-Netatalk 3.0.3
+Netatalk 3.1.1
==============
-The Netatalk development team is proud to announce version 3.0.3 of
-the Netatalk File Sharing suite. This is the latest update to the 3.0
-release series. All users are encouraged to upgrade their systems to 3.0.3.
+The Netatalk development team is proud to announce the seconf release of
+the Netatalk 3.1 release series. Early adopters are encouraged to update
+production systems.
Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP fileserver.
A *NIX/*BSD system running Netatalk is capable of serving many Macintosh
* cnid_dbd - the CNID database daemon serving CNIDs for AFP volumes
* various supporting programs and utilities
-Summary of major new features and enhancements in 3.0
+Summary of major new features and enhancements in 3.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* New ini style configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous
- configuration files
-* New default AppleDouble backend using filesystem Extended Attributes,
- conversion from AppleDouble v2 is done automatically on access
-* New service controller process "netatalk" responsible for starting and
- restarting afpd and cnid_metad as necessary
-* AppleTalk support has been removed
-* Coherent cross-platform locking with Solaris CIFS server
+* AFP Spotlight Support with Gnome Tracker:
+ https://projects.gnome.org/tracker/
+
+Please refer to the online manual for details about compiling Netatalk
+with Spotlight support and how to configure:
+
+http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/installation.html#compiling-netatalk
+
+http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/configuration.html
Please make sure to read the upgrading section in the Netatalk online
-manual before trying to upgrade your system to 3.0!
+manual before trying to upgrade your system from version 2:
- http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.0/htmldocs/upgrade.html
+http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/upgrade.html
License
~~~~~~~
the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). The full license text is available
at:
- http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
+http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
-Changes in 3.0.3
+Changes in 3.1.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* UPD: afpd: Increase default DSI server quantum to 1 MB
-* UPD: bundled libevent2 is now static
-* NEW: --with-lockfile=PATH configure option for specifying an
- alternative path for the netatalk lockfile.
-* UPD: systemd service file use PIDFile and ExecReload.
- From FR #70.
-* UPD: RedHat sysvinit: rm graceful, reimplement reload, add condrestart
-* FIX: Couldn't create folders on FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS fileystems.
- Fixed bug #491.
-* FIX: Fix an issue with user homes when user home directory has not the
- same name as the username.
- Fixes bug #497.
-* UPD: Fix PAM config install, new default installation dir is
- $sysconfdir/pam.d/. Add configure option --with-pam-confdir
- to specify alternative path.
-* NEW: AFP stats about active session via dbus IPC. Client side python
- program `afpstats`. Requires dbus, dbus-glib any python-dbus.
- configure option --dbus-sysconf-dir for specifying dbus
- system security configuration files.
- New option 'afpstats' (default: no) which determines whether
- to enable the feature or not.
-* NEW: configure option --with-init-dir
-* NEW: dtrace probes, cf include/atalk/afp_dtrace.d for available
- probes.
-* UPD: Reload groups when reloading volumes. FR #71.
-* FIX: Attempt to read read-only ._ rfork results in disconnect.
- Fixes bug #502.
-* FIX: File's ressource fork can't be read if metadata EA is missing.
- Fixes bug #501.
-* FIX: Conversion from adouble v2 to ea for directories.
- Fixes bug #500.
-* FIX: Error messages when mounting read-only filesystems.
- Fixes bug #504.
-* FIX: Permissions of ._ AppleDouble ressource fork after conversion
- from v2 to ea.
- Fixes bug #505.
-* UPD: Use FreeBSD sendfile() capability to send protocol header.
- From FR #75.
-* UPD: Increase IO size when sendfile() is not used.
- From FR #76.
-* FIX: Can't set Finder label on symlinked folder with "follow symlinks = yes".
- Fixes bug #508.
-* FIX: Setting POSIX ACLs on Linux
- Fixes bug #506.
-* FIX: "ad ls" segfault if requested object is not in an AFP volume.
- Fixes bug #496.
