Index: general.ent
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--- general.ent	(revision ee4bec2d942185e8f545c7b2818578bfa33efc73)
+++ general.ent	(revision a6e9ec15bfdb7663e22d975e8c3c0aaac7c45c8f)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "14">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "15">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "03">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2017">
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "March 14th &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "March 15th &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
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--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision ee4bec2d942185e8f545c7b2818578bfa33efc73)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision a6e9ec15bfdb7663e22d975e8c3c0aaac7c45c8f)
@@ -43,4 +43,14 @@
 -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>March 15th, 2017</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[dj] - Update to samba-4.6.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8983">#8983</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>March 14th, 2017</para>
       <itemizedlist>
Index: networking/netprogs/samba.xml
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--- networking/netprogs/samba.xml	(revision ee4bec2d942185e8f545c7b2818578bfa33efc73)
+++ networking/netprogs/samba.xml	(revision a6e9ec15bfdb7663e22d975e8c3c0aaac7c45c8f)
@@ -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        "b6d784970333387cbafdd172d914bed2">
-  <!ENTITY samba-size          "20 MB">
-  <!ENTITY samba-buildsize     "515 MB (add 364 MB for quicktest, and up to 1.6 GB additional for developer tests)">
-  <!ENTITY samba-time          "5.2 SBU, using parallelism=4 (add 6.0 SBU for quicktest, and up to 100 SBU to run developer tests)">
+  <!ENTITY samba-md5sum        "e80c4501c5290a058bbb1c759e46e012">
+  <!ENTITY samba-size          "20.1 MB">
+  <!ENTITY samba-buildsize     "568 MB (add 195 MB for quicktest, and up to 1.6 GB additional for developer tests)">
+  <!ENTITY samba-time          "7.7 SBU (add 4.3 SBU for quicktest, and up to 100 SBU to run developer tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -105,5 +105,6 @@
       <ulink url="&pypi;/m2crypto">M2Crypto</ulink> (required for ADS),
       <ulink url="http://www.openafs.org/">OpenAFS</ulink>,
-      <ulink url="&pypi;/pycrypto/">PyCrypto</ulink> (required for ADS),
+      <ulink url="&pypi;/pycrypto/">PyCrypto</ulink> (required for both ADS and
+      the test suite),
       <ulink url="&pypi;/pygpgme/">PyGPGME</ulink> (recommended for ADS),
       <ulink url="https://tevent.samba.org/">tevent</ulink> (included), and
@@ -144,4 +145,8 @@
     <title>Installation of Samba</title>
 
+    <para>Fix a test that always fails:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>echo "^samba4.rpc.echo.*on.*ncacn_np.*with.*object.*nt4_dc" >> selftest/knownfail</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Install <application>Samba</application> by running the following
     commands:</para>
@@ -578,7 +583,7 @@
 
         <seg>
-          cifsdd, dbwrap_tool, eventlogadm, gentest, ldbadd, ldbdel,
+          cifsdd, dbwrap_tool, eventlogadm, findsmb,gentest, ldbadd, ldbdel,
           ldbedit, ldbmodify, ldbrename, ldbsearch, locktest, masktest,
-          ndrdump, net, nmbd, nmblookup, ntlm_auth, oLschema2ldif,
+          mvxattr, ndrdump, net, nmbd, nmblookup, ntlm_auth, oLschema2ldif,
           pdbedit, pidl, profiles, regdiff, regpatch, regshell, regtree,
           rpcclient, samba, samba_dnsupdate, samba_kcc, samba-regedit,
@@ -656,4 +661,15 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry id="findsmb">
+        <term><command>findsmb</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>is used to list info about machines that respond to SMB name
+          queries on a subnet.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="samba findsmb">
+            <primary sortas="b-findsmb">findsmb</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
       <varlistentry id="gentest">
         <term><command>gentest</command></term>
@@ -750,4 +766,14 @@
           <indexterm zone="samba masktest">
             <primary sortas="b-masktest">masktest</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="mvxattr">
+        <term><command>mvxattr</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>is used to recursively rename extended attributes.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="samba mvxattr">
+            <primary sortas="b-mvxattr">mvxattr</primary>
           </indexterm>
         </listitem>
Index: packages.ent
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--- packages.ent	(revision ee4bec2d942185e8f545c7b2818578bfa33efc73)
+++ packages.ent	(revision a6e9ec15bfdb7663e22d975e8c3c0aaac7c45c8f)
@@ -404,5 +404,5 @@
 <!ENTITY rpcbind-version              "0.2.4">
 <!ENTITY rsync-version                "3.1.2">
-<!ENTITY samba-version                "4.5.5">
+<!ENTITY samba-version                "4.6.0">
 <!ENTITY wget-version                 "1.19.1">
 <!ENTITY wireless-tools-version       "29">
