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Netatalk 1.5 The New Year's Release

The Netatalk development team is proud to announce the final 1.5 release of the Netatalk File Sharing suite. Netatalk is a collection of server programs and utilities for handling various protocols employed by Apple Macintosh computers on Unix compatible systems. The suite contains

News in Netatalk 1.5.0

Since the early pre-release versions of Netatalk 1.5, Netatalk has been hosted and developed on SourceForge ( http://sourceforge.net/). This offers a great variety of resources and tools to the project and helped to open up the development process.

Starting with version 1.5pre7, Netatalk is now licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is used by many Open Source/Free Software projects as their license of choice. We chose this license to allow us to develop Netatalk as freely as possible and to ensure that Netatalk will stay free in the future.

Netatalk now makes use of the GNU autotools (autoconf, automake, and libtool) for building. This increases the portability of Netatalk as well as the flexibility of the build system, and helps make the whole build process more transparent. Ports to new platforms and enhancement to the source code can now be handled much easier.

Netatalk 1.5 features a new experimental DID tracking system, based on Berkeley DB3 files. The scheme, known as CNID-DB, is intended to end various problems concerning aliases and disappearing files encountered in earlier versions of Netatalk. This new DID scheme is scheduled to become the default DID in future Netatalk versions.

Apart from these larger changes, a lot of work has gone into the Netatalk source code and build process and we feel that the quality of the code base has greatly improved since earlier releases.

Future Enhancements

Netatalk is an actively developed product and its functionality will be enhanced in future versions. Some of the upcoming features include:

Supported Platforms

As of Netatalk 1.5.0 the following operating systems are supported:

Netatalk may compile and run on other operating systems as well, but it is not well-tested on those. We welcome patches and suggestions for enhancing the portability of Netatalk, though.

Availability

Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8642

Netatalk tar-balls can be found at http://me.in-berlin.de/~jroger/netatalk/. Binaries for Debian GNU/Linux will be added to the unstable distribution soon and will be available at every Debian non-US mirror. Binaries for other operating systems will be made available at the SourceForge site http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/ as time permits.

Netatalk is also available via anonymous CVS. See the SourceForge project site for anonymous CVS instructions. The main development is happening in the trunk. Well-tested patches are back-ported to branch-1-5-prep branch, from which the tar-balls are created.

Contact

For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at: http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/

The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is located at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/

The Netatalk development team can be reached via the mailing list [email protected]. For subscription information and archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.

[email protected] is a mailing list for Netatalk system administrators. For subscription information and archives see the Netatalk web page.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all contributors to the Netatalk project for their commitment. Without the many suggestions, bug and problem reports, patches, and reviews this project wouldn't be where it is.

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