============================= Release Notes for Samba 3.6.2 January 25, 2012 ============================= This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.6. Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.2 include: o Make Winbind receive user/group information (bug #8371). o Several SMB2 fixes. Changes since 3.6.1: -------------------- o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> * BUG 8528: Fix SEGFAULT from net registry export on not zero terminated REG_SZ values. o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> * BUG 8541: readlink() on Linux clients fails if the symlink target is outside of the share. * BUG 8542: smbclient posix_open command fails to return correct info on open file. * BUG 8548: winbind_samlogon_retry_loop ignores logon_parameters flags. * BUG 8561: Password change settings not fully observed. * BUG 8562: Fix double free error in talloc. * BUG 8614: Ensure we correctly calculate reply credits over all returned SMB2 replies. * BUG 8631: POSIX ACE x permission becomes rx following mapping to and from a DACL. * BUG 8636: When returning an ACL without SECINFO_DACL requested, we still set SEC_DESC_DACL_PRESENT in the type field. * BUG 8644: vfs_acl_xattr and vfs_acl_tdb modules can fail to add inheritable entries on a directory with no stored ACL. * BUG 8663: Fix deleting a symlink if the symlink target is outside of * the share. * BUG 8664: Fix renaming a symlink if the symlink target is outside of the share. * BUG 8673: Fix NT ACL issue. * BUG 8674: Fix buffer overflow issue with AES encryption in samba traffic analyzer. * BUG 8679: recvfile code path using splice() on Linux leaves data in the pipe on short write. * BUG 8687: Fix typo in 'net memberships' usage. * BUG 8710: Fix major leak with SMB2 in connections.tdb. * Fix a crash bug in the spoolss code. * Add new contributing FAQ announcing acceptance of corporate (C). o Christian Ambach <ambi@samba.org> * BUG 8444: Add an allocation pool to idmap_autorid. * BUG 8585: Increase a debug level. o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> * BUG 8623: Fix crash bug when trying to browse Samba printers. o Björn Baumbach <bb@sernet.de> * BUG 8580: Enable inotify if sys or kernel inotify is available. * BUG 8618: Fix migrate printer code. o Gregor Beck <gbeck@sernet.de> * BUG 8528: Fix SEGFAULT from net registry export on not zero terminated REG_SZ values. o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org> * BUG 7465: Remove pointless use_memory_krb5_ccache. * BUG 8176: Fix perl path. * BUG 8591: Fix marshalling of samr_ChangePasswordUser3. * BUG 8692: libads: Fix malloc/talloc mismatch in ads_keytab_verify_ticket(). o David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de> * BUG 4942: DeletePrinterDriverEx deletes files in use. * BUG 8575: Add systemd service files. * BUG 8606: Fix intermittent print job failures caused by character conversion errors. * BUG 8697: Make DeletePrinterDriverEx remove printer driver files. o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de> * BUG 8531: Make DSO_EXPORTS_CMD more portable. * BUG 8616: Allow to set TCP_NODELAYACK socket option on AIX. * BUG 8652: Document the "ignore system acls" option of vfs_acl_xattr and vfs_acl_tdb vfs modules. o Frank Lahm <franklahm@googlemail.com> * BUG 8419: Make VFS op "streaminfo" stackable. o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> * BUG 8371: Make Winbind receive user/group information. * BUG 8639: Fix the vfs_commit module. * BUG 8686: Packet validation checks can be done before length validation causing uninitialized memory read. o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org> * BUG 5326: Fix cli_write_and_x() against OS/2 print shares. * BUG 8357: Grant credits in async interim responses (SMB2). * BUG 8560: Make SMB2 handle compound request headers in the same way as Windows. * BUG 8573: Fix alignment in the non-extended-security negprot. * BUG 8586: libsmb: Only align unicode pipe_name. * BUG 8579: smb2_flush: Don't send uninitialized memory. * BUG 8592: Don't limit the number of open dptrs for SMB2. * BUG 8593: Fix a crash bug in cldap_socket_recv_dgram(). * BUG 8684: Try ctdbd_init_connection() as root. o Masafumi Nakayama <MASA23@jp.ibm.com> * BUG 563: Fix 'smbclient tar' for files greater than 8GB on BE machines. o Matthieu Patou <mat@matws.net> * BUG 8600: Make cldap work over IPv6. * BUG 8674: Fix buffer overflow issue with AES encryption in samba traffic analyzer. o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org> * BUG 8550: Fix setting the machine account password. * BUG 8575: Add systemd service files. * BUG 8608: Winbind: Don't fail on users without a uid. * BUG 8628: libsmb: Don't duplicate Kerberos service tickets. * BUG 8643: Add an update function for Winbind cache. * BUG 8678: Fix Winbind segfault if we can't map the last user. o Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org> * BUG 7705: Fix some RHEL packaging issues. o Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@gmail.com> * BUG 8607: Improve configure.in so it can be used outside the Samba source tree. o Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com> * BUG 8525: Fix bug with sys_fseek() wrapper on *BSD / OS X). o Henry Wong <henry@stuffedcow.net> * BUG 8384: Fix Windows XP clients crashing smbd process every once in a while.