Netatalk 2.1.6
The Netatalk development team is proud to announce version 2.1.6 of the Netatalk File Sharing suite. This is the last update to the old stable 2.1 release series. All users are encouraged to upgrade their systems to 2.1.6.
Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP fileserver. It also provides a kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite. A *NIX/*BSD system running Netatalk is capable of serving many Macintosh clients simultaneously as an AppleShare file server (AFP), AppleTalk router, *NIX/*BSD print server, and for accessing AppleTalk printers via Printer Access Protocol (PAP). Included are a number of minor printing and debugging utilities.
The suite contains:
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afpd - a file server that implements the Apple Filing Protocol, allowing clients running MacOS to access Unix file servers
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atalkd - an implementation of the AppleTalk protocol
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papd - a print server that enables Macintosh computers to access printers connected to Unix servers
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megatron - a tool to convert files in Macintosh specific formats like BinHex, AppleSingle, or MacBinary into files readable by Unix computers
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various supporting programs and utilities
License
Netatalk is a Free/Open Source Software project and is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The full license text is available at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Changes in 2.1.6
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FIX: afpd: Fix for LDAP user cache corruption
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FIX: afpd: Fix for not shown ACLs for when filesyem uid or gid couldn’t be resolved because (eg deleted users/groups)
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FIX: afpd: generate mersenne primes for DHX2 UAM once at startup, not for every login, backport from 2.2.0
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FIX: gentoo: cannot set $CNID_CONFIG
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FIX: ubuntu: servername was empty
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FIX: Solaris: configure script failed to enable DDP module
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FIX: AppleDouble buffer overrun by extremely long filename
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UPD: afpd: return version info with machine type in DSIGetStatus
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UPD: dbd: use on-disk temporary rebuild db instead of in-memory db
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UPD: suse: initscript update
Supported Platforms
As of Netatalk 2.2 the following operating systems are supported:
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FreeBSD
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Linux
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OpenBSD
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NetBSD
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[Open]Solaris
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Tru64 (TCP only)
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:
Netatalk is also available via anonymous git. See the SourceForge project site for anonymous git instructions.
Contact
For more information about Netatalk, see its web page at:
The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is located at:
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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The Netatalk Development Team, September 2011
