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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.

Although many things in the world have changed in the last few years, chairman of sambaXP Jeremy Allison stated in his welcome note that „Open Source survives“. After two years of remote events it was great to meet everyone live at sambaXP 2023 at the Hotel FREIZEIT IN in Goettingen, Germany. From May 10-11 people from all over the world passionate about Samba exchanged the latest developments and talked about all things related to Samba.

A big thank you goes out to this year’s sponsors Google, Microsoft and SerNet.

The slides and recordings of the presentations are linked in the agenda at sambaxp.org. Recordings can also be found in the sambaXP 2023 YouTube playlist.

Among others, these interesting presentations can be re-watched:

• Alexander Bokovoy & Andreas Schneider (Red Hat / Samba Team): Samba AD / MIT Kerberos: path out of experimental
• Volker Lendecke (SerNet / Samba Team): SMB3 POSIX Extensions: Reparse Points current status
• Douglas Bagnall (Catalyst IT / Samba Team): Active Directory Claims and conditional ACEs: how do they work and what are they for?
• Bradley M. Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy): GPL Compliance for Samba in Consumer Devices
• Tom Talpey: Beyond Microsoft – Keynote

The following presentations within the IO Track of the Microsoft team can also be re-watched:

• Hagit Galatzer: Introduction to The Microsoft Interoperability Commitment
• Jinlin Xu: Integrate the Power of Office365 through Co-Auth and File Synchronization Protocols
• Michael Bowen: Use the Capabilities of Azure Artificial Intelligence with the Open XML SDK to Protect Personally Identifiable Information
• Obaro Ogbo & Amalachukwu Offia: File Sharing test suites overview and demo
• Steve French: SMB3.1.1 POSIX Extensions & SMB3.1.1 improvements to the Linux client

Save the Date

Next year’s sambaXP will be held from April 16-18, 2024 as a remote event. On the first day there will be a webinar by Stefan Kania. Stay updated at https://sambaxp.org.

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