4 The Netatalk development team is proud to announce the second beta release
5 of the next Netatalk version 3.1. This release is intended for testing only.
7 Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP fileserver.
8 A *NIX/*BSD system running Netatalk is capable of serving many Macintosh
9 clients simultaneously as an AppleShare file server (AFP).
13 * netatalk - the main server service controller
14 * afpd - the AFP file server daemin
15 * cnid_metad - the CNID database multiplexing daemon
16 * cnid_dbd - the CNID database daemon serving CNIDs for AFP volumes
17 * various supporting programs and utilities
19 Summary of major new features and enhancements in 3.1
20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
22 * AFP Spotlight Support with Gnome Tracker:
23 https://projects.gnome.org/tracker/
25 Please refer to the online manual for details about compiling Netatalk
26 with Spotlight support and how to configure:
28 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/installation.html#compiling-netatalk
30 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/configuration.html#id2615270
32 Please make sure to read the upgrading section in the Netatalk online
33 manual before trying to upgrade your system from version 2:
35 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/upgrade.html
40 Netatalk is a Free/Open Source Software project and is released under
41 the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). The full license text is available
44 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
48 * FIX: Fix special Spotlight RPC function
52 * REM: Remove support for Tracker versions < 0.7
53 * UPD: Add support for additional Spotlight RPC calls
57 * NEW: AFP Spotlight support with Gnome Tracker
58 * NEW: New option "spotlight" (G/V)
59 * NEW: Configure option --with-tracker-pkgconfig-version
60 * NEW: Configure option --with-tracker-prefix
61 * NEW: If Spotlight is enabled, launch our own dbus instance
62 * NEW: New option "dbus daemon" (G)
63 * UPD: Add configure option --with-afpstats for overriding the
64 result of autodetecting dbus-glib presence
68 * FIX: charset conversion failed when copying from Mac OS 9. Bug #523.
69 * UPD: Don't force S_ISGID for directories on FreeBSD. Bug #525.
70 * NEW: Add support for ZFS ACLs on FreeBSD with libsunacl. From FR#83.
71 * FIX: Active Directory LDAP queries for ACL support with new options
72 "ldap user filter" and "ldap group filter". Bug #526.
76 * FIX: charset conversion failed when copying from Mac OS 9. Bug #523.
77 * UPD: Don't force S_ISGID for directories on FreeBSD. Bug #525.
78 * NEW: Add support for ZFS ACLs on FreeBSD with libsunacl. From FR#83.
79 * FIX: Active Directory LDAP queries for ACL support with new options
80 "ldap user filter" and "ldap group filter". Bug #526.
81 * NEW: Option "vol dbnest", when set to true, the CNID database for
82 a volume is stored in the volume root of a share in a directory
83 .AppleDB like in Netatalk 2. Defaults to false. From FR#84.
84 * FIX: Small fix in the DSI tickle handling. Bug #528.
85 * UPD: Enhance handling of connection attempts when hitting the
86 connection limit. Bug #529.
87 * FIX: Saving from Word to a folder that is a symlink to a folder on
88 another filesystem results in a crash of the afpd process and
89 the save to fail. This happens only if the option
90 "follow symlinks" is enabled. Bug #532.
91 * FIX: Disable Kerberos UAM if AFP service principal name can't be
92 evaluated. Fixes bug #531.
93 * FIX: Fix handling of large number of volumes. Bug #527.
94 * NEW: Configure option --with-tbd which can be used to disable the
95 use of the bundled tdb and use a system installed version.
99 * FIX: Fix a crash when using pam_winbind. Fixes bug #516.
100 * NEW: New global/volume option "ignored attributes"
101 * FIX: "afp listen" option failed to take IPv6 addresses. Bug #515.
102 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in set_groups. Bug #518.
103 * NEW: Send optional AFP messages for vetoed files, new option
104 "veto messages" can be used to enable sending messages.
105 Then whenever a client tries to access any file or directory
106 with a vetoed name, it will be sent an AFP message indicating
107 the name and the directory. From FR #81.
108 * NEW: New boolean volume option "delete veto files". If this option is
109 set to yes, then Netatalk will attempt to recursively delete any
110 vetoed files and directories. FR #82.
111 * UPD: systemd unit dir is /usr/lib/systemd/system .
112 * FIX: Saving files from application like MS Word may result in the file
113 loosing metadata like the Finder label. Bug #521.
117 * FIX: Opening files without metadata EA may result in an invalid
118 metadata EA. Check for malformed metadata EAs and delete them.
120 * FIX: Fix an issue with filenames containing non-ASCII characters that
121 lead to a failure setting the size of a files ressource fork.
122 This affected application like Adobe Photoshop where saving
123 files may fail. Fixes bug #511.
124 * UPD: Enhance ACL mapping, change global ACL option 'map acl' to take
125 the following options: "none", "rights" (default), "mode".
