Download Samba 4.9.1 / 4.8.6

Samba runs on Unix, BSD and Linux servers, and is an open source implementation of the smb/cifsnetwork protocol† Since version 3, Samba can provide file and print services to Windows clients, and is able to act as a domain controller. Extensive documentation, including practical how-tos for a slightly older version, can be found at this page are being found. The developers have released versions 4.9.1 and 4.8.6 with the following announcement and list of changes:

Samba 4.8.6 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.8 release series. The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID 6F33915B6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.8.5 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

Changes since 4.8.5:

• BUG 13578: s3: util: Do not take over stderr when there is no log file.
• BUG 13585: s3: smbd: Ensure get_real_filename() copes with empty pathnames.
• BUG 13441: vfs_fruit: delete 0 byte size streams if AAPL is enabled.
• BUG 13549: s3:smbd: Durable Reconnect fails because cookie.allow_reconnect is not set.
• BUG 13539: krb5-samba: Interdomain trust uses different salt principal.
• BUG 13362: Fix possible memory leak in the Samba process.
• BUG 13441: vfs_fruit: Don’t unlink the main file.
• BUG 13602: smbd: Fix a memleak in async search ask sharemode.
• BUG 11517: Fix Samba GPO issue when Trust is enabled.
• BUG 13539: samba tool: Add virtualKerberosSalt attribute to ‘user getpassword/syncpasswords’.
• BUG 13606: wafsamba: Fix ‘make -j‘.
• BUG 13592: ctdbd logs an error until it can successfully connect to eventd.
• BUG 13617: Fix race conditions in CTDB recovery lock.

Samba 4.9.1 Available for Download

This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.9 release series. The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID 6F33915B6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.9.0 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

Major enhancements include:

• s3: nmbd: Stop nmbd network announce storm (bug #13620).

Changes since 4.9.0†

• BUG 13620: s3: nmbd: Stop nmbd network announce storm.
• BUG 13597: s3-rpcclient: Use spoolss_init_spoolss_UserLevel1 in winspool cmds.
• BUG 13617: CTDB recovery lock has some race conditions.
• BUG 13597: s3-rpc_client: Advertise Windows 7 client info.
• BUG 13610: ctdb-doc: Remove PIDFILE option from ctdbd_wrapper man page.