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  <H2 align="center">Announcements</H2>

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<big><b>Old announcements are put here. For the latest news see the <a
href="/samba/samba.html">main page</a></b></big>


<ul>
<li>(12th Sep, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0.0 RC4 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The fourth release candidate of the Samba 3.0.0 code base is now available
    for download.  A release candidate implies that the code is very close to 
    a final release, but remember that this is still a non-production snapshot 
    intended for testing purposes. Use at your own risk.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0
    are also available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/">Binary_Packages</a>
    download area.  Packages for other platforms will follow shortly.  The
    <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc4.html">full release notes</a> are
    available on-line as well.
</li>
</ul>


<ul>
<li>(8th Sep, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0.0 RC3 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The third release candidate of the Samba 3.0.0 code base is now available
    for download.  A release candidate implies that the code is very close to 
    a final release, but remember that this is still a non-production snapshot 
    intended for testing purposes. Use at your own risk.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0
    are also available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/">Binary_Packages</a>
    download area.  Packages for other platforms will follow shortly.  The
    <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc3.html">full release notes</a> are
    available on-line as well.
</li>
</ul>


<ul>
<li>(29th Aug, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0.0 RC2 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The second release candidate of the Samba 3.0.0 code base is now available
    for download.  A release candidate implies that the code is very close to 
    a final release, but remember that this is still a non-production snapshot 
    intended for testing purposes. Use at your own risk.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0
    are also available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/">Binary_Packages</a>
    download area.  Packages for other platforms will follow shortly.  The
    <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc2.html">full release notes</a> are
    available on-line as well.
</li>
</ul>



<ul>
<li>(16th Aug, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0.0 RC1 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The first release candidate of the Samba 3.0.0 code base is now available
    for download.  A release candidate implies that the code is very close to 
    a final release, but remember that this is still a non-production snapshot 
    intended for testing purposes. Use at your own risk.  One of the main additions
    in this release is the stable support for both client and server SMB signing.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  The
    <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0rc1.html">full release notes</a> are
    available on-line as well.
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(16th Jul, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0.0beta3 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The third (and possibly final) beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available
    for download.  While significantly closer to the final release, it should still
    be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/beta/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0
    are also available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/">Binary_Packages</a>
    download area.  Packages for other platforms will follow shortly.  The
    <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta3.html">full release notes</a> are
    available on-line as well.
    <p>If all goes well, we will now move onto the Release Candidate (RC) 
    stage.
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(1st Jul, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0.0beta2 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The second beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available
    for download.  While significantly closer to the final release, it should still
    be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/beta/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0
    are also available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/">Binary_Packages</a>
    download area.  Packages for other platforms will follow shortly.  The
    <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta2.html">full release notes</a> are
    available on-line as well.
</li>
</ul>


<ul>
<li>(7th Jun, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0.0beta1 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The first beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available
    for download.  While significantly closer to the final release, it should still
    be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/beta/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0
    are also available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/">Binary_Packages</a>
    download area.  Packages for other platforms will follow shortly.  The
    <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta1.html">full release notes</a> are
    available on-line as well.

    <p>A new bug tracking server is available for beta testing in conjunction
    with the Samba 3.0.0beta1 release.  The <a href="https://bugzilla.samba.org/">new
    Bugzilla server</a> will eventually replace the older jitterbug installation
    (bugs.samba.org).
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(14th May, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0alpha24 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The latest alpha snapshot of the SAMBA_3_0 cvs tree is available
    for download.  It is being provided for testing purposes.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/alpha/">full release notes and source code</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  RedHat RPMS for 6.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0
    are also available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/">Binary_Packages</a>
    download area.
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(5th May, 2003) <em>New Team members</em>
    <p>
    A big welcome to <A HREF="mailto:mkaplan@samba.org">Marc
    Kaplan</A> and <a href="mailto:paulg@samba.org">Paul Green</a>!
    Marc and Paul have been contributing to Samba for some time, and
    have been recently joined the Samba Team. Marc will be proving
    Quality Assurance expertise and helping to maintain our new bug
    tracking system.  Paul maintains the Stratus port of Samba.
    </li> </ul>

<ul>
<li>(5th May, 2003) <em>New backup server</em>
    <p>
    The Samba Team would like to thank <A HREF="http://www.hostopia.com/">Hostopia</a> for providing the
    team with a much needed US backup server. This server is now
    serving as our primary US mirror site, and is a backup in case our
    master server is unavailable for extended periods. Thanks!
  </li> </ul>

