Samba Developer Online Gathering
Samba Developer Online Gathering
Agenda - 2025-11-04
Topics
Community and Infrastructure
- FOSDEM: Samba booth for the first time
- booth: Ralph, Günther, Andreas ?
- Identity Management Devroom
- Software Defined Storage Devroom
- https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-10-31-devrooms-announced/
- Deadline 12/01
- Adopt new tool for community discussion? Eg https://www.discourse.org/
- private channel for integrators like samba-team@
- gitlab MR backlog
- open up github for MRs again?
- gitlab deprecating Docker Machine
- filter on draft status solves backlog problem?
- bugzilla
- call to triage, maybe at least the security bugs?
- cutoff time?
- Important security issues:
- something
- website redesign
- maintenance: static vs CMS
Fileserver
Development Updates and Status
- Persistent Handles / Transparent Failover
- SMB Direct
- SMB over QUIC
- SMB3 POSIX Extensions
- Performance: io_uring
- Multiprotocol
- Enterprise Readyniss of Clustering
- SMB / RGW
- merging s3 and s4 RPC services
Roadmap
- Rate limitting (IBM team)
- Performance:
- Pure POSIX Fileserver
- Paralellize Directory Listing
- Persistent Handles: Database Model
- SMB3 POSIX Extensions
- POSIX ACLs end to end
IAM
Development Updates and Status
- Kerberos Hardening
Roadmap
- MS-DFSR