WHATSNEW: Add release notes for Samba 4.9.6.

CVE-2019-3870 (World writable files in Samba AD DC private/ dir)
CVE-2019-3880 (Save registry file outside share as unprivileged user)

Signed-off-by: Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>

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                    =============================
+                   Release Notes for Samba 4.9.6
+                           April 8, 2019
+                   =============================
+
+
+This is a security release in order to address the following defects:
+
+o  CVE-2019-3870 (World writable files in Samba AD DC private/ dir)
+o  CVE-2019-3880 (Save registry file outside share as unprivileged user)
+
+
+=======
+Details
+=======
+
+o  CVE-2019-3870:
+   During the provision of a new Active Directory DC, some files in the private/
+   directory are created world-writable.
+
+o  CVE-2019-3880:
+   Authenticated users with write permission can trigger a symlink traversal to
+   write or detect files outside the Samba share.
+
+For more details and workarounds, please refer to the security advisories.
+
+
+Changes since 4.9.5:
+--------------------
+
+o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
+   * BUG 13834: CVE-2019-3870: pysmbd: Ensure a zero umask is set for
+     smbd.mkdir().
+
+o  Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+   * BUG 13851: CVE-2018-14629: rpc: winreg: Remove implementations of
+     SaveKey/RestoreKey.
+
+
+#######################################
+Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
+#######################################
+
+Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
+joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
+
+If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
+feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
+the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
+be filed under the "Samba 4.1 and newer" product in the project's Bugzilla
+database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
+
+
+======================================================================
+== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
+== The Samba Team
+======================================================================
+
+
+Release notes for older releases follow:
+----------------------------------------
+
+                   =============================
                    Release Notes for Samba 4.9.5
                            March 12, 2019
                    =============================
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-Release notes for older releases follow:
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 
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                    Release Notes for Samba 4.9.4