4 The Netatalk development team is proud to announce version 3.0.5 of
5 the Netatalk File Sharing suite. This is the latest update to the 3.0
6 release series. All users are encouraged to upgrade their systems to 3.0.5.
8 Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP fileserver.
9 A *NIX/*BSD system running Netatalk is capable of serving many Macintosh
10 clients simultaneously as an AppleShare file server (AFP).
14 * netatalk - the main server service controller
15 * afpd - the AFP file server daemin
16 * cnid_metad - the CNID database multiplexing daemon
17 * cnid_dbd - the CNID database daemon serving CNIDs for AFP volumes
18 * various supporting programs and utilities
20 Summary of major new features and enhancements in 3.0
21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
23 * New ini style configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous
25 * New default AppleDouble backend using filesystem Extended Attributes,
26 conversion from AppleDouble v2 is done automatically on access
27 * New service controller process "netatalk" responsible for starting and
28 restarting afpd and cnid_metad as necessary
29 * AppleTalk support has been removed
30 * Coherent cross-platform locking with Solaris CIFS server
32 Please make sure to read the upgrading section in the Netatalk online
33 manual before trying to upgrade your system to 3.0!
35 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.0/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 a crash when using pam_winbind. Fixes bug #516.
49 * NEW: New global/volume option "ignored attributes"
50 * FIX: "afp listen" option failed to take IPv6 addresses. Bug #515.
51 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in set_groups. Bug #518.
52 * NEW: Send optional AFP messages for vetoed files, new option
53 "veto messages" can be used to enable sending messages.
54 Then whenever a client tries to access any file or directory
55 with a vetoed name, it will be sent an AFP message indicating
56 the name and the directory. From FR #81.
57 * NEW: New boolean volume option "delete veto files". If this option is
58 set to yes, then Netatalk will attempt to recursively delete any
59 vetoed files and directories. FR #82.
60 * UPD: systemd unit dir is /usr/lib/systemd/system .
61 * FIX: Saving files from application like MS Word may result in the file
62 loosing metadata like the Finder label. Bug #521.
66 * FIX: Opening files without metadata EA may result in an invalid
67 metadata EA. Check for malformed metadata EAs and delete them.
69 * FIX: Fix an issue with filenames containing non-ASCII characters that
70 lead to a failure setting the size of a files ressource fork.
71 This affected application like Adobe Photoshop where saving
72 files may fail. Fixes bug #511.
73 * UPD: Enhance ACL mapping, change global ACL option 'map acl' to take
74 the following options: "none", "rights" (default), "mode".
75 none = no mapping, this resembles the previous false/no setting
76 rights = map ACLs to Finder UARights, this resembles the previous
77 true/yes setting. This is the default.
78 mode = map ACLs to Finder UARights and UNIX mode
80 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in cname() where cname_mtouname calls
81 dirlookup() where the curdir is freed because the dircache
82 detected a dev/inode cache difference and evicted the object
83 from the cache. Fixes bug #498.
84 * FIX: Add missing include, fixes bug #512.
85 * FIX: Change default FinderInfo for directories to be all 0, fixes
87 * NEW: New option "afp interfaces" which allows specifying where
88 Netatalk listens for AFP connections by interface names.
93 * UPD: afpd: Increase default DSI server quantum to 1 MB
94 * UPD: bundled libevent2 is now static
95 * NEW: --with-lockfile=PATH configure option for specifying an
96 alternative path for the netatalk lockfile.
97 * UPD: systemd service file use PIDFile and ExecReload.
99 * UPD: RedHat sysvinit: rm graceful, reimplement reload, add condrestart
100 * FIX: Couldn't create folders on FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS fileystems.
102 * FIX: Fix an issue with user homes when user home directory has not the
103 same name as the username.
105 * UPD: Fix PAM config install, new default installation dir is
106 $sysconfdir/pam.d/. Add configure option --with-pam-confdir
107 to specify alternative path.
108 * NEW: AFP stats about active session via dbus IPC. Client side python
109 program `afpstats`. Requires dbus, dbus-glib any python-dbus.
