[Announce] Samba 4.8.8 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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				"Fall forward!"

				 Denzel Washington
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.8 release series.

Major bug fixes include:
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   o dns: Fix CNAME loop prevention using counter regression (bug #13600).


Changes since 4.8.7:
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o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
   * BUG 13633: s3: smbd: Prevent valgrind errors in smbtorture3 POSIX test.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
   * BUG 13418: dsdb: Add comments explaining the limitations of our current
     backlink behaviour.
   * BUG 13495: dbcheck: Use symbolic control name for
     DSDB_CONTROL_DBCHECK_FIX_DUPLICATE_LINKS.

o  Tim Beale <timbeale at catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 13495: dbchecker: Fixing up incorrect DNs wasn't working.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
   * BUG 9175: libcli/smb: Don't overwrite status code.
   * BUG 12164: 'wbinfo --group-info' 'NT AUTHORITY\System' does not work.
   * BUG 13175: Fix accessing ZFS snapshot directories over SMB.
   * BUG 13642: vfs_fruit should be able to cleanup AppleDouble files.
   * BUG 13465: testparm crashes with PANIC: Messaging not initialized on
     SLES 12 SP3.
   * BUG 13646: File saving issues with vfs_fruit on samba >= 4.8.5.
   * BUG 13649: Enabling vfs_fruit looses FinderInfo.
   * BUG 13661: Session setup reauth fails to sign response.
   * BUG 13667: Cancelling of SMB2 aio reads and writes returns wrong error
     NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR.
   * BUG 13677: Fix copy with vfs_fruit if AFP_AfpInfo stream file
     size > 60bytes.

o  Isaac Boukris <iboukris at gmail.com>
   * BUG 13571: CVE-2018-16853: Fix S4U2Self crash with MIT KDC build.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
   * BUG 13641: Fix CTDB recovery record resurrection from inactive nodes and
     simplify vacuuming.
   * BUG 13659: Fix bugs in CTDB event handling.

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
   * BUG 13465: examples: Fix the smb2mount build.
   * BUG 13662: winbindd_cache: Fix timeout calculation for sid<->name cache.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
   * BUG 13418: Extended DN SID component missing for member after switching
     group membership.
   * BUG 13600: CVE-2018-14629 dns: Fix CNAME loop prevention using counter
     regression.
   * BUG 13624: STATUS_SESSION_EXPIRED error is returned unencrypted, if the
     request was encrypted.

o  Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org>
   * BUG 13465: testparm crashes with PANIC: Messaging not initialized on
     SLES 12 SP3.
   * BUG 13673: smbd: Fix DELETE_ON_CLOSE behaviour on files with READ_ONLY
     attribute.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
   * BUG 13571: CVE-2018-16853: Fix S4U2Self crash with MIT KDC build.
   * BUG 13679: Fix a segfault in pyglue.

o  Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
   * BUG 13670: ctdb-recovery: Ban a node that causes recovery failure.


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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-4.8.8.html

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

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team
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