[Announce] Samba 4.21.4 Available for Download

Jule Anger janger at samba.org
Mon Feb 17 16:05:16 UTC 2025


Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.21 release series.


Changes since 4.21.3
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o  Vinit Agnihotri <vagnihot at redhat.com>
    * BUG 15780: Increasing slowness of sharesec performance with high 
number of
      registry shares.

o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 15782: winbindd shows memleak in kerberos_decode_pac.

o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz>
    * BUG 15738: Creation of GPOs applicable to more than one group is 
impossible
      with Samba 4.20.0 and later.
    * BUG 15756: Replace `crypt` module in
      python/samba/netcmd/user/readpasswords/common.py.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
    * BUG 15151: vfs_gpfs silently garbles timestamps > year 2106.
    * BUG 15796: Spotlight search results don't show file size and 
creation date.

o  Guenther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 15703: General improvements for vfs_ceph_new module.
    * BUG 15777: net offlinejoin not working correctly.
    * BUG 15780: Increasing slowness of sharesec performance with high 
number of
      registry shares.

o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipensky at samba.org>
    * BUG 15759: net ads create/join/winbind producing unix dysfunctional
      keytabs.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 14213: Windows Explorer crashes on S-1-22-* Unix-SIDs when 
accessing
      security tab.
    * BUG 15769: The values from hresult_errstr_const and hresult_errstr are
      reversed in 4.20 and 4.21.
    * BUG 15778: Kerberos referral tickets are generated for principals 
in our
      domain if we have a trust to a top level domain.
    * BUG 15783: NETLOGON_NTLMV2_ENABLED is missing in the SamLogon* 
user_flags
      field.

o  Anoop C S <anoopcs at samba.org>
    * BUG 15703: General improvements for vfs_ceph_new module.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 15784: Regression: stack-use-after-return in 
crypt_as_best_we_can().
    * BUG 15788: libreplace:readline: gcc 15 complains about 
incompatible pointer
      types.

o  Shachar Sharon <ssharon at redhat.com>
    * BUG 15703: General improvements for vfs_ceph_new module.

o  Shweta Sodani <ssodani at redhat.com>
    * BUG 15703: General improvements for vfs_ceph_new module.


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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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joining the #samba-technical:matrix.org matrix room, or
#samba-technical IRC channel on irc.libera.chat.

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 AA99442FB680B620).  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-4.21.4.html

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

                         --Enjoy
                         The Samba Team



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