-
-Changes in 3.0.2
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* NEW: afpd: Put file extension type/creator mapping back in which had
- been removed in 3.0.
-* NEW: afpd: new option 'ad domain'. From FR #66.
-* FIX: volumes and home share with symlinks in the path
-* FIX: Copying packages to a Netatalk share could fail, bug #469
-* FIX: Reloading volumes from config file was broken. Fixes bug #474.
-* FIX: Fix _device-info service type registered with dns-sd API
-* FIX: Fix pathname bug for FCE modified event.
-* FIX: Remove length limitation of options like "valid users".
- Fixes bug #473.
-* FIX: Dont copy our metadata EA in copyfile(). Fixes bug #452.
-* FIX: Fix an error where catalog search gave incomplete results.
- Fixes bug #479.
-* REM: Remove TimeMachine volume used size FCE event.
-* UPD: Add quoting support to '[in]valid users' option. Fixes bug #472.
-* FIX: Install working PAM config on Solaris 11. Fixes bug #481.
-* FIX: Fix a race condition between dbd and the cnid_dbd daemon
- which could result in users being disconnected from volumes
- when dbd was scanning their volumes. Fixes bug #477.
-* FIX: Netatalk didn't start when the last line of the config file
- afp.conf wasn't terminated by a newline. Fixes bug #476.
-* NEW: Add a new volumes option 'follow symlinks'. The default setting is
- false, symlinks are not followed on the server. This is the same
- behaviour as OS X's AFP server.
- Setting the option to true causes afpd to follow symlinks on the
- server. symlinks may point outside of the AFP volume, currently
- afpd doesn't do any checks for "wide symlinks".
-* FIX: Automatic AppleDouble conversion to EAs failing for directories.
- Fixes bug #486.
-* FIX: dbd failed to convert appledouble files of symlinks.
- Fixes bug #490.
-
-Changes in 3.0.1
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* NEW: afpd: Optional "ldap uuid encoding = string | ms-guid" parameter to
- afp.conf, allowing for usage of the binary objectGUID fields from
- Active Directory.
-* FIX: afpd: Fix a Solaris 10 SPARC sendfilev bug
-* FIX: afpd: Fix a crash on FreeBSD
-* FIX: afpd: Fixes open file handle refcounting bug which was reported as
- being unable to play movies off a Netatalk AFP share.
- Bug ID 3559783.
-* FIX: afpd: Fix a possible data corruption when reading from and writing
- to the server simultaniously under load
-* FIX: Fix possible alignment violations due to bad casts
-* FIX: dbd: Fix logging
-* FIX: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support for *BSD
-* FIX: handling of '/' and ':' in volume name
-* UPD: Install relevant includes necessary for building programs with
- installed headers and shared lib libatalk
-* UPD: libevent configure args to pick up installed version. Removed
- configure arg --disable-libevent, added configure args
- --with-libevent-header|lib.
-* UPD: gentoo initscript: merge from portage netatalk.init,v 1.1
-* REM: Remove --with-smbsharemodes configure option, it was an
- empty stub not yet implemented
-
-Changes in 3.0
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* UPD: afpd: force read only mode if cnid scheme is last
-* REM: afpd: removed global option "icon"
-* FIX: CNID path for user homes
-
-Changes in 3.0 beta2
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* UPD: Solaris and friends: Replace initscript with SMF manifest
-* FIX: Solaris and friends: resource fork handling
-
-Changes in 3.0 beta1
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* UPD: afpd: Performance tuning of read/write AFP operations. New option
- "afp read locks" (default: no) which disables that the server
- applies UNIX byte range locks to regions of files in AFP read and
- write calls.
-* UPD: apple_dump: Extended Attributes AppleDouble support.
- (*BSD is not supported yet)
-
-Changes in 3.0 alpha3
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* NEW: afpd: Per volume "login message", NetAFP bug ID #18
-* NEW: afpd: Cross-platform locking (share modes) on Solaris and derivates
- with Solaris CIFS/SMB server. Uses new Solaris fcntl F_SHARE share
- reservation locking primitives. Enabled by default, set global
- "solaris share reservations" option to false to disable it.
