[Samba] Samba-2.2.8pre1 available on samba.org mirrors

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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We've just posted a preview release of Samba 2.2.8 on samba.org.
This is a non-production release provided for testing only.
The final 2.2.8 will only include bug fixes for the 2.2.7a release.

The source code can be downloaded from :

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

The unpcompressed tarball and patch file have been signed
using GnuPG.  The Samba public key is available at

    http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-pubkey.asc

Binary packages for RedHat have been released and can be 
found at

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

Other will be available soon.

The release notes follow.

As always, all bugs are our responsibility.

                                  --Enjoy
                                  The Samba Team



       What's new in Samba 2.2.8pre1 - 3rd February 2003
       =================================================

This is a non-production, preview release of the upcoming Samba 
2.2.8 distribution.  This preview release is for testing purposes 
only and should not be installed in production environments. 

The purpose of this preview release to make numerous bugs fixes 
for Samba 2.2.7a available to the Samba community.  Please report
testing results of this release to the Samba mailing list 
<samba at samba.org>.


Changes since 2.2.7a
- ---------------------

See the cvs log for SAMBA_2_2 for more details

1)  Fix seg fault in smbpasswd when specifying the new password
    as a command line argument
2)  Correct 64-bit file sizes issues with smbtar and smbclient
3)  Add batch mode option to pdbedit
4)  Add protection in nmbd against malformed reply packets
5)  Fix bug with sendfile profiling support in smbstatus output
6)  Correct bug in "hide unreadable" smb.conf parameter that 
    resulted in incorrect directory listings 
7)  Fix bug in group enumeration in winbindd
8)  Correct build issues with libsmbclient on Solaris
9)  Fix memory leak and bad pointer dereference in password
    changing code in smbd
10) Fix for changing attributes on a file truncate
11) Ensure smbd process count never gets to -1 if limiting number 
    of processes
12) Ensure we return disk full by default on short writes
13) Don't delete jobs submitted after the lpq time
14) Fix reference count bug where smbds would not terminate 
    with no open resources
15) Performance fix when using quota support on HP-UX
16) Fixes for --with-ldapsam
    * Default to port 389 when "ldap ssl != on"
    * add support for rebinding to the master directory server
      for password changes when "ldap server" points to a read-only 
      slave
17) Add -W and -X comand line flags to smbpasswd for extracting and
    setting the machine/domain SID in secrets.tdb.  See the 
    smbpasswd(8) man page for details.
18) Added (c) Luke Howard to winbind_nss_solaris.c for coded 
    obtained from PADL's nss_ldap library.
19) Fix bug in samr_dispinfo query in winbindd
20) Fix segfault in NTLMSSP password changing code for 
    guest connections
21) Correct pstring/fstring mismatches
22) Send level II oplock break requests synchronously to prevent 
    condition where one smbd would continually lock a share entry
    in locking.tdb
23) Miscellaneous cleanups for tdb error conditions and appending 
    data in a record
24) Implement correct open file truncate semantics with DOS 
    attributes
25) Enforce wide links = no on files as well as directories
26) Include shared library checks for Stratus VOS
27) Include support for CUPS printer classes and logging the remote 
    client name



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