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Release Announcements ===================== This is the third release candidate of Samba 4.18.? 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 4.18 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements ===================== This is the third release candidate of Samba 4.18.? 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 4.18 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series. Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading. NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== SMB Server performance improvements ----------------------------------- The security improvements in recent releases (4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16), mainly as protection against symlink

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series. Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading. NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== SMB Server performance improvements ----------------------------------- The security improvements in recent releases (4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16), mainly as protection against symlink

Release Announcements ===================== This is the second release candidate of Samba 4.18.? 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 4.18 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements ===================== This is the second release candidate of Samba 4.18.? 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 4.18 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements ===================== This is the fourth release candidate of Samba 4.18.? 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 4.18 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements ===================== This is the fourth release candidate of Samba 4.18.? 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 4.18 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series. Changes since 4.18.6 -------------------- o? Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> ?? * BUG 15419: Weird filename can cause assert to fail in ???? openat_pathref_fsp_nosymlink(). ?? * BUG 15423: use-after-free in aio_del_req_from_fsp during smbd shutdown ???? after failed IPC

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series. Changes since 4.18.6 -------------------- o? Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> ?? * BUG 15419: Weird filename can cause assert to fail in ???? openat_pathref_fsp_nosymlink(). ?? * BUG 15423: use-after-free in aio_del_req_from_fsp during smbd shutdown ???? after failed IPC

Release Announcements ===================== This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.20.? 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 4.20 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements ===================== This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.20.? 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 4.20 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements ===================== This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.17.? 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 4.17 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements ===================== This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.17.? 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 4.17 will be the next version of the Samba suite. UPGRADING ========= NEW FEATURES/CHANGES

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series. Changes since 4.18.2 -------------------- o? Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org> ?? * BUG 15375: Symlinks to files can have random DOS mode information in a ???? directory listing. ?? * BUG 15378: vfs_fruit might cause a failing open for delete. o? Volker Lendecke <vl at

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series. Changes since 4.18.2 -------------------- o? Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org> ?? * BUG 15375: Symlinks to files can have random DOS mode information in a ???? directory listing. ?? * BUG 15378: vfs_fruit might cause a failing open for delete. o? Volker Lendecke <vl at

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.19 release series. Changes since 4.19.1 -------------------- o? Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> ?? * BUG 15423: Use-after-free in aio_del_req_from_fsp during smbd shutdown ???? after failed IPC FSCTL_PIPE_TRANSCEIVE. ?? * BUG 15426: clidfs.c do_connect() missing a "return" after a

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.19 release series. Changes since 4.19.1 -------------------- o? Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> ?? * BUG 15423: Use-after-free in aio_del_req_from_fsp during smbd shutdown ???? after failed IPC FSCTL_PIPE_TRANSCEIVE. ?? * BUG 15426: clidfs.c do_connect() missing a "return" after a

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series. There will be security releases only beyond this point. Changes since 4.18.10 --------------------- o? Martin Schwenke <mschwenke at ddn.com> ?? * BUG 15580: Packet marshalling push support missing for ???? CTDB_CONTROL_TCP_CLIENT_DISCONNECTED and ????

Release Announcements --------------------- This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series. There will be security releases only beyond this point. Changes since 4.18.10 --------------------- o? Martin Schwenke <mschwenke at ddn.com> ?? * BUG 15580: Packet marshalling push support missing for ???? CTDB_CONTROL_TCP_CLIENT_DISCONNECTED and ????