[Announce] Samba 4.0.12 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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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 4.0.12 include:

o  RW Deny for a specific user is not overriding RW Allow for a group (bug
   #10196)


Changes since 4.0.11:
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o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 10187: Missing talloc_free can leak stackframe in error path.
    * BUG 10196: RW Deny for a specific user is not overriding RW Allow for a
      group.


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 10052: Use dsdb_search_one to catch 0 results as well as
      NO_SUCH_OBJECT errors.


o   Samuel Cabrero <scabrero at zentyal.com>
    * BUG 9091: s4-dns: dlz_bind9: Create dns-HOSTNAME account disabled.


o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 10264: s3-winbind: Fix cache_traverse_validate_fn failure for NDR
      cache entries.


o   Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
    * BUG 10247: xattr: Fix listing EAs on *BSD for non-root users.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 10195: nsswitch: Fix short writes in winbind_write_sock.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 9905: ldap_server: Register name and pid at startup.
    * BUG 10193: s4:dsdb/rootdse: report 'dnsHostName' instead of 'dNSHostName'.
    * BUG 10232: libcli/smb: fix smb2cli_ioctl*() against Windows 2008.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 10132: pam_winbindd: Add support for the KEYRING ccache type.
    * BUG 10194: winbind: Offline logon cache not updating for cross child
      domain group membership.
    * BUG 10269: util: Remove 32bit macros breaking strict aliasing.


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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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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-4.0.12.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