[Announce] Samba 4.21.5 Available for Download

Jule Anger janger at samba.org
Mon Mar 31 15:04:40 UTC 2025


Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.21 release series.


Changes since 4.21.4
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o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz>
    * BUG 15795: ldb index cache is too small on known large transactions
      (schemaupgrade, provision).

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
    * BUG 15822: Enable support for cephfs case insensitive behavior.
    * BUG 15823: Subnet based interfaces definition not listening on all 
covered
      IP addresses.

o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipensky at samba.org>
    * BUG 15727: net ad join fails with "Failed to join domain: failed 
to create
      kerberos keytab".

o  Xavi Hernandez <xhernandez at redhat.com>
    * BUG 15822: Enable support for cephfs case insensitive behavior.

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 15791: Remove of file or directory not possible with vfs_acl_tdb.

o  Andréas Leroux <aleroux at tranquil.it>
    * BUG 15795: ldb index cache is too small on known large transactions
      (schemaupgrade, provision).

o  Anoop C S <anoopcs at samba.org>
    * BUG 15797: Unable to connect to CephFS subvolume shares with
      vfs_shadow_copy2.
    * BUG 15810: Add async io API from libcephfs to ceph_new VFS module.
    * BUG 15818: vfs_ceph_new module does not work with other modules for
      snapshot management.
    * BUG 15822: Enable support for cephfs case insensitive behavior.
    * BUG 15834: vfs_ceph_new: Add path based fallback for SMB_VFS_FCHOWN,
      SMB_VFS_FCHMOD and SMB_VFS_FNTIMES.

o  Martin Schwenke <mschwenke at ddn.com>
    * BUG 15820: Incorrect FSF address in ctdb pcp scripts.

o  Shachar Sharon <ssharon at redhat.com>
    * BUG 15810: Add async io API from libcephfs to ceph_new VFS module.

o  Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it>
    * BUG 15804: "samba-tool domain backup offline" hangs.


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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: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/).


======================================================================
== 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-4.21.5.html

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

                         --Enjoy
                         The Samba Team



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