samba - Oct 2010 - ANNOUNCE: cifs-utils release 4.7 available for download

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The last cifs-utils release (4.6) was on July 30th, so it's probably a
good time to go ahead and release a new one with kernel 2.6.36 shipping
soon. Major highlights:

- - new cifscreds program has been added. This will eventually allow for
  stashing of username/password in the kernel's keyring for use by
  cifs. Kernel code for this is not in place yet, and the program is
  not yet built by default. Configuring with --enable-cifscreds=yes
  will enable it.

- - timeouts for things like mtab locking now use monotonic time and
  should no longer have problems if the clock jumps

...plus the usual assortment of minor bugfixes and manpage updates.

webpage:    http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs-utils/
tarball:    ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
git:        git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git
gitweb:     http://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git;a=summary

Detailed changelog:

commit 6739b667677b28740b87ede94e53dfc500718acb
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 19 14:59:49 2010 -0400

    autoconf: bump release to 4.7
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 202f4b43209da32afc7ce5445a8f561c354c8f82
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 8 15:11:58 2010 -0400

    manpage: add mount.cifs manpage entry for "multiuser" option
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit d90691a283d0f2ed928476fc96970b1ef2a28662
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 8 15:11:57 2010 -0400

    mount.cifs: reinstate ip= as an override for address resolution
    
    The manpage says:
    
           ip=arg
               sets the destination IP address. This option is set automatically
               if the server name portion of the requested UNC name can be
               resolved so rarely needs to be specified by the user.
    
    ...but recent changes have made it not work anymore as an override if
    someone specifies an ip= option as part of the mount options. Reinstate
    that behavior by copying the ip= option verbatim into the addrlist of
    the parsed options struct and then skipping the name resolution. That
    should allow the ip= option to pass unadulterated to the kernel.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit f2daa2a08bf8706f90e1154272c5bfe6279895cd
Author: Bj?rn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
Date:   Tue Aug 24 13:30:05 2010 -0400

    mount.cifs: use monotonic time for timeouts
    
    this is especially important during the boot process, where the clock is
often
    being set initially and clock jumps are more common.

commit 79774488814b0f5267644628e31c07c7ac380a65
Author: Bj?rn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
Date:   Tue Aug 24 13:29:59 2010 -0400

    autoconf: add checks for clock_gettime

commit 909c1bac5eb3b1fc677ef0d4de011cb68e999d15
Author: Igor Druzhinin <jaxbrigs at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 20 14:53:38 2010 -0400

    cifs-utils: infrastructure for stashing passwords in keyring
    
    It is a userspace part of a new infrastructure for stashing passwords
    in kernel keyring per user basis. The patch adds the "cifscreds"
    utility for management keys with credentials. Assembling of the utility
    from the distribution is possible with --enable-cifscreds=yes option of
    configure script.
    
    Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <jaxbrigs at gmail.com>

commit c546d8d786f70204968fbc78d276bc2c8d2eb670
Author: Igor Druzhinin <jaxbrigs at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 20 14:53:05 2010 -0400

    cifs-utils: moving resolve_host into separate file
    
    The resolve_host routine from mount.cifs is carried out in
    separate file and appropriate corrections are made.
    
    Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <jaxbrigs at gmail.com>

commit 2b2ce5830fec4317e0c264115cf93e64344b1417
Author: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>
Date:   Wed Aug 4 07:55:54 2010 -0400

    mount.cifs: remove redundant error assignment
    
    Avoid setting error code twice by moving error handling out of add_mtab_exit
    block. We already set error code and report error in other places.
    
    Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>

commit 796c714569f5a2d1563f284d94333f2971217417
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 4 06:35:24 2010 -0400

    autoconf: bump version number to 4.6.1 for non-release builds
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

- -- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
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