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+<title>Samba 4.18.6 - Release Notes</title>
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+<H2>Samba 4.18.6 Available for Download</H2>
+<p>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.18.6.tar.gz">Samba 4.18.6 (gzipped)</a><br>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.18.6.tar.asc">Signature</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/samba-4.18.5-4.18.6.diffs.gz">Patch (gzipped) against Samba 4.18.5</a><br>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/samba-4.18.5-4.18.6.diffs.asc">Signature</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<pre>
+ ==============================
+ Release Notes for Samba 4.18.6
+ August 16, 2023
+ ==============================
+
+
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series.
+
+
+Changes since 4.18.5
+--------------------
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15420: reply_sesssetup_and_X() can dereference uninitialized tmp
+ pointer.
+ * BUG 15430: Missing return in reply_exit_done().
+
+o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15289: post-exec password redaction for samba-tool is more reliable for
+ fully random passwords as it no longer uses regular expressions
+ containing the password value itself.
+ * BUG 9959: Windows client join fails if a second container CN=System exists
+ somewhere.
+
+o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15342: Spotlight sometimes returns no results on latest macOS.
+ * BUG 15417: Renaming results in NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION if previously
+ attempted to remove the destination.
+ * BUG 15427: Spotlight results return wrong date in result list.
+
+o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15414: "net offlinejoin provision" does not work as non-root user.
+
+o Pavel Filipenský <pfilipensky@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15400: rpcserver no longer accepts double backslash in dfs pathname.
+ * BUG 15433: cm_prepare_connection() calls close(fd) for the second time.
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15346: 2-3min delays at reconnect with smb2_validate_sequence_number:
+ bad message_id 2.
+ * BUG 15441: samba-tool ntacl get segfault if aio_pthread appended.
+ * BUG 15446: DCERPC_PKT_CO_CANCEL and DCERPC_PKT_ORPHANED can't be parsed.
+
+o Noel Power <noel.power@suse.com>
+ * BUG 15390: Python tarfile extraction needs change to avoid a warning
+ (CVE-2007-4559 mitigation).
+ * BUG 15435: Regression DFS not working with widelinks = true.
+
+o Arvid Requate <requate@univention.de>
+ * BUG 9959: Windows client join fails if a second container CN=System exists
+ somewhere.
+
+o Jones Syue <jonessyue@qnap.com>
+ * BUG 15441: samba-tool ntacl get segfault if aio_pthread appended.
+ * BUG 15449: mdssvc: Do an early talloc_free() in _mdssvc_open().
+
+
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+<h5><a name="4.18.6">16 August 2023</a></h5>
+<p class=headline>Samba 4.18.6 Available for Download</p>
+<p>
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series.
+</p>
+<p>
+The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620).
+The source code can be <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.18.6.tar.gz">downloaded now</a>.
+A <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/samba-4.18.5-4.18.6.diffs.gz">patch against Samba 4.18.5</a> is also available.
+See <a href="https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.18.6.html">the release notes for more info</a>.
+</p>
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