<ul>
<li>(7 Apr, 2003) <em>Security Advisory - Samba 2.2.8a security available for download</em>
    <p>
    Digital Defense, Inc. has alerted the Samba Team to a serious
    vulnerability in all stable versions of Samba currently shipping.
    The <a href="http://www.cve.mitre.org/">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</a>
    (CVE) project has assigned the ID CAN-2003-0201 to this defect.
    <p>
    This vulnerability, if exploited correctly, leads to an anonymous
    user gaining root access on a Samba serving system. All versions
    of Samba up to and including Samba 2.2.8 are vulnerable. An active exploit
    of the bug has been reported in the wild.  Alpha versions of Samba 3.0
    and above are *NOT* vulnerable.</p>
    <p>
    The 2.2.8a release contains only updates to address this security issue.
    A rollup patch for release 2.2.7a and 2.0.10 addressing both
    <a href="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0201">CAN-2003-0201</a>
    and <a href="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0085">CAN-2003-0085</a>
    can be obtained from this <a href="/samba/ftp/patches/security/">directory</a>.
    </p>
    <p>The source tarball is available in both
    <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.8a.tar.gz">gzip format</a>
    and <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.8a.tar.bz2">bzip2 format</a>.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.8a.tar.asc">uncompressed tarball
    signature</a> should also be downloaded to verify the archive's
    integrity.  Here is the <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-pubkey.asc">Samba
    Distribution Key</a> for verifying the tarball.  Finally, here
    is the <a href="/samba/ftp/patches/patch-2.2.8-2.2.8a.diffs.gz">patchfile
    against 2.2.8</a> (<a href="/samba/ftp/patches/patch-2.2.8-2.2.8a.diffs.asc">signature</a>).
    </p>

    <p>
      If you suspect your system may have been attacked, please
      consult the
            <a href="http://auscert.org/render.html?it=1974&cid=1920">AusCERT/CERT
      checklist for responding to a suspected compromise</a>.  Please
      contact security at samba.org if your machine has been attacked.
    </p>
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(31 Mar, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0alpha23 available for download</em>
    <p>
    The latest alpha snapshot of the SAMBA_3_0 cvs tree is available
    for download.  It is being provided for testing purposes.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/alpha/">full release notes and source code</a>
    can be found on Samba mirrors.  RedHat RPMS for 6.2, 7.3, and 8.0
    are also available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/">Binary_Packages</a>
    download area.
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(14th Mar, 2003) <em>Security Release - Samba 2.2.8</em>
    <p>A flaw has been detected in the Samba main smbd code which
    could allow an external attacker to remotely and anonymously gain
    Super User (root) privileges on a server running a Samba server.
    This flaw exists in previous versions of Samba from 2.0.x to 2.2.7a
    inclusive.  This is a serious problem and all sites should either
    upgrade to Samba 2.2.8 immediately or prohibit access to TCP ports 139
    and 445.  The <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.8.html">Release Notes</a>
    are available on-line.</p>

    <p>In addition to addressing this security issue, Samba 2.2.8 includes
    many unrelated improvements. These improvements result from our
    process of continuous quality assurance and code review, and are part of
    the Samba team's committment to excellence.</p>

    <p>The source tarballs are available in both
    <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8.tar.gz">gzip format</a>
    and <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8.tar.bz2">bzip2 format</a>.
    The <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8.tar.asc">uncompressed tarball
    signature</a> should also be downloaded to verify the archive's
    integrity.  Here is the <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-pubkey.asc">Samba
    Distribution Key</a> for verifying the tarball.  Finally, here
    is the <a href="/samba/ftp/patches/patch-2.2.7a-2.2.8.diffs.gz">patchfile
    against 2.2.7a</a> (<a href="/samba/ftp/patches/patch-2.2.7a-2.2.8.diffs.asc">signature</a>).
    </p>
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(13 Mar, 2003) <em> SambaXP 2003 conference program available</em>
    <p>
    The program for the Samba eXPerience 2003 is finally available on
    <a href="http://sambaxp.org/program/schedule.html">www.sambaxp.org</a>.
    If you hesitated to come to G&ouml;ttingen on 14/15 April, this
    very interesting program should definitely persuade you to
    <a href="http://sambaxp.org/registration/">register</a>!
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(11th Feb, 2003) <em>New Team members</em>
    <p>
    Welcome to <A HREF="mailto:ab@samba.org">Alexander Bokovoy</A> and
    <a href="mailto:mimir@samba.org">Rafal Szczesniak</a>.  Alexander
    and Rafal have both been long-standing supporters of the Samba
    project, having submitted many patches and attended conferences.
    AB's particular interest has been in the VFS layer, while Mimir has
    been working on Trusted and Trusting domains.
</li>
</ul>


