Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to invest in Samba improvements

Germany's <a href="https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/" rel="nofollow">Sovereign
Tech Fund</a> (STF) has agreed to https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/samba

to improve the security, stability, and functionality of https://www.samba.org/
. The investment will take
place over three years and will be managed by https://samba.plus/about-sernet
, a company that
employs several Samba core developers and offers support for
Samba. According to its https://samba.plus/blog/detail/sernet-secures-funding-for-samba-project-from-sovereign-tech-fund
,
work has already begun and is expected to complete in 2026:


The project's focus is on areas like transparent failover, SMB3 UNIX
extensions, and modern security protocols such as SMB over QUIC. These
improvements are designed to ensure that Samba remains a robust and
secure solution for organizations that rely on a sovereign IT
infrastructure that is as independent as possible of proprietary
software regimes, but including optimal interoperability.


https://lwn.net/Articles/990264/