[Announce] Samba 3.6.9 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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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 3.6.9 include:

o  When setting a non-default ACL, don't forget to apply masks to
   SMB_ACL_USER and SMB_ACL_GROUP entries (bug #9236).
o  Winbind can't fetch user or group info from AD via LDAP (bug #9147).
o  Fix segfault in smbd if user specified ports out for range (bug #9218).


Changes since 3.6.8:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 9173: Make SMB2 compound request create/delete_on_close/close work as
      Windows.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 8966: Fix 'net rpc share allowedusers' to work with 2008r2.
    * BUG 9016: Connection to outbound trusted domain goes offline.
    * BUG 9117: 'smbclient' can't connect to a Windows 7 server using NTLMv2.
    * BUG 9147: Winbind can't fetch user or group info from AD via LDAP.
    * BUG 9174: Empty SPNEGO packet can cause smbd to crash.
    * BUG 9189: SMB2 Create doesn't return correct MAX ACCESS access mask in
      blob.
    * BUG 9209: Parse of invalid SMB2 create blob can cause smbd crash.
    * BUG 9213: Bad ASN.1 NegTokenInit packet can cause invalid free.
    * BUG 9222: Signing cannot be disabled for SMB2 by design, so fix the
      documentation instead.
    * BUG 9236: When setting a non-default ACL, don't forget to apply masks to
      SMB_ACL_USER and SMB_ACL_GROUP entries.


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 8788: Initialise ticket to ensure we do not invalid memory.


o   Ira Cooper <ira at samba.org>
    * BUG 9173: Compound requests should continue processing.


o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 9177: pam_winbind: Match more return codes when wbcGetPwnam has failed.


o   Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
    * BUG 3272: quota: Don't force the block size to 512.
    * BUG 8107: Add some includes for poll.h.
    * BUG 8146: Fix wrong test == syntax in configure.
    * BUG 8344: Fix --with(out)-sendfile-support option handling in autoconf.
    * BUG 9172: Add quota support for gfs2.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 9188: Fix crash bug in idmap_hash.
    * BUG 9268: Make tdb robust against improper CLEAR_IF_FIRST restart.


o   Luca Lorenzetto <lorenzetto-luca at ubuntu-it.org>
    * BUG 9013: Fix crash on null pam change pw response.


o   Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek at Oracle.COM>
    * BUG 9192: Fix service control for non-internal services.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 9173: Make SMB2 compound request create/delete_on_close/close work as
      Windows.
    * BUG 9196: Don't take 'state->te' as indication for "was_deferred".
    * BUG 9209: Fix unitialized padding in smb2_create_blob_push_one().


o   Matthieu Patou <mat at matws.net>
    * BUG 9259: lib-addns: ensure that allocated buffer are pre set to 0.


o   Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
    * BUG 9268: Make robust against shrinking tdbs.


o   Joachim Schmitz <schmitz at hp.com>
    * BUG 8107: Fix poll replacement to become a msleep replacement.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 8632: Fix builtin forms order to match Windows again.
    * BUG 8769: Fix RAW printing for normal users.
    * BUG 9112: Increase debug level for info that the db is empty.
    * BUG 9154: Open printers with the right access mask.
    * BUG 9171: Remove non-existent option '-Y' from winbindd manpage.
    * BUG 9218: Fix segfault in smbd if user specified ports out for range.
    * BUG 9231: Fix NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT during slow import of printers into
      registry.
    * BUG 9280: Add support for reloading systemd services.


o   Karolin Seeger <kseeger at samba.org>
    * BUG 9165: Fix makerpms.sh on RHEL.


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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 corresponding 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/

The release notes are available online at:

        http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/history/samba-3.6.9.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