Netatalk 4.5.1 is available!

The Netatalk team is proud to announce the latest version in the Netatalk 4.5 release series.

This is a bugfix release that includes patches for the below four security vulnerabilities, big-endian support in SpotlightRPC, and a handful of other improvements.

CVE-2026-62318, CVE-2026-62319, CVE-2026-62320, CVE-2026-62321

All users of previous Netatalk versions are encouraged to upgrade to 4.5.1.

Installation

netatalk-4.5.1.tar.xz is the Netatalk source distribution. See INSTALL for required dependencies, then build with:

# Extract the source
tar -xf netatalk-4.5.1.tar.xz
cd netatalk-4.5.1

# Configure and build
meson setup build
meson compile -C build

# Install
sudo meson install -C build

netatalk-4.5.1.wbm.gz is the Webmin module tarball. To install the module:

# Adjust the path to match your Webmin installation
/usr/share/webmin/install-module.pl netatalk-4.5.1.wbm.gz

What’s Changed

[4.5] meson: bump to development version 4.5.1 by @rdmark in #3050
[4.5] afpd: explicit header include in file.c by @rdmark in #3125
[4.5] afpd: make SpotlightRPC big-endian safe by @rdmark in #3127
[4.5] docs: replace the C font style with CR in cmark manpages by @rdmark in #3126
[4.5] ci: set Flamegraph job condition to false by @rdmark in #3128
release version 4.5.1 by @rdmark in #3185
[4.5] docs: make the manpage generation script portable by @rdmark in #3188