Version History
Note: *** All users of versions 3.6.3 and previous releases should look to upgrading due to a serious issues with alert CVE-2012-1182 (Contributors please provide updates, literally millions of Samba hardware devices implemented in the last decade could be rendered obsolete) ***
Version 3.0.0, released on 23 September 2003, was a major upgrade. Samba gained the ability to join Active Directory as a member, though not as a domain controller. Subsequent point-releases to 3.0 have added minor new features. Currently, the latest release in this series is 3.0.37, released 1 October 2009, and shipped on a voluntary basis. The 3.0.x series officially reached end-of-life on 5 August 2009.
Version 3.1 was used only for development.
With version 3.2, the project decided to move to time-based releases. New major releases, such as 3.3, 3.4, etc. will appear every 6 months. New features will only be added when a major release is done, point-releases will be only for bug fixes. Also, 3.2 marked a change of license from GPL2 to GPL3, with some parts released under LGPL3. The main technical change in version 3.2 was to autogenerate much of the DCE/RPC-code that used to be handcrafted. Version 3.2.0 was released on 1 July 2008. It will be updated on an as-needed basis for security issues only and its current release is 3.2.15 from 1 October 2009. The 3.2.x series officially reached end-of-life on 1 March 2010.
Version 3.3.0 was released 27 January 2009 and is now at version 3.3.16 in this branch.
Version 3.4.0 was released 3 July 2009. This was the first release to include both Samba 3 and Samba 4 source code.
Version 3.4.14 was released 26 July 2011. It is the latest stable release of the Samba 3.4 series.
Version 3.5.0 was released 1 March 2010. This was the first release to include experimental support for SMB2.
Version 3.5.11 was released on 4 August 2011. It is the latest stable release of the Samba 3.5 series.
Version 3.6.0 was released on 9 August 2011. This is the first branch which includes full support for SMB2.
Version 4.0 is a major rewrite that enables Samba to be an Active Directory domain controller, participating fully in a Windows Active Directory Domain. After three years of development, the first technical preview (4.0.0TP1) was released in January 2006. Subsequently, new previews and then alphas have followed regularly. Release Candidate 5 (rc5) was released on November 13th, 2012 .
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