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Jule Anger
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Author: Jule Anger <janger at samba.org>
Date: Wed Mar 8 13:26:57 2023 +0100
NEWS[4.18.0]: Samba 4.18.0 Available for Download
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+<head>
+<title>Samba 4.18.0 - Release Notes</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<H2>Samba 4.18.0 Available for Download</H2>
+<p>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.18.0.tar.gz">Samba 4.18.0 (gzipped)</a><br>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.18.0.tar.asc">Signature</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<pre>
+ ==============================
+ Release Notes for Samba 4.18.0
+ March 08, 2023
+ ==============================
+
+This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series.
+Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading.
+
+NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
+====================
+
+SMB Server performance improvements
+-----------------------------------
+
+The security improvements in recent releases
+(4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16), mainly as protection against symlink races,
+caused performance regressions for metadata heavy workloads.
+
+While 4.17 already improved the situation quite a lot,
+with 4.18 the locking overhead for contended path based operations
+is reduced by an additional factor of ~ 3 compared to 4.17.
+It means the throughput of open/close
+operations reached the level of 4.12 again.
+
+More succinct samba-tool error messages
+---------------------------------------
+
+Historically samba-tool has reported user error or misconfiguration by
+means of a Python traceback, showing you where in its code it noticed
+something was wrong, but not always exactly what is amiss. Now it
+tries harder to identify the true cause and restrict its output to
+describing that. Particular cases include:
+
+ * a username or password is incorrect
+ * an ldb database filename is wrong (including in smb.conf)
+ * samba-tool dns: various zones or records do not exist
+ * samba-tool ntacl: certain files are missing
+ * the network seems to be down
+ * bad --realm or --debug arguments
+
+Accessing the old samba-tool messages
+-------------------------------------
+
+This is not new, but users are reminded they can get the full Python
+stack trace, along with other noise, by using the argument '-d3'.
+This may be useful when searching the web.
+
+The intention is that when samba-tool encounters an unrecognised
+problem (especially a bug), it will still output a Python traceback.
+If you encounter a problem that has been incorrectly identified by
+samba-tool, please report it on https://bugzilla.samba.org.
+
+Colour output with samba-tool --color
+-------------------------------------
+
+For some time a few samba-tool commands have had a --color=yes|no|auto
+option, which determines whether the command outputs ANSI colour
+codes. Now all samba-tool commands support this option, which now also
+accepts 'always' and 'force' for 'yes', 'never' and 'none' for 'no',
+and 'tty' and 'if-tty' for 'auto' (this more closely matches
+convention). With --color=auto, or when --color is omitted, colour
+codes are only used when output is directed to a terminal.
+
+Most commands have very little colour in any case. For those that
+already used it, the defaults have changed slightly.
+
+ * samba-tool drs showrepl: default is now 'auto', not 'no'
+
+ * samba-tool visualize: the interactions between --color-scheme,
+ --color, and --output have changed slightly. When --color-scheme is
+ set it overrides --color for the purpose of the output diagram, but
+ not for other output like error messages.
+
+New samba-tool dsacl subcommand for deleting ACES
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+The samba-tool dsacl tool can now delete entries in directory access
+control lists. The interface for 'samba-tool dsacl delete' is similar
+to that of 'samba-tool dsacl set', with the difference being that the
+ACEs described by the --sddl argument are deleted rather than added.
+
+No colour with NO_COLOR environment variable
+--------------------------------------------
+
+With both samba-tool --color=auto (see above) and some other places
+where we use ANSI colour codes, the NO_COLOR environment variable will
+disable colour output. See https://no-color.org/ for a description of
+this variable. `samba-tool --color=always` will use colour regardless
+of NO_COLOR.
+
+New wbinfo option --change-secret-at
+------------------------------------
+
+The wbinfo command has a new option, --change-secret-at=<DOMAIN CONTROLLER>
+which forces the trust account password to be changed at a specified domain
+controller. If the specified domain controller cannot be contacted the
+password change fails rather than trying other DCs.
+
+New option to change the NT ACL default location
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Usually the NT ACLs are stored in the security.NTACL extended
+attribute (xattr) of files and directories. The new
+"acl_xattr:security_acl_name" option allows to redefine the default
+location. The default "security.NTACL" is a protected location, which
+means the content of the security.NTACL attribute is not accessible
+from normal users outside of Samba. When this option is set to use a
+user-defined value, e.g. user.NTACL then any user can potentially
+access and overwrite this information. The module prevents access to
+this xattr over SMB, but the xattr may still be accessed by other
+means (eg local access, SSH, NFS). This option must only be used when
+this consequence is clearly understood and when specific precautions
+are taken to avoid compromising the ACL content.
+
+Azure Active Directory / Office365 synchronisation improvements
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Use of the Azure AD Connect cloud sync tool is now supported for
+password hash synchronisation, allowing Samba AD Domains to synchronise
+passwords with this popular cloud environment.
+
+REMOVED FEATURES
+================
+
+
+smb.conf changes
+================
+
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
+ acl_xattr:security_acl_name New security.NTACL
+ server addresses New
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.18.0rc4
+=======================
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
+ * BUG 15314: streams_xattr is creating unexpected locks on folders.
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
+ * BUG 15310: New samba-dcerpc architecture does not scale gracefully.
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.18.0rc3
+=======================
+
+o Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
+ * BUG 15308: Avoid that tests fail because other tests didn't do cleanup on
+ failure.
+
+o baixiangcpp <baixiangcpp at gmail.com>
+ * BUG 15311: fd_load() function implicitly closes the fd where it should not.
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.18.0rc2
+=======================
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
+ * BUG 15301: Improve file_modtime() and issues around smb3 unix test.
+
+o Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
+ * BUG 15299: Spotlight doesn't work with latest macOS Ventura.
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
+ * BUG 15298: Build failure on solaris with tevent 0.14.0 (and ldb 2.7.0).
+ (tevent 0.14.1 and ldb 2.7.1 are already released...)
+
+o John Mulligan <jmulligan at redhat.com>
+ * BUG 15307: vfs_ceph incorrectly uses fsp_get_io_fd() instead of
+ fsp_get_pathref_fd() in close and fstat.
+
+o Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
+ * BUG 15291: test_chdir_cache.sh doesn't work with SMBD_DONT_LOG_STDOUT=1.
+ * BUG 15301: Improve file_modtime() and issues around smb3 unix test.
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 4.18.0rc1
+=======================
+
+o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
+ * BUG 10635: Office365 azure Password Sync not working.
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
+ * BUG 15286: auth3_generate_session_info_pac leaks wbcAuthUserInfo.
+
+o Noel Power <noel.power at suse.com>
+ * BUG 15293: With clustering enabled samba-bgqd can core dump due to use
+ after free.
+
+
+KNOWN ISSUES
+============
+
+https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.18#Release_blocking_bugs
+
+
+</pre>
+</p>
+</body>
+</html>
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+<h5><a name="4.18.0">08 March 2023</a></h5>
+<p class=headline>Samba 4.18.0 Available for Download</p>
+<p>
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 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-4.18.0.tar.gz">downloaded now</a>.
+See <a href="https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.18.0.html">the release notes for more info</a>.
+</p>
+<!-- END: posted_news/20230308-122810.4.18.0.body.html -->
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+<!-- BEGIN: posted_news/20230308-122810.4.18.0.headline.html -->
+<li> 08 March 2023 <a href="#4.18.0">Samba 4.18.0 Available for Download</a></li>
+<!-- END: posted_news/20230308-122810.4.18.0.headline.html -->
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