The branch, v4-23-test has been updated
via 7216b8850c8 VERSION: Bump version up to Samba 4.23.5...
via 75b4f6a0a66 VERSION: Disable GIT_SNAPSHOT for the 4.23.4 release.
via 8f6303f7359 WHATSNEW: Add release notes for Samba 4.23.4
from 82bcd3d8046 Revert "ldb: User hexchars_upper from replace.h"
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=shortlog;h=v4-23-test
- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
commit 7216b8850c8aa56a8e364a6abea08139635bfab2
Author: Björn Jacke <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Dec 12 14:27:26 2025 +0100
VERSION: Bump version up to Samba 4.23.5...
and re-enable GIT_SNAPSHOT.
commit 75b4f6a0a66ce69160e3ba5a7b341125934a0e0e
Author: Björn Jacke <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Dec 12 14:25:32 2025 +0100
VERSION: Disable GIT_SNAPSHOT for the 4.23.4 release.
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Jacke <[email protected]>
commit 8f6303f7359038a68f8c2be98a53f1759e853f99
Author: Björn Jacke <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Dec 12 14:20:13 2025 +0100
WHATSNEW: Add release notes for Samba 4.23.4
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Jacke <[email protected]>
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Summary of changes:
VERSION | 2 +-
WHATSNEW.txt | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Changeset truncated at 500 lines:
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index f3872865f2e..1826d22745e 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ SAMBA_COPYRIGHT_STRING="Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the
Samba Team 1992-2025"
########################################################
SAMBA_VERSION_MAJOR=4
SAMBA_VERSION_MINOR=23
-SAMBA_VERSION_RELEASE=4
+SAMBA_VERSION_RELEASE=5
########################################################
# If a official release has a serious bug #
diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index a143f1c084c..1eab9c17ce7 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,61 @@
+ ==============================
+ Release Notes for Samba 4.23.4
+ December 12, 2025
+ ==============================
+
+
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.23 release series.
+
+
+Changes since 4.23.3
+--------------------
+
+o Ralph Boehme <[email protected]>
+ * BUG 15926: Samba 4.22 breaks Time Machine
+ * BUG 15947: mdssvc doesn't support $time.iso dates before 1970
+
+o Günther Deschner <[email protected]>
+ * BUG 15963: Fix winbind cache consistency
+
+o Volker Lendecke <[email protected]>
+ * BUG 15897: Assert failed: (dirfd != -1) || (smb_fname->base_name[0] ==
'/')
+ in vfswrap_openat
+ * BUG 15950: ctdb can crash with inconsistent cluster lock configuration
+
+o Anoop C S <[email protected]>
+ * BUG 15897: Assert failed: (dirfd != -1) || (smb_fname->base_name[0] ==
'/')
+ in vfswrap_openat
+
+o Andreas Schneider <[email protected]>
+ * BUG 15809: samba-bgqd: rework man page
+ * BUG 15936: samba-bgqd can't find [printers] share
+ * BUG 15955: Winbind can hang forever in gssapi if there are network issues.
+ * BUG 15961: libldb requires linking libreplace on Linux
+
+
+#######################################
+Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
+#######################################
+
+Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
+joining the #samba-technical:matrix.org matrix room, or
+#samba-technical IRC channel on irc.libera.chat.
+
+If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
+feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
+the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
+be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
+database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
+
+
+======================================================================
+== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
+== The Samba Team
+======================================================================
+
+
+Release notes for older releases follow:
+----------------------------------------
==============================
Release Notes for Samba 4.23.3
November 07, 2025
@@ -48,8 +106,7 @@ database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
======================================================================
-Release notes for older releases follow:
-----------------------------------------
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
==============================
Release Notes for Samba 4.23.2
October 15, 2025
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