Samba 3.6.9 Available for Download

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                   Release Notes for Samba 3.6.9
                         October 29, 2012
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This is is the latest stable release of Samba 3.6.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.9 include:

o  When setting a non-default ACL, don't forget to apply masks to
   SMB_ACL_USER and SMB_ACL_GROUP entries (bug #9236).
o  Winbind can't fetch user or group info from AD via LDAP (bug #9147).
o  Fix segfault in smbd if user specified ports out for range (bug #9218).


Changes since 3.6.8:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
    * BUG 9173: Make SMB2 compound request create/delete_on_close/close work as
      Windows.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
    * BUG 8966: Fix 'net rpc share allowedusers' to work with 2008r2.
    * BUG 9016: Connection to outbound trusted domain goes offline.
    * BUG 9117: 'smbclient' can't connect to a Windows 7 server using NTLMv2.
    * BUG 9147: Winbind can't fetch user or group info from AD via LDAP.
    * BUG 9174: Empty SPNEGO packet can cause smbd to crash.
    * BUG 9189: SMB2 Create doesn't return correct MAX ACCESS access mask in
      blob.
    * BUG 9209: Parse of invalid SMB2 create blob can cause smbd crash.
    * BUG 9213: Bad ASN.1 NegTokenInit packet can cause invalid free.
    * BUG 9222: Signing cannot be disabled for SMB2 by design, so fix the
      documentation instead.
    * BUG 9236: When setting a non-default ACL, don't forget to apply masks to
      SMB_ACL_USER and SMB_ACL_GROUP entries.


o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
    * BUG 8788: Initialise ticket to ensure we do not invalid memory.


o   Ira Cooper <ira@samba.org>
    * BUG 9173: Compound requests should continue processing.


o   Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
    * BUG 9177: pam_winbind: Match more return codes when wbcGetPwnam has failed.


o   Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
    * BUG 3272: quota: Don't force the block size to 512.
    * BUG 8107: Add some includes for poll.h.
    * BUG 8146: Fix wrong test == syntax in configure.
    * BUG 8344: Fix --with(out)-sendfile-support option handling in autoconf.
    * BUG 9172: Add quota support for gfs2.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
    * BUG 9188: Fix crash bug in idmap_hash.
    * BUG 9268: Make tdb robust against improper CLEAR_IF_FIRST restart.


o   Luca Lorenzetto <lorenzetto-luca@ubuntu-it.org>
    * BUG 9013: Fix crash on null pam change pw response.


o   Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek@Oracle.COM>
    * BUG 9192: Fix service control for non-internal services.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
    * BUG 9173: Make SMB2 compound request create/delete_on_close/close work as
      Windows.
    * BUG 9196: Don't take 'state->te' as indication for "was_deferred".
    * BUG 9209: Fix unitialized padding in smb2_create_blob_push_one().


o   Matthieu Patou <mat@matws.net>
    * BUG 9259: lib-addns: ensure that allocated buffer are pre set to 0.


o   Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    * BUG 9268: Make robust against shrinking tdbs.


o   Joachim Schmitz <schmitz@hp.com>
    * BUG 8107: Fix poll replacement to become a msleep replacement.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
    * BUG 8632: Fix builtin forms order to match Windows again.
    * BUG 8769: Fix RAW printing for normal users.
    * BUG 9112: Increase debug level for info that the db is empty.
    * BUG 9154: Open printers with the right access mask.
    * BUG 9171: Remove non-existent option '-Y' from winbindd manpage.
    * BUG 9218: Fix segfault in smbd if user specified ports out for range.
    * BUG 9231: Fix NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT during slow import of printers into
      registry.
    * BUG 9280: Add support for reloading systemd services.


o   Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
    * BUG 9165: Fix makerpms.sh on RHEL.