[Announce] Samba 4.9.7 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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			"Tomorrow is often the busiest
			 day of the week."

			 Spanish proverb
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.9 release series.


Changes since 4.9.6:
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o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 13837: py/kcc_utils: py2.6 compatibility.
   * BUG 13882: py/provision: Fix for Python 2.6.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
   * BUG 13840: regfio: Update code near recent changes to match README.Coding.

o  Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
   * BUG 13861: 'net ads join' to child domain fails when using
     "-U admin at forestroot".

o  David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
   * BUG 13858: vfs_snapper: Drop unneeded fstat handler.
   * BUG 13896: vfs_ceph: Explicitly enable libcephfs POSIX ACL support.

o  Philipp Gesang <philipp.gesang at intra2net.com>
   * BUG 13869: libcli: Permit larger values of DataLength in
     SMB2_ENCRYPTION_CAPABILITIES of negotiate response.

o  Michael Hanselmann <public at hansmi.ch>
   * BUG 13840: regfio: Improve handling of malformed registry hive files.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay at samba.org>
   * BUG 13895: ctdb-common: Avoid race between fd and signal events.

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
   * BUG 13813: Fix idmap cache pollution with S-1-22- IDs on winbind hickup.

o  Marcos Mello <marcosfrm at gmail.com>
   * BUG 11568: Send status to systemd on daemon start.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
   * BUG 10097: s3:smbd: Handle IO_REPARSE_TAG_DFS in
     SMB_FIND_FILE_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFO.
   * BUG 10344: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING completely on tdis.
   * BUG 12844: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for tree connect.
   * BUG 12845: smb2_sesssetup: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for session
     setup.
   * BUG 13698: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for tree connect.
   * BUG 13796: smb2_sesssetup: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for session
     setup.
   * BUG 13816: dbcheck in the middle of the tombstone garbage collection causes
     replication failures.
   * BUG 13818: ndr_spoolss_buf: Fix out of scope use of stack variable in
     NDR_SPOOLSS_PUSH_ENUM_OUT().
   * BUG 13862: vfs_default: Fix vfswrap_offload_write_send()
     NT_STATUS_INVALID_VIEW_SIZE check.
   * BUG 13863: smb2_server: Grant all 8192 credits to clients.

o  Noel Power <noel.power at suse.com>
   * python/samba: extra ndr_unpack needs bytes function

o  Anoop C S <anoopcs at redhat.com>
   * BUG 13872: s3/vfs_glusterfs[_fuse]: Dynamically determine NAME_MAX.

o  Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org>
   * passdb: Update ABI to 0.27.2.
   * BUG 13813: lib/winbind_util: Add winbind_xid_to_sid for --without-winbind.
   * BUG 13865: memcache: Increase size of default memcache to 512k.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
   * BUG 13823: lib:util: Move debug message for mkdir failing to log level 1.
   * BUG 13832: Printing via smbspool backend with Kerberos auth fails.
   * BUG 13847: s4:librpc: Fix installation of Samba.
   * BUG 13848: s3:lib: Fix the debug message for adding cache entries.
   * BUG 13853: s3:waf: Fix the detection of makdev() macro on Linux.
   * BUG 13857: docs: Update smbclient manpage for --max-protocol.
   * BUG 13861: 'net ads join' to child domain fails when using
     "-U admin at forestroot".

o  Zhu Shangzhong <zhu.shangzhong at zte.com.cn>
   * BUG 13839: ctdb: Initialize addr struct to zero before reparsing as IPV4.

o  Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
   * BUG 13838: ctdb package should not own system library directory.
   * BUG 13860: CTDB restarts failed NFS RPC services by hand, which is
     incompatible with systemd.
   * BUG 13888: ctdb-daemon: Revert "We can not assume that just because we
     could complete a TCP handshake".


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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-4.9.7.html

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

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team
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