[Samba] 4.17?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 19:52 +0300, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
> 20.10.2022 19:38, Kees van Vloten via samba wrote:
> > While we were just talking about 4.18, another question pops up.
> > 
> > I noticed 4.17.1 has been release this week.
> > 
> > But I am still running on 4.16.2, the last in Louis' repo. I checked Debian backports and it has 4.16.5 for Bullseye.
> > @Michael and/or @Louis is there a planning for 4.17?
> 
> I backport samba stuff from debian testing quite promptly, usually the
> same day the new upload to unstable is migrated to testing, - but this
> is for current 4.16.x series which is now more or less stable.
> 
> For 4.17, I already uploaded 4.17.1 to experimental (before it had
> 4.17.0). So far I'm a bit hesitant to upload it to unstable, due to
> the amount of fixes which went to 4.17.1. 

I would just note for context that it looks to me like less than the
normal set of patches, except that simply due to timing the CVE-2021-
20251 fixes landed after 4.17.0 not before.

The changes around the GET_ANC stuff, and so the selftest changes they
brought in as a depenency were not a regression or bug fix, just a
useful new feature that I had reason to want in upstream releases, but
are likewise not a sign of a branch 'not yet ready' either.

4.17 seems to be landing fairly well actually.

Andrew Bartlett

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