Samba 4.19.8 has been released. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.

Samba 4.19.8 Available for Download

Release Announcements
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.19 release series.

Changes since 4.19.7
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o  Douglas Bagnall [douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz]
   * BUG 15671: Invalid client warning about command line passwords.
   * BUG 15672: Version string is truncated in manpages.
   * BUG 15673: --version-* options are still not ergonomic, and they
reject
     tilde characters.
   * BUG 15674: cmdline_burn does not always burn secrets.
   * BUG 15685: Samba doesn't parse SDDL found in
defaultSecurityDescriptor in
     AD_DS_Classes_Windows_Server_v1903.ldf.

o  Andrew Bartlett [abartlet@samba.org]
   * BUG 15654: We have added new options --vendor-name and --vendor-patch-
     revision arguments to ./configure to allow distributions and
packagers to
     put their name in the Samba version string so that when debugging
Samba the
     source of the binary is obvious.
   * BUG 15655: When claims enabled with heimdal kerberos, unable to
log on to a
     Windows computer when user account need to change their own
     password.

o  Ralph Boehme [slow@samba.org]
   * BUG 15676: Fix clock skew error message and memory cache clock skew
     recovery.

o  Günther Deschner [gd@samba.org]
   * BUG 15665: CTDB RADOS mutex helper misses namespace support.

o  Pavel Filipenský [pfilipensky@samba.org]
   * BUG 15660: The images don't build after the git security release
and CentOS
     8 Stream is EOL.

o  Xavi Hernandez [xhernandez@redhat.com]
   * BUG 15678: Fix unnecessary delays in CTDB while processing
requests under
     high load.

o  Stefan Metzmacher [metze@samba.org]
   * BUG 13019: Dynamic DNS updates with the internal DNS are not working.
   * BUG 15620: s4:nbt_server: does not provide unexpected handling, so
winbindd
     can't use nmb requests instead cldap.
   * BUG 15660: The images don't build after the git security release
and CentOS
     8 Stream is EOL.
   * BUG 15664: Panic in vfs_offload_token_db_fetch_fsp().
   * BUG 15666: "client use kerberos" and --use-kerberos is ignored for the
     machine account.

o  Noel Power [noel.power@suse.com]
   * BUG 15435: Regression DFS not working with widelinks = true.

o  Andreas Schneider [asn@samba.org]
   * BUG 15660: The images don't build after the git security release
and CentOS
     8 Stream is EOL.
   * BUG 15673: --version-* options are still not ergonomic, and they
reject
     tilde characters.

o  Jo Sutton [josutton@catalyst.net.nz]
   * BUG 15655: When claims enabled with heimdal kerberos, unable to
log on to a
     Windows computer when user account need to change their own
     password.

o  Joseph Sutton [josephsutton@catalyst.net.nz]
   * BUG 15655: When claims enabled with heimdal kerberos, unable to
log on to a
     Windows computer when user account need to change their own
     password.

o  Jones Syue [jonessyue@qnap.com]
   * BUG 15677: ntlm_auth make logs more consistent with length check.

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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
joining the #samba-technical:matrix.org matrix room, or
#samba-technical IRC channel on irc.libera.chat.

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-4.19.8.html

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

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team