[Announce] Samba 4.8.2 Available for Download

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Wed May 16 10:25:45 UTC 2018


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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.8 release series.

Major bug fixes include:
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   o After update to 4.8.0 DC failed with "Failed to find our own
     NTDS Settings objectGUID" (bug #13335).

Changes since 4.8.1:
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o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
   * BUG 13380: s3: smbd: Generic fix for incorrect reporting of stream dos
     attributes on a directory.
   * BUG 13412: ceph: VFS: Add asynchronous fsync to ceph module, fake using
     synchronous call.
   * BUG 13419: s3: libsmbclient: Fix hard-coded connection error return of
     ETIMEDOUT.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
   * BUG 13306: ldb: Release ldb 1.3.3:
     * Fix failure to upgrade to the GUID index DB format.
     * Add tests for GUID index behaviour.
   * BUG 13420: s4-lsa: Fix use-after-free in LSA server.
   * BUG 13430: winbindd: Do re-connect if the RPC call fails in the passdb
     case.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
   * BUG 13416: s3:cleanupd: Sends MSG_SMB_UNLOCK twice to interested peers.
   * BUG 13414: s3:cleanupd: Use MSG_SMB_BRL_VALIDATE to signal cleanupd
     unclean process shutdown.

o  David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
   * BUG 13425: vfs_ceph: add fake async pwrite/pread send/recv hooks.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
   * BUG 13411: ctdb-client: Remove ununsed functions from old client code.

o  Björn Jacke <bjacke at samba.org>
   * BUG 13395: printing: Return the same error code as windows does on upload
     failures.

o  Gary Lockyer <gary at catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 13335: After update to 4.8.0 DC failed with "Failed to find our own
     NTDS Settings objectGUID".

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
   * BUG 13400: nsswitch: Fix memory leak in winbind_open_pipe_sock() when the
     privileged pipe is not accessable.
   * BUG 13420: s4:lsa_lookup: remove TALLOC_FREE(state) after all
     dcesrv_lsa_Lookup{Names,Sids}_base_map() calls.

o  Vandana Rungta <vrungta at amazon.com>
   * BUG 13424: s3: VFS: Fix memory leak in vfs_ceph.

o  Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org>
   * BUG 13407: rpc_server: Fix NetSessEnum with stale sessions.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
   * BUG 13417: s3:smbspool: Fix cmdline argument handling.


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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 4.1 and newer" product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


======================================================================
== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== 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 6F33915B6568B7EA).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

        https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/

The release notes are available online at:

        https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.8.2.html

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

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team
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