samba announce - Dec 2014 - [Announce] Samba 4.0.23 Available for Download

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


Changes since 4.0.22:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 10472: Revert buildtools/wafadmin/Tools/perl.py back to upstream
      state.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 10711: s3:daemons: Ensure nmbd and winbindd are consistent in
      command line processing by adding POPT_COMMON_DYNCONFIG.
    * BUG 10779: pthreadpool: Slightly serialize jobs.
    * BUG 10830: s3:nmbd: Ensure the main nmbd process doesn't create
zombies.
    * BUG 10831: SIGCLD Signal handler not correctly reinstalled on old library
      code use - smbrun etc.
    * BUG 10848: s3:smb2cli: Query info return length check was reversed.
    * BUG 10896: s3:nmbd: Fix netbios name truncation.


o   G?nther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * BUG 9984: s3-libnet: Make sure we do not overwrite precreated SPNs.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
    * BUG 10898: spoolss: Fix handling of bad EnumJobs levels.
    * BUG 10905: spoolss: Fix print job enumeration.


o   Bj?rn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
    * BUG docs: Mention incompatibility between kernel oplocks and
      streams_xattr.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 10860: registry: Don't leave dangling transactions.
    * BUG 10932: pdb_tdb: Fix a TALLOC/SAFE_FREE mixup.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
    * BUG 10472: Revert buildtools/wafadmin/Tools/perl.py back to upstream
      state.
    * BUG 10921: s3:smbd: Fix file corruption using "write cache size !=
0".


o   Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org>
    * BUG 10838: s3-winbindd: Do not use domain SID from LookupSids for
    * Sids2UnixIDs call.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 9984: s3-libnet: Add libnet_join_get_machine_spns().
    * BUG 9985: s3-libads: Add all machine account principals to the keytab.
    * BUG 10472: wafsamba: If perl can't provide defaults, define them.
    * BUG 10824: nsswitch: Skip groups we were not able to map.
    * BUG 10829: s3-libads: Improve service principle guessing.


o   Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com>
    * BUG: source3/smbd/process.c::srv_send_smb() returns true on the error
      path.


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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/).


======================================================================= 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-4.0.23.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