What's New in Samba?
summary
Plan to remove SMB1 entirely (goal: Samba 5) while keeping the client for legacy devices; work focuses on modernize VFS with asynchronous calls, per-thread credentials/impersonation, and pluggable NTFS semantics. Encryption moves to canoe TLS 3x faster encrypted transport; IO_URING experiment shows ~20% read gain in a loopback test. CTDB clustering gets decoupled, Active Directory scales toward 300,000 users, a tiny 140 KB SMB2 library for embedded use exists, and fuzzing/CI find long‑standing bugs.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:54What is Samba
- 3:54Milton Bradley
- 4:45Whats New
- 5:57SMB1 Removal
- 8:21VFS
- 10:40VFS modernization
- 12:55Multithreaded code
- 15:19Performance improvements
- 17:08Thread pool
- 19:04Crypto
- 25:20Active Directory
- 27:28GitLab
- 29:45SMB Updates
- 31:30Questions Comments
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