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+<h3><a name="3.6.0">Samba Team Releases Samba 3.6</a></h3>
+
+<div class="article">
+<p>August 9th 2011.</p>
+
+The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.6, a major
+new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and
+authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows ® clients.
+
+
+<h4>The First Free Software SMB2 Server</h4>
+
+<p>Samba 3.6 includes the first Free Software implementation of
+Microsoft's new SMB2 file serving protocol. SMB2 within Samba is
+implemented with a brand new asynchronous server architecture,
+allowing Samba to display the performance enhancements SMB2 brings to
+Microsoft networking technology.</p>
+
+<p>Samba's new SMB2 server has been tested by major vendors and has been
+able to double the performance of some network applications when run
+in conjunction with Microsoft Windows 7 ® clients.</p>
+
+<p>Future developments of our SMB2 server and client suite, in
+combination with our expanding number of SMB2 tests, will keep driving
+the performance improvements and improved compatibility with Microsoft
+Windows that Samba users have come to expect from our software.</p>
+
+<h4>Improved Printing Support</h4>
+
+<p>The Samba 3.6 print subsystem has been completely re-written to use
+automatically generated remote procedure calls (RPC) and provides
+greater compatibility with the Windows SPOOLSS print subsystem
+architecture, including export of printer data via registry
+interfaces.</p>
+
+<p>Samba 3.6 is the first "on the wire" compatible version of the
+Microsoft SPOOLSS printing subsystem, and is the basis for our ongoing
+work to create an implementation of Microsoft Windows printing
+available separately from the Samba file server.</p>
+
+<h4>Improved Clustered File Server Support</h4>
+
+<p>Building on our success as the first commercial implementation of a
+clustered SMB/CIFS server, Samba 3.6 provides industry-leading
+scalability and performance as a clustered SMB2/SMB/CIFS file server,
+using our "clustered tdb" (ctdb) technology - also available as Free
+Software.</p>
+
+<p>Written and tested to be compatible with most clustered file systems,
+both Free Software and proprietary, Samba 3.6 with ctdb provides a
+scalable clustered file server solution with full Windows file sharing
+semantics.</p>
+
+<p>Samba and ctdb has been shipped in production file serving products
+for many years, to some of the most demanding customers in the world.</p>
+
+<h4>Simplified Identity Mapping</h4>
+
+<p>Samba 3.6 has simplified the complex field of mapping Linux ® and
+UNIX ® identities to Windows users and groups. Samba 3.6 contains a
+new implementation of the identity mapping code which allows automatic
+allocation of Linux and UNIX identities when Windows clients connect
+to a Samba server, even in a clustered file serving configuration.</p>
+
+<h4>Greater Reliability</h4>
+
+<p>Samba 3.6 has been tested using our widely accepted smbtorture test
+suite, created by the Samba Team to test Samba itself and now used by
+most of the companies writing SMB2/SMB/CIFS file server software to
+test their own products.</p>
+
+In addition, Samba is one of eleven open source projects that leading
+software integrity vendor Coverity has certified as "secure" and has
+reached Coverity "Integrity Rung 2" certification.</p>
+
+<h4>Library Components</h4>
+
+<p>As the Samba software matures, technologies created for use within
+Samba have been spun-off as external libraries, available from the
+following Web addresses:</p>
+
+<h5><a href=http://talloc.samba.org>Talloc</a>: Hierarchical memory allocator.</h5>
+
+<h5><a href=http://tdb.samba.org>TDB</a>: Super-fast key/value pair transactional database.</h5>
+
+<h5><a href=http://ctdb.samba.org>Clustered TDB</a>: A cluster-aware version of tdb and the code behind all
+  Samba clustered file serving implementations.</h5>
+
+<h5><a href=http://ldb.samba.org>LDB</a>: High performance LDAP-style database access for applications.</h5>
+
+<h5><a href=http://tevent.samba.org>Tevent</a>: Asynchronous Event subsystem, the basis for the new SMB2
+  server implementation within Samba 3.6.</h5>
+
+These libraries have been adopted by other Free Software projects,
+showcasing Samba as one of the leading innovators in the Free Software
+community.
+
+<h4>A Modular Toolbox For OEM Vendor Needs</h4>
+
+<p>As Free Software, Samba 3.6 is the ideal choice for Original Equipment
+Manufacturers (OEMs) to use for their file, print and authentication
+products. It is easily integrated into a whole host of different
+tasks, and can be customized at will by the vendor to satisfy their
+needs.</p>
+
+<p>In addition, Samba 3.6 includes a modular "Virtual File System" (VFS)
+interface that vendors can use to quickly and efficiently customize
+Samba to take advantage of any specific features of their underlying
+technology without having to modify any of the core Samba code. From
+advanced file systems to network traffic analysis, the Samba VFS layer
+allows external code to be easily integrated with Samba. Example
+modules are provided as source code for vendors to customize as they
+wish.</p>
+
+<h4>Samba is the leading choice for Microsoft Windows ® connectivity</h4>
+
+<p>Samba is the leading technology choice for Windows file serving on
+Linux and UNIX platforms and in embedded Network Attached Storage
+(NAS) solutions. Samba is used by vendors selling NAS solutions
+ranging from high end clustered business-critical systems, to low end
+consumer devices, and everything in between. Samba is fully IPv6
+enabled and meets all mandates for modern network interoperability.</p>
+
+<p>Commercial support is available for Samba from many different vendors.</p>
+
+<h4>Getting Samba 3.6</h4>
+
+<p>Samba 3.6 source code is available now from the
+<a href="http://www.samba.org">Samba Web site</a>.</p>
+
+<h4>About the Samba Team</h4>
+
+<p>The Samba Team is a worldwide group of computer professionals working
+together via the Internet to produce the highest quality Free Software
+Windows (SMB2/SMB/CIFS) server and client software. We are the
+undisputed experts in providing interoperability with computers
+running Microsoft Windows. Members of the Samba Team work for many of
+the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped
+Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the
+SMB/CIFS protocol.</p>
+
+<p>The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
+using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).  The source code can be
+<a href="http://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-3.6.0.tar.gz">downloaded now</a>.  See the
+<a href="/samba/history/samba-3.6.0.html">release notes</a>
+for more information.</p>
+
+<div align="center">Samba - <i>Opening Windows to a Wider World</i></div>
+
+</div>


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