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-This is version 1.9 of Samba, the free SMB client and server for unix
+This is version 1.9.16 of Samba, the free SMB client and server for unix
 and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by the Samba Team,
 who support the original author and principal maintainer, Andrew Tridgell.