Support for SMB v2 or v3

There's absolutely no reason that a brand new, premium product should require the use of an ancient insecure version of SMB. If I wanted to tinker with a Raspberry Pi or buy a second NAS I wouldn't have bought what was supposedly a easy to use, premium product. With respect to your older Zone players, there's also absolutely no reason that Sonos couldn't do different firmware versions with updated features for different products. Put another way, keeping their currently shipping products current doesn't mean that your older investment should be affected at all. Add SMBv2 or SMBv3 support to the Play:1, Play:3, and Play:5 such that those products can take advantage of it. Leave the older stuff alone. Sonos shouldn't have to hold the new products hostage to the old, nor should an upgrade to the new impact you one way or the other.

I stand by my position. This is broken. Sonos should fix it. Older products have nothing to do with it.

I'd love to have newer SMB but not at the cost of having to replace my older Sonos Zone Players because they don't have the hardware needed to support it.
Do you have evidence that SMB2 and3 couldn't be made to work on old players, or is this merely supposition?

Supposition, based on looking at the Linux version that Sonos is using versus the version that works with the newer SMB releases. I'm retired now and a bit rusty at that kind of thing so no guarantee on my guess.

You can do the same research, all the source code is available from Sonos for their Linux version and the newer Linux kernels and
SMB stuff are on-line about anywhere.

If it was a simple thing Sonos would have had their Linux kernel maintainer do a bit of copy/paste and had SMB v3 working years ago.

If Sonos is truly evil and nasty, just jerking us around for their amusement despite it hurting their sales numbers then my (researched) guess is wrong.

Supposition......
Yes, I thought so... I hadn't seen anything official from Sonos...

If Sonos is truly evil and nasty, just jerking us around for their amusement despite it hurting their sales numbers then my (researched) guess is wrong.
I doubt evil and nasty, just focussed on the bottom line. We're led to believe that a very high proportion of Sonos users purely stream, rather than use local storage, so it's just a numbers game.

Hi everyone, starting with today's update, Sonos 8.6, Windows computers will be able to set up shares to their local libraries to Sonos without using SMB file sharing. We aren't removing support for SMB at this time, and you will continue to need to use it for NAS drives, but Mac computer and Windows computers now both have the ability to share using our implementation of HTTP file sharing using the Sonos app. For more details, see the post here.

For those of us not using Windows to share our libraries, can we expect an update to HTTP or SMB 2/3 or are we locked in at smb1?

Is this HTTP file sharing a Sonos proprietary protocol, or are you utilizing an open standard?

Latest firmware release 8.6 deprecates smb1 in favor of http.

https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-8-6-app-improvements-and-new-windows-library-sharing-6808278

Latest firmware release 8.6 deprecates smb1 in favor of http.

https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-8-6-app-improvements-and-new-windows-library-sharing-6808278...but only for PC's/MAC's. NAS's, as I understand it, still need to be on SMB1 so Sonos can access them.

For those of us not using Windows to share our libraries, can we expect an update to HTTPS or SMB 2/3 or are we locked in at smb1?
We're still looking into options for NAS drives but don't have any specific details I can share. The HTTP share is created by the Sonos app, which NAS drives don't and can't run. I'll make sure to let you all know if there's any news regarding NAS sharing away from SMB1 that I can let you in on in the future.