[Afpfs-ng-devel] Announcing afpfs-ng 0.8

[Alex d. <ale...@gm...>]

Thank you to everyone who has submitted bug reports, patches and other  
contributions.  afpfs-ng 0.8 is available for download.

- Alex



What is new in afpfs-ng-0.8, February 18, 2008
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1. New command line (non-FUSE) tools:

a) batch mode of afpcmd

This lets you do simple transfers, eg.

 > afpcmd afp://user:pass@server/alexdevries/linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2
Connected to server Cubalibre using UAM "DHX2"
Connected to volume alexdevries
     Getting file /linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2
Transferred 39172170 bytes in 2.862 seconds. (13687 kB/s)

b) interactive mode of afpcmd

This is file transfer tool similiar to an ftp client.  Has (local)  
filename
completion and command history.

c) get status tool, afpgetstatus

A simple tool to get the status information of a server without  
logging in.


2. FUSE client improvements

Continuation of FUSE client development, including the introduction of  
a new tool
called mount_afp, which has the same syntax as in Mac OS X.  Better  
status and
post-deployment debugging, proper forced or unforced exit and other  
bugs.


3. Protocol fixes

Many protocol enhancements and bug fixes, including: support for AFP  
2.x, multiple
servers, session keys, signatures, meta information, chmod and chown  
fixes.
Tested against Mac OS X, OS9, Airport and netatalk.

File transfer performance is now similiar or faster to Mac OS X.


4. Development library

The source code of afpfs-ng has now been changed to a library  
(libafpclient) and
support for multiple clients (examples are FUSE, afpcmd,  
afpgetstatus).  With this
library, more AFP clients (GIO, KIO) can be built with limited pain.   
This API is
not yet stabilized.

5. Other

FUSE client fully validated on Linux, builds on FreeBSD.
Command line client builds and runs on Linux, runs but is weakly  
tested on FreeBSD
and Mac OS X.

There are manpages.