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: Fix a crash when using pam_winbind. Fixes bug #516.
66 * NEW: New global/volume option "ignored attributes"
67 * FIX: "afp listen" option failed to take IPv6 addresses. Bug #515.
68 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in set_groups. Bug #518.
69 * NEW: Send optional AFP messages for vetoed files, new option
70 "veto messages" can be used to enable sending messages.
71 Then whenever a client tries to access any file or directory
72 with a vetoed name, it will be sent an AFP message indicating
73 the name and the directory. From FR #81.
74 * NEW: New boolean volume option "delete veto files". If this option is
75 set to yes, then Netatalk will attempt to recursively delete any
76 vetoed files and directories. FR #82.
77 * UPD: systemd unit dir is /usr/lib/systemd/system .
78 * FIX: Saving files from application like MS Word may result in the file
79 loosing metadata like the Finder label. Bug #521.
83 * FIX: Opening files without metadata EA may result in an invalid
84 metadata EA. Check for malformed metadata EAs and delete them.
86 * FIX: Fix an issue with filenames containing non-ASCII characters that
87 lead to a failure setting the size of a files ressource fork.
88 This affected application like Adobe Photoshop where saving
89 files may fail. Fixes bug #511.
90 * UPD: Enhance ACL mapping, change global ACL option 'map acl' to take
91 the following options: "none", "rights" (default), "mode".
92 none = no mapping, this resembles the previous false/no setting
93 rights = map ACLs to Finder UARights, this resembles the previous
94 true/yes setting. This is the default.
95 mode = map ACLs to Finder UARights and UNIX mode
97 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in cname() where cname_mtouname calls
98 dirlookup() where the curdir is freed because the dircache
99 detected a dev/inode cache difference and evicted the object
100 from the cache. Fixes bug #498.
101 * FIX: Add missing include, fixes bug #512.
102 * FIX: Change default FinderInfo for directories to be all 0, fixes
104 * NEW: New option "afp interfaces" which allows specifying where
105 Netatalk listens for AFP connections by interface names.
110 * UPD: afpd: Increase default DSI server quantum to 1 MB
111 * UPD: bundled libevent2 is now static
112 * NEW: --with-lockfile=PATH configure option for specifying an
113 alternative path for the netatalk lockfile.
114 * UPD: systemd service file use PIDFile and ExecReload.
116 * UPD: RedHat sysvinit: rm graceful, reimplement reload, add condrestart
117 * FIX: Couldn't create folders on FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS fileystems.
119 * FIX: Fix an issue with user homes when user home directory has not the
120 same name as the username.
122 * UPD: Fix PAM config install, new default installation dir is
123 $sysconfdir/pam.d/. Add configure option --with-pam-confdir
124 to specify alternative path.
125 * NEW: AFP stats about active session via dbus IPC. Client side python
126 program `afpstats`. Requires dbus, dbus-glib any python-dbus.
127 configure option --dbus-sysconf-dir for specifying dbus
128 system security configuration files.
129 New option 'afpstats' (default: no) which determines whether
130 to enable the feature or not.
131 * NEW: configure option --with-init-dir
132 * NEW: dtrace probes, cf include/atalk/afp_dtrace.d for available
134 * UPD: Reload groups when reloading volumes. FR #71.
135 * FIX: Attempt to read read-only ._ rfork results in disconnect.
137 * FIX: File's ressource fork can't be read if metadata EA is missing.
139 * FIX: Conversion from adouble v2 to ea for directories.
141 * FIX: Error messages when mounting read-only filesystems.
143 * FIX: Permissions of ._ AppleDouble ressource fork after conversion
146 * UPD: Use FreeBSD sendfile() capability to send protocol header.
148 * UPD: Increase IO size when sendfile() is not used.
150 * FIX: Can't set Finder label on symlinked folder with "follow symlinks = yes".
152 * FIX: Setting POSIX ACLs on Linux
154 * FIX: "ad ls" segfault if requested object is not in an AFP volume.
159 * NEW: afpd: Put file extension type/creator mapping back in which had
161 * NEW: afpd: new option 'ad domain'. From FR #66.
162 * FIX: volumes and home share with symlinks in the path
163 * FIX: Copying packages to a Netatalk share could fail, bug #469
164 * FIX: Reloading volumes from config file was broken. Fixes bug #474.
165 * FIX: Fix _device-info service type registered with dns-sd API
166 * FIX: Fix pathname bug for FCE modified event.
167 * FIX: Remove length limitation of options like "valid users".
169 * FIX: Dont copy our metadata EA in copyfile(). Fixes bug #452.
170 * FIX: Fix an error where catalog search gave incomplete results.
172 * REM: Remove TimeMachine volume used size FCE event.
173 * UPD: Add quoting support to '[in]valid users' option. Fixes bug #472.
174 * FIX: Install working PAM config on Solaris 11. Fixes bug #481.
175 * FIX: Fix a race condition between dbd and the cnid_dbd daemon
176 which could result in users being disconnected from volumes
177 when dbd was scanning their volumes. Fixes bug #477.
178 * FIX: Netatalk didn't start when the last line of the config file
179 afp.conf wasn't terminated by a newline. Fixes bug #476.
180 * NEW: Add a new volumes option 'follow symlinks'. The default setting is
181 false, symlinks are not followed on the server. This is the same
182 behaviour as OS X's AFP server.
183 Setting the option to true causes afpd to follow symlinks on the
184 server. symlinks may point outside of the AFP volume, currently
185 afpd doesn't do any checks for "wide symlinks".
