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2023-10-02	- 4.7.12 -> 4.19.0
		- Updated Slackware versions list removing 13.37 and
		  adding 15.0
		- Corrected link to iconv HOWTO -> libiconv
		- Changed Gluster link to use https
2019-01-07	- 3.2.13 -> 4.7.12
		- Updated Slackware versions list for 13.37, 14.0, .1, .2,
		  removed older
		- Added note about cifs-utils
		- Home page URL http to https
		- Added link to Git repository
		- md5sum, sha1sum -> sha256sum
		- Added a bunch of prerequisite links, removed some
		- Added a note about testparm and libtalloc
2009-08-02	- 3.0.24 -> 3.2.13
		  Includes fixes for CVE-2009-1886 and CVE-2009-1888
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2,
		  removed older than 11.0
		- Removed use of --with-smbmount; --with-cifsmount is
		  the modern version of that and is a default
		- Replaced englanders.cc URLs with .us
		- Changed the MANPATH bits from /usr/local/samba/man (which
		  does not exist) to /usr/local/samba/share/man
		- Update ld.so.conf before running testparm because
		  of newly installed libraries that it uses in
		  /usr/local/samba/lib
		- Removed "read bmpx" from the sample configuration file
Mar 15, 2007	- 3.0.23d -> 3.0.24
		  Includes fixes for these:
		  CVE-2007-0452
		  CVE-2007-0453
		  CVE-2007-0454
		- Added link to GnuTLS howto
		- Fixed path of LDAP schema file
Feb 3, 2007	- 3.0.23c -> 3.0.23d
		- Updated Slackware note for 11.0
		- Removed gawk link, at the top now
		- Also backup /etc/samba/smb.conf if it exists,
		  if it and /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf both exist,
		  keep the latter one
Sep 15, 2006	- 3.0.23b -> 3.0.23c
		- Add smbspool -> smb symlink for CUPS
Aug 9, 2006	- 3.0.23a -> 3.0.23b
Aug 2, 2006	- 3.0.23 -> 3.0.23a
		- Added creation of mount/umount symlinks for
		  smbfs and cifs
Jul 17, 2006	- 3.0.22 -> 3.0.23
Apr 26, 2006	- Moved ldconfig part to before we exit su
Apr 25, 2006	- 3.0.21c -> 3.0.22
Mar 9, 2006	- Added section for updating ld.so.conf
Mar 6, 2006	- 3.0.20b -> 3.0.21c
Nov 3, 2005	- 3.0.20 -> 3.0.20b
		- Updated Slack note for 10.2
Sep 9, 2005	- 3.0.14a -> 3.0.20
Jun 8, 2005	- 3.0.13 -> 3.0.14a
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Only run chown root:root if $UID = 0
		- Rearrange options to shut up the new version of find
Mar 24, 2005	- 3.0.11 -> 3.0.13
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- root.root -> root:root
		- Changed md5sum and sha1sum verification to output OK (or
		  not)
Feb 18, 2005	- 3.0.10 -> 3.0.11
Dec 22, 2004	- 3.0.7 -> 3.0.10
		  <a href="http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2004-1154.html">http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2004-1154.html</a>
Sep 16, 2004	- 3.0.5 -> 3.0.7
		  <a href="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0807">CAN-2004-0807</a>
		  <a href="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0808">CAN-2004-0808</a>
		- Updated note that says which version comes with which
		  version of Slackware to include Slackware 10.0
		- Add /usr/local/samba/bin to your current shell's PATH,
		  add /usr/local/samba/man to your current shell's MANPATH,
		  and run makewhatis
		- Removed broken link to LDAP related docs
Aug 10, 2004	- 3.0.4 -> 3.0.5
		  <a href="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0600">http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0600</a>
		  <a href="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0686">http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0686</a>
May 27, 2004	- Added a note about setting up a fax printer
May 9, 2004	- 3.0.3 -> 3.0.4
		- If there's an existing /etc/rc.d/rc.samba, back it up as
		  rc.samba.old before replacing it
		- Updated the rc.samba script to run samba installed into
		  prefix /usr too and to use killall -9 also just in case
		  smbd and nmbd survive a regular kill (which would mean
		  that they're hosed)
		- Updated the part that cleans up .old files and files that
		  aren't used in the latest version any more, to clean up
		  sbin/*.old too
		- Added verification of tarball with sha1sum
May 8, 2004	- 3.0.2a -> 3.0.3
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
		- Changed the md5sum -> textutils link to point to coreutils
Apr 7, 2004	- Added notes about cleaning up old files from samba 2.x
Feb 17, 2004	- 3.0.2 -> 3.0.2a
Feb 12, 2004	- 3.0.1 -> 3.0.2
		  Fixes CVE candidate <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0082">CAN-2004-0082</a>
		  See <a href="http://us3.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.2.html">the release notes</a> for more info
Dec 19, 2003	- 3.0.0 -> 3.0.1
		- Removed notes I forgot to remove in the last update
Dec 11, 2003	- 2.2.8a -> 3.0.0
		- Added prerequisites
		- Removed --with-libsmbclient, it's turned on by default now
		- Removed --with-ssl, it doesn't exist any more
		- Removed --with-ldapsam, but added a commented out note
		- Added --with-smbmount and --with-syslog
Oct 1, 2003	- Added --with-libsmbclient to configure, gnome-vfs-extras
		  needs it
Jul 25, 2003	- Fixed build of non-ldapified Samba
		- Added 'removepkg samba'
		- A few misc modernizations
		- Added a blurb to add the bin dir to PATH and the man dir
		  to MANPATH
		- Updated notes about rc.samba
Apr 7, 2003	- 2.2.8 -> 2.2.8a
		  Security fix.  For more information, go here:
		  <a href="http://www.digitaldefense.net/labs/advisories/DDI-1013.txt">http://www.digitaldefense.net/labs/advisories/DDI-1013.txt</a>
		  and here:
		  <a href="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0201">http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0201</a>
Apr 2, 2003	- 2.2.7a -> 2.2.8
		  See here:
		  <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.8.html">http://www.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.8.html</a>
		  for more information about the security fix
		- Changed download address from us1.samba.org to
		  download.samba.org
		- Seperated and updated gpg verification
		- Set to re-use existing tarball for re-installation
		- I couldn't built 2.2.8 without OpenSSL (even though I
		  never told it to use it), low on time to figure out why
		  it's using it now, so I'll just make it work instead of
		  finding out why <g>:
		  - Added openssl as a prerequisite
		  - Added --with-ssl to configure
		  - Added use of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS (--with-ssllib and
		    --with-sslinc didn't help any)
		  Anyway, I think it's because I have CUPS installed, but
		  I'm not sure...
Dec 18, 2002	- 2.2.7 -> 2.2.7a
		- Updated removal of old source dirs
		- Only try to back up smb.conf if it exists (and only try to
		  create the backup dir if smb.conf exists)
		- Updated to use the pgp key for the uncompressed tarball
Nov 21, 2002	- 2.2.6 -> 2.2.7 (big time securify fix)
		- Added home page link
		- Added copy of samba.schema to openldap's schema directory
Oct 28, 2002	- 2.2.5 -> 2.2.6
		- Removed md5sum verification, added gpg
		- Improved previous version removal
Aug 31, 2002	- Samba can no longer be downloaded by ftp from samba.org
		  due to bandwidth usage, changed to a http URL
		- Added md5sum check

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