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Netatalk 1.6.1

The Netatalk development team is proud to announce version 1.6.1 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. This allows Unix hosts to act as file, print, and time servers for Apple Macintosh (classic MacOS as well as MacOS X) computers.

The suite contains:

Netatalk is a Free/Open Source Software project and is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Please see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html for the full license text.

News in Netatalk 1.6.1

Netatalk 1.6.1 is a maintenance release for the 1.6 series that fixes various issues in Netatalk:

There are still some known issues with CNID DIDs and the Berkeley DB system. We hope to solve these in the next release.

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 1.6.1 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 as well as success and failure stories. Please write to [email protected].

Availability

Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:

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

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. Main development is happening in the trunk. Well-tested patches are back-ported to branch-netatalk-1-6, which is also the basis for official releases.

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.