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5 <title>Samba 4.5.6 - Release Notes</title>
8 <H2>Samba 4.5.6 Available for Download</H2>
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20 Release Notes for Samba 4.5.6
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25 This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.5 release series.
31 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
32 * BUG 12499: s3: vfs: dirsort doesn't handle opendir of "." correctly.
33 * BUG 12531: vfs_shadow_copy2 doesn't cope with server changing directories.
34 * BUG 12546: vfs_streams_xattr doesn't cope with server changing directories.
35 * BUG 12572: s3: smbd: Don't loop infinitely on bad-symlink resolution.
36 * BUG 12608: s3: smbd: Restart reading the incoming SMB2 fd when the send
39 o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
40 * BUG 12573: Samba < 4.7 does not know about compatibleFeatures and
43 o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
44 * BUG 12184: s3/rpc_server: Shared rpc modules loading.
45 * BUG 12427: vfs_fruit doesn't work with fruit:metadata=stream.
46 * BUG 12520: Ensure global "smb encrypt = off" is effective.
47 * BUG 12524: s3/rpc_server: move rpc_modules.c to its own subsystem.
48 * BUG 12536: s3/smbd: check for invalid access_mask
49 smbd_calculate_access_mask().
50 * BUG 12541: vfs_fruit: checks wrong AAPL config state and so always uses
52 * BUG 12545: s3/rpc_server/mdssvc: add attribute "kMDItemContentType".
53 * BUG 12591: vfs_streams_xattr: use fsp, not base_fsp.
54 * BUG 12604: vfs_fruit: Enabling AAPL extensions must be a global switch.
56 o Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com>
57 * BUG 12469: ctdb-tests: Use replace headers instead of system headers.
58 * BUG 12547: ctdb-build: Install CTDB tests correctly from toplevel.
59 * BUG 12580: ctdb-common: Fix use-after-free error in comm_fd_handler().
61 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
62 * BUG 12551: smbd: Fix "map acl inherit" = yes.
64 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
65 * BUG 9048: s4:ldap_server: Match Windows in the error messages of failing
67 * BUG 11830: s3:winbindd: Try a NETLOGON connection with noauth over NCACN_NP
68 against trusted domains.
69 * BUG 12262: 'net ads testjoin' and smb access fails after winbindd changed the
71 * BUG 12399: s4:repl_meta_data: Normalize rdn attribute name via the schema.
72 * BUG 12540: s3:smbd: Allow "server min protocol = SMB3_00" to go via "SMB
74 * BUG 12581: smbclient fails on bad endianess when listing shares from
75 Solaris kernel SMB server on SPARC.
76 * BUG 12585: librpc/rpc: fix regression in
77 NT_STATUS_RPC_ENUM_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE error mapping.
78 * BUG 12586: libcli/auth: Use the correct creds value against servers without
80 * BUG 12587: winbindd child segfaults on connect to an NT4 domain.
81 * BUG 12588: cm_prepare_connection may return NT_STATUS_OK without a valid
83 * BUG 12598: winbindd (as member) requires Kerberos against trusted ad
84 domain, while it shouldn't.
85 * BUG 12605: s3:winbindd: Fix endless forest trust scan.
87 o Garming Sam <garming@catalyst.net.nz>
88 * BUG 12577: dbcheck-links: Test that dbcheck against one-way links does not
90 * BUG 12600: dbchecker: Stop ignoring linked cases where both objects are
93 o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
94 * BUG 12571: s3-vfs: Only walk the directory once in open_and_sort_dir().
96 o Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
97 * BUG 12589: ctdb-scripts: Initialise CTDB_NFS_CALLOUT in statd-callout.
99 o Uri Simchoni <uri@samba.org>
100 * BUG 12529: waf: backport finding of pkg-config.