Samba 4.18.6 has been released. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.

Samba 4.18.6 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series.

Changes since 4.18.5
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o  Jeremy Allison [jra@samba.org]
   * BUG 15420: reply_sesssetup_and_X() can dereference uninitialized tmp
     pointer.
   * BUG 15430: Missing return in reply_exit_done().

o  Andrew Bartlett [abartlet@samba.org]
   * BUG 15289: post-exec password redaction for samba-tool is more
reliable for
     fully random passwords as it no longer uses regular expressions
     containing the password value itself.
   * BUG 9959: Windows client join fails if a second container
CN=System exists
     somewhere.

o  Ralph Boehme [slow@samba.org]
   * BUG 15342: Spotlight sometimes returns no results on latest macOS.
   * BUG 15417: Renaming results in NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION if
previously
     attempted to remove the destination.
   * BUG 15427: Spotlight results return wrong date in result list.

o  Günther Deschner [gd@samba.org]
   * BUG 15414: "net offlinejoin provision" does not work as non-root user.

o  Pavel Filipenský [pfilipensky@samba.org]
   * BUG 15400: rpcserver no longer accepts double backslash in dfs
pathname.
   * BUG 15433: cm_prepare_connection() calls close(fd) for the second
time.

o  Stefan Metzmacher [metze@samba.org]
   * BUG 15346: 2-3min delays at reconnect with
smb2_validate_sequence_number:
     bad message_id 2.
   * BUG 15441: samba-tool ntacl get segfault if aio_pthread appended.
   * BUG 15446: DCERPC_PKT_CO_CANCEL and DCERPC_PKT_ORPHANED can't be
parsed.

o  Noel Power [noel.power@suse.com]
   * BUG 15390: Python tarfile extraction needs change to avoid a warning
     (CVE-2007-4559 mitigation).
   * BUG 15435: Regression DFS not working with widelinks = true.

o  Arvid Requate [requate@univention.de]
   * BUG 9959: Windows client join fails if a second container
CN=System exists
    somewhere.

o  Jones Syue [jonessyue@qnap.com]
   * BUG 15441: samba-tool ntacl get segfault if aio_pthread appended.
   * BUG 15449: mdssvc: Do an early talloc_free() in _mdssvc_open().

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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/).

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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

        https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/

The release notes are available online at:

        https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.18.6.html

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
( https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team