[Announce] Samba 3.4.6 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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			"I have not failed. I've just found
			 10,000 ways that won't work."

			 Thomas A. Edison
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.4.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.4.6 include:

   o "wide links" and "unix extensions" are incompatible (bug #7104).
   o Fix printing with 64 bit clients (bug #6888).
   o Fix core dump on Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit (bug #7063).
   o Fix failing of smbd to respond to a read or a write caused by
     Linux asynchronous IO (aio) (bug #7067).
   o Fix string buffer overflow causing heap corruption in smbd (bug #7096).


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Changes
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Changes since 3.4.5
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * Make idmap cache persistent for "ldapsam:trusted".
    * Also fill the memcache with sid<->id mappings in ldapsam_sid_to_id() not
      only the persistent idmap cache.
    * Shortcut uid_to_sid when "ldapsam:trusted = yes".


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 6557: Fix vfs_full_audit.
    * BUG 7063: Fix core dump on Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit.
    * BUG 7067: Fix failing of smbd to respond to a read or a write caused by
      Linux asynchronous IO (aio).
    * BUG 7072: Fix unlocking of accounts from ldap.
    * BUG 7081: Fix vfs_expand_msdfs.
    * BUG 7104: "wide links" and "unix extensions" are incompatible.
    * BUG 7122: Fix reading of large browselist.
    * BUG 7154: "mangling method = hash" can crash storing a name containing a '.'.
    * BUG 7155: Valgrind Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
      value(s) error when "mangling method = hash".


o   Steven Danneman <steven.danneman at isilon.com>
    * BUG 7096: Fix string buffer overflow causing heap corruption in smbd.


o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 6888: Fix printing with 64 bit clients.
    * BUG 7130: Fix listing of printjobs in Windows 7.
    * BUG 7136: Spoolss getprinterdriver2 level 101 marshalling is bad.


o   William Jojo <w.jojo at hvcc.edu>
    * BUG 7052: Fix DFS on AIX (maybe others).


o   Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
    * BUG 6868: Fix crash bug in 'cifs.upcall'.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 5885: Fix bogus ip address in SWAT.
    * BUG 6981: Fix large paged search with DirX LDAP servers.
    * BUG 7068: Fix pdb_search crash as non-root user.
    * Make pdb_copy_sam_account also copy the group sid.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 6157: Use the first "uid" value.
    * BUG 6888: Fix printing with 64 bit clients.
    * BUG 7098: Fix results of 'smbclient -L' with a large browse list.
    * Shortcut gid_to_sid when "ldapsam:trusted = yes".
    * Speed up pdb_get_group_sid().
    * Try to build the full unix_pw structure with ldapsam:trusted support.
    * Optimize ldapsam_alias_memberships() and cache ldap searches.


o   Lars Müller <lars at samba.org>
    * BUG 7047: Add cross option to samba_cv_linux_getgrouplist_ok.
    * BUG 7102: Normalize "Changing password for" msg IDs and STRs.


o   Bo Yang <boyang at samba.org>
    * BUG 7106: Fix malformed require_membership_of_sid.


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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-3.4.6.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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