[Announce] Samba 4.5.1 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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		"Yesterday's the past,
	 	 tomorrow's the future,
	 	 but today is a gift.
		 That's why it's called the present."

		 Bil Keane

		 This release is dedicated to our
		 friend Lars. We miss him, and our
		 hearts are with his family.
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.5 release series.

Major enhancements in Samba 4.5.1 include:

o  Let winbindd discard expired kerberos tickets when built against
   (internal) heimdal (BUG #12369).
o  REGRESSION: smbd segfaults on startup, tevent context being freed
   (BUG #12283).


Changes since 4.5.0:
--------------------

o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
   * BUG 11259: smbd contacts a domain controller for each session.
   * BUG 12272: Fix messaging subsystem crash.
   * BUG 12283: REGRESSION: smbd segfaults on startup, tevent context being
     freed.
   * BUG 12381: s3: cldap: cldap_multi_netlogon_send() fails with one bad IPv6
     address.
   * BUG 12383: s3: libsmb: Fix cut and paste error using the wrong structure
     type.

o  Christian Ambach <ambi at samba.org>
   * BUG 9945: Setting specific logger levels in smb.conf makes 'samba-tool drs
     showrepl' crash.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
   * BUG 12382: Tombstone expunge does not remove old links.

o  Björn Baumbach <bb at sernet.de>
   * BUG 8618: s3-printing: Fix migrate printer code.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
   * BUG 12256: s3/smbd: In call_trans2qfilepathinfo call lstat when dealing
     with posix pathnames.
   * BUG 12261: s3/smbd: Set FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY as necessary.

o  Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
   * BUG 12285: "DriverVersion" registry backend parsing incorrect in spoolss.

o  David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
   * BUG 12144: smbd/ioctl: Match WS2016 ReFS get compression behaviour.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
   * BUG 12259: ctdb-protocol: Fix marshalling for GET_DB_SEQNUM control
     request.
   * BUG 12275: ctdb-recovery-helper: Add missing initialisation of ban_credits.
   * BUG 12287: CTDB PID file handling is too weak.

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
   * BUG 12045: gencache: Bail out of stabilize if we can not get the allrecord
     lock.
   * BUG 12268: smbd: Reset O_NONBLOCK on open files.
   * BUG 12283: glusterfs: Avoid tevent_internal.h.
   * BUG 12291: source3/lib/msghdr.c, line 208: syntax error before or at: ;.
   * BUG 12374: spoolss: Fix caching of printername->sharename.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
   * BUG 12283: REGRESSION: smbd segfaults on startup, tevent context being
     freed.
   * BUG 12369: Let winbindd discard expired kerberos tickets when built against
     (internal) heimdal.

o  Noel Power <noel.power at suse.com>
   * BUG 12298: s3/winbindd: Fix using default domain with user at domain.com
     format.

o  Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org>
   * BUG 12295: winbind: Fix passing idmap failure from wb_sids2xids back to
     callers.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
   * BUG 12269: nss_wins has incorrect function definitions for gethostbyname*.
   * BUG 12276: s3-lib: Fix %G substitution in AD member environment.
   * BUG 12364: s3-utils: Fix loading smb.conf in smbcquotas.

o  Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 12286: kcc: Don't check schedule if None.
   * BUG 12382: Tombstone expunge does not remove old links.

o  Anoop C S <anoopcs at redhat.com>
   * BUG 12377: vfs_glusterfs: Fix a memory leak in connect path.

o  Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
   * BUG 12254: CTDB IP takeover does not complete if there are no public
     addresses configured.
   * BUG 12255: ctdb-packaging: Fix systemd network dependency.
   * BUG 12287: CTDB PID file handling is too weak.

o  Uri Simchoni <uri at samba.org>
   * BUG 12270: smbcquotas: Fix error message listing quotas.
   * BUG 12273: s3-sysquotas: Correctly restore path when finding mount point.
   * BUG 12288: cliquota: Fix param count when setting fs quota.
   * BUG 12289: smbd: Free talloc context if no quota records are available.
   * BUG 12307: ntquotas: Support "freeing" an empty quota list.


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


======================================================================
== 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:

        https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/

The release notes are available online at:

        https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.5.1.html

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team

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