> work on the server (both in terms of code and CPU time).
> 
> In actual OS design, wildcard expansion is handled in the local shell,
> not at the remote server using SMB wildcard syntax (which is not shell
> syntax).
> 
> In Samba 4.16 the ability to process file name wildcards in requests
> using the SMB1 commands SMB_COM_RENAME (SMB1 command number 0x7),
> SMB_COM_NT_RENAME (SMB1 command number 0xA5) and SMB_COM_DELETE (SMB1
> command number 0x6) has been removed.
> 
> SMB1 protocol has been deprecated, particularly older dialects
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> We take this opportunity to remind that we have deprecated and
> disabled by default, but not removed, the whole SMB1 protocol since
> Samba 4.11.  If needed for security purposes or code maintenance we
> will continue to remove older protocol commands and dialects that are
> unused or have been replaced in more modern SMB1 versions.
> 
> We specifically deprecate the older dialects older than "NT LM 0.12"
> (also known as "NT LANMAN 1.0" and "NT1").
> 
> Please note that "NT LM 0.12" is the dialect used by software as old
> as Windows 95, Windows NT and Samba 2.0, so this deprecation applies
> to DOS and similar era clients.
> 
> We do reassure that that 'simple' operation of older clients than
> these (eg DOS) will, while untested, continue for the near future, our
> purpose is not to cripple use of Samba in unique situations, but to
> reduce the maintaince burden.
> 
> Eventually SMB1 as a whole will be removed, but no broader change is
> announced for 4.16.
> 
> In the rare case where the above changes cause incompatibilities,
> users requiring support for these features will need to use older
> versions of Samba.
> 
> No longer using Linux mandatory locks for sharemodes
> ====================================================
> 
> smbd mapped sharemodes to Linux mandatory locks. This code in the Linux kernel
> was broken for a long time, and is planned to be removed with Linux 5.15. This
> Samba release removes the usage of mandatory locks for sharemodes and the
> "kernel share modes" config parameter is changed to default to "no". The Samba
> VFS interface is kept, so that file-system specific VFS modules can still use
> private calls for enforcing sharemodes.
> 
> 
> smb.conf changes
> ================
> 
>   Parameter Name                          Description     Default
>   --------------                          -----------     -------
>   kernel share modes                      New default     No
>   dns forwarder                           Changed
>   rpc_daemon                              Removed
>   rpc_server                              Removed
>   rpc start on demand helpers             Added           true
> 
> 
> CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc5
> =======================
> 
> o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
>    * BUG 15000: Memory leak in FAST cookie handling.
> 
> o  Elia Geretto <elia.f.geretto at gmail.com>
>    * BUG 14983: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED translates into EPERM instead of EACCES
>      in SMBC_server_internal.
> 
> o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
>    * BUG 13879: Simple bind doesn't work against an RODC (with non-preloaded
>      users).
>    * BUG 14641: Crash of winbind on RODC.
>    * BUG 15001: LDAP simple binds should honour "old password allowed period".
>    * BUG 15002: S4U2Self requests don't work against servers without FAST
>      support.
>    * BUG 15003: wbinfo -a doesn't work reliable with upn names.
>    * BUG 15005: A cross-realm kerberos client exchanges fail using KDCs with and
>      without FAST.
>    * BUG 15015: PKINIT: hdb_samba4_audit: Unhandled hdb_auth_status=9 =>
>      INTERNAL_ERROR.
> 
> o  Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz>
>    * BUG 13879: Simple bind doesn't work against an RODC (with non-preloaded
>      users).
> 
> o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
>    * BUG 15016: Regression: create krb5 conf = yes doesn't work with a single
>      KDC.
> 
> o  Joseph Sutton <josephsutton at catalyst.net.nz>
>    * BUG 15015: PKINIT: hdb_samba4_audit: Unhandled hdb_auth_status=9 =>
>      INTERNAL_ERROR.
> 
> 
> CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc4
> =======================
> 
> o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14737: Samba does not response STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER when opening 2
>      objects with same lease key.
> 
> o  Jule Anger <janger at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14999: Listing shares with smbstatus no longer works.
