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'''Warning: Never install a development version in production! It may contain untested features and can cause damages to your installation! Development releases are for testing purposes only!''' |
'''Warning: Never install a development version in production! It may contain untested features and can cause damages to your installation! Development releases are for testing purposes only!''' |
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„samba-master“ contains the source of the [[Samba_Release_Planning#Upcoming_Release| |
„samba-master“ contains the source of the [[Samba_Release_Planning#Upcoming_Release|upcoming release series]]. |
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To download the latest samba-master repository, run |
To download the latest samba-master repository, run |
Revision as of 22:35, 13 November 2014
Stable version (recommended)
You can download the latest version of Samba from https://www.samba.org/.
It is always recommended that you install the latest version of the current stable release. If you require to choose a previous series, always choose the last version out of the Maintainance Mode series or at least from the Security Fixes Only Mode. Older version may not contain all improvements, bug- and security fixes. Also if you require help and ask e. g. on the Samba Mailing List, you typically will be told to try a recent version, to ensure that the problem isn't fixed in the meantime.
Further information about Samba Release Plannings and Supported Release Lifetime, you can find at the Samba Release Planning page.
Development versions
samba-master
Warning: Never install a development version in production! It may contain untested features and can cause damages to your installation! Development releases are for testing purposes only!
„samba-master“ contains the source of the upcoming release series.
To download the latest samba-master repository, run
$ git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git samba-master
Development version of a specific branch
The v*-test branches contain the latest changes and patches since the last official release of that source tree.
The following example demonstrate the checkout of the latest sources of Samba 4.1, scheduled for the next 4.1.x release:
$ git clone -b v4-1-test git://git.samba.org/samba.git samba-v4-1-test
alternatively:
$ git clone -b v4-1-test http://git.samba.org/samba.git samba-v4-1-test
Updating a local git repository
If you already have downloaded a development source tree via „git“ and want to update it to the latest version, run the following command out of your corresponding git source directory:
$ git pull
If you receive the following error
fatal: Unable to create '[...]/.git/index.lock': File exists.
run
$ git clean -x -f -d
to reset your tree.