4 The Netatalk development team is proud to announce the first 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 * REM: Remove support for Tracker versions < 0.7
49 * UPD: Add support for additional Spotlight RPC calls
53 * NEW: AFP Spotlight support with Gnome Tracker
54 * NEW: New option "spotlight" (G/V)
55 * NEW: Configure option --with-tracker-pkgconfig-version
56 * NEW: Configure option --with-tracker-prefix
57 * NEW: If Spotlight is enabled, launch our own dbus instance
58 * NEW: New option "dbus daemon" (G)
59 * UPD: Add configure option --with-afpstats for overriding the
60 result of autodetecting dbus-glib presence
65 * FIX: Opening files without metadata EA may result in an invalid
66 metadata EA. Check for malformed metadata EAs and delete them.
68 * FIX: Fix an issue with filenames containing non-ASCII characters that
69 lead to a failure setting the size of a files ressource fork.
70 This affected application like Adobe Photoshop where saving
71 files may fail. Fixes bug #511.
72 * UPD: Enhance ACL mapping, change global ACL option 'map acl' to take
73 the following options: "none", "rights" (default), "mode".
74 none = no mapping, this resembles the previous false/no setting
75 rights = map ACLs to Finder UARights, this resembles the previous
76 true/yes setting. This is the default.
77 mode = map ACLs to Finder UARights and UNIX mode
79 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in cname() where cname_mtouname calls
80 dirlookup() where the curdir is freed because the dircache
81 detected a dev/inode cache difference and evicted the object
82 from the cache. Fixes bug #498.
83 * FIX: Add missing include, fixes bug #512.
84 * FIX: Change default FinderInfo for directories to be all 0, fixes
86 * NEW: New option "afp interfaces" which allows specifying where
87 Netatalk listens for AFP connections by interface names.
92 * UPD: afpd: Increase default DSI server quantum to 1 MB
93 * UPD: bundled libevent2 is now static
94 * NEW: --with-lockfile=PATH configure option for specifying an
95 alternative path for the netatalk lockfile.
96 * UPD: systemd service file use PIDFile and ExecReload.
98 * UPD: RedHat sysvinit: rm graceful, reimplement reload, add condrestart
99 * FIX: Couldn't create folders on FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS fileystems.
101 * FIX: Fix an issue with user homes when user home directory has not the
102 same name as the username.
104 * UPD: Fix PAM config install, new default installation dir is
105 $sysconfdir/pam.d/. Add configure option --with-pam-confdir
106 to specify alternative path.
107 * NEW: AFP stats about active session via dbus IPC. Client side python
108 program `afpstats`. Requires dbus, dbus-glib any python-dbus.
109 configure option --dbus-sysconf-dir for specifying dbus
110 system security configuration files.
111 New option 'afpstats' (default: no) which determines whether
112 to enable the feature or not.
113 * NEW: configure option --with-init-dir
114 * NEW: dtrace probes, cf include/atalk/afp_dtrace.d for available
116 * UPD: Reload groups when reloading volumes. FR #71.
117 * FIX: Attempt to read read-only ._ rfork results in disconnect.
119 * FIX: File's ressource fork can't be read if metadata EA is missing.
121 * FIX: Conversion from adouble v2 to ea for directories.
123 * FIX: Error messages when mounting read-only filesystems.
125 * FIX: Permissions of ._ AppleDouble ressource fork after conversion
128 * UPD: Use FreeBSD sendfile() capability to send protocol header.
130 * UPD: Increase IO size when sendfile() is not used.
132 * FIX: Can't set Finder label on symlinked folder with "follow symlinks = yes".
134 * FIX: Setting POSIX ACLs on Linux
136 * FIX: "ad ls" segfault if requested object is not in an AFP volume.
141 * NEW: afpd: Put file extension type/creator mapping back in which had
143 * NEW: afpd: new option 'ad domain'. From FR #66.
144 * FIX: volumes and home share with symlinks in the path
145 * FIX: Copying packages to a Netatalk share could fail, bug #469
146 * FIX: Reloading volumes from config file was broken. Fixes bug #474.
147 * FIX: Fix _device-info service type registered with dns-sd API
148 * FIX: Fix pathname bug for FCE modified event.
149 * FIX: Remove length limitation of options like "valid users".
151 * FIX: Dont copy our metadata EA in copyfile(). Fixes bug #452.
152 * FIX: Fix an error where catalog search gave incomplete results.
154 * REM: Remove TimeMachine volume used size FCE event.
155 * UPD: Add quoting support to '[in]valid users' option. Fixes bug #472.
156 * FIX: Install working PAM config on Solaris 11. Fixes bug #481.
157 * FIX: Fix a race condition between dbd and the cnid_dbd daemon
158 which could result in users being disconnected from volumes
159 when dbd was scanning their volumes. Fixes bug #477.
160 * FIX: Netatalk didn't start when the last line of the config file
161 afp.conf wasn't terminated by a newline. Fixes bug #476.
162 * NEW: Add a new volumes option 'follow symlinks'. The default setting is
163 false, symlinks are not followed on the server. This is the same
164 behaviour as OS X's AFP server.
165 Setting the option to true causes afpd to follow symlinks on the
166 server. symlinks may point outside of the AFP volume, currently
167 afpd doesn't do any checks for "wide symlinks".
168 * FIX: Automatic AppleDouble conversion to EAs failing for directories.