-* NEW: ad: ad set subcommand for changing Mac metadata on the server
-* UPD: unix charset is UTF8 by default
- vol charset is same value as unix charset by default
-* UPD: .AppleDesktop/ are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
- (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
- automatically moved
-* FIX: afpd: Server info packet was malformed resulting in broken
- server names being displayed on clients
-* FIX: afpd: Byte order detection. Fixes an error where Netatalk on
- OpenIndiana returned wrong volume size information.
-
-Changes in 3.0 alpha2
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* UPD: afpd: Store '.' as is and '/' as ':' on the server, don't
- CAP hexencode as "2e" and "2f" respectively
-* UPD: afdp: Automatic name conversion, renaming files and directories
- containing CAP sequences to their not enscaped forms
-* UPD: afpd: Correct handling of user homes and users without homes
-* UPD: afpd: Perform complete automatic adouble:v2 to adouble:ea conversion
- as root. Previously only unlinking the adouble:v2 file was done as root
-* UPD: dbd: -C option removes CAP encoding
-* UPD: Add graceful option to RedHat init script
-* UPD: Add --disable-bundled-libevent configure options When set to yes,
- we rely on a properly installed version on libevent CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
- should be set properly to pick that up
-* UPD: Run ldconfig on Linux at the end of make install
-* FIX: afpd: ad cp on appledouble = ea volumes
-* FIX: dbd: ignore ._ appledouble files
-* REM: Volumes options "use dots" and "hex encoding"
-
-Changes in 3.0 alpha1
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* NEW: Central configuration file afp.conf which replaces all previous files
-* NEW: netatalk: service controller starting and restarting afpd and cnid_metad
- as necessary
-* NEW: afpd: Extended Attributes AppleDouble backend (default)
-* UPD: CNID databases are stored in $localstatedir/netatalk/CNID
- (default: /var/netatalk/CNID), databases found in AFP volumes are
- automatically moved
-* UPD: Start scripts and service manifests have been changed to only start
- the new netatalk service controller process
-* UPD: afpd: UNIX privileges and use dots enabled by default
-* UPD: afpd: Support for arbitrary AFP volumes using variable expansion has been
- removed
-* UPD: afpd: afp_voluuid.conf and afp_signature.conf location has been
- changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/ (default: /var/netatalk/)
-* UPD: afpd: default server messages dir changed to $localstatedir/netatalk/msg/
-* UPD: dbd: new option -C for conversion from AppleDouble v2 to ea
-* REM: AppleTalk support has been removed
-* REM: afpd: SLP and AFP proxy support have been removed
-* REM: afpd: legacy file extension to type/creator mapping has been removed
-* REM: afpd: AppleDouble backends v1, osx and sfm have been removed
-
+* FIX: Add asprint() compatibility function for systems lacking it
+* FIX: Fix ressource fork name conversion. Bug #534.
+* FIX: Fix a bug where only the first configured UAM was loaded.
+ Bug #537.
+* UPD: Add support for AFP 3.4. From FR #85.
+* FIX: Registering with mDNS crashed. Bug #540
+* FIX: Saving from applications like Photoshop may fail, because
+ removing the ressource fork AppleDouble file failed. Bug #542.
+* FIX: dbd: remove orphaned ._ AppleDouble files. Bug #549.
+* NEW: afpd: Automatic conversion of ._ AppleDouble files
+ created by OS X. Bug #550.
+* FIX: afpd: Fix a crash in of_closefork(). Bug #551.
+* FIX: dbd: Don't print message "Ignoring ._file" for every ._ file.
+ Bug #552.
+* FIX: afpd: Don't flood log with failed sys_set_ea() messages.
Supported Platforms
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports,
patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.
- - The Netatalk Development Team, January 2013
+ - The Netatalk Development Team, March 2014