Samba 4.24.6 Available for Download

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                   Release Notes for Samba 4.24.6
                          August 13, 2026
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This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.24 release series.


Changes since 4.24.5
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o  Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
   * BUG 15978: leases torture test flappy (marked flappy)
   * BUG 16065: Memory leak in DRS when replication fails

o  Matthias Grandl <matthias.grandl@croit.io>
   * BUG 16176: vfs_ceph_snapshots: smbd panics on snapshot access for a share
     mounted at the CephFS root ("/")

o  Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
   * BUG 16191: race condition in pthreadpool when forking

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
   * BUG 16065: Memory leak in DRS when replication fails
   * BUG 16077: witness test flappy needs to be fixed
   * BUG 16093: temporary read of unrelated or non-existing memory in s3 dfs
     server
   * BUG 16094: source4/dsdb/samdb/cracknames.c doesn't use
     ldb_binary_encode_string() consistently
   * BUG 16153: dsgetdcname() may not detect an active directory domain if the
     netbios domain name is given and nmbd nor the nbt service is
     available
   * BUG 16199: ndr_{push,pull,print}_{timeval,timespec} encode/decode the value
     twice

o  Anoop C S <anoopcs@samba.org>
   * BUG 16186: vfs_ceph_new: smbd crashes when mixing proxy and non-proxy
     CephFS shares

o  Martin Schwenke <mschwenke@ddn.com>
   * BUG 15994: CTDB doesn't send tickle ACKs when taking over a released IP
   * BUG 16152: CTDB can run nested elections, in rare circumstances