[Announce] Samba 3.3.3 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger-2]

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Release Announcements
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This is the latest bugfix release release of the Samba 3.3 series.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.3.3 include:

    o Migrating from 3.0.x to 3.3.x can fail to update passdb.tdb
      correctly (bug #6195).
    o Fix serving of files with colons to CIFS/VFS client (bug #6196).
    o Fix "map readonly" (bug #6186).


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Changes
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Changes since 3.3.2:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox@...>
    * BUG 6195: Don't let smbd child processes panic.
    * Add backend_requires_messaging() method to libsmbconf.
    * Add methods is_writeable() and wrapper smbconf_is_writeable() to libsmbconf.
    * Fall back to file backend when no valid backend was found.
    * Fix a memleak in dbwrap_rbt.
    * Provide transaction_start|commit|cancel fns for the registry tdb.
    * Speed up "net conf drop".
    * Speed up "net conf import".
    * Add transactions to the libsmbconf API.
    * Reduce memory usage of "net conf import".
    * Registry cleanup.
    * Fix handling of SAMBA_VERSION_VENDOR_PATCH.
    * Fix build of pam_winbind.so with static linking.
    * Tidy up some convert_string_internal error cases.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra@...>
    * BUG 6186: Fix map readonly.
    * BUG 6195: Migrating from 3.0.x to 3.3.x can fail to update passdb.tdb
      correctly.
    * BUG 6196: Unable to serve files with colons to Linux CIFS/VFS client.
    * BUG 6224: nmbd waits 5 minutes at startup before checking if it needs
      to run elections.
    * Allow DFS client paths to work when POSIX pathnames have been
      selected.
    * Try and fix the build farm RAW-STREAMS errors.
    * Ensure files starting with multiple dots are hidden.


o   Günther Deschner <gd@...>
    * BUG 6102: NetQueryDisplayInformation could return wrong information.
    * BUG 6193: Avoid messing with sync_context in libnet_samsync_delta().
    * Fix notify_printer_status_byname.
    * Fix Coverity IDs 722, 762, 774, 775, 776.


o   Björn Jacke <bj@...>
    * Fix build on old Heimdal based systems.
    * Fix compile warning.
    * Use parentheses in if condition to make negation clear.


o   Andy Kelk <andy@...>
    * Add dirsort module.


o   Steve Langasek <vorlon@...>
    * BUG 6147: Fix detection of the GNU ld version.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl@...>
    * BUG 6097: Fix smbd segfault.
    * BUG 6130: Don't crash in winbindd_rpc lookup_groupmem() on unmapped
      members.
    * BUG 6139: Add missing whitespace in mount.cifs error message.
    * Fix a malloc/talloc mismatch when cli_initialise() fails.
    * Fix a valgrind error.
    * Speed up "net conf list".
    * Add sorted subkey cache.
    * Use StrCaseCmp in the dirsort module.
    * Document the dirsort module.
    * Fix the build on HP/UX.
    * Disable dns_sd by default.
    * Add avahi detection to configure.
    * Add event avahi binding.
    * Use avahi to register _smb._tcp in smbd.
    * Fix two memleaks in the encryption code.
    * Fix a scary "fill_share_mode_lock failed" message.


o   Derrell Lipman <derrell@dworkin.(none)>
    * BUG 6228: Fix SMBC_open_ctx failure due to path resolve failure doesn't set
      errno.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze@...>
    * Don't use reserved words in smbconftort.
    * Fix smb signing for fragmented trans/trans2/nttrans requests.


o   Tim Prouty <tprouty@...>
    * Parse_packet can return NULL which is then dereferenced in
      match_mailslot_name.


o   Timur <timur@...>
    * Format the header check for netinet/ip.h more nicely.
    * Fix detection of netinet/ip.h on FreeBSD.


o   Alexander Zagrebin <alexz@...>
    * Missing break in conversion function prevents tdb password database
      update.


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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/

The release notes are available online at:

        http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/history/samba-3.3.3.html

Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/

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(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

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                        The Samba Team