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