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+<title>Samba 4.17.8 - Release Notes</title>
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+<H2>Samba 4.17.8 Available for Download</H2>
+<p>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.17.8.tar.gz">Samba 4.17.8 (gzipped)</a><br>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.17.8.tar.asc">Signature</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/samba-4.17.7-4.17.8.diffs.gz">Patch (gzipped) against Samba 4.17.7</a><br>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/samba-4.17.7-4.17.8.diffs.asc">Signature</a>
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+<p>
+<pre>
+ ==============================
+ Release Notes for Samba 4.17.8
+ May 11, 2023
+ ==============================
+
+
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.17 release series.
+
+
+Changes since 4.17.7
+--------------------
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15302: log flood: smbd_calculate_access_mask_fsp: Access denied:
+ message level should be lower.
+ * BUG 15306: Floating point exception (FPE) via cli_pull_send at
+ source3/libsmb/clireadwrite.c.
+
+o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15328: test_tstream_more_tcp_user_timeout_spin fails intermittently on
+ Rackspace GitLab runners.
+ * BUG 15329: Reduce flapping of ridalloc test.
+ * BUG 15351: large_ldap test is unreliable.
+
+o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15143: New filename parser doesn't check veto files smb.conf parameter.
+ * BUG 15354: mdssvc may crash when initializing.
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15313: Large directory optimization broken for non-lcomp path elements.
+ * BUG 15357: streams_depot fails to create streams.
+ * BUG 15358: shadow_copy2 and streams_depot don't play well together.
+ * BUG 15366: wbinfo -u fails on ad dc with >1000 users.
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15317: winbindd idmap child contacts the domain controller without a
+ need.
+ * BUG 15318: idmap_autorid may fail to map sids of trusted domains for the
+ first time.
+ * BUG 15319: idmap_hash doesn't use ID_TYPE_BOTH for reverse mappings.
+ * BUG 15323: net ads search -P doesn't work against servers in other domains.
+ * BUG 15338: DS ACEs might be inherited to unrelated object classes.
+ * BUG 15353: Temporary smbXsrv_tcon_global.tdb can't be parsed.
+
+o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15360: Setting veto files = /.*/ break listing directories.
+
+o Joseph Sutton <josephsutton@catalyst.net.nz>
+ * BUG 14810: CVE-2020-25720 [SECURITY] Create Child permission should not
+ allow full write to all attributes (additional changes).
+ * BUG 15329: Reduce flapping of ridalloc test.
+
+o Nathaniel W. Turner <nturner@exagrid.com>
+ * BUG 15325: dsgetdcname: assumes local system uses IPv4.
+
+
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+<h5><a name="4.17.8">11 May 2023</a></h5>
+<p class=headline>Samba 4.17.8 Available for Download</p>
+<p>
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.17 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-4.17.8.tar.gz">downloaded now</a>.
+A <a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/samba-4.17.7-4.17.8.diffs.gz">patch against Samba 4.17.7</a> is also available.
+See <a href="https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.17.8.html">the release notes for more info</a>.
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