Samba 4.24.6 has been released as a stable maintenance update, focusing on bug fixes that enhance stability for CephFS-backed shares and clustered deployments, following the previous security-heavy version 4.24.5. The update addresses critical crashes in Ceph snapshot handling and mixed-mode deployments, while also providing protocol-level fixes for the CTDB clustering layer to prevent potential state issues. Additional fixes include addressing memory leaks, race conditions, and encoding inconsistencies in various modules, ensuring improved performance and reliability for Active Directory domains. Alongside this release, Samba 4.25.0rc1 has been announced, introducing experimental features such as SMB3 Persistent Handles and cluster-wide rate limiting

Samba 4.24.6 Released: Ceph, CTDB, and AD Stability Fixes

Samba 4.24.6 is now available as a stable maintenance release containing 10 bug fixes that prioritize stability for CephFS-backed shares and clustered deployments following the security-heavy 4.24.5 update. The patch resolves critical crashes in vfs_ceph_snapshots and vfs_ceph_new, while Martin Schwenke from DDN contributes fixes for CTDB protocol issues regarding IP takeovers and nested elections. Core developers also addressed a memory leak in the Directory Replication Service, a pthreadpool race condition during forking, and various encoding inconsistencies across the S3 DFS server and DRS modules. Alongside the stable release, Samba 4.25.0rc1 was announced, bringing experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles and cluster-wide rate limiting to the next major development branch.

Samba 4.24.6 Released: Ceph, CTDB, and AD Stability Fixes @ Linux Compatible