[Announce] Samba 4.5.6 Available for Download

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Thu Mar 9 13:57:43 UTC 2017


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		"Those who believe in telekinetics,
		 raise my hand."

		 Kurt Vonnegut
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.5 release series.


Changes since 4.5.5:
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o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
   * BUG 12499: s3: vfs: dirsort doesn't handle opendir of "." correctly.
   * BUG 12531: vfs_shadow_copy2 doesn't cope with server changing directories.
   * BUG 12546: vfs_streams_xattr doesn't cope with server changing directories.
   * BUG 12572: s3: smbd: Don't loop infinitely on bad-symlink resolution.
   * BUG 12608: s3: smbd: Restart reading the incoming SMB2 fd when the send
     queue is drained.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
   * BUG 12573: Samba < 4.7 does not know about compatibleFeatures and
     requiredFeatures.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
   * BUG 12184: s3/rpc_server: Shared rpc modules loading.
   * BUG 12427: vfs_fruit doesn't work with fruit:metadata=stream.
   * BUG 12520: Ensure global "smb encrypt = off" is effective.
   * BUG 12524: s3/rpc_server: move rpc_modules.c to its own subsystem.
   * BUG 12536: s3/smbd: check for invalid access_mask
     smbd_calculate_access_mask().
   * BUG 12541: vfs_fruit: checks wrong AAPL config state and so always uses
     readdirattr.
   * BUG 12545: s3/rpc_server/mdssvc: add attribute "kMDItemContentType".
   * BUG 12591: vfs_streams_xattr: use fsp, not base_fsp.
   * BUG 12604: vfs_fruit: Enabling AAPL extensions must be a global switch.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
   * BUG 12469: ctdb-tests: Use replace headers instead of system headers.
   * BUG 12547: ctdb-build: Install CTDB tests correctly from toplevel.
   * BUG 12580: ctdb-common: Fix use-after-free error in comm_fd_handler().

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
   * BUG 12551: smbd: Fix "map acl inherit" = yes.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
   * BUG 9048: s4:ldap_server: Match Windows in the error messages of failing
     LDAP Bind requests.
   * BUG 11830: s3:winbindd: Try a NETLOGON connection with noauth over NCACN_NP
     against trusted domains.
   * BUG 12262: 'net ads testjoin' and smb access fails after winbindd changed the
     trust password.
   * BUG 12399: s4:repl_meta_data: Normalize rdn attribute name via the schema.
   * BUG 12540: s3:smbd: Allow "server min protocol = SMB3_00" to go via "SMB
     2.???" negprot.
   * BUG 12581: smbclient fails on bad endianess when listing shares from
     Solaris kernel SMB server on SPARC.
   * BUG 12585: librpc/rpc: fix regression in
     NT_STATUS_RPC_ENUM_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE error mapping.
   * BUG 12586: libcli/auth: Use the correct creds value against servers without
     LogonSamLogonEx.
   * BUG 12587: winbindd child segfaults on connect to an NT4 domain.
   * BUG 12588: cm_prepare_connection may return NT_STATUS_OK without a valid
     connection.
   * BUG 12598: winbindd (as member) requires Kerberos against trusted ad
     domain, while it shouldn't.
   * BUG 12605: s3:winbindd: Fix endless forest trust scan.

o  Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 12577: dbcheck-links: Test that dbcheck against one-way links does not
     error.
   * BUG 12600: dbchecker: Stop ignoring linked cases where both objects are
     alive.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
   * BUG 12571: s3-vfs: Only walk the directory once in open_and_sort_dir().

o  Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
   * BUG 12589: ctdb-scripts: Initialise CTDB_NFS_CALLOUT in statd-callout.

o  Uri Simchoni <uri at samba.org>
   * BUG 12529: waf: backport finding of pkg-config.


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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 6F33915B6568B7EA).  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-4.5.6.html

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

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team
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