Netatalk is a Linux daemon which provides POSIX-compliant *NIX/*BSD systems with the ability to share printers and files with Apple Macintosh computers.

Netatalk is a freely-available, kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, originally for BSD-derived systems. A *NIX/*BSD system running netatalk is capable of serving many macintosh clients simultaneously as an AppleTalk router, AppleShare file server (AFP), *NIX/*BSD print server, and for accessing AppleTalk printers via Printer Access Protocol (PAP). Included are a number of minor printing and debugging utilities.


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· NEW: afpd: disable continous service feature by default, new option -keepsessions to enable it
· NEW: configure option "--enable-redhat-systemd" for Fedora15 and later. "--enable-redhat" is renamed "--enable-redhat-sysv".
· UPD: afpd: Enhance ACL support detection for volumes: enable them per volume if 1) ACL support compiled in, 2) the volume supports ACLs, 3) the new volume option "noacls" is not set for the volume. The previous behaviour was to enable ACL support for a volume if 1) it was compiled in and 2) the volume supported ACLs. There was no way to disable ACLs for a volume.
· UPD: afpd: add a configurable hold time option to FCE file modification event generation, default is 60 s, new option "fceholdfmod" to change it
· UPD: afpd: add support for new NetBSD quota subsystem, Bug ID 3249879
· FIX: afpd: increase BerkeleyDB locks and lockobjs
· FIX: afpd: create special folder as root
· FIX: afpd: fix compilation error if --enable-ddp is used
· FIX: afpd: More robust IPC reconnect error handling
· FIX: afpd: ACL access checking
· FIX: afpd: fix a possible race condition between SIGCHLD handler and new connection attempts
· FIX: afpd: fix undefined behaviour when more then ~510 connetions where established
· FIX: afpd: fix a crash when searching for a UUID that is not a special local UUID and LDAP support is not compiled in
· FIX: afpd: .volinfo file not created on first volume access if user in rolist
· FIX: afpd: possible crash at startup when registering with Avahi when Avahi is not running
· FIX: afpd: return correct user/group type when mapping UUIDs to names
· FIX: afpd: for directories add DARWIN_ACE_DELETE ACE if DARWIN_ACE_ADD_SUBDIRECTORY is set
· FIX: afpd: afpd crashed when it failed to register with Avahi because eg user service registration is disabled in the Avahi config
· FIX: dbd: function checking and removing malformed ad:ea header files failed to chdir back to the original working directory
· FIX: cnid_dbd: increase BerkeleyDB locks and lockobjs
· FIX: cnid_dbd: implement -d option, deletes CNID db
· FIX: dbd: better detection of local (or SMB/NFS) modifications on AFP volumes
· FIX: suse: initscript return better status
· FIX: Sourcecode distribution: add missing headers
· FIX: Solaris 10: missing dirfd replacement function
· FIX: case-conversion of surrogate pair
· FIX: Compilation error on GNU/kFreeBSD, fixes Bug ID 3392794 and Debian #630349
· FIX: Fix Debian Bug#637025
· FIX: Multiple *BSD compilation compatibility fixes, Bug ID 3380785
· FIX: precompose_w() failed if tail character is decomposed surrogate pair