126 none = no mapping, this resembles the previous false/no setting
127 rights = map ACLs to Finder UARights, this resembles the previous
128 true/yes setting. This is the default.
129 mode = map ACLs to Finder UARights and UNIX mode
131 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in cname() where cname_mtouname calls
132 dirlookup() where the curdir is freed because the dircache
133 detected a dev/inode cache difference and evicted the object
134 from the cache. Fixes bug #498.
135 * FIX: Add missing include, fixes bug #512.
136 * FIX: Change default FinderInfo for directories to be all 0, fixes
138 * NEW: New option "afp interfaces" which allows specifying where
139 Netatalk listens for AFP connections by interface names.
144 * UPD: afpd: Increase default DSI server quantum to 1 MB
145 * UPD: bundled libevent2 is now static
146 * NEW: --with-lockfile=PATH configure option for specifying an
147 alternative path for the netatalk lockfile.
148 * UPD: systemd service file use PIDFile and ExecReload.
150 * UPD: RedHat sysvinit: rm graceful, reimplement reload, add condrestart
151 * FIX: Couldn't create folders on FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS fileystems.
153 * FIX: Fix an issue with user homes when user home directory has not the
154 same name as the username.
156 * UPD: Fix PAM config install, new default installation dir is
157 $sysconfdir/pam.d/. Add configure option --with-pam-confdir
158 to specify alternative path.
159 * NEW: AFP stats about active session via dbus IPC. Client side python
160 program `afpstats`. Requires dbus, dbus-glib any python-dbus.
161 configure option --dbus-sysconf-dir for specifying dbus
162 system security configuration files.
163 New option 'afpstats' (default: no) which determines whether
164 to enable the feature or not.
165 * NEW: configure option --with-init-dir
166 * NEW: dtrace probes, cf include/atalk/afp_dtrace.d for available
168 * UPD: Reload groups when reloading volumes. FR #71.
169 * FIX: Attempt to read read-only ._ rfork results in disconnect.
171 * FIX: File's ressource fork can't be read if metadata EA is missing.
173 * FIX: Conversion from adouble v2 to ea for directories.
175 * FIX: Error messages when mounting read-only filesystems.
177 * FIX: Permissions of ._ AppleDouble ressource fork after conversion
180 * UPD: Use FreeBSD sendfile() capability to send protocol header.
182 * UPD: Increase IO size when sendfile() is not used.
184 * FIX: Can't set Finder label on symlinked folder with "follow symlinks = yes".
186 * FIX: Setting POSIX ACLs on Linux
188 * FIX: "ad ls" segfault if requested object is not in an AFP volume.
193 * NEW: afpd: Put file extension type/creator mapping back in which had
195 * NEW: afpd: new option 'ad domain'. From FR #66.
196 * FIX: volumes and home share with symlinks in the path
197 * FIX: Copying packages to a Netatalk share could fail, bug #469
198 * FIX: Reloading volumes from config file was broken. Fixes bug #474.
199 * FIX: Fix _device-info service type registered with dns-sd API
200 * FIX: Fix pathname bug for FCE modified event.
201 * FIX: Remove length limitation of options like "valid users".
203 * FIX: Dont copy our metadata EA in copyfile(). Fixes bug #452.
204 * FIX: Fix an error where catalog search gave incomplete results.
206 * REM: Remove TimeMachine volume used size FCE event.
207 * UPD: Add quoting support to '[in]valid users' option. Fixes bug #472.
208 * FIX: Install working PAM config on Solaris 11. Fixes bug #481.
209 * FIX: Fix a race condition between dbd and the cnid_dbd daemon
210 which could result in users being disconnected from volumes
211 when dbd was scanning their volumes. Fixes bug #477.
212 * FIX: Netatalk didn't start when the last line of the config file
213 afp.conf wasn't terminated by a newline. Fixes bug #476.
214 * NEW: Add a new volumes option 'follow symlinks'. The default setting is
215 false, symlinks are not followed on the server. This is the same
216 behaviour as OS X's AFP server.
217 Setting the option to true causes afpd to follow symlinks on the
218 server. symlinks may point outside of the AFP volume, currently
219 afpd doesn't do any checks for "wide symlinks".
220 * FIX: Automatic AppleDouble conversion to EAs failing for directories.
222 * FIX: dbd failed to convert appledouble files of symlinks.
227 * NEW: afpd: Optional "ldap uuid encoding = string | ms-guid" parameter to
228 afp.conf, allowing for usage of the binary objectGUID fields from
230 * FIX: afpd: Fix a Solaris 10 SPARC sendfilev bug
231 * FIX: afpd: Fix a crash on FreeBSD
232 * FIX: afpd: Fixes open file handle refcounting bug which was reported as
233 being unable to play movies off a Netatalk AFP share.
