[ANNOUNCE] cifs-utils release 7.2

From: Steve French
Date: Thu Feb 13 2025 - 17:03:43 EST


A new update, version 7.2, of cifs-utils has been released today,
bringing various security enhancements, including support for password
rotation, and better support for credential management and namespaces
and various improvements to documentation.

Links:

webpage: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils
tarball: https://download.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
git: git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git
gitweb: http://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git;a=summary

Detailed list of changes since version 7.1 was released:

Bharath SM (1):
cifs-utils: Skip TGT check if valid service ticket is already available

Henrique Carvalho (3):
docs: update actimeo description
docs: add max_cached_dirs description
docs: add esize description

Meetakshi Setiya (4):
cifs-utils: support and document password2 mount option
use enums to check password or password2 in set_password,
get_password_from_file and minor documentation additions
Fix compiler warnings in mount.cifs
Do not pass passwords with sec=none and sec=krb5

Pavel Filipenský (1):
smbinfo: add bash completion support for filestreaminfo, keys, gettconinfo

Pavel Shilovsky (1):
cifs-utils: bump version to 7.2

Ritvik Budhiraja (2):
CIFS.upcall to accomodate new namespace mount opt
cifs-utils: add documentation for upcall_target

Steve French (2):
cifs-utils: avoid using mktemp when updating mtab
getcifsacl: fix return code check for getting full ACL

Thiago Becker (2):
cifscreds: use continue instead of break when matching commands
cifscreds: allow user to set the key's timeout

Thomas Petazzoni (2):
configure.ac: libtalloc is now mandatory
cldap_ping.c: add missing <sys/types.h> include

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Thanks,

Steve