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Samba 4.21 Released With LDAP TLS/SASL Channel Binding, Other Improvements
Samba 4.21 is out as the newest version of this SMB networking protocol implementation commonly used on Linux systems for file and print services interaction with Windows systems.
Samba 4.21 is out as the newest version of this SMB networking protocol implementation commonly used on Linux systems for file and print services interaction with Windows systems. Samba 4.21 introduces LDAP TLS/SASL channel binding support, the LDB LDAP-like local database is now provided as an optional public library as part of the Samba package rather than as a standalone option, a new DNS hostname configuration option is introduced, Samba AD will now rotate expired passwords on SmartCard-required accounts, per-user and group "veto files" and "hide files", a new CephFS VFS module, support for Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs), support for key features of AD Domain/Forest Functional Level 2012R2, and work on more deterministic/reproducible builds. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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