235 * FIX: afpd: Fix a possible data corruption when reading from and writing
236 to the server simultaniously under load
237 * FIX: Fix possible alignment violations due to bad casts
238 * FIX: dbd: Fix logging
239 * FIX: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support for *BSD
240 * FIX: handling of '/' and ':' in volume name
241 * UPD: Install relevant includes necessary for building programs with
242 installed headers and shared lib libatalk
243 * UPD: libevent configure args to pick up installed version. Removed
244 configure arg --disable-libevent, added configure args
245 --with-libevent-header|lib.
246 * UPD: gentoo initscript: merge from portage netatalk.init,v 1.1
247 * REM: Remove --with-smbsharemodes configure option, it was an
248 empty stub not yet implemented
253 * UPD: afpd: force read only mode if cnid scheme is last
254 * REM: afpd: removed global option "icon"
255 * FIX: CNID path for user homes
260 * UPD: Solaris and friends: Replace initscript with SMF manifest
261 * FIX: Solaris and friends: resource fork handling
266 * UPD: afpd: Performance tuning of read/write AFP operations. New option
267 "afp read locks" (default: no) which disables that the server
268 applies UNIX byte range locks to regions of files in AFP read and
270 * UPD: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support.
271 (*BSD is not supported yet)
273 Changes in 3.0 alpha3
274 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
276 * NEW: afpd: Per volume "login message", NetAFP bug ID #18
277 * NEW: afpd: Cross-platform locking (share modes) on Solaris and derivates
278 with Solaris CIFS/SMB server. Uses new Solaris fcntl F_SHARE share
279 reservation locking primitives. Enabled by default, set global
280 "solaris share reservations" option to false to disable it.
281 * NEW: ad: ad set subcommand for changing Mac metadata on the server
282 * UPD: unix charset is UTF8 by default
283 vol charset is same value as unix charset by default
284 * UPD: .AppleDesktop/ are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
285 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
287 * FIX: afpd: Server info packet was malformed resulting in broken
288 server names being displayed on clients
289 * FIX: afpd: Byte order detection. Fixes an error where Netatalk on
290 OpenIndiana returned wrong volume size information.
292 Changes in 3.0 alpha2
293 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
295 * UPD: afpd: Store '.' as is and '/' as ':' on the server, don't
296 CAP hexencode as "2e" and "2f" respectively
297 * UPD: afdp: Automatic name conversion, renaming files and directories
298 containing CAP sequences to their not enscaped forms
299 * UPD: afpd: Correct handling of user homes and users without homes
300 * UPD: afpd: Perform complete automatic adouble:v2 to adouble:ea conversion
301 as root. Previously only unlinking the adouble:v2 file was done as root
302 * UPD: dbd: -C option removes CAP encoding
303 * UPD: Add graceful option to RedHat init script
304 * UPD: Add --disable-bundled-libevent configure options When set to yes,
305 we rely on a properly installed version on libevent CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
306 should be set properly to pick that up
307 * UPD: Run ldconfig on Linux at the end of make install
308 * FIX: afpd: ad cp on appledouble = ea volumes
309 * FIX: dbd: ignore ._ appledouble files
310 * REM: Volumes options "use dots" and "hex encoding"
312 Changes in 3.0 alpha1
313 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
315 * NEW: Central configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous files
316 * NEW: netatalk: service controller starting and restarting afpd and cnid_metad
318 * NEW: afpd: Extended Attributes AppleDouble backend (default)
319 * UPD: CNID databases are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
320 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
322 * UPD: Start scripts and service manifests have been changed to only start
323 the new netatalk service controller process
324 * UPD: afpd: UNIX privileges and use dots enabled by default
325 * UPD: afpd: Support for arbitrary AFP volumes using variable expansion has been
327 * UPD: afpd: afp_voluuid.conf and afp_signature.conf location has been
328 changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/ (default: /var/netatalk/)
329 * UPD: afpd: default server messages dir changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/msg/
330 * UPD: dbd: new option -C for conversion from AppleDouble v2 to ea
331 * REM: AppleTalk support has been removed
332 * REM: afpd: SLP and AFP proxy support have been removed
333 * REM: afpd: legacy file extension to type/creator mapping has been removed
334 * REM: afpd: AppleDouble backends v1, osx and sfm have been removed
340 As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:
346 * Solaris and derivates
348 Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but
349 it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions
350 for enhancing the portability of Netatalk as well as success and failure
351 stories. Please write to netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
356 Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:
358 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642
360 Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project
361 site for anonymous git instructions.
366 For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
368 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
370 The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is
373 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
375 The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list
376 netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. For subscription information and
377 archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.
379 netatalk-admins@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Netatalk
380 system administrators. For subscription information and archives see
381 the Netatalk web page.
386 We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for
387 their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
388 patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
390 - The Netatalk Development Team, September 2013