{"id":651703,"date":"2026-08-23T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/651703\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:10:14","slug":"longtime-linux-cifs-smb3-maintainer-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/651703\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Linux CIFS\/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThere is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) \/ SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons.<\/p>\n

Longtime Linux CIFS\/SMB2\/SMB3 developer and Samba team member is sadly stepping away from his kernel maintainer role due to unspecified health reasons. Steve French was a longtime IBM engineer while since 2018 is employed by Microsoft working on Azure Storage and continued there as the upstream maintainer of the CIFS kernel code as well as KSMBD<\/a> more recently as that newer in-kernel SMB server implementation. French has been contributing to the Linux kernel since 2002 when upstreaming began on the CIFS VFS client.
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With the now merged patch<\/a>, Steve French has stepped down as maintainer with Paulo Alcantara and Namjae Jeon stepping in as the new co-maintainers for CIFS\/SMB3.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> As an unfortunate update to the original story, it’s now been noted this afternoon by Samba developer Jeremy Allison of CIQ in a LinkedIn post<\/a> that Steve French has passed away. Condolences to his family and an unfortunate loss to the Linux community. \n<\/p>\n

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