Folks, Some of us have announced a planned rollout of a final samba-1.9.18 series patch update scheduled for Monday August 17th. This has now been STOPPED due to a VERY obscure directory hanlding bug that has been found and that we believe must be fixed. In view of the fact that a few people now have the sources for samba-1.9.18p9 we are completely stopping the release of this version and will prepare samba-1.9.18p10 in a day or so. This has the down side that we must again go through the quality control cycle and preparation of binary packages before scheduled release. We are calling this update samba-1.9.18p10 so as to avoid the possibility of confusion. We really do hope this will be the final update release. There are about 19 significant fixes since 18p8 so far. These will be detailed in the WHATSNEW.txt file in the root directory of the source tarball. A forward release announcement will be made when initial quality processes have been completed. We (the Samba-Team) are increasingly conscious of the need for quality control. Our user base continues to grow as does the number of different platforms we must now support. The samba-2.0 source tree has recently been ported to Autoconf to make cross platform support a less onerous problem. This is good news for everyone. The down side is that samba-2.0 is still quite a way from being ready for general use. This leaves us with the necessity to issue one more patch update to the samba-1.9.18 series before firmly closing off this code tree so that ALL development efforts can be channelled into samba-2.0. You can no doubt appreciate that we really want to get the new Windows NT domain control code into your hands sooner rather than later. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by delays in release of the final update for the 1.9.18 series. Thank you for your patience. Kind regards, John H Terpstra on behalf of the Samba-Team