Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to invest in Samba improvements

Germany's Sovereign
Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €688,800
to improve the security, stability, and functionality of Samba. The investment will take
place over three years and will be managed by SerNet, a company that
employs several Samba core developers and offers support for
Samba. According to its announcement,
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.