Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision 3406acfb86d0147b4158822d3eecb10c2c55adf5)
+++ general.ent	(revision 60d4af1e8a3796e513001f979a92438d0a583552)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "29">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "30">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2016">
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 29th &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 30th &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 3406acfb86d0147b4158822d3eecb10c2c55adf5)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 60d4af1e8a3796e513001f979a92438d0a583552)
@@ -45,4 +45,18 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>December 30th, 2016</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to Samba-4.5.3. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8481">#8481</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to NSS-3.28. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8677">#8677</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>December 29th, 2016</para>
       <itemizedlist>
Index: networking/netprogs/samba.xml
===================================================================
--- networking/netprogs/samba.xml	(revision 3406acfb86d0147b4158822d3eecb10c2c55adf5)
+++ networking/netprogs/samba.xml	(revision 60d4af1e8a3796e513001f979a92438d0a583552)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY samba-download-http "https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-&samba-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY samba-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY samba-md5sum        "723c483d6a4ebebaa3bfd5099dcff5af">
+  <!ENTITY samba-md5sum        "6f30eed6dfbd036dfde023e03ed8b311">
   <!ENTITY samba-size          "20 MB">
-  <!ENTITY samba-buildsize     "509 MB (add 15 MB for quicktest, reputedly up to 348 MB additional for all tests)">
-  <!ENTITY samba-time          "5.6 SBU, using parallelism=4 (add 0.3 SBU for quicktest, reputedly up to 110 SBU to run all tests)">
+  <!ENTITY samba-buildsize     "509 MB (add 382 MB for quicktest, and up to 1.6 GB additional for all tests)">
+  <!ENTITY samba-time          "5.2 SBU, using parallelism=4 (add 6.0 SBU for quicktest, and up to 218 SBU to run all tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -70,4 +70,5 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
     <para role="recommended">
+      <xref linkend="gpgme"/>,
       <xref linkend="libtirpc"/>,
       <xref linkend="libxslt"/> (for documentation),
@@ -92,4 +93,7 @@
       <xref linkend="popt"/>,
       <xref linkend="python3"/>,
+      <!-- <xref linkend="python-cryptography"/>, -->
+      <!-- <xref linkend="m2crypto"/>, -->
+      <!-- <xref linkend="python-gpgme"/>, -->
       <xref linkend="talloc"/>,
       <xref linkend="vala"/>,
@@ -161,4 +165,6 @@
 <screen><userinput>sed -i "/samba3.blackbox.failure.failure/i \^samba3.raw.eas" selftest/knownfail</userinput></screen>
 -->
+
+<!-- Commented out until I figure the Python Module situation out.
     <para>To test the results, as the
     <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, issue:
@@ -168,4 +174,5 @@
     targets (test, subunit-test) available, but take a very long time
     (over 100 SBU).</para>
+-->
 
     <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision 3406acfb86d0147b4158822d3eecb10c2c55adf5)
+++ packages.ent	(revision 60d4af1e8a3796e513001f979a92438d0a583552)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 <!ENTITY mitkrb-version               "1.15">
 <!ENTITY nettle-version               "3.3">
-<!ENTITY nss-minor-version            "27">
+<!ENTITY nss-minor-version            "28">
 <!-- normal -->
-<!ENTITY nss-micro-version            "2">
+<!ENTITY nss-micro-version            "">
 <!ENTITY nss-version                  "3.&nss-minor-version;.&nss-micro-version;">
 
@@ -401,5 +401,5 @@
 <!ENTITY rpcbind-version              "0.2.4">
 <!ENTITY rsync-version                "3.1.2">
-<!ENTITY samba-version                "4.5.0">
+<!ENTITY samba-version                "4.5.3">
 <!ENTITY wget-version                 "1.18">
 <!ENTITY wireless-tools-version       "29">
Index: postlfs/filesystems/xfsprogs.xml
===================================================================
--- postlfs/filesystems/xfsprogs.xml	(revision 3406acfb86d0147b4158822d3eecb10c2c55adf5)
+++ postlfs/filesystems/xfsprogs.xml	(revision 60d4af1e8a3796e513001f979a92438d0a583552)
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
   <!ENTITY xfsprogs-download-http " ">
-  <!ENTITY xfsprogs-download-ftp  "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/xfs/xfsprogs//xfsprogs-&xfsprogs-version;.tar.xz">
+  <!ENTITY xfsprogs-download-ftp  "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/xfs/xfsprogs/xfsprogs-&xfsprogs-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY xfsprogs-md5sum        "4f047bc9a28b48a95c6db0ad5ce4dbcb">
   <!ENTITY xfsprogs-size          "1.0 MB">
Index: postlfs/security/nss.xml
===================================================================
--- postlfs/security/nss.xml	(revision 3406acfb86d0147b4158822d3eecb10c2c55adf5)
+++ postlfs/security/nss.xml	(revision 60d4af1e8a3796e513001f979a92438d0a583552)
@@ -8,16 +8,18 @@
   <!ENTITY nss-url "ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases">
 
+<!--
 <!ENTITY nss-download-http "https://&nss-url;/NSS_3_&nss-minor-version;_&nss-micro-version;_RTM/src/nss-&nss-version;.tar.gz">
+-->
 
 <!-- <!ENTITY nss-download-ftp "ftp://&nss-url;/NSS_3_&nss-minor-version;_&nss-micro-version;_RTM/src/nss-&nss-version;.tar.gz">-->
 <!ENTITY nss-download-ftp " ">
 <!-- no micro versions -->
-<!--<!ENTITY nss-download-http "https://&nss-url;/NSS_3_&nss-minor-version;_RTM/src/nss-&nss-version;.tar.gz">-->
+<!ENTITY nss-download-http "https://&nss-url;/NSS_3_&nss-minor-version;_RTM/src/nss-&nss-version;.tar.gz">
 <!--<!ENTITY nss-download-ftp "ftp://&nss-url;/NSS_3_&nss-minor-version;_RTM/src/nss-&nss-version;.tar.gz">-->
 
-  <!ENTITY nss-md5sum        "ed089d28a3c593f8ba4ac26ad9984a75">
+  <!ENTITY nss-md5sum        "566e67f05c59260564ffd06cb93e6b6f">
   <!ENTITY nss-size          "7.1 MB">
-  <!ENTITY nss-buildsize     "88 MB">
-  <!ENTITY nss-time          "1.2 SBU">
+  <!ENTITY nss-buildsize     "102 MB">
+  <!ENTITY nss-time          "1.1 SBU">
 ]>
 