170 * FIX: dbd failed to convert appledouble files of symlinks.
175 * NEW: afpd: Optional "ldap uuid encoding = string | ms-guid" parameter to
176 afp.conf, allowing for usage of the binary objectGUID fields from
178 * FIX: afpd: Fix a Solaris 10 SPARC sendfilev bug
179 * FIX: afpd: Fix a crash on FreeBSD
180 * FIX: afpd: Fixes open file handle refcounting bug which was reported as
181 being unable to play movies off a Netatalk AFP share.
183 * FIX: afpd: Fix a possible data corruption when reading from and writing
184 to the server simultaniously under load
185 * FIX: Fix possible alignment violations due to bad casts
186 * FIX: dbd: Fix logging
187 * FIX: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support for *BSD
188 * FIX: handling of '/' and ':' in volume name
189 * UPD: Install relevant includes necessary for building programs with
190 installed headers and shared lib libatalk
191 * UPD: libevent configure args to pick up installed version. Removed
192 configure arg --disable-libevent, added configure args
193 --with-libevent-header|lib.
194 * UPD: gentoo initscript: merge from portage netatalk.init,v 1.1
195 * REM: Remove --with-smbsharemodes configure option, it was an
196 empty stub not yet implemented
201 * UPD: afpd: force read only mode if cnid scheme is last
202 * REM: afpd: removed global option "icon"
203 * FIX: CNID path for user homes
208 * UPD: Solaris and friends: Replace initscript with SMF manifest
209 * FIX: Solaris and friends: resource fork handling
214 * UPD: afpd: Performance tuning of read/write AFP operations. New option
215 "afp read locks" (default: no) which disables that the server
216 applies UNIX byte range locks to regions of files in AFP read and
218 * UPD: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support.
219 (*BSD is not supported yet)
221 Changes in 3.0 alpha3
222 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
224 * NEW: afpd: Per volume "login message", NetAFP bug ID #18
225 * NEW: afpd: Cross-platform locking (share modes) on Solaris and derivates
226 with Solaris CIFS/SMB server. Uses new Solaris fcntl F_SHARE share
227 reservation locking primitives. Enabled by default, set global
228 "solaris share reservations" option to false to disable it.
229 * NEW: ad: ad set subcommand for changing Mac metadata on the server
230 * UPD: unix charset is UTF8 by default
231 vol charset is same value as unix charset by default
232 * UPD: .AppleDesktop/ are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
233 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
235 * FIX: afpd: Server info packet was malformed resulting in broken
236 server names being displayed on clients
237 * FIX: afpd: Byte order detection. Fixes an error where Netatalk on
238 OpenIndiana returned wrong volume size information.
240 Changes in 3.0 alpha2
241 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
243 * UPD: afpd: Store '.' as is and '/' as ':' on the server, don't
244 CAP hexencode as "2e" and "2f" respectively
245 * UPD: afdp: Automatic name conversion, renaming files and directories
246 containing CAP sequences to their not enscaped forms
247 * UPD: afpd: Correct handling of user homes and users without homes
248 * UPD: afpd: Perform complete automatic adouble:v2 to adouble:ea conversion
249 as root. Previously only unlinking the adouble:v2 file was done as root
250 * UPD: dbd: -C option removes CAP encoding
251 * UPD: Add graceful option to RedHat init script
252 * UPD: Add --disable-bundled-libevent configure options When set to yes,
253 we rely on a properly installed version on libevent CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
254 should be set properly to pick that up
255 * UPD: Run ldconfig on Linux at the end of make install
256 * FIX: afpd: ad cp on appledouble = ea volumes
257 * FIX: dbd: ignore ._ appledouble files
258 * REM: Volumes options "use dots" and "hex encoding"
260 Changes in 3.0 alpha1
261 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
263 * NEW: Central configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous files
264 * NEW: netatalk: service controller starting and restarting afpd and cnid_metad
266 * NEW: afpd: Extended Attributes AppleDouble backend (default)
267 * UPD: CNID databases are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
268 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
270 * UPD: Start scripts and service manifests have been changed to only start
271 the new netatalk service controller process
272 * UPD: afpd: UNIX privileges and use dots enabled by default
273 * UPD: afpd: Support for arbitrary AFP volumes using variable expansion has been
275 * UPD: afpd: afp_voluuid.conf and afp_signature.conf location has been
276 changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/ (default: /var/netatalk/)
277 * UPD: afpd: default server messages dir changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/msg/
278 * UPD: dbd: new option -C for conversion from AppleDouble v2 to ea
279 * REM: AppleTalk support has been removed
280 * REM: afpd: SLP and AFP proxy support have been removed
281 * REM: afpd: legacy file extension to type/creator mapping has been removed
282 * REM: afpd: AppleDouble backends v1, osx and sfm have been removed
288 As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:
294 * Solaris and derivates
296 Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but
297 it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions
298 for enhancing the portability of Netatalk as well as success and failure
299 stories. Please write to netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
304 Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:
306 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642
308 Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project
309 site for anonymous git instructions.
314 For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
316 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
318 The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is
321 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
323 The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list
324 netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. For subscription information and
325 archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.
327 netatalk-admins@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Netatalk
328 system administrators. For subscription information and archives see
329 the Netatalk web page.
334 We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for
335 their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
336 patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
338 - The Netatalk Development Team, August 2013