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Netatalk 4.5.2 is available!

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

This is a bugfix version that fixes a performance regression in the DSI transport layer caused by the security patches in version 4.5.1. In order to fix this, we made a ABI breaking change – dsi_writeinit changed to a pointer handoff signature – and consequently the libatalk soversion is bumped to 21.

A suite of hardening fixes to the EA and Spotlight code is also included.

All users of previous Netatalk versions are encouraged to upgrade to 4.5.2.

Installation

netatalk-4.5.2.tar.xz is the Netatalk source distribution. See INSTALL for required dependencies, then build with:

# Extract the source
tar -xf netatalk-4.5.2.tar.xz
cd netatalk-4.5.2

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

# Install
sudo meson install -C build

netatalk-4.5.2.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-4.5.2.wbm.gz

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/compare/netatalk-4-5-1…netatalk-4-5-2

Downloads

Footnotes

Release published on 2026-09-06

Generated from GitHub Release Notes