[Announce] Samba 4.17.8 Available for Download

[Jule Anger]

Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.17 release series.


Changes since 4.17.7
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o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 15302: log flood: smbd_calculate_access_mask_fsp: Access denied:
      message level should be lower.
    * BUG 15306: Floating point exception (FPE) via cli_pull_send at
      source3/libsmb/clireadwrite.c.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 15328: test_tstream_more_tcp_user_timeout_spin fails 
intermittently on
      Rackspace GitLab runners.
    * BUG 15329: Reduce flapping of ridalloc test.
    * BUG 15351: large_ldap test is unreliable.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
    * BUG 15143: New filename parser doesn't check veto files smb.conf 
parameter.
    * BUG 15354: mdssvc may crash when initializing.

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 15313: Large directory optimization broken for non-lcomp path 
elements.
    * BUG 15357: streams_depot fails to create streams.
    * BUG 15358: shadow_copy2 and streams_depot don't play well together.
    * BUG 15366: wbinfo -u fails on ad dc with >1000 users.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 15317: winbindd idmap child contacts the domain controller 
without a
      need.
    * BUG 15318: idmap_autorid may fail to map sids of trusted domains 
for the
      first time.
    * BUG 15319: idmap_hash doesn't use ID_TYPE_BOTH for reverse mappings.
    * BUG 15323: net ads search -P doesn't work against servers in other 
domains.
    * BUG 15338: DS ACEs might be inherited to unrelated object classes.
    * BUG 15353: Temporary smbXsrv_tcon_global.tdb can't be parsed.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 15360: Setting veto files = /.*/ break listing directories.

o  Joseph Sutton <josephsutton at catalyst.net.nz>
    * BUG 14810: CVE-2020-25720 [SECURITY] Create Child permission 
should not
      allow full write to all attributes (additional changes).
    * BUG 15329: Reduce flapping of ridalloc test.

o  Nathaniel W. Turner <nturner at exagrid.com>
    * BUG 15325: dsgetdcname: assumes local system uses IPv4.


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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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joining the #samba-technical:matrix.org matrix room, or
#samba-technical IRC channel on irc.libera.chat.

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 AA99442FB680B620).  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-4.17.8.html

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

                         --Enjoy
                         The Samba Team