Attachment 15807 Details for Bug 14286 – suggested WHATSNEW text

[patch] suggested WHATSNEW text

0001-WHATSNEW-Add-zlib-and-fuzzing-notes.patch (text/plain), 1.54 KB, created by Andrew Bartlett on 2020-02-20 23:25:49 UTC

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>From eb32395af01ee6d389590dce48329d730da645c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
>Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:24:02 +1300
>Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Add zlib and fuzzing notes
>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
>---
> WHATSNEW.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
>index ab161cbe811..0c370ff4bda 100644
>--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
>+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
>@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ A future Samba version will mitigate this to some extent where good
> cryptography effectively wraps bad cryptography, but for now that above
> applies.
> 
>+zlib library is now required to build Samba
>+-------------------------------------------
>+
>+Samba no longer includes a local copy of zlib in our source tarball.
>+By removing this we do not need to ship (even where we did not
>+build) the old, broken zip encryption code found there.
> 
> "net ads kerberos pac save" and "net eventlog export"
> -----------------------------------------------------
>@@ -65,6 +71,17 @@ The "net ads kerberos pac save" and "net eventlog export" tools will
> no longer silently overwrite an existing file during data export.  If
> the filename given exits, an error will be shown.
> 
>+Fuzzing
>+-------
>+
>+A large number of fuzz targets have been added to Samba, and Samba has
>+been registered in Google's oss-fuzz cloud fuzzing service.  In
>+particular, we now have good fuzzing coverage of our generated NDR
>+parsing code.
>+
>+A large number of issues have been found and fixed thanks to this
>+effort.
>+
> VFS
> ===
> 
>-- 
>2.17.1
>

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