[Announce] Samba 4.18.6 Available for Download

[Jule Anger]

Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series.


Changes since 4.18.5
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o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 15420: reply_sesssetup_and_X() can dereference uninitialized tmp
      pointer.
    * BUG 15430: Missing return in reply_exit_done().

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 15289: post-exec password redaction for samba-tool is more 
reliable for
      fully random passwords as it no longer uses regular expressions
      containing the password value itself.
    * BUG 9959: Windows client join fails if a second container 
CN=System exists
      somewhere.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
    * BUG 15342: Spotlight sometimes returns no results on latest macOS.
    * BUG 15417: Renaming results in NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION if 
previously
      attempted to remove the destination.
    * BUG 15427: Spotlight results return wrong date in result list.

o  Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 15414: "net offlinejoin provision" does not work as non-root user.

o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipensky at samba.org>
    * BUG 15400: rpcserver no longer accepts double backslash in dfs 
pathname.
    * BUG 15433: cm_prepare_connection() calls close(fd) for the second 
time.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 15346: 2-3min delays at reconnect with 
smb2_validate_sequence_number:
      bad message_id 2.
    * BUG 15441: samba-tool ntacl get segfault if aio_pthread appended.
    * BUG 15446: DCERPC_PKT_CO_CANCEL and DCERPC_PKT_ORPHANED can't be 
parsed.

o  Noel Power <noel.power at suse.com>
    * BUG 15390: Python tarfile extraction needs change to avoid a warning
      (CVE-2007-4559 mitigation).
    * BUG 15435: Regression DFS not working with widelinks = true.

o  Arvid Requate <requate at univention.de>
    * BUG 9959: Windows client join fails if a second container 
CN=System exists
     somewhere.

o  Jones Syue <jonessyue at qnap.com>
    * BUG 15441: samba-tool ntacl get segfault if aio_pthread appended.
    * BUG 15449: mdssvc: Do an early talloc_free() in _mdssvc_open().


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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-4.18.6.html

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

                         --Enjoy
                         The Samba Team