[Announce] Samba 3.5.12 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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					"I am not an economist.
					 I am an honest man!"

					 Paul McCracken
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.5.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.12 include:

o  Fix race condition in Winbind (bug 7844).
o  The VFS ACL modules are no longer experimental but production-ready.


Changes since 3.5.11:
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o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 7509: smb_acl_to_posix: ACL is invalid for set (Invalid argument).
    * BUG 7551: Return error of cli_push when 'put - /some/file' is used.
    * BUG 8156: 'net ads join' fails to use the user's kerberos ticket.
    * BUG 8370: Fix vfs_chown_fsp.
    * BUG 8422: Fix infinite loop in ACL module code.
    * BUG 8443: Be smarter about setting default permissions when a ACL_USER_OBJ
      isn't given.
    * BUG 8458: IE9 on Windows 7 cannot download files to samba 3.5.11 share.
    * BUG 8493: DFS breaks zip file extracting unless "follow symlinks = no"
      set.
    * BUG 8507: Make smbd correctly honor the "force create mode" bits from a
      cifsfs create.
    * BUG 8541: Fix readlink() on Linux clients if the symlink target is
      outside of the share.
    * BUG 8542: smbclient posix_open command fails to return correct info on
      open file.


o   Pierre Carrier <pcarrier at redhat.com>
    * BUG 8186: Allow changing the maximum number of simultaneous clients in
      Winbind through an smb.conf option.


o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 7465: Fix 'net ads join -k' when KRB5CCNAME is not set.
    * BUG 7888: Deal with buggy 3.0 based PDCs.
    * BUG 8491: Fix some coverity issues.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at suse.de>
    * BUG 8480: acl_xattr can free an invalid pointer if no blob is loaded.


o   Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
    * BUG 8256: Add man vfs_aio_fork.
    * BUG 8362: Fix SWAT build issue on old glibc systems.
    * BUG 8531: Make DSO_EXPORTS_CMD more portable.


o   Volodymyr Khomenko <Volodymyr_Khomenko at dell.com>
    * BUG 8515: Disallow "." in can_set_delete_on_close().


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 7844: Fix race condition in Winbind.
    * BUG 8338: Add a fallback for missing open&x support in OS/X Lion.
    * BUG 8420: Fix getent group if trusted domains are not reachable.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org
    * BUG 8347: Fix regression on HP-UX, AIX and OSF introduced by the fix for
      CVE-2011-2522.
    * BUG 8452: Check the wct of the incoming SMBnegprot responses in libsmb.
    * BUG 8491: Fix some coverity issues.


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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 IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

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 3.5 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable

The release notes are available online at:

        http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.12.html

Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/

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

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team