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"Cheers to a new year and
another chance for us to get
it right."

Oprah Winfrey ======================================================


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


Changes since 4.4.8:
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o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
* BUG 12404: vfs:glusterfs: Preallocate result for glfs_realpath.

o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* BUG 12299: Fix unitialized variable warnings in smbd open.c and close.c.
* BUG 12387: s3: vfs: streams_depot. Use conn->connectpath not conn->cwd.
* BUG 12436: s3/smbd: Fix the last resort check that sets the file type
attribute.

o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
* BUG 12395: build: Fix build with perl on debian sid.

o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
* BUG 12412: Fix typo in vfs_fruit: fruit:ressource -> fruit:resource.

o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
* BUG 11197: spoolss: Use correct values for secdesc and devmode pointers.

o Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com>
* BUG 12366: provision: Add support for BIND 9.11.x.
* BUG 12392: ctdb-locking: Reset real-time priority in lock helper.
* BUG 12434: ctdb-recovery: Avoid NULL dereference in failure case.

o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
* BUG 10297: s3:smbd: Only pass UCF_PREP_CREATEFILE to filename_convert() if
we may create a new file.
* BUG 12471: Fix build with MIT Kerberos.

o Mathieu Parent <math.parent@gmail.com>
* BUG 12371: ctdb-scripts: Fix Debian init in Samba eventscript.

o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
* BUG 12183: s3-printing: Correctly encode CUPS printer URIs.
* BUG 12195: s3-printing: Allow printer names longer than 16 chars.
* BUG 12269: nss_wins: Fix errno values for HOST_NOT_FOUND.
* BUG 12405: s3-winbind: Do not return NO_MEMORY if we have an empty user
list.
* BUG 12415: s3:spoolss: Add support for COPY_FROM_DIRECTORY in
AddPrinterDriverEx.

o Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
* BUG 12104: ctdb-packaging: Move CTDB tests to /usr/local/share/ctdb/tests/.

o Ralph Wuerthner <ralph.wuerthner@de.ibm.com>
* BUG 12372: ctdb-conn: Add missing variable initialization.


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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/).


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


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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6F33915B6568B7EA). 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-4.4.9.html

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

--Enjoy
The Samba Team


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