Samba 4.2.4 Available for Download

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                   Release Notes for Samba 4.2.4
                         September 8, 2015
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.2.


Changes since 4.2.3:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
    * BUG 11372: smbd: Fix SMB3 functionality of "smb encrypt".


o   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
    * BUG 11359: lib: replace: Add strsep function (missing on Solaris).


o   Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
    * BUG 11278: Fix stream names with colon with "fruit:encoding = native".
    * BUG 11317: vfs:fruit: Implement copyfile style copy_chunk.
    * BUG 11426: s3-net: Use talloc array in share allowedusers.
    * BUG 11467: vfs_fruit: Handling of empty resource fork.


o   Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org>
    * BUG 11265: auth/credentials: If credentials have principal set, they are
      not anonymous anymore.


o   Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
    * BUG 11373: s3-smbd: Reset protocol in smbXsrv_connection_init_tables
      failure paths.


o   Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com>
    * BUG 11398: ctdb-daemon: Return correct sequence number for
      CONTROL_GET_DB_SEQNUM.
    * BUG 11431: ctdb-daemon: Improve error handling for running event scripts.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
    * BUG 11316: lib: Fix rundown of open_socket_out().
    * BUG 11488: Avoid quoting problems in user's DNs.


o   Justin Maggard <jmaggard@netgear.com>
    * BUG 11320: s3-passdb: Respect LOOKUP_NAME_GROUP flag in sid lookup.


o   Roel van Meer <roel@1afa.com>
    * BUG 11427: s3-util: Compare the maximum allowed length of a NetBIOS name.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
    * BUG 11316: s3:lib: Fix some corner cases of open_socket_out_cleanup().
    * BUG 11454: Backport dcesrv_netr_DsRGetDCNameEx2 fixes.


o   Anubhav Rakshit <anubhav.rakshit@gmail.com>
    * BUG 11361: s3:libsmb: Fix a bug in conversion of ea list to ea array.


o   Arvid Requate <requate@univention.de>
    * BUG 11291: s4:rpc_server/netlogon: Fix for NetApp.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
    * BUG 9862: s3-auth: Fix "map to guest = Bad uid".
    * BUG 11403: s3-smbd: Leave sys_disk_free() if dfree command is used.
    * BUG 11404: s3-auth: Fix a possible null pointer dereference.


o   Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
    * BUG 11399: ctdb-scripts: Support monitoring of interestingly named VLANs
      on bonds.
    * BUG 11432: ctdb-daemon: Check if updates are in flight when releasing all
      IPs.
    * BUG 11435: ctdb-build: Fix building of PCP PMDA module.


o   Wei Zhong <wweyeww@gmail.com>
    * BUG 10823: s3: winbindd: Fix TALLOC_FREE of uninitialized groups variable.