110 configure option --dbus-sysconf-dir for specifying dbus
111 system security configuration files.
112 New option 'afpstats' (default: no) which determines whether
113 to enable the feature or not.
114 * NEW: configure option --with-init-dir
115 * NEW: dtrace probes, cf include/atalk/afp_dtrace.d for available
117 * UPD: Reload groups when reloading volumes. FR #71.
118 * FIX: Attempt to read read-only ._ rfork results in disconnect.
120 * FIX: File's ressource fork can't be read if metadata EA is missing.
122 * FIX: Conversion from adouble v2 to ea for directories.
124 * FIX: Error messages when mounting read-only filesystems.
126 * FIX: Permissions of ._ AppleDouble ressource fork after conversion
129 * UPD: Use FreeBSD sendfile() capability to send protocol header.
131 * UPD: Increase IO size when sendfile() is not used.
133 * FIX: Can't set Finder label on symlinked folder with "follow symlinks = yes".
135 * FIX: Setting POSIX ACLs on Linux
137 * FIX: "ad ls" segfault if requested object is not in an AFP volume.
142 * NEW: afpd: Put file extension type/creator mapping back in which had
144 * NEW: afpd: new option 'ad domain'. From FR #66.
145 * FIX: volumes and home share with symlinks in the path
146 * FIX: Copying packages to a Netatalk share could fail, bug #469
147 * FIX: Reloading volumes from config file was broken. Fixes bug #474.
148 * FIX: Fix _device-info service type registered with dns-sd API
149 * FIX: Fix pathname bug for FCE modified event.
150 * FIX: Remove length limitation of options like "valid users".
152 * FIX: Dont copy our metadata EA in copyfile(). Fixes bug #452.
153 * FIX: Fix an error where catalog search gave incomplete results.
155 * REM: Remove TimeMachine volume used size FCE event.
156 * UPD: Add quoting support to '[in]valid users' option. Fixes bug #472.
157 * FIX: Install working PAM config on Solaris 11. Fixes bug #481.
158 * FIX: Fix a race condition between dbd and the cnid_dbd daemon
159 which could result in users being disconnected from volumes
160 when dbd was scanning their volumes. Fixes bug #477.
161 * FIX: Netatalk didn't start when the last line of the config file
162 afp.conf wasn't terminated by a newline. Fixes bug #476.
163 * NEW: Add a new volumes option 'follow symlinks'. The default setting is
164 false, symlinks are not followed on the server. This is the same
165 behaviour as OS X's AFP server.
166 Setting the option to true causes afpd to follow symlinks on the
167 server. symlinks may point outside of the AFP volume, currently
168 afpd doesn't do any checks for "wide symlinks".
169 * FIX: Automatic AppleDouble conversion to EAs failing for directories.
171 * FIX: dbd failed to convert appledouble files of symlinks.
176 * NEW: afpd: Optional "ldap uuid encoding = string | ms-guid" parameter to
177 afp.conf, allowing for usage of the binary objectGUID fields from
179 * FIX: afpd: Fix a Solaris 10 SPARC sendfilev bug
180 * FIX: afpd: Fix a crash on FreeBSD
181 * FIX: afpd: Fixes open file handle refcounting bug which was reported as
182 being unable to play movies off a Netatalk AFP share.
184 * FIX: afpd: Fix a possible data corruption when reading from and writing
185 to the server simultaniously under load
186 * FIX: Fix possible alignment violations due to bad casts
187 * FIX: dbd: Fix logging
188 * FIX: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support for *BSD
189 * FIX: handling of '/' and ':' in volume name
190 * UPD: Install relevant includes necessary for building programs with
191 installed headers and shared lib libatalk
192 * UPD: libevent configure args to pick up installed version. Removed
193 configure arg --disable-libevent, added configure args
194 --with-libevent-header|lib.
