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Author: Jule Anger <janger at samba.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 21 13:14:55 2022 +0100

    NEWS[4.16.0]: Samba 4.16.0 Available for Download
    
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+<head>
+<title>Samba 4.16.0 - Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<H2>Samba 4.16.0 Available for Download</H2>
+<p>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.16.0.tar.gz">Samba 4.16.0 (gzipped)</a><br>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.16.0.tar.asc">Signature</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<pre>
+                   ==============================
+                   Release Notes for Samba 4.16.0
+                           March 21, 2022
+                   ==============================
+
+This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.16 release series.
+Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading.
+
+
+NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
+====================
+
+New samba-dcerpcd binary to provide DCERPC in the member server setup
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+In order to make it much easier to break out the DCERPC services
+from smbd, a new samba-dcerpcd binary has been created.
+
+samba-dcerpcd can be used in two ways. In the normal case without
+startup script modification it is invoked on demand from smbd or
+winbind --np-helper to serve DCERPC over named pipes. Note that
+in order to run in this mode the smb.conf [global] section has
+a new parameter "rpc start on demand helpers = [true|false]".
+This parameter is set to "true" by default, meaning no changes to
+smb.conf files are needed to run samba-dcerpcd on demand as a named
+pipe helper.
+
+It can also be used in a standalone mode where it is started
+separately from smbd or winbind but this requires changes to system
+startup scripts, and in addition a change to smb.conf, setting the new
+[global] parameter "rpc start on demand helpers = false". If "rpc
+start on demand helpers" is not set to false, samba-dcerpcd will
+refuse to start in standalone mode.
+
+Note that when Samba is run in the Active Directory Domain Controller
+mode the samba binary that provides the AD code will still provide its
+normal DCERPC services whilst allowing samba-dcerpcd to provide
+services like SRVSVC in the same way that smbd used to in this
+configuration.
+
+The parameters that allowed some smbd-hosted services to be started
+externally are now gone (detailed below) as this is now the default
+setting.
+
+samba-dcerpcd can also be useful for use outside of the Samba
+framework, for example, use with the Linux kernel SMB2 server ksmbd or
+possibly other SMB2 server implementations.
+
+Heimdal-8.0pre used for Samba Internal Kerberos, adds FAST support
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Samba has since Samba 4.0 included a snapshot of the Heimdal Kerberos
+implementation.  This snapshot has now been updated and will closely
+match what will be released as Heimdal 8.0 shortly.
+
+This is a major update, previously we used a snapshot of Heimdal from
+2011, and brings important new Kerberos security features such as
+Kerberos request armoring, known as FAST.  This tunnels ticket
+requests and replies that might be encrypted with a weak password
+inside a wrapper built with a stronger password, say from a machine
+account.
+
+In Heimdal and MIT modes Samba's KDC now supports FAST, for the
+support of non-Windows clients.
+
+Windows clients will not use this feature however, as they do not
+attempt to do so against a server not advertising domain Functional
+Level 2012.  Samba users are of course free to modify how Samba
+advertises itself, but use with Windows clients is not supported "out
+of the box".
+
+Finally, Samba also uses a per-KDC, not per-realm 'cookie' to secure part of
+the FAST protocol.  A future version will align this more closely with
+Microsoft AD behaviour.
+
+If FAST needs to be disabled on your Samba KDC, set
+
+ kdc enable fast = no
+
+in the smb.conf.
+
+The Samba project wishes to thank the numerous developers who have put
+in a massive effort to make this possible over many years.  In
+particular we thank Stefan Metzmacher, Joseph Sutton, Gary Lockyer,
+Isaac Boukris and Andrew Bartlett.  Samba's developers in turn thank
+their employers and in turn their customers who have supported this
+effort over many years.
+
+Certificate Auto Enrollment
+---------------------------
+
+Certificate Auto Enrollment allows devices to enroll for certificates from
+Active Directory Certificate Services. It is enabled by Group Policy.