<ul>
<li>(5 Mar, 2003) <em>Samba-3.0alpha22 available for download</em>
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(8th Jan, 2003) <em>Samba XP 2003 announced</em>
    <P>On April 14th and 15th 2003 developers and users will meet
    again in G&ouml;ttingen, Germany at the second international SAMBA
    conference, the "samba eXPerience 2003".<BR>
    The <a href="http://sambaxp.org/call_for_papers/">Call for Papers</a>
    is open until February 14th 2003. You find all necessary information
    at the <a href="http://sambaXP.org/">conference website</a>.
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(19th Dec, 2002) <em>New mirror in China</em>
    <p>The Samba team is pleased to announce the availability of a
    new Samba mirror in Beijing, China, hosted by <a
    href="http://linuxforum.net/">linuxforum.net</a>.
    <p><a href="http://samba.linuxforum.net/samba.html">Web mirror</a>,
    <a href="ftp://ftp.linuxforum.net/ftp.samba.org/">FTP mirror</a>.
        </p>
</li>
</ul>


<ul>
<li>(11th Dec, 2002) <em>Samba 2.2.7a released</em>
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(26th Nov, 2002) <em>Samba 3.0 alpha21 Snapshot released for testing</em>
</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>(20th Nov, 2002) <em>Security Release - Samba 2.2.7</em>
    <p>A security hole has been discovered in versions 2.2.2 through 2.2.6
    of Samba that could potentially allow an attacker to gain root access
    on the target machine.  The word "potentially" is used because there
    is no known exploit of this bug, and the Samba Team has not been able to
    craft one ourselves. However, the seriousness of the problem warrants
    this immediate 2.2.7 release.</p>

    <p>In addition to addressing this security issue, Samba 2.2.7 also includes
    thirteen unrelated improvements. These improvements result from our
    process of continuous quality assurance and code review, and are part of
    the Samba team's committment to excellence.</p>

</li>
</ul>

<UL>
<LI>(18th Oct, 2002) <EM>IBM sponsors samba.org website</EM>
    <p>The Samba Team is pleased to announce that IBM is now
    sponsoring the <A HREF="http://samba.org/">samba.org</A> website.
    IBM has been a big supporter of Samba for a long time, and it is
    great that they were able to step forward to help with our hosting
    costs. Thanks!
</UL>

<UL>
<LI>(16th Oct, 2002) <EM>Samba 2.2.6 Released</EM>
</LI>
</UL>


<UL>
<LI>(26th Sept, 2002) <EM>Samba-3.0alpha20 Released for testing</EM>
</LI>
</UL>

<UL>
<LI>(18th Sept, 2002) <EM>Roadmap for Samba 3.0 Published</EM>
</LI>
</UL>


<UL>
<LI>(5 Sep, 2002) <EM>CIFS Technical Reference back upon SNIA website</EM>
    <P>After a long process of reworking the SNIA web site, the <A HREF="http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS/">CIFS
    Technical Reference</A> is once again available.
</LI>
</UL>

<UL>
<LI>(13th Aug, 2002) <EM>The
    <a href="http://samba-survey.sernet.de">Samba survey</a> is back.</EM>
    <P>The infrastructure has been
    completely rewritten using a database. Unfortunately the
    <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/survey/">old data</a> could
    not be converted into the database yet. So, the survey currently
    is empty. Feel free to
    <a href="http://survey-samba.sernet.de/commit.html?action=new">add</a>
    yourself!
</UL>


<UL>
<LI>(27th July, 2002) <EM>Donations accepted!</EM>
    <P>The Samba Team is now accepting donations to help with the
    expenses of running samba.org and developing Samba. Please see our
    <a href="/samba/donations.html">donations page</a> if you can help out.
</UL>

<UL>
    <LI>(19th June, 2002) <EM>Samba 2.2.5 released</EM></LI>
</UL>

<UL>
<LI>(19th July, 2002) <EM>Annual CIFS Conference</EM>
    <P>Samba Team members will participate in this year's <A
    HREF="http://www.cifs2002.org/">CIFS Conference</A>, August 19th
    through 23rd, in Santa Clara California.

    <P>The <A HREF="http://www.cifs2002.org/">CIFS Conference</A> provides
    an opportunity for developers to exchange information and test their
    products in a cooperative environment.  Samba Team members will
    provide tutorials, participate in the ineroperability lab, and give
    presentations describing the inner workings of the SMB/CIFS protocol
    suite.

