4 The Netatalk development team is proud to announce version 3.0.6 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 3.0.6.
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: charset conversion failed when copying from Mac OS 9. Bug #523.
49 * UPD: Don't force S_ISGID for directories on FreeBSD. Bug #525.
50 * NEW: Add support for ZFS ACLs on FreeBSD with libsunacl. From FR#83.
51 * FIX: Active Directory LDAP queries for ACL support with new options
52 "ldap user filter" and "ldap group filter". Bug #526.
53 * NEW: Option "vol dbnest", when set to true, the CNID database for
54 a volume is stored in the volume root of a share in a directory
55 .AppleDB like in Netatalk 2. Defaults to false. From FR#84.
56 * FIX: Small fix in the DSI tickle handling. Bug #528.
57 * UPD: Enhance handling of connection attempts when hitting the
58 connection limit. Bug #529.
59 * FIX: Saving from Word to a folder that is a symlink to a folder on
60 another filesystem results in a crash of the afpd process and
61 the save to fail. This happens only if the option
62 "follow symlinks" is enabled. Bug #532.
63 * FIX: Disable Kerberos UAM if AFP service principal name can't be
64 evaluated. Fixes bug #531.
65 * FIX: Fix handling of large number of volumes. Bug #527.
66 * NEW: Configure option --with-tbd which can be used to disable the
67 use of the bundled tdb and use a system installed version.
71 * FIX: Fix a crash when using pam_winbind. Fixes bug #516.
72 * NEW: New global/volume option "ignored attributes"
73 * FIX: "afp listen" option failed to take IPv6 addresses. Bug #515.
74 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in set_groups. Bug #518.
75 * NEW: Send optional AFP messages for vetoed files, new option
76 "veto messages" can be used to enable sending messages.
77 Then whenever a client tries to access any file or directory
78 with a vetoed name, it will be sent an AFP message indicating
79 the name and the directory. From FR #81.
80 * NEW: New boolean volume option "delete veto files". If this option is
81 set to yes, then Netatalk will attempt to recursively delete any
82 vetoed files and directories. FR #82.
83 * UPD: systemd unit dir is /usr/lib/systemd/system .
84 * FIX: Saving files from application like MS Word may result in the file
85 loosing metadata like the Finder label. Bug #521.
89 * FIX: Opening files without metadata EA may result in an invalid
90 metadata EA. Check for malformed metadata EAs and delete them.
92 * FIX: Fix an issue with filenames containing non-ASCII characters that
93 lead to a failure setting the size of a files ressource fork.
94 This affected application like Adobe Photoshop where saving
95 files may fail. Fixes bug #511.
96 * UPD: Enhance ACL mapping, change global ACL option 'map acl' to take
97 the following options: "none", "rights" (default), "mode".
98 none = no mapping, this resembles the previous false/no setting
99 rights = map ACLs to Finder UARights, this resembles the previous
100 true/yes setting. This is the default.
101 mode = map ACLs to Finder UARights and UNIX mode
103 * FIX: Fix a possible crash in cname() where cname_mtouname calls
104 dirlookup() where the curdir is freed because the dircache
105 detected a dev/inode cache difference and evicted the object
106 from the cache. Fixes bug #498.
107 * FIX: Add missing include, fixes bug #512.
108 * FIX: Change default FinderInfo for directories to be all 0, fixes
110 * NEW: New option "afp interfaces" which allows specifying where
111 Netatalk listens for AFP connections by interface names.
116 * UPD: afpd: Increase default DSI server quantum to 1 MB
117 * UPD: bundled libevent2 is now static
118 * NEW: --with-lockfile=PATH configure option for specifying an
119 alternative path for the netatalk lockfile.
120 * UPD: systemd service file use PIDFile and ExecReload.
122 * UPD: RedHat sysvinit: rm graceful, reimplement reload, add condrestart
123 * FIX: Couldn't create folders on FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS fileystems.
125 * FIX: Fix an issue with user homes when user home directory has not the
126 same name as the username.
128 * UPD: Fix PAM config install, new default installation dir is
129 $sysconfdir/pam.d/. Add configure option --with-pam-confdir
130 to specify alternative path.
