It would be nice to get Samba 4.2 in Wily (4.1 in Maintenance mode for 6 more months. EOL by 10/2016)

[satmandu]

As per the Samba web site:

14 July 2015
Samba 4.2.3 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.2 series.

23 June 2015
Samba 4.1.19 Available for Download

This is the last stable release of the Samba 4.1 series.

[satmandu (satadru-umich)]

In clarification:

Samba 4.1 is in maintenance mode. After 9 months it goes to security fixes only mode. After which it goes EOL.

That is expected around September/October 2016 as per https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Release_Planning

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[msaxl (saxl)]

debian now has samba 4.2.1 in experimental. This should be a good starting point

I've used samba 4.1 and now I am on 4.2 on arch (used as ad-server). 4.2 to me seems to be more stable (winbindd simply works better than the now obsolete "source4" winbind; even on winbindd they made some improvements), so I would be happy to see 4.2 in 5.10

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Wily is in feature freeze now so this change seems unlikely unless someone can acquire an exception from the release team and drive this forward.

[satmandu (satadru-umich)]

I have a workaround in place myself... so I'd be ok with the debian 4.2.x trickling down to Ubuntu post Wily.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has samba 4.3