[Announce] Samba 4.0.17 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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				"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."

				 Leonardo da Vinci
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.0.


Changes since 4.0.16:
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o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 9878: Make "force user" work as expected.
    * BUG 9942: Fix problem with server taking too long to respond to a
      MSG_PRINTER_DRVUPGRADE message.
    * BUG 9993: s3-printing: Fix obvious memory leak in
      printer_list_get_printer().
    * BUG 10344: SessionLogoff on a signed connection with an outstanding notify
      request crashes smbd.
    * BUG 10431: Fix STATUS_NO_MEMORY response from Query File Posix Lock request.
    * BUG 10508: smbd: Correctly add remote users into local groups.
    * BUG 10534: Cleanup messages.tdb record after unclean smbd shutdown.


o   Christian Ambach <ambi at samba.org>
    * BUG 9911: Fix build on AIX with IBM XL C/C++ (gettext detection issues).
    * BUG 10308: Fix String Conversion Errors with Samba 4.1.0 Build on AIX 7.1.


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * smbd: Split create_conn_struct into a fn that does not change the
      working dir.


o   Gregor Beck <gbeck at sernet.de>
    * BUG 10458: Fix 'wbinfo -i' with one-way trust.
    * s3:rpc_server: Minor refactoring of process_request_pdu().


o   Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
    * BUG 10471: Don't respond with NXDOMAIN to records that exist with another
      type.


o   Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org>
    * BUG 10504: lsa.idl: Define lsa.ForestTrustCollisionInfo and
      ForestTrustCollisionRecord as public structs.


o   Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 10439: Increase max netbios name components.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
    * BUG 10188: doc: Add "spoolss: architecture" parameter usage.
    * BUG 10484: Initial FSRVP rpcclient requests fail with
      NT_STATUS_PIPE_NOT_AVAILABLE.


o   Daniel Liberman <danielvl at gmail.com>
    * BUG 10387: 'net ads search' on high latency networks can return a partial
      list with no error indication.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 10344: SessionLogoff on a signed connection with an outstanding notify
      request crashes smbd.
    * BUG 10422: max xmit > 64kb leads to segmentation fault.
    * BUG 10444: smbd_server_connection_terminate("CTDB_SRVID_RELEASE_IP")
      panics from within ctdbd_migrate() with invalid lock_order.
    * BUG 10464: samba4 services not binding on IPv6 addresses causing
      connection delays.
    * tevent: Fix crash bug in tevent_queue_immediate_trigger().


o   Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz>
    * BUG 10378: dfs: Always call create_conn_struct with root privileges.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at cryptomilk.org>
    * BUG 10472: pidl: waf should have an option for the dir to install perl
      files and do not glob.
    * BUG 10474: s3-spoolssd: Don't register spoolssd if epmd is not running.
    * BUG 10481: s3-rpc_server: Fix handling of fragmented rpc requests.


o   Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>
    * BUG 10506: Make 'smbreadline' build with readline 6.3.


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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-4.0.17.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