+To enable Certificate Auto Enrollment, Samba's group policy will need to be
+enabled by setting the smb.conf option `apply group policies` to Yes. Samba
+Certificate Auto Enrollment depends on certmonger, the cepces certmonger
+plugin, and sscep. Samba uses sscep to download the CA root chain, then uses
+certmonger paired with cepces to monitor the host certificate templates.
+Certificates are installed in /var/lib/samba/certs and private keys are
+installed in /var/lib/samba/private/certs.
+
+Ability to add ports to dns forwarder addresses in internal DNS backend
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The internal DNS server of Samba forwards queries non-AD zones to one or more
+configured forwarders. Up until now it has been assumed that these forwarders
+listen on port 53. Starting with this version it is possible to configure the
+port using host:port notation. See smb.conf for more details. Existing setups
+are not affected, as the default port is 53.
+
+CTDB changes
+------------
+
+* The "recovery master" role has been renamed "leader"
+
+  Documentation and logs now refer to "leader".
+
+  The following ctdb tool command names have changed:
+
+    recmaster -> leader
+    setrecmasterrole -> setleaderrole
+
+  Command output has changed for the following commands:
+
+    status
+    getcapabilities
+
+  The "[legacy] -> recmaster capability" configuration option has been
+  renamed and moved to the cluster section, so this is now:
+
+    [cluster] -> leader capability
+
+* The "recovery lock" has been renamed "cluster lock"
+
+  Documentation and logs now refer to "cluster lock".
+
+  The "[cluster] -> recovery lock" configuration option has been
+  deprecated and will be removed in a future version.  Please use
+  "[cluster] -> cluster lock" instead.
+
+  If the cluster lock is enabled then traditional elections are not
+  done and leader elections use a race for the cluster lock.  This
+  avoids various conditions where a node is elected leader but can not
+  take the cluster lock.  Such conditions included:
+
+  - At startup, a node elects itself leader of its own cluster before
+    connecting to other nodes
+
+  - Cluster filesystem failover is slow
+
+  The abbreviation "reclock" is still used in many places, because a
+  better abbreviation eludes us (i.e. "clock" is obvious bad) and
+  changing all instances would require a lot of churn.  If the
+  abbreviation "reclock" for "cluster lock" is confusing, please
+  consider mentally prefixing it with "really excellent".
+
+* CTDB now uses leader broadcasts and an associated timeout to
+  determine if an election is required
+
+  The leader broadcast timeout can be configured via new configuration
+  option
+
+    [cluster] -> leader timeout
+
+  This specifies the number of seconds without leader broadcasts
+  before a node calls an election.  The default is 5.
+
+
+REMOVED FEATURES
+================
+
+Older SMB1 protocol SMBCopy command removed
+-------------------------------------------
+
+SMB is a nearly 30-year old protocol, and some protocol commands that
+while supported in all versions, have not seen widespread use.
+
+One of those is SMBCopy, a feature for a server-side copy of a file.
+This feature has been so unmaintained that Samba has no testsuite for
+it.
+
+The SMB1 command SMB_COM_COPY (SMB1 command number 0x29) was
+introduced in the LAN Manager 1.0 dialect and it was rendered obsolete
+in the NT LAN Manager dialect.
+
+Therefore it has been removed from the Samba smbd server.
+
+We do note that a fully supported and tested server-side copy is
+present in SMB2, and can be accessed with "scopy" subcommand in
+smbclient)
+
+SMB1 server-side wildcard expansion removed
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Server-side wildcard expansion is another feature that sounds useful,
+but is also rarely used and has become problematic - imposing extra
+work on the server (both in terms of code and CPU time).
+
+In actual OS design, wildcard expansion is handled in the local shell,
+not at the remote server using SMB wildcard syntax (which is not shell
+syntax).
+
+In Samba 4.16 the ability to process file name wildcards in requests
+using the SMB1 commands SMB_COM_RENAME (SMB1 command number 0x7),
+SMB_COM_NT_RENAME (SMB1 command number 0xA5) and SMB_COM_DELETE (SMB1
+command number 0x6) has been removed.
