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                   Release Notes for Samba 4.9.7
                            May 1, 2019
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.9 release series.


Changes since 4.9.6:
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o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 13837: py/kcc_utils: py2.6 compatibility.
   * BUG 13882: py/provision: Fix for Python 2.6.

o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
   * BUG 13840: regfio: Update code near recent changes to match README.Coding.

o  Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
   * BUG 13861: 'net ads join' to child domain fails when using
     "-U admin@forestroot".

o  David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>
   * BUG 13858: vfs_snapper: Drop unneeded fstat handler.
   * BUG 13896: vfs_ceph: Explicitly enable libcephfs POSIX ACL support.

o  Philipp Gesang <philipp.gesang@intra2net.com>
   * BUG 13869: libcli: Permit larger values of DataLength in
     SMB2_ENCRYPTION_CAPABILITIES of negotiate response.

o  Michael Hanselmann <public@hansmi.ch>
   * BUG 13840: regfio: Improve handling of malformed registry hive files.

o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay@samba.org>
   * BUG 13895: ctdb-common: Avoid race between fd and signal events.

o  Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
   * BUG 13813: Fix idmap cache pollution with S-1-22- IDs on winbind hickup.

o  Marcos Mello <marcosfrm@gmail.com>
   * BUG 11568: Send status to systemd on daemon start.

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
   * 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.

o  Noel Power <noel.power@suse.com>
   * python/samba: extra ndr_unpack needs bytes function

o  Anoop C S <anoopcs@redhat.com>
   * BUG 13872: s3/vfs_glusterfs[_fuse]: Dynamically determine NAME_MAX.

o  Christof Schmitt <cs@samba.org>
   * 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.

o  Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
   * 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".

o  Zhu Shangzhong <zhu.shangzhong@zte.com.cn>
   * BUG 13839: ctdb: Initialize addr struct to zero before reparsing as IPV4.

o  Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
   * 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".