Download Samba 4.9.7

Samba runs on Unix, BSD and Linux servers, and is an open source implementation of the smb/cifsnetwork protocol. Since version 3, Samba can offer file and print services to Windows clients, and is able to act as a domain controller. Extensive documentation, including practical how-tos for a slightly older version, can be found on this page are being found. The developers have released version 4.9.7 with the following announcement and list of changes:

Samba 4.9.7 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.9 release series.

Changes since 4.9.6:

• BUG 13837: py/kcc_utils: py2.6 compatibility.
• BUG 13882: py/provision: Fix for Python 2.6.
• BUG 13840: reffio: Update code near recent changes to match README.Coding.
• BUG 13861: ‘net ads join’ to child domain fails when using “-U admin@forestroot”.
• BUG 13858: vfs_snapper: Drop unneeded fstat handler.
• BUG 13896: vfs_ceph: Explicitly enable libcephfs POSIX ACL support.
• BUG 13869: libcli: Permit larger values ​​of DataLength in SMB2_ENCRYPTION_CAPABILITIES of negotiate response.
• BUG 13840: reffio: Improve handling of malformed registry hive files.
• BUG 13895: ctdb-common: Avoid race between fd and signal events.
• BUG 13813: Fix idmap cache pollution with S-1-22- IDs on winbind hickup.
• BUG 11568: Send status to systemd on daemon start.
• BUG 10097: s3:smbd: Handle IO_REPARSE_TAG_DFS in SMB_FIND_FILE_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFO.
• BUG 10344: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING completely on tdis.
• BUG 12844: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for tree connect.
• BUG 12845: smb2_sesssetup: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for session setup.
• BUG 13698: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for tree connect.
• BUG 13796: smb2_sesssetup: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for session setup.
• BUG 13816: dbcheck in the middle of the tombstone garbage collection causes replication failures.
• BUG 13818: ndr_spoolss_buf: Fix out of scope use of stack variable in NDR_SPOOLSS_PUSH_ENUM_OUT().
• BUG 13862: vfs_default: Fix vfswrap_offload_write_send() NT_STATUS_INVALID_VIEW_SIZE check.
• BUG 13863: smb2_server: Grant all 8192 credits to clients.
• python/samba: extra ndr_unpack needs bytes function
• BUG 13872: s3/vfs_glusterfs[_fuse]: Dynamically determine NAME_MAX.
• passdb: Update ABI to 0.27.2.
• BUG 13813: lib/winbind_util: Add winbind_xid_to_sid for –without-winbind.
• BUG 13865: memcache: Increase size of default memcache to 512k.
• BUG 13823: lib:util: Move debug message for mkdir failing to log level 1.
• BUG 13832: Printing via smbspool backend with Kerberos auth fails.
• BUG 13847: s4:librpc: Fix installation of Samba.
• BUG 13848: s3:lib: Fix the debug message for adding cache entries.
• BUG 13853: s3:waf: Fix the detection of makdev() macro on Linux.
• BUG 13857: docs: Update smbclient manpage for –max protocol.
• BUG 13861: ‘net ads join’ to child domain fails when using “-U admin@forestroot”.
• BUG 13839: ctdb: Initialize addr struct to zero before reparsing as IPV4.
• BUG 13838: ctdb package should not own system library directory.
• BUG 13860: CTDB restarts failed NFS RPC services by hand, which is incompatible with systemd.
• BUG 13888: ctdb-daemon: Revert “We can not assume that just because we could complete a TCP handshake”.