[Announce] Samba 4.1.8 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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					"Progress was all right.
				 	 Only it went on too long."

				 	 James Thurber
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.1.

Please note that this bug fix release also addresses two minor security issues
without being a dedicated security release:

  o CVE-2014-0239: dns: Don't reply to replies (bug #10609).
  o CVE-2014-0178: Malformed FSCTL_SRV_ENUMERATE_SNAPSHOTS response
    (bug #10549).

For more details including security advisories and patches, please see

  http://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html


Changes since 4.1.7:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 10548: build: Fix ordering problems with lib-provided and internal
      RPATHs.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 3124: s3: smb2: Fix 'xcopy /d' with samba shares.
    * BUG 10544: s3: lib/util: Fix logic inside set_namearray loops.
    * BUG 10564: Fix lock order violation and file lost.
    * BUG 10577: Fix wildcard unlink to fail if we get an error rather than
      trying to continue.


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 10569: dsdb: Do checks for invalid renames in samldb, before
      repl_meta_data.


o   Björn Baumbach <bb at sernet.de>
    * BUG 10239: s3: nmbd: Reset debug settings after reading config file.
    * BUG 10544: s3: lib/util: set_namearray reads across end of namelist
    * BUG 10556: lib-util: Rename memdup to smb_memdup and fix all callers.


o   Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
    * BUG 10609: CVE-2014-0239: dns: Don't reply to replies.


o   Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org>
    * BUG 10517: Use exit_daemon() to communicate status of startup to
      systemd.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
    * BUG 10590: byteorder: Do not assume PowerPC is big-endian.
    * BUG 10612: printing: Fix purge of all print jobs.


o   Benjamin Franzke <benjaminfranzke at googlemail.com>
    * BUG 10524: Fix adding NetApps.


o   Abhidnya Joshi <achirmul at in.ibm.com>
    * BUG 10547: idmap_autorid: Fix failure in reverse lookup if ID is from
      domain range index #0.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 10472: script/autobuild: Make use of
      '--with-perl-{arch,lib}-install-dir'.


o   Noel Power <nopower at suse.com>
    * BUG 10554: Fix read of deleted memory in reply_writeclose()'.


o   Jose A. Rivera <jarrpa at redhat.com>
    * BUG 10151: Extra ':' in msg for Waf Cross Compile Build System with
      Cross-answers command.
    * BUG 10348: Fix empty body in if-statement in continue_domain_open_lookup.


o   Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt at us.ibm.com>
    * BUG 10549: CVE-2014-0178: Malformed FSCTL_SRV_ENUMERATE_SNAPSHOTS
      response.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 10472: wafsamba: Fix the installation on FreeBSD.


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


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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== 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-4.1.8.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