[Announce] Samba 4.7.4 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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		"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

		 Samba Team
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.7 release series.


smbclient reparse point symlink parameters reversed
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A bug in smbclient caused the 'symlink' command to reverse the
meaning of the new name and link target parameters when creating a
reparse point symlink against a Windows server.

This only affects using the smbclient 'symlink' command against
a Windows server, not a Samba server using the UNIX extensions
(the parameter order is correct in that case) so no existing
user scripts that depend on creating symlinks on Samba servers
need to change.

As this is a little used feature the ordering of these parameters
has been reversed to match the parameter ordering of the UNIX
extensions 'symlink' command. This means running 'symlink' against
both Windows and Samba now uses the same paramter ordering in both
cases.

The usage message for this command has also been improved to remove confusion.


Changes since 4.7.3:
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o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
   * BUG 13140: s3: smbclient: Implement 'volume' command over SMB2.
   * BUG 13171: s3: libsmb: Fix valgrind read-after-free error in
     cli_smb2_close_fnum_recv().
   * BUG 13172: s3: libsmb: Fix reversing of oldname/newname paths when creating
     a reparse point symlink on Windows from smbclient.

o  Timur I. Bakeyev <timur at iXsystems.com>
   * BUG 12934: Build man page for vfs_zfsacl.8 with Samba.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
   * BUG 13095: repl_meta_data: Allow delete of an object with dangling
     backlinks.
   * BUG 13129: s4:samba: Fix default to be running samba as a deamon.
   * BUG 13191: Performance regression in DNS server with introduction of
     DNS wildcard, ldb: Release 1.2.3

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
   * BUG 6133: vfs_zfsacl: Fix compilation error.
   * BUG 13051: "smb encrypt" setting changes are not fully applied until full
     smbd restart.
   * BUG 13052: winbindd: Fix idmap_rid dependency on trusted domain list.
   * BUG 13155: vfs_fruit: Proper VFS-stackable conversion of FinderInfo.
   * BUG 13173: winbindd: Dependency on trusted-domain list in winbindd in
     critical auth codepath.

o  Andrej Gessel <Andrej.Gessel at janztec.com>
   * BUG 13120: repl_meta_data: Fix removing of backlink on deleted objects.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
   "* BUG 13153: ctdb: sock_daemon leaks memory.
   * BUG 13154: TCP tickles not getting synchronised on CTDB restart.

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
   * BUG 13150: winbindd: winbind parent and child share a ctdb connection.
   * BUG 13170: pthreadpool: Fix deadlock.
   * BUG 13179: pthreadpool: Fix starvation after fork.
   * BUG 13180: messaging: Always register the unique id.

o  Gary Lockyer <gary at catalyst.net.nz>
   * 13129: s4/smbd: set the process group.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
   * BUG 13095: Fix broken linked attribute handling.
   * BUG 13132: The KDC on an RWDC doesn't send error replies in some
     situations.
   * BUG 13149: libnet_join: Fix 'net rpc oldjoin'.
   * BUG 13195: g_lock conflict detection broken when processing stale entries.
   * BUG 13197: s3:smb2_server: allow logoff, close, unlock, cancel and echo
     on expired sessions.

o  Noel Power <noel.power at suse.com>
   * BUG 13166: s3:libads: net ads keytab list fails with "Key table name
     malformed".

o  Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org>
   * BUG 13170: Fix crash in pthreadpool thread after failure from pthread_create.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
   * BUG 13129: s4:samba: Allow samba daemon to run in foreground.
   * BUG 13174: third_party: Link the aesni-intel library with "-z noexecstack".

o  Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com>
   * BUG 13125: vfs_glusterfs: include glusterfs/api/glfs.h without relying on
     "-I" options.


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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/).


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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 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-4.7.4.html

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

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team
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