Previous release announcements are archived here for historical purposes.

Only the last ten release announcements can be found below. With every new release, the oldest announcement drops off the page. This should allow for a quick glance at recent Samba activity. For a more in-depth tour of Samba's release history, notes for all stable releases are archived in the list to the left.

Security Release Announcements

As well as being included in the recent releases listed below, we maintain a seperate list of Samba Security releases resulting from the Samba Security release process.

Previous Release Announcements

17 April 2026

Samba 4.24.1 Available for Download

This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.24 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.24.0 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

09 April 2026

Samba 4.22.9 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.22 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.22.8 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

29 March 2026

Meet Samba at the 25th sambaXP

Join the Samba Team at sambaXP 2026, the 25th International User and Developer Conference, on April 20–21 in Göttingen, Germany. The conference week also includes the SNIA SMB3 Interoperability Lab EMEA on April 21–23 and, for the first time, a Himmelblau Workshop on April 22.

Register at https://sambaxp.org/

18 March 2026

Samba 4.24.0 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.24 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. See the release notes for more info.

27 February 2026

Samba 4.23.6 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.23 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.23.5 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

23 February 2026

Samba 4.24.0rc3 Available for Download

This is the third release candidate of the upcoming Samba 4.24 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. See the release notes for more info.

19 February 2026

Samba 4.22.8 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.22 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.22.7 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

06 February 2026

Samba 4.24.0rc2 Available for Download

This is the second release candidate of the upcoming Samba 4.24 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. See the release notes for more info.

23 January 2026

Samba 4.23.5 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.23 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.23.4 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

20 January 2026

Samba 4.24.0rc1 Available for Download

This is the first release candidate of the upcoming Samba 4.24 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID AA99442FB680B620). The source code can be downloaded now. See the release notes for more info.