+
+SMB1 protocol has been deprecated, particularly older dialects
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+We take this opportunity to remind that we have deprecated and
+disabled by default, but not removed, the whole SMB1 protocol since
+Samba 4.11.  If needed for security purposes or code maintenance we
+will continue to remove older protocol commands and dialects that are
+unused or have been replaced in more modern SMB1 versions.
+
+We specifically deprecate the older dialects older than "NT LM 0.12"
+(also known as "NT LANMAN 1.0" and "NT1").
+
+Please note that "NT LM 0.12" is the dialect used by software as old
+as Windows 95, Windows NT and Samba 2.0, so this deprecation applies
+to DOS and similar era clients.
+
+We do reassure that that 'simple' operation of older clients than
+these (eg DOS) will, while untested, continue for the near future, our
+purpose is not to cripple use of Samba in unique situations, but to
+reduce the maintaince burden.
+
+Eventually SMB1 as a whole will be removed, but no broader change is
+announced for 4.16.
+
+In the rare case where the above changes cause incompatibilities,
+users requiring support for these features will need to use older
+versions of Samba.
+
+No longer using Linux mandatory locks for sharemodes
+====================================================
+
+smbd mapped sharemodes to Linux mandatory locks. This code in the Linux kernel
+was broken for a long time, and is planned to be removed with Linux 5.15. This
+Samba release removes the usage of mandatory locks for sharemodes and the
+"kernel share modes" config parameter is changed to default to "no". The Samba
+VFS interface is kept, so that file-system specific VFS modules can still use
+private calls for enforcing sharemodes.
+
+
+smb.conf changes
+================
+
+  Parameter Name                          Description     Default
+  --------------                          -----------     -------
+  kernel share modes                      New default     No
+  dns forwarder                           Changed
+  rpc_daemon                              Removed
+  rpc_server                              Removed
+  rpc start on demand helpers             Added           true
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc5
+=======================
+
+o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
+   * BUG 15000: Memory leak in FAST cookie handling.
+
+o  Elia Geretto <elia.f.geretto at gmail.com>
+   * BUG 14983: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED translates into EPERM instead of EACCES
+     in SMBC_server_internal.
+
+o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
+   * BUG 13879: Simple bind doesn't work against an RODC (with non-preloaded
+     users).
+   * BUG 14641: Crash of winbind on RODC.
+   * BUG 15001: LDAP simple binds should honour "old password allowed period".
+   * BUG 15002: S4U2Self requests don't work against servers without FAST
+     support.
+   * BUG 15003: wbinfo -a doesn't work reliable with upn names.
+   * BUG 15005: A cross-realm kerberos client exchanges fail using KDCs with and
+     without FAST.
+   * BUG 15015: PKINIT: hdb_samba4_audit: Unhandled hdb_auth_status=9 =>
+     INTERNAL_ERROR.
+
+o  Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz>
+   * BUG 13879: Simple bind doesn't work against an RODC (with non-preloaded
+     users).
+
+o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
+   * BUG 15016: Regression: create krb5 conf = yes doesn't work with a single
+     KDC.
+
+o  Joseph Sutton <josephsutton at catalyst.net.nz>
+   * BUG 15015: PKINIT: hdb_samba4_audit: Unhandled hdb_auth_status=9 =>
+     INTERNAL_ERROR.
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc4
+=======================
+
+o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14737: Samba does not response STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER when opening 2
+     objects with same lease key.
+
+o  Jule Anger <janger at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14999: Listing shares with smbstatus no longer works.
+
+o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz>
+   * BUG 14996: Fix ldap simple bind with TLS auditing.
+
+o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14995: Use Heimdal 8.0 (pre) rather than an earlier snapshot.
+
+o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14989: Fix a use-after-free in SMB1 server.
+
+o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14865: Uncached logon on RODC always fails once.