    <P>&nbsp;
</UL>


<UL>
<LI>(8th May 2002) <em>Samba Wins <U>eWeek</U> and <U>PC Magazine</U>
    &quot;Innovation in Infrastructure&quot; (i3) award for best Enterprise
    Software!</em>

    <P>Samba 2.2.2 was awarded the <em>Innovation in Infrastructure</em>
    prize in the &quot;Enterprise Software&quot; catagory by eWeek and PC
    Magazine.  Our own <a href="/samba/whatsnew/award_photo_i3.jpg">Jeremy
    Allison</a> was in Las Vegas to accept the award.  Nice tie, Jeremy!
    :-)

    <P>Here is a link to an article with <a
    href="http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=25420&amp;a=26153,00.asp">details
    on the finalists</a>.

    <P>&nbsp;
</UL>

<UL>
<LI>(2nd May, 2002) <em>Samba 2.2.4 released</em>

</UL>

<UL>
<LI>(29th April 2002) The Samba Team has released a <a
    href="/samba/ms_license.html">statement</a> regarding the Microsoft CIFS
    specification license and its effect on Samba.

    <P>&nbsp;
</UL>

<UL>
<LI>(29th April 2002) <em>Samba runs rings around Win2000</em>
    <P><U>IT Week</U> has published an <a
    href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1131114">excellent article</a>
    comparing Windows 2000 with Samba.

    <P>&nbsp;
</UL>


<ul>

<li>(21th March 2002) <em>Samba eXPerience conference program available</em>

    <P>The Samba eXPerience conference program is available under
       <a href="http://sambaxp.org/program/schedule.html">http://sambaxp.org/program/schedule.html</a>.<br><br>
       If you hesitated to register for the conference because you
       did not know what to expect, here is your chance!
    </li>


<li>(6th February 2002) <em>Samba 2.2.3a released</em>
    </li>

<li>(2nd February 2002) <em>Samba 2.2.3 released!</em>
    </li>

<li>(7th January 2002)
    This week is the 10th anniversary of Samba. If you are feeling
    nostalgic, then have a look at the <a
    href="/samba/docs/10years.html">10 years of Samba</a> page.
    </li>

<li>(7th January 2002)
    The samba-ntdom mailing list has been retired.  Please direct all NT
    domain related questions to the main samba mailing list at <a
    href="mailto:samba@lists.samba.org">samba@lists.samba.org</a>.  The
    mailing list archives are still available at <a
    href="http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-ntdom/">here</a> or a
    searchable version at <a
    href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba-ntdom&r=1&w=2">marc.theaimsgroup.com</a>.
    </li>

<li>(30th November 2001)
    <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/alpha/">Samba 3.0alpha0</a>
    has been released. This is a test release, we are still a long way
    from the final Samba 3.0 release. Please read the <a
    href="http://www.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba/WHATSNEW.txt">release
    notes</a>. This is the first Samba release with Active Directory
    support.
    </li>

<li>(5th November 2001)
    <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1474%2526a%253D16554,00.asp">Samba
    faster than Windows 2000!</a> The <a href="http://www.pcmag.com">PC
    Magazine</a> has tested W2K against Linux with Samba. In all their
    tests Linux and Samba were faster than W2K on the same hardware. Find
    the results <a
    href="http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1474%2526a%253D16554,00.asp">here</a>.
    </li>


<li>(29th October 2001)
    Samba Team at Linuxworld Expo in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. From 30th
    October to 1st November the Samba Team will be represented at the
    Linuxworld Expo .ORG Pavillon by Volker Lendecke who will answer
    questions about Samba.<br><br>
    </li>

<li>(16th October 2001)
    Welcome to <a href="mailto:sfrench@samba.org">Steve French</a> and <a
    href="mailto:jmcd@samba.org">Jim McDonough</a> who have just joined
    the Samba Team. Jim and Steve work in the Linux Technology Center at
    IBM and have been actively involved in the development and testing of
    Samba for a long time. We are delighted to have them in the
    team!<br><br>
    </li>

  <li>(23rd July 2001) Welcome to <a
  href="mailto:monyo@samba.org">Motonobu Takahashi</a> ("monyo") who
  has joined the Samba Team as our Japanese expert. Monyo has been a
  very active member of the <a href="http://www.samba.gr.jp/">Japanese
  Samba</a> effort for some time, now we hope that his expertise will
  help us give Samba 3.0 much better language and character set
  support. The samba.org Samba distribution has always lagged a long
  way behind the Japanese version in multi-byte support up till
  now. We hope that will change with Samba 3.0.  <br><br></li>


