samba announce - Sep 2016 - [Announce] Samba 4.4.6 Available for Download

=====================================================			 "The first wealth
is health."

			 Ralph Waldo Emerson
=====================================================

Release Announcements
---------------------

This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.4.


Changes since 4.4.5:
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o  Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
   * BUG 11977: libnet: Ignore realm setting for domain security joins to AD
     domains if 'winbind rpc only = true'.
   * BUG 12155: idmap: Centrally check that unix IDs returned by the idmap
     backends are in range.

o  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
   * BUG 11838:  s4: ldb: Ignore case of "range" in sscanf as
we've already
     checked for its presence.
   * BUG 11845: Incorrect bytecount in ReadAndX smb1 response.
   * BUG 11955: lib: Fix uninitialized read in msghdr_copy.
   * BUG 11959: s3: krb5: keytab - The done label can be jumped to with context
     == NULL.
   * BUG 11986: s3: libsmb: Correctly trim a trailing \\ character in
     cli_smb2_create_fnum_send() when passing a pathname to SMB2 create.
   * BUG 12021: Fix smbd crash (Signal 4) on File Delete.
   * BUG 12135: libgpo: Correctly use the 'server' parameter after
parsing it
     out of the GPO path.
   * BUG 12139: s3: oplock: Fix race condition when closing an oplocked file.
   * BUG 12272: Fix messaging subsystem crash.

o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 11750: gcc6 fails to build internal heimdal.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
   * BUG 11991: build: Build less of Samba when building
     '--without-ntvfs-fileserver'.
   * BUG 12026: build: Always build eventlog6. This is not a duplicate of
     eventlog.
   * BUG 12154: ldb-samba: Add "secret" as a value to hide in LDIF
files.
   * BUG 12178: dbcheck: Abandon dbcheck if we get an error during a
     transaction.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org>
   * BUG 10008: dbwrap_ctdb: Treat empty records in ltdb as non-existing.
   * BUG 11520: Fix DNS secure updates.
   * BUG 11961: idmap_autorid allocates ids for unknown SIDs from other
     backends.
   * BUG 11992: s3/smbd: Only use stored dos attributes for
     open_match_attributes() check.
   * BUG 12005: smbd: Ignore ctdb tombstone records in
     fetch_share_mode_unlocked_parser().
   * BUG 12016: cleanupd terminates main smbd on exit.
   * BUG 12028: vfs_acl_xattr: Objects without NT ACL xattr.
   * BUG 12105: async_req: Make async_connect_send() "reentrant".
   * BUG 12177: vfs_acl_common: Fix unexpected synthesized default ACL from
     vfs_acl_xattr.
   * BUG 12181: vfs_acl_xattr|tdb: Enforced settings when
     "ignore system acls = yes".

o  Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org>
   * BUG 11975: libnet_join: use sitename if it was set by pre-join detection.

o  Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
   * BUG 11977: s3-libnet: Print error string even on successful completion of
     libnetjoin.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
   * BUG 11940: CTDB fails to recover large database.
   * BUG 11941: CTDB does not ban misbehaving nodes during recovery.
   * BUG 11946: Samba and CTDB packages both have tevent-unix-util dependency.
   * BUG 11956: ctdb-recoverd: Avoid duplicate recoverd event in parallel
     recovery.
   * BUG 12158: CTDB release IP fixes.
   * BUG 12259: ctdb-protocol: Fix marshalling for GET_DB_SEQNUM control
     request.
   * BUG 12271: CTDB recovery does not terminate if no node is banned due to
     failure.
   * BUG 12275: ctdb-recovery-helper: Add missing initialisation of ban_credits.

o  Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
   * BUG 12268: smbd: Reset O_NONBLOCK on open files.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
   * BUG 11948: dcerpc.idl: Remove unused DCERPC_NCACN_PAYLOAD_MAX_SIZE.
   * BUG 11982: Invalid auth_pad_length is not ignored for BIND_* and ALTER_*
     pdus.
   * BUG 11994: gensec/spnego: Work around missing server mechListMIC in SMB
     servers.
   * BUG 12007: libads: Ensure the right ccache is used during spnego bind.
   * BUG 12018: python/remove_dc: Handle dnsNode objects without dnsRecord
     attribute.
   * BUG 12129: samba-tool/ldapcmp: Ignore differences of whenChanged.

o  Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org>
   * BUG 12023: man: Wrong option for parameter ldap ssl in smb.conf man page.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
   * BUG 11936: libutil: Support systemd 230.
   * BUG 11999: s3-winbind: Fix memory leak with each cached credential login.
   * BUG 12104: ctdb-waf: Move ctdb tests to libexec directory.
   * BUG 12175: s3-util: Fix asking for username and password in smbget.

o  Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
   * BUG 12104: ctdb-packaging: Move ctdb tests to libexec directory.
   * BUG 12110: ctdb-daemon: Fix several Coverity IDs.
   * BUG 12158: CTDB release IP fixes.
   * BUG 12161: Fix CTDB cumulative takeover timeout.
   * BUG 12180: Fix CTDB crashes running eventscripts.

o  Uri Simchoni <uri at samba.org>
   * BUG 12006: auth: Fix a memory leak in gssapi_get_session_key().
   * BUG 12145: smbd: If inherit owner is enabled, the free disk on a folder
     should take the owner's quota into account.
   * BUG 12149: smbd: Allow reading files based on FILE_EXECUTE access right.
   * BUG 12172: Fix access of snapshot folders via SMB1.

o  Lorinczy Zsigmond <lzsiga at freemail.c3.hu>
   * BUG 11947: lib: replace: snprintf: Fix length calculation for hex/octal
     64-bit values.


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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 and newer" product in the project's
Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


======================================================================= Our
Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
=====================================================================

===============Download Details
===============
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

        https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/

The release notes are available online at:

        https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.4.6.html

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team

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