[Announce] Samba 4.8.1 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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			"The past, like the future, is 
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			 Stephen Hawking
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.8 release series.


Changes since 4.8.0:
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o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
   * BUG 13244: s3: ldap: Ensure the ADS_STRUCT pointer doesn't get freed on
     error, we don't own it here.
   * BUG 13270: s3: smbd: Fix possible directory fd leak if the underlying OS
     doesn't support fdopendir().
   * BUG 13319: Round-tripping ACL get/set through vfs_fruit will increase the
     number of ACE entries without limit.
   * BUG 13347: s3: smbd: SMB2: Add DBGC_SMB2_CREDITS class to specifically
     debug credit issues.
   * BUG 13358: s3: smbd: Files or directories can't be opened DELETE_ON_CLOSE
     without delete access.
   * BUG 13372: s3: smbd: Fix memory leak in vfswrap_getwd().
   * BUG 13375: s3: smbd: Unix extensions attempts to change wrong field in
     fchown call.

o  Björn Baumbach <bb at sernet.de>
   * BUG 13337: ms_schema/samba-tool visualize: Fix python2.6 incompatibility.

o  Timur I. Bakeyev <timur at iXsystems.com>
   * BUG 13352: Fix invocation of gnutls_aead_cipher_encrypt().

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
   * BUG 13328: Windows 10 cannot logon on Samba NT4 domain.
   * BUG 13332: winbindd: Recover loss of netlogon secure channel in case the
     peer DC is rebooted.
   * BUG 13363: s3:smbd: Don't use the directory cache for SMB2/3.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
   * BUG 13356: ctdb-client: Fix bugs in client code.
   * BUG 13359: ctdb-scripts: Drop "net serverid wipe" from 50.samba event
     script.

o  Lutz Justen <ljusten at google.com>
   * BUG 13368: s3: lib: messages: Don't use the result of sec_init() before
     calling sec_init().

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
   * BUG 13273: libads: Fix the build '--without-ads'.
   * BUG 13332: winbind: Keep "force_reauth" in invalidate_cm_connection,
     add 'smbcontrol disconnect-dc'.
   * BUG 13343: vfs_virusfilter: Fix CIDs 1428738-1428740.
   * BUG 13367: dsdb: Fix CID 1034966 Uninitialized scalar variable.
   * BUG 13370: rpc_server: Fix core dump in dfsgetinfo.
   * BUG 13382: smbclient: Fix notify.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
   * BUG 13215: Fix smbd panic if the client-supplied channel sequence number
     wraps.
   * BUG 13328: Windows 10 cannot logon on Samba NT4 domain.
   * BUG 13342: lib/util: Remove unused '#include <sys/syscall.h>' from
     tests/tfork.c.
   * BUG 13343:	Fix build errors with cc from developerstudio 12.5 on Solaris.
   * BUG 13344: Fix the picky-developer build on FreeBSD 11.
   * BUG 13345: s3:modules: Fix the build of vfs_aixacl2.c.

o  Anton Nefedov
   * BUG 13338: s3:smbd: map nterror on smb2_flush errorpath.

o  Noel Power <noel.power at suse.com>
   * BUG 13341: lib:replace: Fix linking when libtirpc-devel overwrites system
     headers.

o  Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org>
   * BUG 13312: winbindd: 'wbinfo --name-to-sid' returns misleading result on
     invalid query.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
   * BUG 13376: s3:passdb: Do not return OK if we don't have pinfo set up.

o  Eric Vannier <evannier at google.com>
   * BUG 13302: Allow AESNI to be used on all processor supporting AESNI.


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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-4.8.1.html

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

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team
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