4 The Netatalk development team is proud to announce the first alpha 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 * NEW: AFP Spotlight support with Gnome Tracker
49 * NEW: New option "spotlight" (G/V)
50 * NEW: Configure option --with-tracker-pkgconfig-version
51 * NEW: Configure option --with-tracker-prefix
52 * NEW: If Spotlight is enabled, launch our own dbus instance
53 * NEW: New option "dbus daemon" (G)
54 * UPD: Add configure option --with-afpstats for overriding the
55 result of autodetecting dbus-glib presence
60 * FIX: Opening files without metadata EA may result in an invalid
61 metadata EA. Check for malformed metadata EAs and delete them.
63 * FIX: Fix an issue with filenames containing non-ASCII characters that
64 lead to a failure setting the size of a files ressource fork.
65 This affected application like Adobe Photoshop where saving
66 files may fail. Fixes bug #511.
67 * UPD: Enhance ACL mapping, change global ACL option 'map acl' to take
68 the following options: "none", "rights" (default), "mode".
69 none = no mapping, this resembles the previous false/no setting
70 rights = map ACLs to Finder UARights, this resembles the previous
71 true/yes setting. This is the default.
72 mode = map ACLs to Finder UARights and UNIX mode
74 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in cname() where cname_mtouname calls
75 dirlookup() where the curdir is freed because the dircache
76 detected a dev/inode cache difference and evicted the object
77 from the cache. Fixes bug #498.
78 * FIX: Add missing include, fixes bug #512.
79 * FIX: Change default FinderInfo for directories to be all 0, fixes
81 * NEW: New option "afp interfaces" which allows specifying where
82 Netatalk listens for AFP connections by interface names.
87 * UPD: afpd: Increase default DSI server quantum to 1 MB
88 * UPD: bundled libevent2 is now static
89 * NEW: --with-lockfile=PATH configure option for specifying an
90 alternative path for the netatalk lockfile.
91 * UPD: systemd service file use PIDFile and ExecReload.
93 * UPD: RedHat sysvinit: rm graceful, reimplement reload, add condrestart
94 * FIX: Couldn't create folders on FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS fileystems.
96 * FIX: Fix an issue with user homes when user home directory has not the
97 same name as the username.
99 * UPD: Fix PAM config install, new default installation dir is
100 $sysconfdir/pam.d/. Add configure option --with-pam-confdir
101 to specify alternative path.
102 * NEW: AFP stats about active session via dbus IPC. Client side python
103 program `afpstats`. Requires dbus, dbus-glib any python-dbus.
104 configure option --dbus-sysconf-dir for specifying dbus
105 system security configuration files.
106 New option 'afpstats' (default: no) which determines whether
107 to enable the feature or not.
108 * NEW: configure option --with-init-dir
109 * NEW: dtrace probes, cf include/atalk/afp_dtrace.d for available
111 * UPD: Reload groups when reloading volumes. FR #71.
112 * FIX: Attempt to read read-only ._ rfork results in disconnect.
114 * FIX: File's ressource fork can't be read if metadata EA is missing.
116 * FIX: Conversion from adouble v2 to ea for directories.
118 * FIX: Error messages when mounting read-only filesystems.
120 * FIX: Permissions of ._ AppleDouble ressource fork after conversion
123 * UPD: Use FreeBSD sendfile() capability to send protocol header.
125 * UPD: Increase IO size when sendfile() is not used.
127 * FIX: Can't set Finder label on symlinked folder with "follow symlinks = yes".
129 * FIX: Setting POSIX ACLs on Linux
131 * FIX: "ad ls" segfault if requested object is not in an AFP volume.
136 * NEW: afpd: Put file extension type/creator mapping back in which had
138 * NEW: afpd: new option 'ad domain'. From FR #66.
139 * FIX: volumes and home share with symlinks in the path
140 * FIX: Copying packages to a Netatalk share could fail, bug #469
141 * FIX: Reloading volumes from config file was broken. Fixes bug #474.
142 * FIX: Fix _device-info service type registered with dns-sd API
143 * FIX: Fix pathname bug for FCE modified event.
144 * FIX: Remove length limitation of options like "valid users".
146 * FIX: Dont copy our metadata EA in copyfile(). Fixes bug #452.
147 * FIX: Fix an error where catalog search gave incomplete results.
149 * REM: Remove TimeMachine volume used size FCE event.
150 * UPD: Add quoting support to '[in]valid users' option. Fixes bug #472.
151 * FIX: Install working PAM config on Solaris 11. Fixes bug #481.
152 * FIX: Fix a race condition between dbd and the cnid_dbd daemon
153 which could result in users being disconnected from volumes
154 when dbd was scanning their volumes. Fixes bug #477.
155 * FIX: Netatalk didn't start when the last line of the config file
156 afp.conf wasn't terminated by a newline. Fixes bug #476.
157 * NEW: Add a new volumes option 'follow symlinks'. The default setting is
158 false, symlinks are not followed on the server. This is the same
159 behaviour as OS X's AFP server.
160 Setting the option to true causes afpd to follow symlinks on the
161 server. symlinks may point outside of the AFP volume, currently
162 afpd doesn't do any checks for "wide symlinks".
163 * FIX: Automatic AppleDouble conversion to EAs failing for directories.
165 * FIX: dbd failed to convert appledouble files of symlinks.
