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"Service to others is the rent
you pay for your room here on
earth."

Muhammad Ali ======================================================


Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.4.


Changes since 4.4.3:
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o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
* BUG 11809: SMB3 multichannel: Add implementation of missing channel sequence
number verification.
* BUG 11919: smbd:close: Only remove kernel share modes if they had been
taken at open.
* BUG 11930: notifyd: Prevent NULL deref segfault in notifyd_peer_destructor.

o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* BUG 10618: s3: auth: Move the declaration of struct dom_sid tmp_sid to
function level scope.

o Christian Ambach <ambi@samba.org>
* BUG 10796: s3:rpcclient: Make '--pw-nt-hash' option work.
* BUG 11354: s3:libsmb/clifile: Use correct value for MaxParameterCount for
setting EAs.
* BUG 11438: Fix case sensitivity issues over SMB2 or above.

o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
* BUG 1703: s3:libnet:libnet_join: Add netbios aliases as SPNs.
* BUG 11721: vfs_fruit: Add an option that allows disabling POSIX rename
behaviour.

o Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org>
* BUG 11936: s3-smbd: Support systemd 230.

o Ira Cooper <ira@samba.org>
* BUG 11907: source3: Honor the core soft limit of the OS.

o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
* BUG 11809: SMB3 multichannel: Add implementation of missing channel sequence
number verification.
* BUG 11864: s3:client:smbspool_krb5_wrapper: Fix the non clearenv build.
* BUG 11906: s3-kerberos: Avoid entering a password change dialogue also when
using MIT.

o Robin Hack <hack.robin@gmail.com>
* BUG 11890: ldb-samba/ldb_matching_rules: Fix CID 1349424 - Uninitialized
pointer read.

o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* BUG 11844: dbwrap_ctdb: Fix ENOENT->NT_STATUS_NOT_FOUND.

o Robin McCorkell <robin@mccorkell.me.uk>
* BUG 11276: Correctly set cli->raw_status for libsmbclient in SMB2 code.

o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* BUG 11910: s3:smbd: Fix anonymous authentication if signing is mandatory.
* BUG 11912: libcli/auth: Let msrpc_parse() return talloc'ed empty strings.
* BUG 11914: Fix NTLM Authentication issue with squid.
* BUG 11927: s3:rpcclient: make use of SMB_SIGNING_IPC_DEFAULT.

o Luca Olivetti <luca@wetron.es>
* BUG 11530: pdb: Fix segfault in pdb_ldap for missing gecos.

o Rowland Penny <rpenny@samba.org>
* BUG 11613: Allow 'samba-tool fsmo' to cope with empty or missing fsmo
roles.

o Anoop C S <anoopcs@redhat.com>
* BUG 11907: packaging: Set default limit for core file size in service
files.

o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
* BUG 11922: s3-net: Convert the key_name to UTF8 during migration.
* BUG 11935: s3-smbspool: Log to stderr.

o Uri Simchoni <uri@samba.org>
* BUG 11900: heimdal: Encode/decode kvno as signed integer.
* BUG 11931: s3-quotas: Fix sysquotas_4B quota fetching for BSD.
* BUG 11937: smbd: dfree: Ignore quota if not enforced.

o Raghavendra Talur <rtalur@redhat.com>
* BUG 11907: init: Set core file size to unlimited by default.

o Hemanth Thummala <hemanth.thummala@nutanix.com>
* BUG 11934: Fix memory leak in share mode locking.


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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
be filed under the "Samba 4.1 and newer" product in the project's Bugzilla database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


======================================================================
== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team ======================================================================


Release notes for older releases follow:

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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded
from:

https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/

The release notes are available online at:

https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.4.4.html

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

--Enjoy
The Samba Team


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