195 * UPD: gentoo initscript: merge from portage netatalk.init,v 1.1
196 * REM: Remove --with-smbsharemodes configure option, it was an
197 empty stub not yet implemented
202 * UPD: afpd: force read only mode if cnid scheme is last
203 * REM: afpd: removed global option "icon"
204 * FIX: CNID path for user homes
209 * UPD: Solaris and friends: Replace initscript with SMF manifest
210 * FIX: Solaris and friends: resource fork handling
215 * UPD: afpd: Performance tuning of read/write AFP operations. New option
216 "afp read locks" (default: no) which disables that the server
217 applies UNIX byte range locks to regions of files in AFP read and
219 * UPD: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support.
220 (*BSD is not supported yet)
222 Changes in 3.0 alpha3
223 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
225 * NEW: afpd: Per volume "login message", NetAFP bug ID #18
226 * NEW: afpd: Cross-platform locking (share modes) on Solaris and derivates
227 with Solaris CIFS/SMB server. Uses new Solaris fcntl F_SHARE share
228 reservation locking primitives. Enabled by default, set global
229 "solaris share reservations" option to false to disable it.
230 * NEW: ad: ad set subcommand for changing Mac metadata on the server
231 * UPD: unix charset is UTF8 by default
232 vol charset is same value as unix charset by default
233 * UPD: .AppleDesktop/ are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
234 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
236 * FIX: afpd: Server info packet was malformed resulting in broken
237 server names being displayed on clients
238 * FIX: afpd: Byte order detection. Fixes an error where Netatalk on
239 OpenIndiana returned wrong volume size information.
241 Changes in 3.0 alpha2
242 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
244 * UPD: afpd: Store '.' as is and '/' as ':' on the server, don't
245 CAP hexencode as "2e" and "2f" respectively
246 * UPD: afdp: Automatic name conversion, renaming files and directories
247 containing CAP sequences to their not enscaped forms
248 * UPD: afpd: Correct handling of user homes and users without homes
249 * UPD: afpd: Perform complete automatic adouble:v2 to adouble:ea conversion
250 as root. Previously only unlinking the adouble:v2 file was done as root
251 * UPD: dbd: -C option removes CAP encoding
252 * UPD: Add graceful option to RedHat init script
253 * UPD: Add --disable-bundled-libevent configure options When set to yes,
254 we rely on a properly installed version on libevent CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
255 should be set properly to pick that up
256 * UPD: Run ldconfig on Linux at the end of make install
257 * FIX: afpd: ad cp on appledouble = ea volumes
258 * FIX: dbd: ignore ._ appledouble files
259 * REM: Volumes options "use dots" and "hex encoding"
261 Changes in 3.0 alpha1
262 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
264 * NEW: Central configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous files
265 * NEW: netatalk: service controller starting and restarting afpd and cnid_metad
267 * NEW: afpd: Extended Attributes AppleDouble backend (default)
268 * UPD: CNID databases are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
269 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
271 * UPD: Start scripts and service manifests have been changed to only start
272 the new netatalk service controller process
273 * UPD: afpd: UNIX privileges and use dots enabled by default
274 * UPD: afpd: Support for arbitrary AFP volumes using variable expansion has been
276 * UPD: afpd: afp_voluuid.conf and afp_signature.conf location has been
277 changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/ (default: /var/netatalk/)
278 * UPD: afpd: default server messages dir changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/msg/
279 * UPD: dbd: new option -C for conversion from AppleDouble v2 to ea
280 * REM: AppleTalk support has been removed
281 * REM: afpd: SLP and AFP proxy support have been removed
282 * REM: afpd: legacy file extension to type/creator mapping has been removed
283 * REM: afpd: AppleDouble backends v1, osx and sfm have been removed
289 As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:
295 * Solaris and derivates
297 Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but
298 it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions
299 for enhancing the portability of Netatalk as well as success and failure
300 stories. Please write to netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
305 Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:
307 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642
309 Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project
310 site for anonymous git instructions.
315 For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
317 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
319 The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is
322 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
324 The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list
325 netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. For subscription information and
326 archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.
328 netatalk-admins@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Netatalk
329 system administrators. For subscription information and archives see
330 the Netatalk web page.
335 We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for
336 their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
337 patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
339 - The Netatalk Development Team, August 2013