170 * NEW: afpd: Optional "ldap uuid encoding = string | ms-guid" parameter to
171 afp.conf, allowing for usage of the binary objectGUID fields from
173 * FIX: afpd: Fix a Solaris 10 SPARC sendfilev bug
174 * FIX: afpd: Fix a crash on FreeBSD
175 * FIX: afpd: Fixes open file handle refcounting bug which was reported as
176 being unable to play movies off a Netatalk AFP share.
178 * FIX: afpd: Fix a possible data corruption when reading from and writing
179 to the server simultaniously under load
180 * FIX: Fix possible alignment violations due to bad casts
181 * FIX: dbd: Fix logging
182 * FIX: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support for *BSD
183 * FIX: handling of '/' and ':' in volume name
184 * UPD: Install relevant includes necessary for building programs with
185 installed headers and shared lib libatalk
186 * UPD: libevent configure args to pick up installed version. Removed
187 configure arg --disable-libevent, added configure args
188 --with-libevent-header|lib.
189 * UPD: gentoo initscript: merge from portage netatalk.init,v 1.1
190 * REM: Remove --with-smbsharemodes configure option, it was an
191 empty stub not yet implemented
196 * UPD: afpd: force read only mode if cnid scheme is last
197 * REM: afpd: removed global option "icon"
198 * FIX: CNID path for user homes
203 * UPD: Solaris and friends: Replace initscript with SMF manifest
204 * FIX: Solaris and friends: resource fork handling
209 * UPD: afpd: Performance tuning of read/write AFP operations. New option
210 "afp read locks" (default: no) which disables that the server
211 applies UNIX byte range locks to regions of files in AFP read and
213 * UPD: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support.
214 (*BSD is not supported yet)
216 Changes in 3.0 alpha3
217 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
219 * NEW: afpd: Per volume "login message", NetAFP bug ID #18
220 * NEW: afpd: Cross-platform locking (share modes) on Solaris and derivates
221 with Solaris CIFS/SMB server. Uses new Solaris fcntl F_SHARE share
222 reservation locking primitives. Enabled by default, set global
223 "solaris share reservations" option to false to disable it.
224 * NEW: ad: ad set subcommand for changing Mac metadata on the server
225 * UPD: unix charset is UTF8 by default
226 vol charset is same value as unix charset by default
227 * UPD: .AppleDesktop/ are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
228 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
230 * FIX: afpd: Server info packet was malformed resulting in broken
231 server names being displayed on clients
232 * FIX: afpd: Byte order detection. Fixes an error where Netatalk on
233 OpenIndiana returned wrong volume size information.
235 Changes in 3.0 alpha2
236 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
238 * UPD: afpd: Store '.' as is and '/' as ':' on the server, don't
239 CAP hexencode as "2e" and "2f" respectively
240 * UPD: afdp: Automatic name conversion, renaming files and directories
241 containing CAP sequences to their not enscaped forms
242 * UPD: afpd: Correct handling of user homes and users without homes
243 * UPD: afpd: Perform complete automatic adouble:v2 to adouble:ea conversion
244 as root. Previously only unlinking the adouble:v2 file was done as root
245 * UPD: dbd: -C option removes CAP encoding
246 * UPD: Add graceful option to RedHat init script
247 * UPD: Add --disable-bundled-libevent configure options When set to yes,
248 we rely on a properly installed version on libevent CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
249 should be set properly to pick that up
250 * UPD: Run ldconfig on Linux at the end of make install
251 * FIX: afpd: ad cp on appledouble = ea volumes
252 * FIX: dbd: ignore ._ appledouble files
253 * REM: Volumes options "use dots" and "hex encoding"
255 Changes in 3.0 alpha1
256 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
258 * NEW: Central configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous files
259 * NEW: netatalk: service controller starting and restarting afpd and cnid_metad
261 * NEW: afpd: Extended Attributes AppleDouble backend (default)
262 * UPD: CNID databases are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
263 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
265 * UPD: Start scripts and service manifests have been changed to only start
266 the new netatalk service controller process
267 * UPD: afpd: UNIX privileges and use dots enabled by default
268 * UPD: afpd: Support for arbitrary AFP volumes using variable expansion has been
270 * UPD: afpd: afp_voluuid.conf and afp_signature.conf location has been
271 changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/ (default: /var/netatalk/)
272 * UPD: afpd: default server messages dir changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/msg/
273 * UPD: dbd: new option -C for conversion from AppleDouble v2 to ea
274 * REM: AppleTalk support has been removed
275 * REM: afpd: SLP and AFP proxy support have been removed
276 * REM: afpd: legacy file extension to type/creator mapping has been removed
277 * REM: afpd: AppleDouble backends v1, osx and sfm have been removed
283 As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:
289 * Solaris and derivates
291 Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but
292 it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions
293 for enhancing the portability of Netatalk as well as success and failure
294 stories. Please write to netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
299 Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:
301 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642
303 Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project
304 site for anonymous git instructions.
309 For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
311 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
313 The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is
316 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
318 The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list
319 netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. For subscription information and
320 archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.
322 netatalk-admins@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Netatalk
323 system administrators. For subscription information and archives see
324 the Netatalk web page.
329 We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for
330 their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
331 patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
333 - The Netatalk Development Team, July 2013