[Announce] Samba 4.0.9 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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					"I used to be indecisive but
					 now I am not quite sure."

					 Tommy Cooper
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Release Announcements
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This is is the latest stable release of Samba 4.0.

Major enhancements in Samba 4.0.9 include:

o  Fix crash of Winbind after "ls -l /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol"
   (bug #9820).
o  Fix segmentation fault while reading incomplete session info (bug #10003).
o  smbd: Fix a 100% loop at shutdown time (bug #10013).


Changes since 4.0.8:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 9930: smbd: Cleanup disonnected durable handles.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 9992: Fix Windows error 0x800700FE when copying files with xattr names
      containing ":".
    * BUG 10064: Linux kernel oplock breaks can miss signals.


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 9820: Fix crash of Winbind after "ls -l
      /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol".
    * BUG 10014: Fix excessive RID allocation.


o   Björn Baumbach <bb at sernet.de>
    * BUG 10003: s3-lib: Fix segmentation fault while reading incomplete
      session info.


o   Gregor Beck <gbeck at sernet.de>
    * BUG 9678: Windows 8 Roaming profiles fail.
    * BUG 9930: smbd: Cleanup disonnected durable handles.


o   Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
    * BUG 10015: Add debugclass for DNS server.


o   Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org>
    * BUG 9779: Add UPN enumeration to passdb internal API.


o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 10043: Allow to change the default location for Kerberos credential
      caches.
    * BUG 10073: net ads join: Fix segmentation fault in
      create_local_private_krb5_conf_for_domain.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 10013: smbd: Fix a 100% loop at shutdown time.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 9820: Fix crash of Winbind after "ls -l
      /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol".
    * BUG 10003: s3-lib: Fix segmentation fault while reading incomplete
      session info.
    * BUG 10015: Fix/improve debug options.


o   Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt at us.ibm.com>
    * BUG 9970: vfs_streams_xattr: Do not attempt to write empty attribute
      twice.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 9994: s3-winbind: Do not delete an existing valid credential cache.
    * BUG 10073: net ads join: Fix segmentation fault in
      create_local_private_krb5_conf_for_domain.


o   Ralph Wuerthner <ralphw at de.ibm.com>
    * BUG 10064: Linux kernel oplock breaks can miss signals.


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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 4.0 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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== The Samba Team
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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-4.0.9.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