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The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 4.0.3 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This version fixes a bug in the credentials manager that prevented home shares for which passwords had not yet been saved from being mounted.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 4.0.2 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This version fixes a regression that was introduced in Smb4K 4.0.1 where compilation would fail with Qt versions < 6.8.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 4.0.1 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This version fixes a crash that happened on exit and comes with updates translations.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here, when they are ready.

The Smb4K team is proud to announce Smb4K 4.0.0, the new major version of Smb4K. It has been ported to Qt6 and KF6 only and features a lot of improvements. Most notably, it now uses Qt Keychain for storing your passwords and has a better handling of profiles, bookmarks and custom settings. The plasmoid has also been ported, but will need some more improvements in the future.... read more

No bugs that would prevent a release surfaced recently, so I think it is time to release Smb4K 4.0. I haven't decided for an exact release date, but it will be around February 1st.

The current bug hunting pays off. In the last few weeks some bugs surfaced that needed to be fixed. To give us a bit more time for testing, the Smb4K project is proud to announce the availability of Smb4K 3.2.92, the third release candidate of the upcoming 4.0 branch. If you find bugs, please consider reporting them to either the bug tracker or to our Help forum.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the availability of Smb4K 3.2.91, the second release candidate of the upcoming 4.0 branch. If you find bugs, please consider reporting them to either the bug tracker or to our Help forum.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the availability of Smb4K 3.2.90, the (first) release candidate of the upcoming 4.0 branch. If you find bugs, please consider reporting them to either the bug tracker or to our Help forum.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the availability of Smb4K 3.2.81, the second beta version of the upcoming 4.0 branch. If you find bugs, please consider reporting them to either the bug tracker or to our Help forum.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the availability of Smb4K 3.2.80, the first beta version of the upcoming 4.0 branch. If you find bugs, please consider reporting them to either the bug tracker or to our Help forum.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the availability of Smb4K 3.2.72, the third alpha version of the upcoming 4.0 branch. If you find bugs, please consider reporting them to either the bug tracker or to our Help forum.

Please note that with this release the way how and where Smb4K stores the login credentials changed. By using QtKeychain, it is now possible to also use GNOME Keyring, KeePassXC or other password managers. On the first start, the login credentials will be migrated to the new format and the active secure storage (password manager). This change is impomatible to earlier versions of Smb4K.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the availability of Smb4K 3.2.71, the second alpha version of the upcoming 4.0 branch. If you find bugs, please consider reporting them to either the bug tracker or to our Help forum.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.... read more

This week I decided to make Smb4K 4.0 a Qt6 / KF6 only application, so that I do not have to maintain code for two major versions of the Qt library. However, I also decided to start working on the 3.2 branch again, after the remaining big things in the development branch are done (updating the handbook, thorough testing, etc.). So, I guess there will be at least a version 3.2.6 in the near future,

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the availability of Smb4K 3.2.70, the alpha version of the upcoming 4.0 branch. Although it will take some time until the final release is made, the code is already quite stable. However, some bugs might still be there. If you want to help ironing them out, please consider reporting them either to the bug tracker or to our Help forum.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2.5 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This release comes with the bookmark menu backported from the master branch and updated translations.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here.

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2.4 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This release fixes three bugs and brings updated translations.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here.

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2.3 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This release fixes two bugs and brings updated the translations.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here.

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2.2 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This release fixes a crash in the bookmarks menu and a malfunction in the custom options manager. Also, the translations were updated.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.... read more

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2.1 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This release lowers the required KF5 version to 5.78 and fixes the compilation under older KF5 versions.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here.

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This release contains many improvements such as

• Support for SMB3 filesystem under Linux
• Ability to define custom settings also from the shares view
• Improved config dialog
• Default support for the CIFS Unix extensions
• Ability to adjust icon sizes in the network neighborhood browser and the shares view
• New synchronization options
• Improved bookmark menu
• Allow more advanced options to be passed to mount.cifs
• Many other improvements and bug fixes... read more

The release candidate of the upcoming Smb4K 3.2 branch is available. If everything works out well, we will release the final version in the near future. Smb4K 3.1.90 comes with several more improvements, an up-to-date handbook and updated translations.

If you find any bugs, please either report them here in our General Discussion forum or to our bug tracker.... read more

The fourth beta release of the upcoming Smb4K 3.2 branch is available. Smb4K 3.1.84 comes with several more improvements and an further updated handbook.

If you find any bugs, please either report them here in our General Discussion forum or to our bug tracker.

For those who would like to try this release, it can be downloaded from our download section.

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 3.1.7 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This release contains three bug fixes and updates to the translations.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here.

The third beta release of the upcoming Smb4K 3.2 branch is available. Smb4K 3.1.83 comes with several more improvements and an further updated handbook.

If you find any bugs, please either report them here in our General Discussion forum or to our bug tracker.

For those who would like to try this release, it can be downloaded from our download section.

The second beta release of the upcoming Smb4K 3.2 branch is available. Smb4K 3.1.82 comes with several more improvements and an further updated handbook.

If you find any bugs, please either report them here in our General Discussion forum or to our bug tracker.

For those who would like to try this release, it can be downloaded from our download section.