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16 Release Notes for Samba 4.14.0
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21 This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.14 release series.
22 Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading.
28 The GPG release key for Samba releases changed from:
30 pub dsa1024/6F33915B6568B7EA 2007-02-04 [SC] [expires: 2021-02-05]
31 Key fingerprint = 52FB C0B8 6D95 4B08 4332 4CDC 6F33 915B 6568 B7EA
32 uid [ full ] Samba Distribution Verification Key <samba-bugs@samba.org>
33 sub elg2048/9C6ED163DA6DFB44 2007-02-04 [E] [expires: 2021-02-05]
35 to the following new key:
37 pub rsa4096/AA99442FB680B620 2020-12-21 [SC] [expires: 2022-12-21]
38 Key fingerprint = 81F5 E283 2BD2 545A 1897 B713 AA99 442F B680 B620
39 uid [ultimate] Samba Distribution Verification Key <samba-bugs@samba.org>
40 sub rsa4096/97EF9386FBFD4002 2020-12-21 [E] [expires: 2022-12-21]
42 Starting from Jan 21th 2021, all Samba releases will be signed with the new key.
44 See also GPG_AA99442FB680B620_replaces_6F33915B6568B7EA.txt
50 Here is a copy of a clarification note added to the Samba code
51 in the file: VFS-License-clarification.txt.
52 --------------------------------------------------------------
54 A clarification of our GNU GPL License enforcement boundary within the Samba
55 Virtual File System (VFS) layer.
57 Samba is licensed under the GNU GPL. All code committed to the Samba
58 project or that creates a "modified version" or software "based on" Samba must
59 be either licensed under the GNU GPL or a compatible license.
61 Samba has several plug-in interfaces where external code may be called
62 from Samba GNU GPL licensed code. The most important of these is the
65 Samba VFS modules are intimately connected by header files and API
66 definitions to the part of the Samba code that provides file services,
67 and as such, code that implements a plug-in Samba VFS module must be
68 licensed under the GNU GPL or a compatible license.
70 However, Samba VFS modules may themselves call third-party external
71 libraries that are not part of the Samba project and are externally
72 developed and maintained.
74 As long as these third-party external libraries do not use any of the
75 Samba internal structure, APIs or interface definitions created by the
76 Samba project (to the extent that they would be considered subject to the GNU
77 GPL), then the Samba Team will not consider such third-party external
78 libraries called from Samba VFS modules as "based on" and/or creating a
79 "modified version" of the Samba code for the purposes of GNU GPL.
80 Accordingly, we do not require such libraries be licensed under the GNU GPL
81 or a GNU GPL compatible license.
86 The effort to modernize Samba's VFS interface has reached a major milestone with
87 the next release Samba 4.14.
89 For details please refer to the documentation at source3/modules/The_New_VFS.txt or
90 visit the <https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/The_New_VFS>.
95 Publishing printers in AD is more reliable and more printer features are
96 added to the published information in AD. Samba now also supports Windows
97 drivers for the ARM64 architecture.
101 This release extends Samba to support Group Policy functionality for Winbind
102 clients. Active Directory Administrators can set policies that apply Sudoers
103 configuration, and cron jobs to run hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.
105 To enable the application of Group Policies on a client, set the global
106 smb.conf option 'apply group policies' to 'yes'. Policies are applied on an
107 interval of every 90 minutes, plus a random offset between 0 and 30 minutes.
109 Policies applied by Samba are 'non-tattooing', meaning that changes can be
110 reverted by executing the `samba-gpupdate --unapply` command. Policies can be
111 re-applied using the `samba-gpupdate --force` command.
112 To view what policies have been or will be applied to a system, use the
113 `samba-gpupdate --rsop` command.
115 Administration of Samba policy requires that a Samba ADMX template be uploaded
116 to the SYSVOL share. The samba-tool command `samba-tool gpo admxload` is
117 provided as a convenient method for adding this policy. Once uploaded, policies
118 can be modified in the Group Policy Management Editor under Computer
119 Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates. Alternatively, Samba policy
120 may be managed using the `samba-tool gpo manage` command. This tool does not
121 require the admx templates to be installed.
