Previous release announcements are archived here for historical purposes.
Only the last ten release announcements can be found below. With every new release, the oldest announcement drops off the page. This should allow for a quick glance at recent Samba activity. For a more in-depth tour of Samba's release history, notes for all stable releases are archived in the list to the left.
Previous Release Announcements
30 April 2012
Samba 3.6.5, 3.5.15 and 3.4.17 Security Releases Available for Download
These are security releases in order to address CVE-2012-2111 (Samba 3.4.x to 3.6.4 are affected by a vulnerability that allows arbitrary users to modify privileges on a file server.).
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).
The source code can be downloaded here:
Patches against the parents are also available:
Please see the release notes for more info:
10 April 2012
Samba 3.6.4, 3.5.14 and 3.4.16 Security Releases Available for Download
These are security releases in order to address CVE-2012-1182 ("root" credential remote code execution).
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).
The source code can be downloaded here:
Patches against the parents are also available:
Please see the release notes for more info:
20 March 2012
Report: Microsoft SMB2.2 Interop Event
A few Samba Team members recently accepted an invitation by Microsoft and attended an SMB2.2 interop testing opportunity. Michael Adam has written a report about this successful event.
If you are interested in this event and Samba's progress in the SMB2 area, please read Michael's full report.
12 March 2012
Samba 3.5.13 Available for Download
This is the latest stable release of the Samba 3.5 series.
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 3.5.12 is also available. See the release notes for more info.
23 February 2012
Samba pre-3.4 Security Issue
Patches for 3.0, 3.2, and 3.3 got released in order to address CVE-2012-0870 (Remote code execution vulnerability in smbd).
See the security announcement for more details.
29 January 2012
Samba 3.6.3 Security Release Available for Download
This is a security release in order to address CVE-2012-0817 (Memory leak/Denial of service).
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 3.6.2 is also available. See the release notes for more info.
25 January 2012
Samba 3.6.2 Available for Download
This is the latest stable release of the Samba 3.6 series.
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 3.6.1 is also available. See the release notes for more info.
17 January 2012
LCA: A Samba 4 update
Read what Jonathan Corbet and many others got presented at linux.conf.au 2012 at the A Samba 4 update talk.
02 November 2011
Samba Notes Passing a Milestone
Microsoft developers submit Samba patches!
The whole story can be found here.
26 October 2011
Samba 3.5.12 Available for Download
This is the latest stable release of the Samba 3.5 series.
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 3.5.11 is also available. See the release notes for more info.