[Samba] Samba 3.6 security fixes

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:30:36PM +0800, John Blac wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Good day! I have a few questions regarding the status of Samba 3.6, I know
> it's now EOL but I'll ask anyway.
> 
> We currently have a large install base of Samba version 3.6 at the moment
> in our environment and we can't migrate immediately.
> 
> My question is, do you still release security patches (at least the highly
> critical ones) for Samba 3.6? Or is it completely unsupported now?

There won't be work by the Samba Team on 3.6 anymore. But if
you are for example under a RH contract, they will very
likely port back patches for quite a while. Also, you might
contract someone from https://www.samba.org/samba/support/
for extended security support.

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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