[Samba] Upgrading SAMBA from 4.2.2 to 4.2.13

[Craig SHONE]

Hey everyone



Have a (relatively) old CentOS SAMBA4 Active Directory running version
4.2.2, time to upgrade to the latest in the 4.2 series.



As it's running as a VM on ESXI I have it backed up by VEEAM and I can take
a snapshot before making any changes.



Any major items to be aware of before upgrading to 4.2.13? Any reason I
should not perhaps be looking a bit further to the 4.4.x release series?



Many thanks!

[Craig SHONE]

Thanks Marc, as far as I can see only the strong LDAP would pertain to my install (it's very simple setup I have, one CentOS DC as a VM, one CentOS box as a file server and one firewall with VPN authentication via LDAP). Firewall does support TLS for LDAP so I'm going to give it a bash over the weekend.

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Muehlfeld [mailto:***@samba.org]
Sent: 21 June 2016 07:35 AM
To: Craig SHONE; ***@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Upgrading SAMBA from 4.2.2 to 4.2.13

Hello Craig,

Post by Craig SHONE
Have a (relatively) old CentOS SAMBA4 Active Directory running version
4.2.2, time to upgrade to the latest in the 4.2 series.
Any major items to be aware of before upgrading to 4.2.13?

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba#Other_changes_you_should_pay_attention_to.2C_when_updating

Post by Craig SHONE
Any reason I should not perhaps be looking a bit further to the 4.4.x
release series?

This depents on your environment. :-)

You should always check the release notes from the versions you plan to skip. Then you can decite if there's something that has a negative impact or requires some work.


Regards,
Marc