131 * NEW: AFP stats about active session via dbus IPC. Client side python
132 program `afpstats`. Requires dbus, dbus-glib any python-dbus.
133 configure option --dbus-sysconf-dir for specifying dbus
134 system security configuration files.
135 New option 'afpstats' (default: no) which determines whether
136 to enable the feature or not.
137 * NEW: configure option --with-init-dir
138 * NEW: dtrace probes, cf include/atalk/afp_dtrace.d for available
140 * UPD: Reload groups when reloading volumes. FR #71.
141 * FIX: Attempt to read read-only ._ rfork results in disconnect.
143 * FIX: File's ressource fork can't be read if metadata EA is missing.
145 * FIX: Conversion from adouble v2 to ea for directories.
147 * FIX: Error messages when mounting read-only filesystems.
149 * FIX: Permissions of ._ AppleDouble ressource fork after conversion
152 * UPD: Use FreeBSD sendfile() capability to send protocol header.
154 * UPD: Increase IO size when sendfile() is not used.
156 * FIX: Can't set Finder label on symlinked folder with "follow symlinks = yes".
158 * FIX: Setting POSIX ACLs on Linux
160 * FIX: "ad ls" segfault if requested object is not in an AFP volume.
165 * NEW: afpd: Put file extension type/creator mapping back in which had
167 * NEW: afpd: new option 'ad domain'. From FR #66.
168 * FIX: volumes and home share with symlinks in the path
169 * FIX: Copying packages to a Netatalk share could fail, bug #469
170 * FIX: Reloading volumes from config file was broken. Fixes bug #474.
171 * FIX: Fix _device-info service type registered with dns-sd API
172 * FIX: Fix pathname bug for FCE modified event.
173 * FIX: Remove length limitation of options like "valid users".
175 * FIX: Dont copy our metadata EA in copyfile(). Fixes bug #452.
176 * FIX: Fix an error where catalog search gave incomplete results.
178 * REM: Remove TimeMachine volume used size FCE event.
179 * UPD: Add quoting support to '[in]valid users' option. Fixes bug #472.
180 * FIX: Install working PAM config on Solaris 11. Fixes bug #481.
181 * FIX: Fix a race condition between dbd and the cnid_dbd daemon
182 which could result in users being disconnected from volumes
183 when dbd was scanning their volumes. Fixes bug #477.
184 * FIX: Netatalk didn't start when the last line of the config file
185 afp.conf wasn't terminated by a newline. Fixes bug #476.
186 * NEW: Add a new volumes option 'follow symlinks'. The default setting is
187 false, symlinks are not followed on the server. This is the same
188 behaviour as OS X's AFP server.
189 Setting the option to true causes afpd to follow symlinks on the
190 server. symlinks may point outside of the AFP volume, currently
191 afpd doesn't do any checks for "wide symlinks".
192 * FIX: Automatic AppleDouble conversion to EAs failing for directories.
194 * FIX: dbd failed to convert appledouble files of symlinks.
199 * NEW: afpd: Optional "ldap uuid encoding = string | ms-guid" parameter to
200 afp.conf, allowing for usage of the binary objectGUID fields from
202 * FIX: afpd: Fix a Solaris 10 SPARC sendfilev bug
203 * FIX: afpd: Fix a crash on FreeBSD
204 * FIX: afpd: Fixes open file handle refcounting bug which was reported as
205 being unable to play movies off a Netatalk AFP share.
207 * FIX: afpd: Fix a possible data corruption when reading from and writing
208 to the server simultaniously under load
209 * FIX: Fix possible alignment violations due to bad casts
210 * FIX: dbd: Fix logging
211 * FIX: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support for *BSD
212 * FIX: handling of '/' and ':' in volume name
213 * UPD: Install relevant includes necessary for building programs with
214 installed headers and shared lib libatalk
215 * UPD: libevent configure args to pick up installed version. Removed
216 configure arg --disable-libevent, added configure args
217 --with-libevent-header|lib.
