Samba Red Hat Application Release Version Major Minor Patch End-of-life EOL Support End-of-support EOS Maintenance End-of-maintenance EOM Security Long-term support LTS Vulnerabilities Common vulnerabilities & exposures CVE Security product-release-end-of-life-overview.xml free-trial.xml 📅 Last update on 2025-08-08 What is Samba?   The entire lifecycle of Samba The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Samba. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support. Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Samba (Red Hat)   The regular Samba release cycle intends a new release series: * six months fully supported, * another six months in the maintenance mode, * six months in the security fixes only mode. In total, each series is maintained for a period of approximately 18 months. **Example:** If 4.5 is the current release series, then 4.4 would be in maintenance mode and 4.3 would be in the security fixes only mode. The support of 4.2 would be stopped with the release of 4.5.0. Each series can have any number of desired minor releases. These are usually released every 6 weeks (current stable release series), resp. every 9 weeks (maintenance mode). Product Samba Vendor Red Hat Latest version 0:4.20.2-2.el9_5.1 Number of releases 14 Number of versions 34 Number of unstable versions 0 Number of versions affected by CVE 0 Licence GNU General Public License v3 Licence details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3 Product site Release info Version command Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)