A new verion of Samba is released, version 3.4.4. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS. It provides interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients. Also Release Candidate 1 of the upcoming Samba 3.5.0 is released.

Release Notes for Samba 3.4.4

Major enhancements in Samba 3.4.4 include:

• Fix interdomain trust relationships with Win2008R2 (bug #6697).
• Fix Winbind crashes when queried from nss (bug #6889).
• Fix Winbind crash when retrieving empty group members (bug #7014).
• Fix "UID range full" error in Winbind (bug #6901).
• Fix multiple LDAP servers in "idmap backend" and "idmap alloc backend" (bug #6910).

Release Notes for Samba 3.5.0rc1

This is the first release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.0 include:

General changes:

• Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution
  Support for full Windows timestamp resolution has been added. This effectively makes us use Windows' full 100ns timestamp resolution if supported by the kernel (2.6.22 and higher) and the glibc (2.6 and higher).

Protocol changes:

• Experimental implementation of SMB2
  An EXPERIMENTAL implementation of the SMB2 protocol has been added. SMB2 can be enabled by setting "max protocol = smb2". SMB2 is a new implementation of the SMB protocol used by Windows Vista and higher.

Printing Changes:

• Add encryption support for connections to a CUPS server
  A new parameter "cups encrypt" has been added to control whether connections to CUPS servers will be encrypted or not. The default is to use unencrypted connections.

Winbind changes:

• Major refactoring + Asynchronous
  The Winbind daemon has been refactored internally to be asynchronous. The new Winbind will not be blocked by running 'wbinfo -g' or 'wbinfo -u'.

You can download both versions here.