CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

1.14.0 - TBD

• Dropped support for Python 3.7
• SMBDirEntryInformation.last_write_time is now annotated as datetime.datetime. Previously, it was datetime.date. #279

1.13.0 - 2024-03-21

• Added the property smb_info on SMBDirEntry which returns a named tuple SMBDirEntryInformation containing metadata already retrieved in the scandir operation.
  • This avoid having to call stat() to retrieve data like the file attributes or datetime fields that is already available
• Ensure DateTimeField values are set to UTC timezones as FILETIME values are in UTC
• Stop using datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() as it has been deprecated
• Added default timeout for disconnect operations for 60 seconds to ensure the process doesn't hang forever when closing a broken connection
• smbprotocol.connection.Connection.disconnect() now waits (with a timeout) for the message processing threads to be stopped before returning.
• Do not set the SMB SessionId and TreeId in the headers to 0xFFFFFFFF for related compound requests

• Ensures the source file for shutil.copyfile is opened with share_access="r" for better compatibility with files already opened by something else
• Remove endless authentication loop when the context is complete and no more input messages are needed

1.12.0 - 2023-11-09

• Added the DiskFull error and message for the NTSTATUS code 0xC000007F - #245

1.11.0 - 2023-09-06

• Fix up pre authenticated session id lookups that were failing with Linux ksmbd
• Removes logging.NullHandler() being set in the root smbprotocol namespace
• Adds basic support for remote to local and vice versa file operations with smbclient.shutil.copytree
• Fixes DFS infinite recursion error when dealing with a file that does not exist on a DFS namespace

1.10.1 - 2022-11-14

• Raise the original BadNetworkName error if the server doesn't indicate it supports DFS or FSDriverRequired was raised trying to lookup the DFS information - #196
• Fix pre auth session id tracking if the intermediate token messages return 0 as the session id

1.10.0 - 2022-11-07

• Require Python 3.7 or newer (dropped 3.6)
• Created PEP 517 compliant package
• Moved all setuptools configuration, except extension information, to pyproject.toml
• Migrated project layout to a src based structure rather than including it in the project root
• Allow smbclient.copyfile to copy files on the same server and not just the same share
• Improve DFS opens by setting the DFS operation header flag when opening a file on a share marked as a DFS share
• Fix negotiate request padding when using a hostname with a length of 8 characters

1.9.0 - 2022-02-01

• Fix connection cache reuse for some DFS referral requests
• Add smbclient.path to the smbclient import allowing import smbclient; smbclient.path.func()

1.8.3 - 2021-11-19

• Set additional_information field in SMB2SetInfoRequest to a flags field rather than a single enum as per protocol docs

1.8.2 - 2021-11-03

• Add missing FileAttributes enum values
• Set messages with FileAttributes to be non-strict allowing unknown values in the future to be parsed without an error

1.8.1 - 2021-10-27

• Raises ObjectPathNotFound if a DFS referral is required but not referrals are available (#149)

1.8.0 - 2021-10-21

• Added support for 256bit keyed encryption ciphers
• Added support for signing with AES GCM
• Now sends the SMB2_NETNAME_NEGOTIATE_CONTEXT_ID with the negotiate request
• Adds the Python requirement of pykrb5 for Kerberos support on non-Windows
• Fix unpacking security descriptor ACEs with extra data on the end - #143
• Set index_number in FileInternalInformation to be an unsigned integer to match the other structures
• Clear out expired DFS referrals to avoid memory leaks and stale DFS information - #136

1.7.0 - 2021-09-22

• Improve connection health checks to reduce the occurances of an infinite deadlock
• Added more exception error classes
• Added create_action to the Open object that describes how the file was opened
• Added follow_symlinks option to SMBDirEntry.from_path to control whether the entry is based on the path or the link target (if there is one)

1.6.2 - 2021-08-16

• Fix up cached credential logic when setting domain_controller in the initial config singleton

1.6.1 - 2021-07-29

• Remove print() statement that was used during testing

1.6.0 - 2021-07-28

• Dropped support for Python 2.7 and 3.5
• Add performance improvement on reads with large files
• Added the require_signing kwarg to smbclient.register_session() to allow the caller to control whether signing is required on the connection or not
• Fix OverflowError when handling FILETIME values beyond the year 9999 - caps the value to 9999-12-31 due to a Python limitation
• Fix up credit charge calculation which causes a STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER response for certain read/write lengths
• Ensure responses with a failure are cleaned up from the outstanding request table to avoid memory leaks

1.5.1 - 2021-05-08

• Unified DFS path handling when using any API that uses a transaction to open the file
  • This includes smbclient.rename and smbclient.replace
• Fixed up smbclient.rename to work with directories
• smbclient.scandir will continue to use the connection cache when getting stat information of a dir entry
• smbclient.shutil.rmtree will continue to use the connection cache when removing child entries