186 * FIX: Automatic AppleDouble conversion to EAs failing for directories.
188 * FIX: dbd failed to convert appledouble files of symlinks.
193 * NEW: afpd: Optional "ldap uuid encoding = string | ms-guid" parameter to
194 afp.conf, allowing for usage of the binary objectGUID fields from
196 * FIX: afpd: Fix a Solaris 10 SPARC sendfilev bug
197 * FIX: afpd: Fix a crash on FreeBSD
198 * FIX: afpd: Fixes open file handle refcounting bug which was reported as
199 being unable to play movies off a Netatalk AFP share.
201 * FIX: afpd: Fix a possible data corruption when reading from and writing
202 to the server simultaniously under load
203 * FIX: Fix possible alignment violations due to bad casts
204 * FIX: dbd: Fix logging
205 * FIX: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support for *BSD
206 * FIX: handling of '/' and ':' in volume name
207 * UPD: Install relevant includes necessary for building programs with
208 installed headers and shared lib libatalk
209 * UPD: libevent configure args to pick up installed version. Removed
210 configure arg --disable-libevent, added configure args
211 --with-libevent-header|lib.
212 * UPD: gentoo initscript: merge from portage netatalk.init,v 1.1
213 * REM: Remove --with-smbsharemodes configure option, it was an
214 empty stub not yet implemented
219 * UPD: afpd: force read only mode if cnid scheme is last
220 * REM: afpd: removed global option "icon"
221 * FIX: CNID path for user homes
226 * UPD: Solaris and friends: Replace initscript with SMF manifest
227 * FIX: Solaris and friends: resource fork handling
232 * UPD: afpd: Performance tuning of read/write AFP operations. New option
233 "afp read locks" (default: no) which disables that the server
234 applies UNIX byte range locks to regions of files in AFP read and
236 * UPD: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support.
237 (*BSD is not supported yet)
239 Changes in 3.0 alpha3
240 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
242 * NEW: afpd: Per volume "login message", NetAFP bug ID #18
243 * NEW: afpd: Cross-platform locking (share modes) on Solaris and derivates
244 with Solaris CIFS/SMB server. Uses new Solaris fcntl F_SHARE share
245 reservation locking primitives. Enabled by default, set global
246 "solaris share reservations" option to false to disable it.
247 * NEW: ad: ad set subcommand for changing Mac metadata on the server
248 * UPD: unix charset is UTF8 by default
249 vol charset is same value as unix charset by default
250 * UPD: .AppleDesktop/ are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
251 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
253 * FIX: afpd: Server info packet was malformed resulting in broken
254 server names being displayed on clients
255 * FIX: afpd: Byte order detection. Fixes an error where Netatalk on
256 OpenIndiana returned wrong volume size information.
258 Changes in 3.0 alpha2
259 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
261 * UPD: afpd: Store '.' as is and '/' as ':' on the server, don't
262 CAP hexencode as "2e" and "2f" respectively
263 * UPD: afdp: Automatic name conversion, renaming files and directories
264 containing CAP sequences to their not enscaped forms
265 * UPD: afpd: Correct handling of user homes and users without homes
266 * UPD: afpd: Perform complete automatic adouble:v2 to adouble:ea conversion
267 as root. Previously only unlinking the adouble:v2 file was done as root
268 * UPD: dbd: -C option removes CAP encoding
269 * UPD: Add graceful option to RedHat init script
270 * UPD: Add --disable-bundled-libevent configure options When set to yes,
271 we rely on a properly installed version on libevent CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
272 should be set properly to pick that up
273 * UPD: Run ldconfig on Linux at the end of make install
274 * FIX: afpd: ad cp on appledouble = ea volumes
275 * FIX: dbd: ignore ._ appledouble files
276 * REM: Volumes options "use dots" and "hex encoding"
278 Changes in 3.0 alpha1
279 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
281 * NEW: Central configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous files
282 * NEW: netatalk: service controller starting and restarting afpd and cnid_metad
284 * NEW: afpd: Extended Attributes AppleDouble backend (default)
285 * UPD: CNID databases are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
286 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
288 * UPD: Start scripts and service manifests have been changed to only start
289 the new netatalk service controller process
290 * UPD: afpd: UNIX privileges and use dots enabled by default
291 * UPD: afpd: Support for arbitrary AFP volumes using variable expansion has been
293 * UPD: afpd: afp_voluuid.conf and afp_signature.conf location has been
294 changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/ (default: /var/netatalk/)
295 * UPD: afpd: default server messages dir changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/msg/
296 * UPD: dbd: new option -C for conversion from AppleDouble v2 to ea
297 * REM: AppleTalk support has been removed
298 * REM: afpd: SLP and AFP proxy support have been removed
299 * REM: afpd: legacy file extension to type/creator mapping has been removed
300 * REM: afpd: AppleDouble backends v1, osx and sfm have been removed
306 As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:
312 * Solaris and derivates
314 Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but
315 it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions
316 for enhancing the portability of Netatalk as well as success and failure
317 stories. Please write to netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
322 Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:
324 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642
326 Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project
327 site for anonymous git instructions.
332 For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
334 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
336 The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is
339 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
341 The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list
342 netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. For subscription information and
343 archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.
345 netatalk-admins@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Netatalk
346 system administrators. For subscription information and archives see
347 the Netatalk web page.
352 We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for
353 their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
354 patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
356 - The Netatalk Development Team, August 2013