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"No pressure, no diamonds."
Thomas Carlyle
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Release Announcements
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This is is the latest stable release of Samba 4.0.
Major enhancements in Samba 4.0.7 include:
o Fix a core dump with invalid lock order while opening/editing
or copying MS files (bug #9794).
o Fix crash bug from search of mail= (bug #9967).
o winbind4: talloc use after free (bug #9832).
Changes since 4.0.6:
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o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
* BUG 9909: build: Add missing new line to replaced python shebang line.
o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* BUG 9794: Fix a core dump with invalid lock order while opening/editing
or copying MS files.
o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
* BUG 9465: s3-rpc_server: Ensure we are root when starting and using
gensec.
* BUG 9906: Doc fixes for 4.0.
* BUG 9907: Build fixes for 4.0 found during autoconf or debian packaging
work.
* BUG 9967: Fix crash bug from search of mail=.
* BUG 9968: Fix build with system Heimdal of samba4kgetcred.
o Björn Baumbach <bb@sernet.de>
* BUG 9947: Check for netbios aliases in ad_get_referrals.
o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
* BUG 9485: Add support for MX queries.
* BUG 9559: dns: Delete dnsNode objects when they are empty.
* BUG 9632: dns: Support larger queries when asking forwarder.
o David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>
* BUG 8997: Change libreplace GPL source to LGPL.
* BUG 9900: is_printer_published GUID retrieval.
* BUG 9910: PIE builds not supported.
o Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
* BUG 9941: Fix a bug of drvupgrade of smbcontrol.
o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
* BUG 9880: Use of wrong RFC2307 primary group field.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* BUG 9832: winbind4: talloc use after free.
* BUG 9953: Fix tevent_poll on 32-bit machines (Coverity ID 989236).
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* BUG 9805: s3:lib/server_mutex: Open mutex.tdb with CLEAR_IF_FIRST.
* BUG 9929: s4:winbind: Don''t leak libnet_context into the main
event
context.
o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
* BUG 9881: Check for system libtevent.
o Michael Wood <esiotrot@gmail.com>
* BUG 9964: docs: Avoid mentioning a possibly misleading option.
o Vadim Zhukov <persgray@gmail.com>
* BUG 9888: More generic check for OpenBSD platform.
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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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== 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-4.0.7.html
Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from
http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/
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The Samba Team