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Netatalk 3.1.10

The Netatalk development team is proud to announce latest release of the Netatalk 3.1 release series. Users are encouraged to update their servers to the 3.1 release series which is the stable and supported version for production systems.

Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP fileserver. A *NIX/*BSD system running Netatalk is capable of serving many Macintosh clients simultaneously as an AppleShare file server (AFP).

The suite contains:

  • netatalk - the main server service controller

  • afpd - the AFP file server daemin

  • cnid_metad - the CNID database multiplexing daemon

  • cnid_dbd - the CNID database daemon serving CNIDs for AFP volumes

  • various supporting programs and utilities

Summary of major new features and enhancements in 3.1

Please refer to the online manual for details about compiling Netatalk with Spotlight support and how to configure:

http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/installation.html#compiling-netatalk

http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/configuration.html

Please make sure to read the upgrading section in the Netatalk online manual before trying to upgrade your system from version 2:

http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/upgrade.html

License

Netatalk is a Free/Open Source Software project and is released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). The full license text is available at:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

Changes in 3.1.10

Supported Platforms

As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:

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:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.html?group_id=8642

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:

http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/

The project is hosted at SourceForge. The SourceForge project page is located at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/

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.