-Release Announcements
-=====================
+ ==============================
+ Release Notes for Samba 4.14.0
+ March 09, 2021
+ ==============================
-This is the fourth release candidate of Samba 4.14. This is *not*
-intended for production environments and is designed for testing
-purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
-system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
-Samba 4.14 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
+This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.14 release series.
+Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading.
-UPGRADING
-=========
-
New GPG key
------------
+===========
The GPG release key for Samba releases changed from:
added to the published information in AD. Samba now also supports Windows
drivers for the ARM64 architecture.
-
Client Group Policy
-------------------
This release extends Samba to support Group Policy functionality for Winbind
may be managed using the `samba-tool gpo manage` command. This tool does not
require the admx templates to be installed.
-
Python 3.6 or later required
----------------------------
As Python 2.7 has been End Of Life upstream since April 2020, Samba
is dropping ALL Python 2.x support in this release.
-
Miscellaneous samba-tool changes
--------------------------------
-The samba-tool commands to manage AD objects (e.g. users, computers and
+The 'samba-tool' subcommands to manage AD objects (e.g. users, computers and
groups) now consistently use the "add" command when adding a new object to
-the AD. The previous deprecation warnings when using the "add" commands
-have been removed. For compatibility reasons, both the "add" and "create"
+the AD. The previous deprecation warnings when using the 'add' commands
+have been removed. For compatibility reasons, both the 'add' and 'create'
commands can be used now.
Users, groups and contacts can now be renamed with the respective rename
commands.
-Locked users can be unlocked with the new "samba-tool user unlock" command.
+Locked users can be unlocked with the new 'samba-tool user unlock' command.
-The "samba-tool user list" and "samba-tool group listmembers" commands
+The 'samba-tool user list' and 'samba-tool group listmembers' commands
provide additional options to hide expired and disabled user accounts
(--hide-expired and --hide-disabled).
recmaster".
-REMOVED FEATURES
-================
-
-
smb.conf changes
================
server smb encrypt New default
+CHANGES SINCE 4.14.0rc4
+=======================
+
+o Trever L. Adams <trever.adams@gmail.com>
+ * BUG 14634: s3:modules:vfs_virusfilter: Recent talloc changes cause infinite
+ start-up failure.
+
+o Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>
+ * BUG 14648: s3: VFS: nfs4_acls. Add missing TALLOC_FREE(frame) in error
+ path.
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * BUG 14636: g_lock: Fix uninitalized variable reads.
+
+
CHANGES SINCE 4.14.0rc3
=======================