218 * UPD: gentoo initscript: merge from portage netatalk.init,v 1.1
219 * REM: Remove --with-smbsharemodes configure option, it was an
220 empty stub not yet implemented
225 * UPD: afpd: force read only mode if cnid scheme is last
226 * REM: afpd: removed global option "icon"
227 * FIX: CNID path for user homes
232 * UPD: Solaris and friends: Replace initscript with SMF manifest
233 * FIX: Solaris and friends: resource fork handling
238 * UPD: afpd: Performance tuning of read/write AFP operations. New option
239 "afp read locks" (default: no) which disables that the server
240 applies UNIX byte range locks to regions of files in AFP read and
242 * UPD: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support.
243 (*BSD is not supported yet)
245 Changes in 3.0 alpha3
246 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
248 * NEW: afpd: Per volume "login message", NetAFP bug ID #18
249 * NEW: afpd: Cross-platform locking (share modes) on Solaris and derivates
250 with Solaris CIFS/SMB server. Uses new Solaris fcntl F_SHARE share
251 reservation locking primitives. Enabled by default, set global
252 "solaris share reservations" option to false to disable it.
253 * NEW: ad: ad set subcommand for changing Mac metadata on the server
254 * UPD: unix charset is UTF8 by default
255 vol charset is same value as unix charset by default
256 * UPD: .AppleDesktop/ are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
257 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
259 * FIX: afpd: Server info packet was malformed resulting in broken
260 server names being displayed on clients
261 * FIX: afpd: Byte order detection. Fixes an error where Netatalk on
262 OpenIndiana returned wrong volume size information.
264 Changes in 3.0 alpha2
265 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
267 * UPD: afpd: Store '.' as is and '/' as ':' on the server, don't
268 CAP hexencode as "2e" and "2f" respectively
269 * UPD: afdp: Automatic name conversion, renaming files and directories
270 containing CAP sequences to their not enscaped forms
271 * UPD: afpd: Correct handling of user homes and users without homes
272 * UPD: afpd: Perform complete automatic adouble:v2 to adouble:ea conversion
273 as root. Previously only unlinking the adouble:v2 file was done as root
274 * UPD: dbd: -C option removes CAP encoding
275 * UPD: Add graceful option to RedHat init script
276 * UPD: Add --disable-bundled-libevent configure options When set to yes,
277 we rely on a properly installed version on libevent CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
278 should be set properly to pick that up
279 * UPD: Run ldconfig on Linux at the end of make install
280 * FIX: afpd: ad cp on appledouble = ea volumes
281 * FIX: dbd: ignore ._ appledouble files
282 * REM: Volumes options "use dots" and "hex encoding"
284 Changes in 3.0 alpha1
285 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
287 * NEW: Central configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous files
288 * NEW: netatalk: service controller starting and restarting afpd and cnid_metad
290 * NEW: afpd: Extended Attributes AppleDouble backend (default)
291 * UPD: CNID databases are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
292 (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
294 * UPD: Start scripts and service manifests have been changed to only start
295 the new netatalk service controller process
296 * UPD: afpd: UNIX privileges and use dots enabled by default
297 * UPD: afpd: Support for arbitrary AFP volumes using variable expansion has been
299 * UPD: afpd: afp_voluuid.conf and afp_signature.conf location has been
300 changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/ (default: /var/netatalk/)
301 * UPD: afpd: default server messages dir changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/msg/
302 * UPD: dbd: new option -C for conversion from AppleDouble v2 to ea
303 * REM: AppleTalk support has been removed
304 * REM: afpd: SLP and AFP proxy support have been removed
305 * REM: afpd: legacy file extension to type/creator mapping has been removed
306 * REM: afpd: AppleDouble backends v1, osx and sfm have been removed
312 As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:
318 * Solaris and derivates
320 Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but
321 it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions
322 for enhancing the portability of Netatalk as well as success and failure
323 stories. Please write to netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
328 Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:
330 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642
332 Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project
333 site for anonymous git instructions.
338 For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
340 http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
342 The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is
345 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
347 The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list
348 netatalk-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. For subscription information and
349 archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.
351 netatalk-admins@lists.sourceforge.net is a mailing list for Netatalk
352 system administrators. For subscription information and archives see
353 the Netatalk web page.
358 We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for
359 their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
360 patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
362 - The Netatalk Development Team, October 2013