[Samba] [Announce] Samba 4.0.18 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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				"Intelligence is the ability to adapt
				 to change."

				 Stephen Hawking
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.0.

Please note that this bug fix release also addresses two minor security issues
without being a dedicated security release:

  o CVE-2014-0239: dns: Don't reply to replies (bug #10609).
  o CVE-2014-0178: Malformed FSCTL_SRV_ENUMERATE_SNAPSHOTS response
    (bug #10549).

For more details including security advisories and patches, please see

  http://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html


 Changes since 4.0.17:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 10548: build: Fix ordering problems with lib-provided and internal
      RPATHs.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 10577: SMB1 wildcard unlink fail can leave a retry record on the open
      retry queue.
    * BUG 10564: Fix lock order violation and file lost.


o   Björn Baumbach <bb at sernet.de>
    * BUG 10239: s3-nmbd: Reset debug settings after reading config file.
    * BUG 10544: s3-lib/util: set_namearray reads across end of namelist
      string.
    * BUG 10556: lib-util: Rename memdup to smb_memdup and fix all callers.


o   Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
    * BUG 10609: CVE-2014-0239: dns: Don't reply to replies.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
    * BUG 10590: byteorder: Do not assume PowerPC is big-endian.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 10472: script/autobuild: Make use of
      '--with-perl-{arch,lib}-install-dir'.


o   Noel Power <nopower at suse.com>
    * BUG 10554: Fix read of deleted memory in reply_writeclose()'.


o   Jose A. Rivera <jarrpa at redhat.com>
    * BUG 10151: Extra ':' in msg for Waf Cross Compile Build System with
      Cross-answers command.
    * BUG 10348: Fix empty body in if-statement in continue_domain_open_lookup.


o   Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt at us.ibm.com>
    * BUG 10549: CVE-2014-0178: Malformed FSCTL_SRV_ENUMERATE_SNAPSHOTS
      response.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 10472: wafsamba: Fix the installation on FreeBSD.


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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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== 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 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-4.0.18.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