[Announce] Samba 4.0.7 Available for Download

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Tue Jul 2 01:58:31 MDT 2013


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					"No pressure, no diamonds."

					 Thomas Carlyle
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Release Announcements
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This is is the latest stable release of Samba 4.0.

Major enhancements in Samba 4.0.7 include:

o  Fix a core dump with invalid lock order while opening/editing
   or copying MS files (bug #9794).
o  Fix crash bug from search of mail= (bug #9967).
o  winbind4: talloc use after free (bug #9832).


Changes since 4.0.6:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 9909: build: Add missing new line to replaced python shebang line.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 9794: Fix a core dump with invalid lock order while opening/editing
      or copying MS files.


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 9465: s3-rpc_server: Ensure we are root when starting and using
      gensec.
    * BUG 9906: Doc fixes for 4.0.
    * BUG 9907: Build fixes for 4.0 found during autoconf or debian packaging
      work.
    * BUG 9967: Fix crash bug from search of mail=.
    * BUG 9968: Fix build with system Heimdal of samba4kgetcred.


o   Björn Baumbach <bb at sernet.de>
    * BUG 9947: Check for netbios aliases in ad_get_referrals.


o   Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
    * BUG 9485: Add support for MX queries.
    * BUG 9559: dns: Delete dnsNode objects when they are empty.
    * BUG 9632: dns: Support larger queries when asking forwarder.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
    * BUG 8997: Change libreplace GPL source to LGPL.
    * BUG 9900: is_printer_published GUID retrieval.
    * BUG 9910: PIE builds not supported.


o   Peng Haitao <penght at cn.fujitsu.com>
    * BUG 9941: Fix a bug of drvupgrade of smbcontrol.


o   Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
    * BUG 9880: Use of wrong RFC2307 primary group field.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 9832: winbind4: talloc use after free.
    * BUG 9953: Fix tevent_poll on 32-bit machines (Coverity ID 989236).


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 9805: s3:lib/server_mutex: Open mutex.tdb with CLEAR_IF_FIRST.
    * BUG 9929: s4:winbind: Don't leak libnet_context into the main event
      context.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 9881: Check for system libtevent.


o   Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>
    * BUG 9964: docs: Avoid mentioning a possibly misleading option.


o   Vadim Zhukov <persgray at gmail.com>
    * BUG 9888: More generic check for OpenBSD platform.


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


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== 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 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-4.0.7.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


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