What is new in afpfs-ng-0.9.1, December 7, 2025

1. FUSE client improvements

Support for FUSE 3.0+ on Linux and FreeBSD, and macFUSE on macOS, while maintaining compatibility with FUSE 2.9.9.

Implemented FUSE commands for create, flush, chown, truncate, and rename.

Enabled multi threaded FUSE operation handling for better performance and stability, while introducing better thread safety across the board.

Volume name labels and proper volume creation time support in macFUSE.

On FreeBSD, afpfsd can now be started on the fly by the mount_afpfs tool.

Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements.

1. afpcmd client improvements

Introduced a new copy (cp) command for file transfers on the AFP volume.

Shored up error handling for the cd, mv, put, and touch commands.

Now mapping error codes to human readable strings for better user feedback.

Fixed bug with 8 char passwords when using Cleartxt Password UAM.

The dir/ls command now takes an optional dir to list instead of the current directory.

1. Meson build system enhancements

Support for libedit alongside readline for afpcmd builds, commonly used on Alpine Linux and elsewhere.

Always build afpgetstatus tool even without ncurses/readline.

Fail the build if neither afpcmd nor the FUSE client can be built.

1. Miscellaneous improvements

Introduced stylistic coding standards for C, Meson, Markdown, YAML, and shell script code. The new codefmt.sh script can be used to automatically format code.

Fix all security and reliability bugs reported by SonarQube static analysis.

Now also compiling and running on NetBSD (FUSE only) and OpenBSD (afpcmd only).

What’s Changed

• use libbsd for BSD extensions to glibc by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/27
• afpcmd: consistently use file descriptor to access file in com_get_file() by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/31
• use specific base image semantic versions in CI workflow by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/32
• Fix SonarQube reliability bugs by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/33
• Fix buffer overflow in afp_getsrvrparms_reply volume parsing by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/35
• libafpclient: fix static analyzer warning in string termination by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/36
• Port downstream patches from the Fedora Project by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/39
• Introduce code formatting rules and reformat the whole codebase by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/37
• pull in the original GNU copyright notice from readline by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/40
• Bump actions/checkout from 5.0.0 to 6.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/45
• Bump DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action from 20.0.0 to 21.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/44
• Enable multi-threaded FUSE to avoid frequent deadlocks by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/47
• remove unused and bitrotted C source files by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/48
• afpcmd: more sturdy logic when moving files and dirs by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/50
• afpcmd: enable dir/ls to take an argument for dir to list by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/51
• afpcmd: show test menu when built with debug, plus cleanup by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/54
• handle 8 char ClearTxt UAM passwords by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/55
• afpcmd: introduce a copy/cp command by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/56
• Bump vmactions/freebsd-vm from 1.2.4 to 1.2.8 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/58
• afpcmd: improve error reporting and handling by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/57
• Fix race conditions and thread safety issues in DSI request handling by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/59
• FreeBSD compatibility in start_afpfsd() by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/60
• support for libedit as an alternative to readline by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/61
• a grab bag of stability improvements by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/62
• support fuse3 in the AFP FUSE client by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/63

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/45

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/compare/0.9.0…0.9.1

Downloads

• afpfs-ng-0.9.1.tar.xz (0.1 MB)
• afpfs-ng-0.9.1.tar.xz.sha256sum (0.0 MB)

Footnotes

Release published on 2025-12-07

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