123 Python 3.6 or later required
124 ----------------------------
126 Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
127 3.6 with samba 4.13. Samba 4.14 raises this minimum version to Python
128 3.6 also to build Samba. It is no longer possible to build Samba
129 (even just the file server) with Python versions 2.6 and 2.7.
131 As Python 2.7 has been End Of Life upstream since April 2020, Samba
132 is dropping ALL Python 2.x support in this release.
134 Miscellaneous samba-tool changes
135 --------------------------------
137 The 'samba-tool' subcommands to manage AD objects (e.g. users, computers and
138 groups) now consistently use the "add" command when adding a new object to
139 the AD. The previous deprecation warnings when using the 'add' commands
140 have been removed. For compatibility reasons, both the 'add' and 'create'
141 commands can be used now.
143 Users, groups and contacts can now be renamed with the respective rename
146 Locked users can be unlocked with the new 'samba-tool user unlock' command.
148 The 'samba-tool user list' and 'samba-tool group listmembers' commands
149 provide additional options to hide expired and disabled user accounts
150 (--hide-expired and --hide-disabled).
156 * The NAT gateway and LVS features now uses the term "leader" to refer
157 to the main node in a group through which traffic is routed and
158 "follower" for other members of a group. The command for
159 determining the leader has changed to "ctdb natgw leader" (from
160 "ctdb natgw master"). The configuration keyword for indicating that
161 a node can not be the leader of a group has changed to
162 "follower-only" (from "slave-only"). Identical changes were made
165 * Remove "ctdb isnotrecmaster" command. It isn't used by CTDB's
166 scripts and can be checked by users with "ctdb pnn" and "ctdb
173 Parameter Name Description Default
174 -------------- ----------- -------
176 async dns timeout New 10
177 client smb encrypt New default
178 honor change notify privilege New No
179 smbd force process locks New No
180 server smb encrypt New default
183 CHANGES SINCE 4.14.0rc4
184 =======================
186 o Trever L. Adams <trever.adams@gmail.com>
187 * BUG 14634: s3:modules:vfs_virusfilter: Recent talloc changes cause infinite
190 o Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>
191 * BUG 14648: s3: VFS: nfs4_acls. Add missing TALLOC_FREE(frame) in error
194 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
195 * BUG 14636: g_lock: Fix uninitalized variable reads.
198 CHANGES SINCE 4.14.0rc3
199 =======================
201 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
202 * BUG 14604: smbd: In conn_force_tdis_done() when forcing a connection closed
203 force a full reload of services.
205 o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
206 * BUG 14593: dbcheck: Check Deleted Objects and reduce noise in reports about
209 o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
210 * BUG 14619: vfs: Restore platform specific POSIX sys_acl_set_file()
212 * BUG 14620: Fix the build on AIX.
213 * BUG 14629: smbd: Don't overwrite _mode if neither a msdfs symlink nor
214 get_dosmode is requested.
215 * BUG 14635: Fix printer driver upload.
218 CHANGES SINCE 4.14.0rc2
219 =======================
221 o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
222 * BUG 14624: classicupgrade: Treat old never expires value right.
224 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
225 * BUG 13898: s3:pysmbd: fix fd leak in py_smbd_create_file().
227 o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
228 * BUG 14625: Fix smbd share mode double free crash.
230 o Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
231 * BUG 12505: HEIMDAL: krb5_storage_free(NULL) should work.
234 CHANGES SINCE 4.14.0rc1
235 =======================
237 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
238 * BUG 13992: Fix SAMBA RPC share error.
240 o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
241 * BUG 14602: "winbind:ignore domains" doesn't prevent user login from trusted
243 * BUG 14617: smbd tries to delete files with wrong permissions (uses guest
244 instead of user from force user =).
246 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
247 * BUG 14539: s3:idmap_hash: Reliably return ID_TYPE_BOTH.
249 o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
250 * BUG 14627: s3:smbd: Fix invalid memory access in
251 posix_sys_acl_blob_get_fd().
257 https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.14#Release_blocking_bugs