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library implies an act of faith."
Victor Hugo
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Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.1.
Major enhancements in Samba 4.1.12 include:
o New parameter "winbind request timeout" has been added (bug #3204).
Please
see smb.conf man page for details.
o Fix smbd crashes when filename contains non-ascii character (bug #10716).
o dnsserver: Handle updates of tombstoned dnsNode objects (bug #10749).
Changes since 4.1.11:
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o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
* BUG 10369: build: Fix configure to honour '--without-dmapi'.
* BUG 10737: s3:idmap: Don't log missing range config if range checking
not
requested.
* BUG 10741: Fix flapping VFS gpfs offline bit.
o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* BUG 3204: s3: winbindd: On new client connect, prune idle or hung
connections older than "winbind request timeout". Add new
parameter
"winbind request timeout".
* BUG 10640: lib: tevent: make TEVENT_SIG_INCREMENT atomic.
* BUG 10650: Make "case sensitive = True" option working with
"max protocol = SMB2" or higher in large directories.
* BUG 10716: Fix smbd crashes when filename contains non-ascii
character.
* BUG 10728: 'net time': Fix usage and core dump.
* BUG 10773: s3: smbd: POSIX ACLs. Remove incorrect check for
SECINFO_PROTECTED_DACL in incoming security_information flags in
posix_get_nt_acl_common().
* BUG 10794: vfs_dirsort: Fix an off-by-one error that can cause
uninitialized memory read.
o Björn Baumbach <bb@sernet.de>
* BUG 10543: s3: Enforce a positive allocation_file_size for non-empty
files.
o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
* BUG 10466: provision: Correctly provision the SOA record minimum TTL.
o David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>
* BUG 10652: Samba 4 consuming a lot of CPU when re-reading printcap info.
* BUG 10787: dosmode: Fix FSCTL_SET_SPARSE request validation.
o Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com>
* BUG 10742: s4-rpc: dnsserver: Allow . to be specified for @ record.
o Daniel Kobras <d.kobras@science-computing.de>
* BUG 10731: sys_poll_intr: Fix timeout arithmetic.
o Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
* BUG 10778: s3:libsmb: Set a max charge for SMB2 connections.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* BUG 10716: lib: strings: Simplify strcasecmp.
* BUG 10758: lib: Remove unused nstrcpy.
* BUG 10782: smbd: Properly initialize mangle_hash.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* BUG 9831: s4:setup/dns_update_list: make use of the new substitution
variables.
* BUG 10723: Allow netr_ServerReqChallenge() and netr_ServerAuthenticate3()
on different connections.
* BUG 10749: s4-rpc: dnsserver: Handle updates of tombstoned dnsNode
objects.
* BUG 10751: s4-rpc: dnsserver: return DNS_RANK_NS_GLUE recors when
explicitly asked for.
* BUG 10773: libcli/security: Add better detection of
SECINFO_[UN]PROTECTED_[D|S]ACL in get_sec_info().
o Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld@samba.org>
* BUG 10761: docs: Fix typos in smb.conf (inherit acls).
o Shirish Pargaonkar <spargaonkar@suse.com>
* BUG 10755: samba: Retain case sensitivity of cifs client.
o Arvid Requate <requate@univention.de>
* BUG 9570: passdb: Fix NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_GROUP.
o Har Gagan Sahai <SHarGagan@novell.com>
* BUG 10759: Fix a memory leak in cli_set_mntpoint().
o Roel van Meer <roel@1afa.com>
* BUG 10777: Don't discard result of checking grouptype.
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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 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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