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For the first time the Samba eXPerience 2020 took place completely online. Recordings of the talks are now available as videos on sambaxp.org - including Stefan Kania's workshop on CTDB / GlusterFS.

The 19th edition of the international conference around the open source software Samba took place from 26th - 28th May 2020 for the first time exclusively digitally. Due to the changed event format and the use of an online conference platform, organizer SerNet can offer all talks as videos for the first time. 

The sambaXP 2020 was sponsored by Google and Microsoft.

SerNet-GnuTLS 3.6.14 has just been released. SAMBA+ 4.12.3 packages on various SUSE and Red Hat platforms depend on a recent version of GnuTLS, which is provided by the sernet-gnutls packages.

The sernet-gnutls package is part of the SAMBA+ repositories for the following distributions:

• RHEL6 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• CentOS 6
• Oracle Linux 6
• RHEL7 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• CentOS 7
• Oracle Linux 7
• SLES11 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
• SLES12 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
• openSUSE Leap 42

The new sernet-gnutls packages address the GnuTLS security issue CVE-2020-13777:

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13777

and include an additional patch to solve a memory (RAM) consuming bug:

• Bug 14399 - Server RAM filling up when writing to share from macOS
  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14399

The new SAMBA+ 4.12.3 for AIX 7 does also include the recently patched GnuTLS version.

SAMBA+ packages are available as software subscription. They can be purchased at the SAMBA+ shop, detailed information and prices are listed at https://shop.samba.plus. The subscriptions are managed at our platform OPOSSO (https://oposso.samba.plus). Users can activate their subscriptions here and manage access credentials. The new SAMBA+ packages are included in existing subscriptions.

The SAMBA+ News are now also available via RSS feed. The URL to the feed is https://samba.plus/feed.rss .

In the News, SerNet's Samba Team regularly provides information on current versions, security updates, events such as sambaXP, etc. They are also a good source for Samba admins to keep up to date.

Alternatively, the SAMBA+ Newsletter is also available.

samba.plus and the SAMBA+ shop shop are now available in French. SerNet would like to do justice to the great interest that SAMBA+ arouses among French-speaking countries.

Please note: Communication with our team and support of SAMBA+ will continue to be in English and German respectively.

samba.plus et la shop SAMBA+ sont désormais disponibles en français. SerNet tient à rendre justice au grand intérêt que suscite SAMBA+ auprès des pays francophones.

Veuillez noter: La communication avec notre équipe et le soutien à SAMBA+ continueront à se faire respectivement en anglais et en allemand.

SAMBA+ 4.12.3 has just 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 a lot of issues, which are listed in the Samba 4.12.3 release notes.

Additionally fixes for the following issues are included:

• Bug 14382: Use-after-free in winbind
  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14382

• Bug 11990: dnsserver: correctly set rpc flag for reverse zone
  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11990

• Bug 9869: Use function level 2008_R2 for domain classicupgrade
  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9869

SAMBA+ packages and all later versions are available as software subscription. They can be purchased at the SAMBA+ shop, detailed information and prices are listed at https://shop.samba.plus. The subscriptions are managed at our platform OPOSSO (https://oposso.samba.plus). Users can activate their subscriptions here and manage access credentials. The new SAMBA+ packages are included in existing subscriptions.