-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We've just posted a preview release of Samba 2.2.8 on samba.org. This is a non-production release provided for testing only. The final 2.2.8 will only include bug fixes for the 2.2.7a release.
The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre/ The unpcompressed tarball and patch file have been signed using GnuPG. The Samba public key is available at http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-pubkey.asc Binary packages for RedHat have been released and can be found at http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/ Other will be available soon. The release notes follow. As always, all bugs are our responsibility. --Enjoy The Samba Team What's new in Samba 2.2.8pre1 - 3rd February 2003 ================================================= This is a non-production, preview release of the upcoming Samba 2.2.8 distribution. This preview release is for testing purposes only and should not be installed in production environments. The purpose of this preview release to make numerous bugs fixes for Samba 2.2.7a available to the Samba community. Please report testing results of this release to the Samba mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Changes since 2.2.7a - --------------------- See the cvs log for SAMBA_2_2 for more details 1) Fix seg fault in smbpasswd when specifying the new password as a command line argument 2) Correct 64-bit file sizes issues with smbtar and smbclient 3) Add batch mode option to pdbedit 4) Add protection in nmbd against malformed reply packets 5) Fix bug with sendfile profiling support in smbstatus output 6) Correct bug in "hide unreadable" smb.conf parameter that resulted in incorrect directory listings 7) Fix bug in group enumeration in winbindd 8) Correct build issues with libsmbclient on Solaris 9) Fix memory leak and bad pointer dereference in password changing code in smbd 10) Fix for changing attributes on a file truncate 11) Ensure smbd process count never gets to -1 if limiting number of processes 12) Ensure we return disk full by default on short writes 13) Don't delete jobs submitted after the lpq time 14) Fix reference count bug where smbds would not terminate with no open resources 15) Performance fix when using quota support on HP-UX 16) Fixes for --with-ldapsam * Default to port 389 when "ldap ssl != on" * add support for rebinding to the master directory server for password changes when "ldap server" points to a read-only slave 17) Add -W and -X comand line flags to smbpasswd for extracting and setting the machine/domain SID in secrets.tdb. See the smbpasswd(8) man page for details. 18) Added (c) Luke Howard to winbind_nss_solaris.c for coded obtained from PADL's nss_ldap library. 19) Fix bug in samr_dispinfo query in winbindd 20) Fix segfault in NTLMSSP password changing code for guest connections 21) Correct pstring/fstring mismatches 22) Send level II oplock break requests synchronously to prevent condition where one smbd would continually lock a share entry in locking.tdb 23) Miscellaneous cleanups for tdb error conditions and appending data in a record 24) Implement correct open file truncate semantics with DOS attributes 25) Enforce wide links = no on files as well as directories 26) Include shared library checks for Stratus VOS 27) Include support for CUPS printer classes and logging the remote client name -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+QbaiIR7qMdg1EfYRAl1nAJ45s26WHJFawgQRe6KGeF/URSNUtQCeLwQ6 1PMOb5f+8yFQTCwbyf02Qd4= =QETo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba