4 The Netatalk development team is proud to announce latest release of
5 the Netatalk 3.1 release series. Users are encouraged to update their
6 servers to the 3.1 release series which is the stable and supported
7 version for production systems.
9 Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP fileserver.
10 A *NIX/*BSD system running Netatalk is capable of serving many Macintosh
11 clients simultaneously as an AppleShare file server (AFP).
15 * netatalk - the main server service controller
16 * afpd - the AFP file server daemin
17 * cnid_metad - the CNID database multiplexing daemon
18 * cnid_dbd - the CNID database daemon serving CNIDs for AFP volumes
19 * various supporting programs and utilities
21 Summary of major new features and enhancements in 3.1
22 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
24 * AFP Spotlight Support with Gnome Tracker:
25 https://projects.gnome.org/tracker/
27 Please refer to the online manual for details about compiling Netatalk
28 with Spotlight support and how to configure:
30 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/installation.html#compiling-netatalk
32 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/configuration.html
34 Please make sure to read the upgrading section in the Netatalk online
35 manual before trying to upgrade your system from version 2:
37 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/upgrade.html
42 Netatalk is a Free/Open Source Software project and is released under
43 the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). The full license text is available
46 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
50 * FIX: Spotlight: fix for long running queries
51 * UPD: afpd: distribute SIGHUP from parent afpd to children and force
53 * FIX: netatalk: refresh Zeroconf registration when receiving SIGHUP
54 * NEW: configure option "--with-init-style=debian-systemd" for Debian
55 8 jessieand later. "--with-init-style=debian" is renamed
56 "--with-init-style=debian-sysv".
61 As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:
67 * Solaris and derivates
69 Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but
70 it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions
71 for enhancing the portability of Netatalk as well as success and failure
72 stories. Please write to netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
77 Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:
79 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642
81 Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project
82 site for anonymous git instructions.
87 For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
89 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
91 The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is
94 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
96 The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list
97 netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. For subscription information and
98 archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.
100 netatalk-admins@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Netatalk
101 system administrators. For subscription information and archives see
102 the Netatalk web page.
107 We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for
108 their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
109 patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
111 - The Netatalk Development Team, August 2014