Samba 4.2.5 Available for Download

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                   Release Notes for Samba 4.2.5
                         October 27, 2015
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.2.


Changes since 4.2.4:
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o   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
    * BUG 10252: s3: smbd: Fix our access-based enumeration on "hide unreadable"
      to match Windows.
    * BUG 10634: smbd: Fix file name buflen and padding in notify repsonse.
    * BUG 11486: s3: smbd: Fix mkdir race condition.
    * BUG 11522: s3: smbd: Fix opening/creating :stream files on the root share
      directory.
    * BUG 11535: s3: smbd: Fix NULL pointer bug introduced by previous 'raw'
      stream fix (bug #11522).
    * BUG 11555: s3: lsa: lookup_name() logic for unqualified (no DOMAIN\
      component) names is incorrect.


o   Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
    * BUG 11535: s3: smbd: Fix a crash in unix_convert().
    * BUG 11543: vfs_fruit: Return value of ad_pack in vfs_fruit.c.
    * BUG 11549: Fix bug in smbstatus where the lease info is not printed.
    * BUG 11550: s3:smbstatus: Add stream name to share_entry_forall().
    * BUG 11555: s3:lib: validate domain name in lookup_wellknown_name().


o   Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
    * BUG 11038: kerberos: Make sure we only use prompter type when available.


o   Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
    * BUG 10365: nss_winbind: Fix hang on Solaris on big groups.
    * BUG 11355: build: Use as-needed linker flag also on OpenBSD.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
    * BUG 11038: winbind: Fix 100% loop.
    * BUG 11381: Fix a deadlock in tdb.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
    * BUG 11316: s3:ctdbd_conn: Make sure we destroy tevent_fd before closing
      the socket.
    * BUG 11327: dcerpc.idl: accept invalid dcerpc_bind_nak pdus.


o   Har Gagan Sahai <SHarGagan@novell.com>
    * BUG 11509: s3: dfs: Fix a crash when the dfs targets are disabled.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
    * BUG 11502: pam_winbind: Fix a segfault if initialization fails.


o   Uri Simchoni <uri@samba.org>
    * BUG 11528: net: Fix a crash with 'net ads keytab create'.
    * BUG 11547: vfs_commit: Set the fd on open before calling SMB_VFS_FSTAT.