Samba 4.1.12 Available for Download
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Release Notes for Samba 4.1.12
September 8, 2014
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.1.
Major enhancements in Samba 4.1.12 include:
o New parameter "winbind request timeout" has been added (bug #3204). Please
see smb.conf man page for details.
o Fix smbd crashes when filename contains non-ascii character (bug #10716).
o dnsserver: Handle updates of tombstoned dnsNode objects (bug #10749).
Changes since 4.1.11:
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o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
* BUG 10369: build: Fix configure to honour '--without-dmapi'.
* BUG 10737: s3:idmap: Don't log missing range config if range checking not
requested.
* BUG 10741: Fix flapping VFS gpfs offline bit.
o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* BUG 3204: s3: winbindd: On new client connect, prune idle or hung
connections older than "winbind request timeout". Add new parameter
"winbind request timeout".
* BUG 10640: lib: tevent: make TEVENT_SIG_INCREMENT atomic.
* BUG 10650: Make "case sensitive = True" option working with
"max protocol = SMB2" or higher in large directories.
* BUG 10716: Fix smbd crashes when filename contains non-ascii
character.
* BUG 10728: 'net time': Fix usage and core dump.
* BUG 10773: s3: smbd: POSIX ACLs. Remove incorrect check for
SECINFO_PROTECTED_DACL in incoming security_information flags in
posix_get_nt_acl_common().
* BUG 10794: vfs_dirsort: Fix an off-by-one error that can cause
uninitialized memory read.
o Björn Baumbach <bb@sernet.de>
* BUG 10543: s3: Enforce a positive allocation_file_size for non-empty
files.
o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
* BUG 10466: provision: Correctly provision the SOA record minimum TTL.
o David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>
* BUG 10652: Samba 4 consuming a lot of CPU when re-reading printcap info.
* BUG 10787: dosmode: Fix FSCTL_SET_SPARSE request validation.
o Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com>
* BUG 10742: s4-rpc: dnsserver: Allow . to be specified for @ record.
o Daniel Kobras <d.kobras@science-computing.de>
* BUG 10731: sys_poll_intr: Fix timeout arithmetic.
o Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
* BUG 10778: s3:libsmb: Set a max charge for SMB2 connections.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* BUG 10716: lib: strings: Simplify strcasecmp.
* BUG 10758: lib: Remove unused nstrcpy.
* BUG 10782: smbd: Properly initialize mangle_hash.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* BUG 9831: s4:setup/dns_update_list: make use of the new substitution
variables.
* BUG 10723: Allow netr_ServerReqChallenge() and netr_ServerAuthenticate3()
on different connections.
* BUG 10749: s4-rpc: dnsserver: Handle updates of tombstoned dnsNode
objects.
* BUG 10751: s4-rpc: dnsserver: return DNS_RANK_NS_GLUE recors when
explicitly asked for.
* BUG 10773: libcli/security: Add better detection of
SECINFO_[UN]PROTECTED_[D|S]ACL in get_sec_info().
o Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld@samba.org>
* BUG 10761: docs: Fix typos in smb.conf (inherit acls).
o Shirish Pargaonkar <spargaonkar@suse.com>
* BUG 10755: samba: Retain case sensitivity of cifs client.
o Arvid Requate <requate@univention.de>
* BUG 9570: passdb: Fix NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_GROUP.
o Har Gagan Sahai <SHarGagan@novell.com>
* BUG 10759: Fix a memory leak in cli_set_mntpoint().
o Roel van Meer <roel@1afa.com>
* BUG 10777: Don't discard result of checking grouptype.