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"But magic is like pizza: even when
it's bad, it's pretty good."
Neil Patrick Harris
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.2.
Changes since 4.2.4:
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o Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
* BUG 10252: s3: smbd: Fix our access-based enumeration on "hide
unreadable"
to match Windows.
* BUG 10634: smbd: Fix file name buflen and padding in notify repsonse.
* BUG 11486: s3: smbd: Fix mkdir race condition.
* BUG 11522: s3: smbd: Fix opening/creating :stream files on the root share
directory.
* BUG 11535: s3: smbd: Fix NULL pointer bug introduced by previous
'raw'
stream fix (bug #11522).
* BUG 11555: s3: lsa: lookup_name() logic for unqualified (no DOMAIN\
component) names is incorrect.
o Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
* BUG 11535: s3: smbd: Fix a crash in unix_convert().
* BUG 11543: vfs_fruit: Return value of ad_pack in vfs_fruit.c.
* BUG 11549: Fix bug in smbstatus where the lease info is not printed.
* BUG 11550: s3:smbstatus: Add stream name to share_entry_forall().
* BUG 11555: s3:lib: validate domain name in lookup_wellknown_name().
o Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
* BUG 11038: kerberos: Make sure we only use prompter type when available.
o Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
* BUG 10365: nss_winbind: Fix hang on Solaris on big groups.
* BUG 11355: build: Use as-needed linker flag also on OpenBSD.
o Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
* BUG 11038: winbind: Fix 100% loop.
* BUG 11381: Fix a deadlock in tdb.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
* BUG 11316: s3:ctdbd_conn: Make sure we destroy tevent_fd before closing
the socket.
* BUG 11327: dcerpc.idl: accept invalid dcerpc_bind_nak pdus.
o Har Gagan Sahai <SHarGagan at novell.com>
* BUG 11509: s3: dfs: Fix a crash when the dfs targets are disabled.
o Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
* BUG 11502: pam_winbind: Fix a segfault if initialization fails.
o Uri Simchoni <uri at samba.org>
* BUG 11528: net: Fix a crash with 'net ads keytab create'.
* BUG 11547: vfs_commit: Set the fd on open before calling SMB_VFS_FSTAT.
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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 4.1 or later 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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from:
http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/
The release notes are available online at:
http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.2.5.html
Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from
http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/
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--Enjoy
The Samba Team