> 
> o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz>
>    * BUG 14996: Fix ldap simple bind with TLS auditing.
> 
> o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14995: Use Heimdal 8.0 (pre) rather than an earlier snapshot.
> 
> o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14989: Fix a use-after-free in SMB1 server.
> 
> o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14865: Uncached logon on RODC always fails once.
>    * BUG 14984: Changing the machine password against an RODC likely destroys
>      the domain join.
>    * BUG 14993: authsam_make_user_info_dc() steals memory from its struct
>      ldb_message *msg argument.
>    * BUG 14995: Use Heimdal 8.0 (pre) rather than an earlier snapshot.
> 
> o  Joseph Sutton <josephsutton at catalyst.net.nz>
>    * BUG 14995: Use Heimdal 8.0 (pre) rather than an earlier snapshot.
> 
> 
> CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc3
> =======================
> 
> o  Samuel Cabrero <scabrero at suse.de>
>    * BUG 14979: Problem when winbind renews Kerberos.
> 
> o  Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
>    * BUG 13631: DFS fix for AIX broken.
>    * BUG 14974: Solaris and AIX acl modules: wrong function arguments.
>    * BUG 7239: Function aixacl_sys_acl_get_file not declared / coredump.
> 
> o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14967: Samba autorid fails to map AD users if id rangesize fits in the
>      id range only once.
> 
> o  Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
>    * BUG 14958: CTDB can get stuck in election and recovery.
> 
> 
> CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc2
> =======================
> 
> o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14169: Renaming file on DFS root fails with
>      NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND.
>    * BUG 14938: NT error code is not set when overwriting a file during rename
>      in libsmbclient.
> 
> o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14674: net ads info shows LDAP Server: 0.0.0.0 depending on contacted
>      server.
> 
> o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipen at redhat.com>
>    * BUG 14971: virusfilter_vfs_openat: Not scanned: Directory or special file.
> 
> o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14900: Regression: Samba 4.15.2 on macOS segfaults intermittently
>      during strcpy in tdbsam_getsampwnam.
>    * BUG 14975: Fix a crash in vfs_full_audit - CREATE_FILE can free a used fsp.
> 
> o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14968: smb2_signing_decrypt_pdu() may not decrypt with
>      gnutls_aead_cipher_decrypt() from gnutls before 3.5.2.
> 
> o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14960: SDB uses HDB flags directly which can lead to unwanted side
>      effects.
> 
> 
> CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc1
> =======================
> 
> o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14911: CVE-2021-44141: UNIX extensions in SMB1 disclose whether the
>      outside target of a symlink exists.
> 
> o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14914: CVE-2021-44142: Out-of-Bound Read/Write on Samba vfs_fruit
>      module.
>    * BUG 14961: install elasticsearch_mappings.json
> 
> o  FeRD (Frank Dana) <ferdnyc at gmail.com>
>    * BUG 14947: samba-bgqd still notifying systemd, triggering log warnings
>      without NotifyAccess=all.
> 
> o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
>    * BUG 14867: Printing no longer works on Windows 7 with 2021-10 monthly
>      rollup patch.
>    * BUG 14956: ndr_push_string() adds implicit termination for
>      STR_NOTERM|REMAINING empty strings.
> 
> o  Joseph Sutton <josephsutton at catalyst.net.nz>
>    * BUG 14950: CVE-2022-0336: Re-adding an SPN skips subsequent SPN conflict
>      checks.
> 
> 
> KNOWN ISSUES
> ============
> 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.16#Release_blocking_bugs
> 
> 
> #######################################
> Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
> #######################################
> 
> Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
> joining the #samba-technical:matrix.org matrix room, or
> #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.libera.chat
> 
> 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 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
> database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
> 
> 
> ======================================================================
> == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
> == The Samba Team
> ======================================================================
> 
> ================
> Download Details
> ================
> 
> The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
> using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620).  The source code can be downloaded
> from:
> 
>         https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/
> 
> The release notes are available online at:
> 
>         https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.16.0.html
> 
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> (https://bugzilla.samba.org/)
> 
>                         --Enjoy
>                         The Samba Team
> 
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