Samba has released version 4.24.7, which focuses on stability by addressing ten bugs, particularly in the internal DNS server, POSIX ACL handling, and Active Directory cluster logic. Key fixes include resolving issues with UDP-to-TCP fallback failures in DNS, preventing unwanted record scavenging on disabled zones, and correcting silent POSIX ACL errors affecting Windows shares. This update does not introduce any new security vulnerabilities but comes after a significant July release that addressed critical CVEs. Samba is also working on the upcoming 4.25.0 development branch, but users are advised to stick with the stable 4.24 version for production environments until the final release is available

Samba 4.24.7 Released: Ten Bug Fixes Target Internal DNS and AD Stability

Samba 4.24.7 is now available as a stability-focused point release addressing ten tracked bugs discovered since the previous update. The release primarily targets the internal DNS stack with fixes for UDP-to-TCP fallback failures, unwanted record scavenging on disabled zones, and EDNS negotiation issues. Additional patches resolve silent POSIX ACL errors on Windows shares, inactive cluster node recovery conflicts, and stream handle state corruption. While this release contains no new CVEs, it arrives shortly after Samba published 4.25.0rc2 for previewing the next development branch.

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