  <li>(23rd June 2001) <em>Samba 2.2.0a and Samba 2.0.10 security bugfixes released</em><br></li>


  <li>(22nd June 2001) Welcome to <a href="mailto:abartlet@samba.org">Andrew Bartlett</a> who has joined the
  Samba Team as the maintainer of our <a href="http://build.samba.org/">build farm</a>.
  Andrew has also contributed many useful patches to Samba, especially
  in the area of PAM, utmp and session support.<br><br></li>

  <li>(19th May 2001) Welcome (better late than never right Simo?) to Simo
  Sorce as the newest official member of the Samba Team. Simo has contributed
  quite a few patches to Samba in the past.  Now  he has now joined the Team
  to maintain a new bug tracking system in an effort to provide
  better information on development to our community. Thanks Simo for helping
  out!<br><br></li>

  <li>(3rd June 2001) The German Samba Trademark problem has been solved.  <a
href="http://www.cmg.de/">CMG</a> has given a license to <a
href="http://www.sernet.de/">Service Network GmbH (SerNet)</a>, in this case
representing the Open Source Community, to use the word Samba for the
Open Source product. This license allows SerNet to issue sublicenses
to all who sell or support Samba. More information can be found on <a
href="http://samba.sernet.de">samba.sernet.de</a><br><br></li>

  <li>(29th May 2001) <em>New French mailing list</em><br>
      A new mailing list in French has been created for Samba users.  More
      information is available at <a href="http://listes.ac-grenoble.fr/wws/info/samba-fr">http://listes.ac-grenoble.fr/wws/info/samba-fr</a><br><br></li>

  <li>(9th May 2001) <em>Samba 2.0.9 released - SECURITY FIX</em><br></li>

<li>(1st May 2001) <em>eWeek reviews Samba 2.2 - gives us an eWEEK Labs Analyst's Choice award !</em><br>
eWeek magazine says of Samba 2.2, "This release, the first viable open-source alternative to Windows NT
Server 4.0, can replace or augment that product in some less-critical situations and thus can save
companies considerable amounts of money.". Read the full review
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2712294,00.html">here</a>.
<br><br></li>

<li>(17th April 2001) <em>Official Samba 2.2.0 released !</em></li>

<li>(17th April 2001) <em>Samba 2.0.8 released - SECURITY FIX</em><br></li>

<li>(4th April 2001) <em>samba.org has moved</em> The main web,
ftp, cvs and mail server for the samba.org domain has now moved! The
new location is on a Debian Linux machine generously provided by
<a href="http://valinux.com/">VA Linux Systems</a> on the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/">sourceforge</a> network.  Many thanks
to both <a href="http://linuxcare.com/">Linuxcare</a> and
<a href="http://www.sgi.com/">SGI</a> for providing the old machine
and bandwidth costs over the last few years. The old IRIX box which
provided very good service for the last 4 years is being retired and will
be used for testing of Samba on IRIX by Samba Team
members.<br><br></li>

<li>(23rd March 2001) <em>Samba 2.2.0alpha3 snapshot released</em>
A new alpha version of what will become Samba 2.2.0 has been released.
This is being made available in source code form only. You can download
<a href="/samba/ftp/alpha/samba-2.2.0-alpha3.tar.gz">a
gzipped version here (~5.4Mb)</a> and <a href="/samba/ftp/alpha/samba-2.2.0-alpha3.tar.bz2">
a bzipped2 version here (~4.6Mb)</a>.<br><br></li>

<li>(19 December 2000) <em>Caldera funds development of Samba client
library</em> Caldera have contracted Richard Sharpe of the Samba team
to develop a client library for Samba.  More details are available under
News at the <a href="http://www.caldera.com">Caldera</a> web site or on the
<a href="http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-19-2000/0001390177&EDATE=">press release</a>. Technical details will be
available on this site soon, and in the source code.<br><br>
Code has now been committed to the Samba head branch.<br><br></li>


<li>(15th November 2000) <em>New Samba Team members</em>
Welcome aboard to our two new Samba Team members, 
David Bannon and John Reilly.  You can find out more
on the <a href="team.html">Samba Team Pages</a>.   This now brings 
the number of people actively doing CVS checkins to approximately 
8 - 10 people.  Of course, there is <a href="TODO.html">always 
room to help</a>.<br><br></li>


<li>(17th October 2000) If you want to know a bit of the background of
the recent split of the Samba-TNG branch into a separate project you
might like to read this <a href="/samba/tng.html">open letter</a>.<br><br></li>


