Samba 4.4.4 Fixes a Memory Leak in Share Mode Locking, Adds systemd 230 Support

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Today, June 7, 2016, the Samba development team has announced the immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance release in the Samba 4.4 series.

Samba is a free, cross-platform, and open-source software project that re-implements the SMB/CIFS networking protocol on UNIX platforms. It is used by default in numerous GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as on Mac OS X, to allow users to access and interact with Windows network shares.

Samba 4.4 major branch was launched on March 22, 2016, and it brought support for asynchronous flush requests, several Active Directory (AD) enhancements, a GnuTLS-based backupkey implementation, multiple CTDB (Cluster Trivial Database) improvements, a WINS nsswitch module, as well as experimental SMB3 Multi-Channel support.

Samba 4.4.4 comes five weeks since the previous point release, Samba 4.4.3, which resolved various r… (read more)
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