WHATSNEW: Add release notes for Samba 4.9.7.

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

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                    =============================
+                   Release Notes for Samba 4.9.7
+                            May 1, 2019
+                   =============================
+
+
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.9 release series.
+
+
+Changes since 4.9.6:
+--------------------
+
+o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
+   * BUG 13837: py/kcc_utils: py2.6 compatibility.
+   * BUG 13882: py/provision: Fix for Python 2.6.
+
+o  Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
+   * BUG 13840: regfio: Update code near recent changes to match README.Coding.
+
+o  Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+   * BUG 13861: 'net ads join' to child domain fails when using
+     "-U admin@forestroot".
+
+o  David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>
+   * BUG 13858: vfs_snapper: Drop unneeded fstat handler.
+   * BUG 13896: vfs_ceph: Explicitly enable libcephfs POSIX ACL support.
+
+o  Philipp Gesang <philipp.gesang@intra2net.com>
+   * BUG 13869: libcli: Permit larger values of DataLength in
+     SMB2_ENCRYPTION_CAPABILITIES of negotiate response.
+
+o  Michael Hanselmann <public@hansmi.ch>
+   * BUG 13840: regfio: Improve handling of malformed registry hive files.
+
+o  Amitay Isaacs <amitay@samba.org>
+   * BUG 13895: ctdb-common: Avoid race between fd and signal events.
+
+o  Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+   * BUG 13813: Fix idmap cache pollution with S-1-22- IDs on winbind hickup.
+
+o  Marcos Mello <marcosfrm@gmail.com>
+   * BUG 11568: Send status to systemd on daemon start.
+
+o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+   * BUG 10097: s3:smbd: Handle IO_REPARSE_TAG_DFS in
+     SMB_FIND_FILE_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFO.
+   * BUG 10344: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING completely on tdis.
+   * BUG 12844: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for tree connect.
+   * BUG 12845: smb2_sesssetup: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for session
+     setup.
+   * BUG 13698: smb2_tcon: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for tree connect.
+   * BUG 13796: smb2_sesssetup: Avoid STATUS_PENDING responses for session
+     setup.
+   * BUG 13816: dbcheck in the middle of the tombstone garbage collection causes
+     replication failures.
+   * BUG 13818: ndr_spoolss_buf: Fix out of scope use of stack variable in
+     NDR_SPOOLSS_PUSH_ENUM_OUT().
+   * BUG 13862: vfs_default: Fix vfswrap_offload_write_send()
+     NT_STATUS_INVALID_VIEW_SIZE check.
+   * BUG 13863: smb2_server: Grant all 8192 credits to clients.
+
+o  Noel Power <noel.power@suse.com>
+   * python/samba: extra ndr_unpack needs bytes function
+
+o  Anoop C S <anoopcs@redhat.com>
+   * BUG 13872: s3/vfs_glusterfs[_fuse]: Dynamically determine NAME_MAX.
+
+o  Christof Schmitt <cs@samba.org>
+   * passdb: Update ABI to 0.27.2.
+   * BUG 13813: lib/winbind_util: Add winbind_xid_to_sid for --without-winbind.
+   * BUG 13865: memcache: Increase size of default memcache to 512k.
+
+o  Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
+   * BUG 13823: lib:util: Move debug message for mkdir failing to log level 1.
+   * BUG 13832: Printing via smbspool backend with Kerberos auth fails.
+   * BUG 13847: s4:librpc: Fix installation of Samba.
+   * BUG 13848: s3:lib: Fix the debug message for adding cache entries.
+   * BUG 13853: s3:waf: Fix the detection of makdev() macro on Linux.
+   * BUG 13857: docs: Update smbclient manpage for --max-protocol.
+   * BUG 13861: 'net ads join' to child domain fails when using
+     "-U admin@forestroot".
+
+o  Zhu Shangzhong <zhu.shangzhong@zte.com.cn>
+   * BUG 13839: ctdb: Initialize addr struct to zero before reparsing as IPV4.
+
+o  Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
+   * BUG 13838: ctdb package should not own system library directory.
+   * BUG 13860: CTDB restarts failed NFS RPC services by hand, which is
+     incompatible with systemd.
+   * BUG 13888: ctdb-daemon: Revert "We can not assume that just because we
+     could complete a TCP handshake".
+
+
+#######################################
+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 4.9.6
                            April 8, 2019
                    =============================
@@ -57,8 +173,8 @@ database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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-Release notes for older releases follow:
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 
                    =============================
                    Release Notes for Samba 4.9.5