4 This is the second release condidate of Samba 4.13. This is *not*
5 intended for production environments and is designed for testing
6 purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
7 system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
9 Samba 4.13 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
22 Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
23 3.5 with samba 4.12. Samba 4.13 raises this minimum version to Python
24 3.6 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version
25 we test with in our CI infrastructure.
27 (Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not
30 wide links functionality
31 ------------------------
33 For this release, the code implementing the insecure "wide links = yes"
34 functionality has been moved out of the core smbd code and into a separate
35 VFS module, vfs_widelinks. Currently this vfs module is implicitly loaded
36 by smbd as the last but one module before vfs_default if "wide links = yes"
37 is enabled on the share (note, the existing restrictions on enabling wide
38 links around the SMB1 "unix extensions" and the "allow insecure wide links"
39 parameters are still in force). The implicit loading was done to allow
40 existing users of "wide links = yes" to keep this functionality without
41 having to make a change to existing working smb.conf files.
43 Please note that the Samba developers recommend changing any Samba
44 installations that currently use "wide links = yes" to use bind mounts
45 as soon as possible, as "wide links = yes" is an inherently insecure
46 configuration which we would like to remove from Samba. Moving the
47 feature into a VFS module allows this to be done in a cleaner way
50 A future release to be determined will remove this implicit linkage,
51 causing administrators who need this functionality to have to explicitly
52 add the vfs_widelinks module into the "vfs objects =" parameter lists.
53 The release notes will be updated to note this change when it occurs.
58 The deprecated "ldap ssl ads" smb.conf option has been removed.
63 Parameter Name Description Default
64 -------------- ----------- -------
66 smb2 disable lock sequence checking No
69 CHANGES SINCE 4.13.0rc1
70 =======================
72 o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
73 * BUG 14450: dbcheck: Allow a dangling forward link outside our known NCs.
75 o Isaac Boukris <iboukris@gmail.com>
76 * BUG 14462: Remove deprecated "ldap ssl ads" smb.conf option.
78 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
79 * BUG 14435: winbind: Fix lookuprids cache problem.
81 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
82 * BUG 14354: kdc:db-glue: Ignore KRB5_PROG_ETYPE_NOSUPP also for
85 o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
86 * BUG 14358: docs: Fix documentation for require_membership_of of
89 o Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
90 * BUG 14444: ctdb-scripts: Use nfsconf as a last resort get nfsd thread
97 https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.13#Release_blocking_bugs
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101 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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104 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
105 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
107 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
108 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
109 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
110 be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
111 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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115 == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
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