<li>(16th October 2000) A paper on <a href="/samba/ftp/appliance/winbind.pdf">winbind</a>
is now available, explaining the technology behind the recently
developed system for unifying account information between a NT domain
and UNIX.<br><br></li>


<LI><A HREF="/samba/tshirt.html#stickers"><IMG ALT="" BORDER=0
ALIGN=RIGHT SRC="/samba/images/tiny-sticker.gif"></A>
(25th September 2000) We have printed up a batch of <A
HREF="/samba/tshirt.html#stickers">Samba Stickers</A> for your car,
computer case, cable tray, cat...<br><br></li>

<LI>(4th August 2000) <a href="http://www.cmg.de">CMG</a> as the legal
successor of ORGA-Team Software- und Beratungsgesellschaft f&uuml;r
Kreditinstitute mbH has dropped the trademark case in Germany. See the
german article on <a
href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ps-04.08.00-000/">www.heise.de</a>.
<br><br></li>
    
<LI>(4th August 2000) Currently companies doing Samba support in
Germany are in danger of being sued for using the trademark SAMBA that
belongs to the company ORGA-Team Software- und Beratungsgesellschaft
f&uuml;r Kreditinstitute mbH. More info on this subject can be found
on <a href="http://samba.sernet.de/">samba.sernet.de</a> in German
language.
<br><br></li>

<LI>(July 2000) Another Samba book by members of the Samba team. Special
Edition, Using Samba by Richard Sharpe, Tim Potter and Jim Morris published
by MacMillan. <br><br></li>

<LI>(25th April 2000) Samba 2.0.7 has been released. This is the latest official production
release of Samba-2. Get your copy from the <A HREF="download.html">download</A>
page. Technical details on the changes in Samba 2.0.7 are available on the
<A HREF="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.0.7.html">announcements</A>
page.  The original Samba 2.0.0 Press Release may be found
<A HREF="/samba/whatsnew/samba2.0.press.html">here</A>.
<br><br></li>                                                       

<li>(13th January 2000) HP have announced <a
href="http://www.unixsolutions.hp.com/products/cifs.html">support for
Samba on HPUX</a>. We are delighted by this and have started talking
to HP about how we can work together.  
<br><br></li>

<li>(22nd December 1999) NerdGear have produced a line of <a
href="http://www.nerdgear.com//search.php?@category=11&affiliate=samba">Samba
clothing</a>! A percentage of NerdGear sales from that link will go
towards funding free Samba clothing for people who submit good <a
href="http://samba.org/samba-patches/">patches to Samba</a>.  <br><br></li>

<li>(11th November) <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/">O'Reilly</a>
have released their new book <a
href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/">Using Samba</a> under an
open content license! The book has been adopted by the Samba Team as
the "official" Samba book and we will strive to keep it up to
date. O'Reilly have sent us the full sources for the book and we will
be making it available online as soon as we can, we just need to work
out some formatting and conversion issues. We also plan to make it
directly accessible from SWAT. A huge thanks to O'Reilly for this
great step forward in the documentation of Samba!<br><br>


<LI>(28th September) <a href="http://www.sco.com">SCO</A> announced
this month that they are distributing <a
href="http://www.sco.com/skunkware/samba/">Samba for UnixWare
7</a>. They are also contributing some hardware to the Samba
Team. Thanks SCO!  
<br><br>

<LI>(21st September) <a href="http://www.veritas.com">VERITAS Software Corporation</A>
have announced in a <A HREF="http://www.veritas.com/company/pressroom/1999/pr990920-0.html">press release</A> that they'll be shipping a fully supported
Samba on Solaris as part of their "VERITAS File Server Edition"
product. This is something the Samba Team have been working on for a
while behind the scenes, and it's great to see another company
adopt Open Source in their product.
<br><br>


<LI>(10th November 1999) Samba 2.0.6 has been released. This is the latest official production
release of Samba-2. Get your copy from the <A HREF="download.html">download</A>
page. Technical details on the changes in Samba 2.0.6 are available on the
<A HREF="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.0.6.html">announcements</A>
page.  The original Samba 2.0.0 Press Release may be found
<A HREF="/samba/whatsnew/samba2.0.press.html">here</A>.
<br><br>                    