1.5.0 - 2021-03-25

• Added smbprotocol.exceptions.SMBConnectionClosed that is raised when trying to send or receive data on a connection that has been closed
• Added smbprotocol.exceptions.WrongPassword that is raised when some servers indicate the password is not correct or the account is locked out
• Do not attempt to reuse any cached connections that have been closed in smbclient
• Added a lock when writing to the socket, only 1 thread can write a message at a single point in time
• Revamped the SMB receiver code to simplify the logic and make it more durable
  • Removed the TCP recv thread for each connection, now each connection uses just 1 thread instead of 2
  • Be more defensive when reading data from a socket to ensure we get all the data we require
  • Handled server side FIN packets that close the connection unexpectedly, any requests waiting for a response will raise SMBConnectionClosed

1.4.0 - 2021-02-02

• Fixed up secure negotiation logic when connecting to older SMB dialects
• Will attempt to perform secure negotiation even on older dialects that may not implement it properly
• Added ClientConfig option require_secure_negotiate to globally turn off secure negotiation if the client wishes
• Fix explicit ntlm or kerberos authentication when the server response with the initial SPNEGO mech list token

1.3.0 - 2021-01-23

• Changed initial credit request from 256 to 64 when creating the SMB session
  • This is done to avoid overloading the SMB server
  • If smbclient requires more credits to perform an operation it will request it automatically
• Improve credit handling when reading and writing large amounts of data to reduce the number of requests being made
• Fixed up write() in smbclient.open_file() to be able to write bytes greater than the max_write_size
• Fixed issue when receiving an unknown NtStatus error code from the server
• Added PipeBusy exception for STATUS_PIPE_NOT_AVAILABLE 0xC00000AD error responses
• Fix credit granting calculation when receiving a compound response
  • Original logic granted len(responses) - 1 credits than what the server actually given causing errors when the client ran out of credits without it knowing
• Added auth_protocol to Session, ClientConfig, and register_session() to control what authentication protocol is used
  • This can be negotiate (default), kerberos, or ntlm where negotiate selects kerberos or ntlm depending on what's available

1.2.0 - 2020-09-22

• Added experimental support for DFS shares when using smbclient function
• Added smbclient.ClientConfig() to set global default options on new connections
• Moved the SMB Header structures to smbprotocol.header
• Added null_terminated option for a TextField value
• Fix broken pipe errors that occur on long running connections by sending a echo request for each connection session every 10 minutes

1.1.0 - 2020-08-14

• Speed up logging statements for large messages like a read and write message
• Changed authentication dep to pyspnego that handles all the authentication work
• Fixed up authentication against hosts that don't present the initial GSSAPI token like Azure File Storage
• Added specific exception types for every NtStatus value to make it easier to catch only specific exceptions
• Added the following exceptions to the list of known exception codes
  • STATUS_NETWORK_NAME_DELETED
  • STATUS_NOT_FOUND
  • STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED
  • STATUS_DFS_UNAVAILABLE
  • STATUS_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE
• Fix session key generation when creating a new session from an existing connection object

1.0.1 - 2019-12-12

• Fix issue when reading a large file that exceeds 65KB and raises STATUS_END_OF_FILE.
• Fix issue where listdir, scandir, walk would only enumerate a subset of entries in a directories with lots of sub files/folders

1.0.0 - 2019-11-30

• Dropped support for Python 2.6 and Python 3.4
• Added the smbclient package that provides a higher level API for interactive with SMB servers
• Deprecated smbprotocol.query_info in favour of smbprotocol.file_info, query_info will be removed in the next major release
• Add automatic symlink resolver when a symlink is in the path being opened
• Fix issue when trying to connect to host with IPv6 address
• Fix response parsing for SMB2 Create Response Lease V1 and V2
• Added the ability to set the Oplock level when opening a file
• Revamped the socket listener and message processor to run in a separate thread for faster message resolving
• Added the FileSystemWatcher in change_notify.py to provider a way to watch for changes on the SMB filesystem
• Added the .cancel() method onto a Request to cancel an SMB request on the server

0.2.0 - 2019-09-19

• Fix issue where timeout was not being applied to the new connection
• Fix various deprecated regex escape patterns
• Added support for Windows Kerberos and implicit credential support through the optional extra library pywin32
• Simplified the fallback NTLM context object

0.1.1 - 2018-09-14

• Fix initial negotiate message not setting connection timeout value
• Fix endless loop when running a compound message that failed

0.1.0 - 2018-03-07

Initial release of smbprotocol, it contains the following features

• Support for Dialect 2.0.2 to 3.1.1
• Supports message encryption and signing
• Works with both NTLM and Kerberos auth (latter requiring a non-windows library)
• Open files, directories and pipes
• Open command with create_contexts to set extra attributes on an open
• Read/Write the files
• Send IOCTL commands
• Sending of multiple messages in one packet (compounding)