Samba 4.24.2 Available for Download

Samba 4.24.2 (gzipped)
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                   Release Notes for Samba 4.24.2
                            May 12, 2026
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.24 release series.


Changes since 4.24.1
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o  Vinit Agnihotri <vagnihot@redhat.com>
   * BUG 16038: Samba 4.24 with cups can't get queue and shows errors about
     fetch_share_cache_time

o  Thales Antunes de Oliveira Barretto <thales.barretto.git@gmail.com>
   * BUG 16043: Fix a directory file descriptor leak in vfs_glusterfs that
     caused      unbounded memory growth on the GlusterFS brick with
     persistent SMB2      connections.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
   * BUG 16030: Windows Offline Files fails with permission error when directory
     has the read‑only attribute set

o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipensky@samba.org>
   * BUG 15991: samba not triggering mount of zfs snapshot in dataset
     .zfs/snapshots/<snapname> directory
   * BUG 15999: net ads join still fails with multiple DCs

o  Björn Jacke <bjacke@samba.org>
   * BUG 16076: samba-tool shows wrong format specifiers for timestamp
     attributes

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
   * BUG 14638: restrict anonymous = 2 breaks RODC functionality
   * BUG 15973: smbpasswd can crash winbindd on an AD DC
   * BUG 15995: smbd does not cleanup on disconnect of the transport connection
     on lease break errors
   * BUG 16059: CVE-2026-40170: thirdparty ngtcp2 needs to be updated
   * BUG 16067: Require NTLMv2 session security on Windows makes trusts to Samba
     unusable
   * BUG 16073: Winbind can change Ownership Of / To A User Who has Homedir / In
     passwd

o  Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
   * BUG 15987: Winbind lsa_OpenPolicy() fails on lsa connection setup with:
     NT_STATUS_RPC_CANNOT_SUPPORT

o  Shachar Sharon <ssharon@redhat.com>
   * BUG 16068: CTDB read-only record handling contains use after free and
     resource leak bugs