<LI>(21st July) Samba 2.0.5a has been released. This is the latest official production
release of Samba-2. Get your copy from the <A HREF="download.html">download</A>
page. Please read the "IMPORTANT NOTE" section of the release
notes as this explains three security bugfixes which have
been added in this release. It is vital that Samba admins
understand these issues. Technical details on the changes in Samba 2.0.5 are
available on the <A HREF="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.0.5a.html">announcements</A>
page.  The original Samba 2.0.0 Press Release may be found
<A HREF="/samba/whatsnew/samba2.0.press.html">here</A>.
<br><br>

<li>(1st June) <a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware Inc</a> have donated VMware
licenses to the Samba Team to help with Samba development. This makes
testing easier as any Windows config can quickly be tested against a
Samba server without setting up extra machines.<br><br>

<li>(20th April) <EM>Another Samba book by members of the Samba Team.</em><br><br>
SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours, by Jerry Carter and Richard Sharpe was published 
in the US on 20-Apr-1999. More details <a href="/samba/docs/index.html#tys">here</a>.<br><br>

<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.4.html">26th May 1999</A>: Samba 2.0.4 released.

<li>A couple of new Samba articles in the computer press have been 
published. The Strength of Teamwork: Integrating NT and Linux through Samba</a>.
<a href="http://www.interactiveweek.com">Inter@ctive Week</a> have a feature
by Charles Babcock called <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2250200,00.html">
Unix-To-NT Web Link: Samba: From UNIX to Windows and back</a>.
<a href="http://www.mcp.mag">Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine</a>
have a cover article on Samba <a href="http://www.mcpmag.com/members/99may/fea1main.asp">here</a>.
Note that this is now on a MCP magazine members only page.<br><br>

<li>Those crazy people at <a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/welcome.html">Sm@rt Reseller</a> have done
it again!  This time they benchmarked Samba on <a
href="http://www.pht.com/">Pacific HiTech Linux</a> against <a
href="http://www.novell.com/">Novell NetWare 5.0</a> on the same hardware. 

Out of the box, Samba and PHT Linux delivered <em>43% more throughput</em>
than NetWare 5.0. Read the full story <a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,398022,00.html">here</a>.

<li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/welcome.html">Sm@rt Reseller</a>
has published a review of Samba 2.0 as a followup to their earlier
story. Their verdict? <em>&quot;For basic Server Message Block file and print
serving, Samba can't be beat. No ifs, ands or buts.&quot;</em>.

Read the full story <a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,396321,00.html">here</a>.

<LI>ZD Net/PC Week has published a review of Samba on an SGI Origin 200
platform. They say &quot;The Origin/Samba combo kicked up astounding
performance numbers.&quot;. The review may be found at
<A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,394079,00.html">
<em>&quot;Samba up-tempo performer.&quot;</em></A>.

<li>A benchmarking lab within <A HREF="http://www.sun.com">Sun Microsystems</A>
has done benchmarks on Samba on a Sun E450. The statement they gave to the
Samba Team may be seen <a href="/samba/whatsnew/sunbench.html">here.</A>


<li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/welcome.html">Sm@rt Reseller</a> has
<a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html">published
a benchmark</a> comparing NT with Samba+Linux. The <a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,2196106,00.html">results</a>
show Samba way ahead. 

<LI><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/">PC Week</a> has also <a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,387766,00.html">published
a benchmark</a> of Samba on a Linux 2.2 kernel on a 4 processor <a
href="http://www.varesearch.com/">VA Research</a> server. The results show
Samba to be <em>impressive</em>. 



<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.3.html">28th Feb 1999</A>: Samba 2.0.3 released.
<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.2.html">7th Feb 1999</A>: Samba 2.0.2 released.
<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.1.html">6th Feb 1999</A>: Samba 2.0.1 released.
<li><A HREF="samba2.0.press.html">14th Jan 1999</A>: The Samba 2 Press release.
<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.0.html">14th Jan 1999</A>: Samba 2.0.0 released.

<li>
Silicon Graphics has 
<a
href="http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1998/december/samba.html">announced</a>
full support for Samba on its Origin line of servers. SGI also has a
<a href="http://www.sgi.com/software/samba/">Samba for IRIX</a> page
where you can find more info.

<li> Samba has a new <A HREF="/samba/whatsnew/domain_name.html">domain
name</A>

<li> <A HREF="/samba/whatsnew/samba-1.9.18-security.html">Security
vulnerabilities</A> have been found in Samba binary distributions in
RedHat, Caldera and PHT/TurboLinux.

<li> Samba has won an <A HREF="/samba/ntsystems.html">award</A> for best Unix
Connectivity Tool from Windows NT systems magazine.

