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An update for SAMBA+ 4.18.4, 4.16.10 and 4.17.9 has been released. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu are available now.

These packages address the following issue:

• Bug 15418 - secure channel faulty since Windows 10/11 update 07/2023
  The recently released Windows Update KB5028185/KB5028166 (July 11, 2023) breaks the client authentication against Samba AD DCs. 

The recently released Windows Update KB5028185/KB5028166 (July 11, 2023) breaks the client authentication against Samba AD DCs. Other implications are possible but require further investigation. The Samba Team and SerNet are already working on a solution. We will provide SAMBA+ updates as soon we have a fix.

Update: A fix for Samba 4.18.4 is already implemented and an update available.

SAMBA+ 4.18.4 has just been released by SerNet. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are
available now.

These packages address several issues, which are listed in the release notes for Samba 4.18.4.

Additionally this release includes fixes for:

•   Bug 15275 - smbd_scavenger crashes when service smbd is stopped
•   Bug 15416 - cldap_ping_list doesn't reset num_requests to 0 on retry

The fix for the following issue was already included in the previous SAMBA+ release:

• Bug 15381 - Register Samba processes with GPFS  

An update for SAMBA+ 4.18.3 has just been released by SerNet. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are available now.

These packages address the following issues:

• Bug 15381 - Register Samba processes with GPFS
  Fixes broken special handling of smbd processes accessing the GPFS file system.
• smbd: Avoid jumping back using dptr_SeekDir() for SMB2 readdirs
  Fixes possible error in directory content listing.
• vfs_aio_pthread: don't crash without a pthreadpool
  Avoid crash in aio_pthread vfs module.

SAMBA+ 4.18.3 has just been released. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are available now.

These packages address several issues, which are listed in the release notes:
https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.18.3.html