samba - Sep 2025 - [Announce] Samba 4.23.0rc3 Available for Download

On 29.08.2025 15:26, Jule Anger via samba wrote:
> Release Announcements
> ====================> 
> This is the third release candidate release of Samba 4.23.? This is *not*
> intended for production environments and is designed for testing
> purposes only.? Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
> system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
> 
> Samba 4.23 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
..

FWIW, I've built 4.23.0-rc3 (and rc2 too, actually) for supported
versions of debian (bookworm, trixie) and ubuntu (jammy, noble),
and made them available on my usual samba repository at
http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/packages/samba/ .

At the same time, I dropped bullseye from there, - which simplified
things quite significantly.

Looking at the usage stats for my repository, I conclude it served
its purpose quite well - to provide actual samba packages for popular
debian-based distros when distribution-provided samba packages were
lacking.

These days, for debian, I'd say it is better to use debian-provided
samba packages, because it has up to date samba (I keep it updated all
the time) and because debian-backports is supposed to stay.

For ubuntu, I don't know if it has anything comparable to the debian
backports, - maybe some PPA, I dunno.  And for ubuntu, things are a
bit more complex now: I made sure the delta between ubuntu and debian
samba (and not only samba, actually) packages is minimal, and offered
to incorporate ubuntu changes to debian packages, for benefits for
both worlds.  However, ubuntu maintainers keep making changes in their
versions without not only pushing them back, not only without any
discussion about the planned changes (which are sometimes significant),
but even without any minimal notice after it's already done.  This
complete lack of cooperation makes my packages for ubuntu less usable,
and makes me a bit sad, as my efforts goes nowhere.

For this reason, I'll stop providing packages for ubuntu.

So overall, my repository will be put down slowly, most likely during
the end of 2025.

And thank you all for the support!

/mjt

Hello mjt,

Im sad to hear this. In my research I havent found any alternative for 
ubuntu except the linux-schools project which does not seem to be a good 
alternative.

Thank you for your packages and your time dedicated to packaging!

Quick sidenote: 4.22.4 seems to be missing from bookworm-bpo & trixie? 
Its in forky though...

Thanks and have a nice day, Matthias.

Am 01.09.25 um 10:03 schrieb Michael Tokarev via samba:
> On 29.08.2025 15:26, Jule Anger via samba wrote:
>> Release Announcements
>> ====================>>
>> This is the third release candidate release of Samba 4.23.? This is 
>> *not*
>> intended for production environments and is designed for testing
>> purposes only.? Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
>> system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
>>
>> Samba 4.23 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
> ..
>
> FWIW, I've built 4.23.0-rc3 (and rc2 too, actually) for supported
> versions of debian (bookworm, trixie) and ubuntu (jammy, noble),
> and made them available on my usual samba repository at
> http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/packages/samba/ .
>
> At the same time, I dropped bullseye from there, - which simplified
> things quite significantly.
>
> Looking at the usage stats for my repository, I conclude it served
> its purpose quite well - to provide actual samba packages for popular
> debian-based distros when distribution-provided samba packages were
> lacking.
>
> These days, for debian, I'd say it is better to use debian-provided
> samba packages, because it has up to date samba (I keep it updated all
> the time) and because debian-backports is supposed to stay.
>
> For ubuntu, I don't know if it has anything comparable to the debian
> backports, - maybe some PPA, I dunno.? And for ubuntu, things are a
> bit more complex now: I made sure the delta between ubuntu and debian
> samba (and not only samba, actually) packages is minimal, and offered
> to incorporate ubuntu changes to debian packages, for benefits for
> both worlds.? However, ubuntu maintainers keep making changes in their
> versions without not only pushing them back, not only without any
> discussion about the planned changes (which are sometimes significant),
> but even without any minimal notice after it's already done.? This
> complete lack of cooperation makes my packages for ubuntu less usable,
> and makes me a bit sad, as my efforts goes nowhere.
>
> For this reason, I'll stop providing packages for ubuntu.
>
> So overall, my repository will be put down slowly, most likely during
> the end of 2025.
>
> And thank you all for the support!
>
> /mjt
>
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