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SerNet's Samba 4.3 packages are available - and SerNet announces some changes that come along with this new version. First of all: Formerly known as EnterpriseSAMBA SerNet's packages are now published as SAMBA+ (read why). Furthermore SAMBA+ 4.3 packages and all later versions are available as software subscription. Starting immediately they can be purchased at the SAMBA+ shop. Detailed information and prices are listed at https://shop.samba.plus. The subscriptions bought at the SAMBA+ shop are managed at a new platform called OPOSSO (https://oposso.samba.plus). Users can activate their subscriptions here and manage access credentials.
The major enhancements and new features within SAMBA+ 4.3 are:
- Client and server support for SMB 3.1.1 - improves the secure negotiation of SMB dialects and features
- New FileChangeNotify subsystem - with new notify daemon to scale a lot better
- New id-map module idmap_script - use a script to perform id-mapping
- New VFS-modules
- vfs_unityed_media - allow multiple Avid clients to share a network drive
- vfs_shell_snap - provides shell-script callouts for snapshot handling
- Logging - support for logging to multiple backends
- CTDB logging improvements
- Improved CTDB NFS support
- Improved sparse file support
- New smbclient subcommands - server side copy and change notification queries for directories
- New rpcclient subcommands
- Improved security with kerberos DCERPC man in the middle detection when using kerberos
- Improved Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) - for large networks
- Configurable TLS protocol support - disables SSLv3 by default, which is no longer considered secure
- Samba-tool now supports all 7 FSMO roles
- Partial (only Kerberos) support for trusted domains (as AD DC) - see full release notes
Please refer to the Samba 4.3 release notes for more details.
As usual packages are available for various SUSE and RedHat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu. For a detailed list of changes and explanations we recommend to read the official Samba release announcement. The packages address a lot of issues, which are listed in the history.
We already improved the subscription model due to customer feedback. Please do not hesitate to send us your comments and to discuss SAMBA+ with us.
SerNet's 4.2 packages and older versions will still be maintained as EnterpriseSAMBA and distributed via portal.enterprisesamba.com for free. Users don't even have to register anymore to be able to access the packages but instead can use a public user.
