[Announce] Samba 3.6.6 Available for Download

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Mon Jun 25 12:06:45 MDT 2012 

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			"Your body hears everything your mind says."

			 Naomi Judd
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Release Announcements
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This is is the latest stable release of Samba 3.6.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.6 include:

o  Fix possible memory leaks in the Samba master process (bug #8970).
o  Fix uninitialized memory read in talloc_free().
o  Fix joining of XP Pro workstations to 3.6 DCs (bug #8373).


Changes since 3.6.5:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 8738: SMB2 server will not release unused shares.
    * BUG 8749: Sign non guest sessions in SessionSetup.
    * BUG 8921: Fix race writing registry values.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 8373: Fix joining of XP Pro workstations to 3.6 DCs.
    * BUG 8627: Fix crash bug in dns_create_probe when dns_create_update fails.
    * BUG 8723: Add pthread-based aio VFS module.
    * BUG 8784: When calculating the share security mask, take priviliges into
      account for the connecting user.
    * BUG 8811: sd_has_inheritable_components segfaults on an SD that
      se_access_check accepts.
    * BUG 8837: Fix crash in smbd when deleting directory and veto files are
      enabled.
    * BUG 8857: Setting traverse rights fails to enable directory traversal when
      acl_xattr in use.
    * BUG 8882: Broken processing of %U with vfs_full_audit when force user is
      set.
    * BUG 8897: Make winbind_krb5_locator not only returning one IP address.
    * BUG 8910: resolve_ads() code can return zero addresses and miss valid
      DC IP addresses.
    * BUG 8922: smbclient's tarmode insists on listing excluded directories.
    * BUG 8953: Winbind can hang as nbt_getdc() has no timeout.
    * BUG 8957: Typo in pam_winbindd code MUST fix.
    * BUG 8970: Fix possible memory leaks in the Samba master process.
    * BUG 8971: cleanup_timeout_fn() is called too often, on exiting when an
      smbd is idle.
    * BUG 8972: Directory group write permission bit is set if unix extensions
      are enabled.


o   Christian Ambach <ambi at samba.org>
    * BUG 8406: Fix a return code check in Winbind.
    * BUG 8807: Fix crash in dcerpc_lsa_lookup_sids_noalloc() crashes when
      groups has more than 1000 groups.


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 8599: Only use SamLogonEx when we can get unencrypted session keys.
    * BUG 8727: Fix smbclients with posix large reads.
    * BUG 8943: Slow but responsive DC can lock up Winbind for > 10 minutes
      at a time.


o   Björn Baumbach <bb at sernet.de>
    * BUG 7564: Fix default name resolve order in the manpage.
    * BUG 8554, 8612, 8748: Add new printers to registry.
    * BUG 8789: Remove whitespace in example samba.ldif.


o   Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org>
    * BUG 8988: Avoid crash with MIT krb5 1.10.0 in gss_get_name_attribute().


o   Alejandro Escanero Blanco <aescanero at gmail.com>
    * BUG 8798: The primary rid should be in the groups rid array.


o   Ira Cooper <samba at ira.wakeful.net>
    * BUG 8729: Fix getpass regressions on Solaris/Illumos.
    * BUG 8743: Fix configure.developer builds on Solaris.
    * BUG 8910: Fix bad bugfix for bug #8910.
    * BUG 8952: Fix negative SID->uid/gid cache handling.
    * BUG 8995: Use fsp_persistent_id() as persistent_file_id part for SMB2.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
    * BUG 8762: Fix crash in printer_list_set_printer().


o   Olaf Flebbe <o.flebbe at science-computing.de>
    * BUG 8859: Fix assertion in reg_parse.


o   Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
    * BUG 8732: Fix compile of krb5 locator on Solaris.
    * BUG 8869: Remove outdated netscape ds 5 schema file.
    * BUG 8978: Remove dependency on automake for 'make everything'.


o   Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
    * BUG 8920: Fix null dereference in pdb_interface.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * Fix uninitialized memory read in talloc_free().
    * BUG 8567: Fix segfault in dom_sid_compare.
    * BUG 8733: Delete streams on directories (streams_depot).
    * BUG 8760: Add SERVERID_UNIQUE_ID_NOT_TO_VERIFY.
    * BUG 8836: Fix segfaults on "smbcontrol close-share" in aio_fork.
    * BUG 8861: Fix a segfault with debug level 3 on Solaris.
    * BUG 8904: Fix Winbind crash triggered by 'wbinfo --lookup-sids ""'.
    * BUG 8998: Notify code can miss a ChDir.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 8139: Ignore SMBecho errors (the server may not support it).
    * BUG 8527: db_ctdb_traverse fails to traverse records created within the
      current transaction.
    * BUG 8311: Winzip occasionally can not read files out of an open winzip
      dialog.
    * BUG 8739: Fill the sids array of the info in
      wbcAuthUserInfo_to_netr_SamInfo3().
    * BUG 8749: Sign non guest sessions in SessionSetup.
    * BUG 8995: Use fsp_persistent_id() as persistent_file_id part for SMB2.


o   Matthieu Patou <mat at matws.net>
    * BUG 8599: Set the can_do_validation6 also for trusted domain.
    * BUG 8714: Catch with pid filename's change when config file is not
      smb.conf.
    * BUG 8734: Don't try to do clever thing if the username is not found while
      authenticating through Winbind.
    * BUG 8771: Winbind takes up to 20 minutes to change from DC 1 to DC 2.
    * BUG 8975: Call dump_core_setup after command line option has been parsed.


o   SATOH Fumiyasu <fumiyas at osstech.co.jp>
    * BUG 8826: Prepend '/' to filename argument (docs).


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 8944 and 8567: Don't lookup the system user in pdb.


o   Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com>
    * BUG 8768: Honor SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege when file opened with
      SEC_STD_WRITE_OWNER.
    * BUG 8797: Correctly handle DENY ACEs when privileges apply.
    * BUG 8822: Fix building out-of-tree modules.
    * BUG 8945: vfs_acl_common discards errors from writing to the underlying
      storage.
    * BUG 8970: Fix possible memory leaks in the Samba master process.


o   Simo Sorce <idra at samba.org>
    * BUG 8915: Fix pam_winbind build against newer iniparser library.


o   Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
    * BUG 8877: Syslog broken owing to mistyping of debug_settings.syslog.


o   Ralph Wuerthner <ralph.wuerthner at de.ibm.com>
    * BUG 8845: Move print_backend_init() behind init_system_info().


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