<li>
Several members of the <A HREF="/samba/team.html">Samba Team</A>
attended the <A HREF="/samba/cifs98/">3rd annual CIFS conference and
interop</A> in SanJose. Lots of pizza was eaten and some coding was
done as well.

<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.0beta5.html">30th Dec 98</A>: Samba 2.0.0Beta5 Released
<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.0beta4.html">14th Dec 98</A>: Samba 2.0.0Beta4 Released
<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.0beta3.html">7th Dec 98</A>: Samba 2.0.0Beta3 Released
<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.0beta2.html">24th Nov 98</A>: Samba 2.0.0Beta2 Released
<li><A HREF="domain_name.html">21th Nov 98</A>: FSC donates samba.org domain
<li><A HREF="samba-1.9.18-security.html">19th Nov 98</A>: Security update for Samba 1.9.18 binaries
<li><A HREF="samba-2.0.0beta1.html">14th Nov 98</A>: Samba 2.0.0Beta1 Released
<li><A HREF="http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html">2nd Oct 98</A>: Maintenance Update for Samba for VMS 1.9.17p4 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p10.html">24th Aug 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p10 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p8.html">13th June 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p8 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p7.html">13th May 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p7 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p6.html">11th May 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p6 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p5.html">9th May 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p5 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p4.html">28th Mar 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p4 Released
<li><A HREF="/samba/docs/index.html#SambaBook">20th Feb 98</A>: New Samba book - "Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows"
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p3.html">19th Feb 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p3 Released
<li><A HREF="sambacd.html">18th Feb 98</A>: Call for Contributions to the Samba CD Distribution
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p2.html">27th Jan 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p2 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18p1.html">13th Jan 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18p1 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18-glossy.html">8th Jan 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18 glossy press release
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18.html">8th Jan 98</A>: Samba 1.9.18 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18alpha14.html">24th Dec 97</A>: New alpha release - 1.9.18alpha14
<li><A HREF="http://www.secretagent.com/interviews/tridgell.html">23rd Dec 97</A>: An Interview with Andrew Tridgell
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.17p5.html">20th Dec 97</A>: Samba 1.9.17p5 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18alpha13.html">16th Dec 97</A>: New alpha release - 1.9.18alpha13
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18alpha12.html">28th Nov 97</A>: New alpha release - 1.9.18alpha12
<li><A HREF="http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html">25th Nov 97</A>: Samba for VMS 1.9.17p4 is out!
<li><A HREF="survey/">3nd Nov 97</A>: Samba Survey back online
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18alpha11.html">2nd Nov 97</A>: New alpha release - 1.9.18alpha11
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18alpha3.html">22nd Oct 97</A>: New alpha release - 1.9.18alpha3
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.17p4.html">22nd Oct 97</A>: Samba 1.9.17p4 Released
<li><A HREF="digest/1997/97oct/0411.html">21st Oct 97</A>: NTDOM: NT domain groups, SIDs and other info required
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.18alpha1.html">20th Oct 97</A>: New alpha release - 1.9.18alpha1
<li><A HREF="samba-redhat-1.9.17p3.html">15th Oct 97</A>: Binary/Source RPM for Red Hat 4.2
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.17p3.html">14th Oct 97</A>: Samba 1.9.17p3 Released
<li><A HREF="BugReports.html">11th Oct 97</A>: Samba Bug Tracking System
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.17p2.html">26th Sep 97</A>: Samba 1.9.17p2 SECURITY BUGFIX
<li><A HREF="samba.html#Clients">21th Sep 97</A>: Linux LAN Information web link added (smbfs and more)
<li><A HREF="samba-redhat3.html">10th Sep 97</A>: RedHat Linux: Samba-1.9.17p1 RPMs Update 3
<li><A HREF="samba-redhat.html">8th Sep 97</A>: RedHat Binary Packages (1.9.17p1)
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.17p1.html">6th Sep 97</A>: Samba 1.9.17p1 Released
<li><A HREF="binaries.html">30th Aug 97</A>: Sinix 5.42 binaries available (1.9.17, thanks Kare!)
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.17.html">26th Aug 97</A>: Samba 1.9.17 Released
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.17alpha5.html">1st Aug 97</A>: Samba 1.9.17alpha5 now available
<li><A HREF="http://www.boerde.de/~horstf/">20 July 97</A>: New WWW Home for: Faxing with Samba, a solution (German/English)
<li><A HREF="samba1.9.17alpha4.html">3rd July 97</A>: Samba 1.9.17alpha4 now available
<li><A HREF="http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html">18th Apr 97</A>: Samba for VMS 1.9.16p11 is out!
</ul>


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