samba - Aug 2009 - [Announce] Samba 3.0.36 Maintenance Release Available

===============================================================			"Because
things are the way they are,
			 things will not stay the way they are."

			 Bertolt Brecht
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Release Announcements
====================

This is the latest bugfix release of the Samba 3.0 series.

Please note, that the 3.0 series will be DISCONTINUED after this release!
There will be neither any bugfix release nor any security release. Updating
to the latest release series is strongly recommended. For more information
on current Samba releases, please see

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba3_Release_Planning


Major enhancements included in Samba 3.0.36 are:

   o Fix Winbind crash on 'getent group' (bug #5906).
   o Excel save operation corrupts file ACLs (bug #4308).
   o Prevent segmentation fault on joining a very long domain name.


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Changes
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Changes since 3.0.35
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o   Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
    * BUG 5906: Fix Winbind crash on 'getent group'.
    * BUG 6066: netinet/ip.h present but cannot be compiled on Solaris.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 4308: Excel save operation corrupts file ACLs.
    * BUG 6099: In order to allow Win7 to connect to a Samba NT style
    * BUG 6279: Fix Winbind crash.
      PDC we set the flags before we know if it's an error or not.
    * Fix logic error in try_chown.
    * Correctly use chroot().
    * Fix bug in processing of open modes in POSIX open.


o   G?nther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
    * Don't install the cifs.upcall binary twice.


o   Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
    * BUG 4640: Fix guest mounts in mount-cifs.
    * Fix mount.cifs handling of -V option.


o   Bhaskar Jain (bhajain) <bhajain at cisco.com>
    * Prevent segmentation fault on joining a very long domain name.


o   G?nter Kukkukk <linux at kukkukk.com>
    * Don't try and delete a default ACL from a file.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * Add workaround for MS KB932762.


o   Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com>
    * BUG 4370: Clean-up entries in /etc/mtab after unmount.
    * Add fakemount (-f) and nomtab (-n) flags to mount.cifs.


o   Ted Percival <ted.percival at quest.com>
    * Fix a crash during name resolution when log level >= 10
      and libc segfaults if printf is passed NULL for a "%s" arg
     (eg. Solaris).


o   Miguel Suarez <Miguel.Suarez at stratus.com>
    * BUG 6085: Fix build of vfs_default.


o   Yasuma Takeda <yasuma at osstech.co.jp>
    * BUG 6098: When the DNS server is invalid, the ads_find_dc() does not work
      correctly.

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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 3.0 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:

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/

The release notes are available online at:

        http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/history/samba-3.0.36.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


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