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 * UPD: Spotlight: more SPARQL query optimisations
51 * UPD: Spotlight: new options "sparql results limit", "spotlight
52 attributes" and "spotlight expr"
53 * FIX: afpd: Unarchiving certain ZIP archives fails, bug #569
54 * UPD: Update Unicode support to version 7.0.0
55 * FIX: Memory overflow caused by 'basedir regex', bug #567
56 * NEW: afpd: delete empty resource forks, from FR #92
57 * FIX: afpd: fix a crash when accessing ._ AppleDouble files created
58 by OS X via SMB, bug #564
59 * FIX: afpd and dbd: Converting from AppleDouble v2 to ea may corrupt
60 the resource fork. In some circumstances an offset calculation
61 is wrong resulting in corrupt resource forks after the
63 * FIX: ad: fix for bug #563 broke ad file utilities, bug #570.
64 * NEW: afpd: new advanced option controlling permissions and ACLs,
70 As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:
76 * Solaris and derivates
78 Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but
79 it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions
80 for enhancing the portability of Netatalk as well as success and failure
81 stories. Please write to netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
86 Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:
88 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642
90 Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project
91 site for anonymous git instructions.
96 For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
98 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
100 The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is
103 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
105 The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list
106 netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. For subscription information and
107 archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.
109 netatalk-admins@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Netatalk
110 system administrators. For subscription information and archives see
111 the Netatalk web page.
116 We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for
117 their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
118 patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
120 - The Netatalk Development Team, July 2014