Samba 4.21 Released With LDAP TLS/SASL Channel Binding, Other Improvements

Samba 4.21 is out as the newest version of this SMB networking protocol implementation commonly used on Linux systems for file and print services interaction with Windows systems.

Samba 4.21 introduces LDAP TLS/SASL channel binding support, the LDB LDAP-like local database is now provided as an optional public library as part of the Samba package rather than as a standalone option, a new DNS hostname configuration option is introduced, Samba AD will now rotate expired passwords on SmartCard-required accounts, per-user and group "veto files" and "hide files", a new CephFS VFS module, support for Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs), support for key features of AD Domain/Forest Functional Level 2012R2, and work on more deterministic/reproducible builds.

Those interested in more details on the many changes to find with Samba 4.21 can see the release notes. Those building Samba from source can grab the new v4.21 builds on Samba.org.