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Release Notes for Samba 3.5.16
July 2, 2012
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.5.
Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.16 include:
o Fix possible memory leaks in the Samba master process (bug #8970).
o Fix uninitialized memory read in talloc_free().
o Fix smbd crash with unknown user (bug #8314).
Changes since 3.5.15:
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o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* BUG 8314: Fix smbd crash with unknown user.
* BUG 8831: Fix inconsistent (with manpage) command-line switch for "help"
in smbtree.
* BUG 8882: Fix processing of %U with vfs_full_audit when "force user"
is set.
* BUG 8897: winbind_krb5_locator only returns one IP address.
* BUG 8910: resolve_ads() code can return zero addresses and miss valid DC
IP addresses.
* BUG 8957: Fix typo in pam_winbindd code.
* BUG 8972: Directory group write permission bit is set if unix extensions
are enabled.
* BUG 8974: Kernel oplocks are broken when uid(file) != uid(process).
* BUG 8989: Send correct responses to NT Transact Secondary when no data and
no params.
* BUG 8994: Fix "winbind normalize names".
o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
* BUG 8599: Only use SamLogonEx when we can get unencrypted session keys.
* BUG 8943: Slow but responsive DC can lock up winbindd for > 10 minutes
at a time.
o Björn Baumbach <bb@sernet.de>
* BUG 7564: Fix default name resolve order in the manpage.
o John Bradshaw <john@johnbradshaw.org>
* BUG 7938: Fix typo (overrided -> overridden) in Samba3-HOWTO.
o Olaf Flebbe <o.flebbe@science-computing.de>
* BUG 8552: Correct documentation of "case sensitive".
o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
* BUG 8869: Remove outdated netscape ds 5 schema file.
* BUG 9011: Fix build on HP-UX.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* Fix uninitialized memory read in talloc_free().
* BUG 8338: OS/X can not deal with a 10-vwv read on normal files.
* BUG 8998: Notify code can miss a ChDir.
* BUG 9000: Fix a Winbind race leading to 100% CPU.
* BUG 9003: Fix posix acl on gpfs.
o Matthieu Patou <mat@matws.net>
* BUG 8975: Make sure that Winbind can coredump.
o Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
* BUG 7930: Add hint that setting "profile acls = yes" on normal shares can
cause trouble.
o Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@gmail.com>
* BUG 8822: Fix building out-of-tree vfs modules.
* BUG 8970: Fix possible memory leaks in the Samba master process.
o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
* BUG 8915: Fix pam_winbind build against newer iniparser library.
Now that samba-nss-winbind-install and samba-nss-wins-install work again.
1) Switch back to using the the above mentioned targets for installing
nss-winbind and nss_wins. (These targets work on all platforms.)
2) Switch back to using ${NSS_WINBIND} and ${NSS_WINS} in the PLIST as
these work on all platforms.
Bump PKGREVISION
This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.5.
Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.12 include:
o Fix race condition in Winbind (bug 7844).
o The VFS ACL modules are no longer experimental but production-ready.
See full release notes at http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.12.html
These services may be hosted off any TCP/IP-enabled platform. The
Samba project includes not only an impressive feature set in file and
print serving capabilities, but has been extended to include client
functionality, utilities to ease migration to Samba, tools to aid
interoperability with Microsoft Windows, and administration tools.