+   * BUG 14984: Changing the machine password against an RODC likely destroys
+     the domain join.
+   * BUG 14993: authsam_make_user_info_dc() steals memory from its struct
+     ldb_message *msg argument.
+   * BUG 14995: Use Heimdal 8.0 (pre) rather than an earlier snapshot.
+
+o  Joseph Sutton <josephsutton at catalyst.net.nz>
+   * BUG 14995: Use Heimdal 8.0 (pre) rather than an earlier snapshot.
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc3
+=======================
+
+o  Samuel Cabrero <scabrero at suse.de>
+   * BUG 14979: Problem when winbind renews Kerberos.
+
+o  Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
+   * BUG 13631: DFS fix for AIX broken.
+   * BUG 14974: Solaris and AIX acl modules: wrong function arguments.
+   * BUG 7239: Function aixacl_sys_acl_get_file not declared / coredump.
+
+o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14967: Samba autorid fails to map AD users if id rangesize fits in the
+     id range only once.
+
+o  Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
+   * BUG 14958: CTDB can get stuck in election and recovery.
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc2
+=======================
+
+o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14169: Renaming file on DFS root fails with
+     NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND.
+   * BUG 14938: NT error code is not set when overwriting a file during rename
+     in libsmbclient.
+
+o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14674: net ads info shows LDAP Server: 0.0.0.0 depending on contacted
+     server.
+
+o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipen at redhat.com>
+   * BUG 14971: virusfilter_vfs_openat: Not scanned: Directory or special file.
+
+o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14900: Regression: Samba 4.15.2 on macOS segfaults intermittently
+     during strcpy in tdbsam_getsampwnam.
+   * BUG 14975: Fix a crash in vfs_full_audit - CREATE_FILE can free a used fsp.
+
+o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14968: smb2_signing_decrypt_pdu() may not decrypt with
+     gnutls_aead_cipher_decrypt() from gnutls before 3.5.2.
+
+o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14960: SDB uses HDB flags directly which can lead to unwanted side
+     effects.
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.16.0rc1
+=======================
+
+o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14911: CVE-2021-44141: UNIX extensions in SMB1 disclose whether the
+     outside target of a symlink exists.
+
+o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14914: CVE-2021-44142: Out-of-Bound Read/Write on Samba vfs_fruit
+     module.
+   * BUG 14961: install elasticsearch_mappings.json
+
+o  FeRD (Frank Dana) <ferdnyc at gmail.com>
+   * BUG 14947: samba-bgqd still notifying systemd, triggering log warnings
+     without NotifyAccess=all.
+
+o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
+   * BUG 14867: Printing no longer works on Windows 7 with 2021-10 monthly
+     rollup patch.
+   * BUG 14956: ndr_push_string() adds implicit termination for
+     STR_NOTERM|REMAINING empty strings.
+
+o  Joseph Sutton <josephsutton at catalyst.net.nz>
+   * BUG 14950: CVE-2022-0336: Re-adding an SPN skips subsequent SPN conflict
+     checks.
+
+
+KNOWN ISSUES
+============
+
+https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.16#Release_blocking_bugs
+
+
+</pre>
+</p>
+</body>
+</html>
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+<!-- BEGIN: posted_news/20220321-121540.4.16.0.body.html -->
+<h5><a name="4.16.0">21 March 2022</a></h5>
+<p class=headline>Samba 4.16.0 Available for Download</p>
+<p>
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.16 release series.
+</p>
+<p>
+The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620).
+The source code can be <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.16.0.tar.gz">downloaded now</a>.
+See <a href="https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.16.0.html">the release notes for more info</a>.
+</p>
+<!-- END: posted_news/20220321-121540.4.16.0.body.html -->
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+<!-- BEGIN: posted_news/20220321-121540.4.16.0.headline.html -->
+<li> 21 March 2022 <a href="#4.16.0">Samba 4.16.0 Available for Download</a></li>
+<!-- END: posted_news/20220321-121540.4.16.0.headline.html -->


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