[Netatalk-announce] Netatalk 3.1.8 is available

[Ralph B. <sl...@sa...>]

Netatalk 3.1.8
==============

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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* AFP Spotlight Support with Gnome Tracker:
  https://projects.gnome.org/tracker/

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 3.1.8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* FIX: CNID/MySQL: Quote UUID table names, bug #585
* FIX: Crash in cnid_metad, bug #593
* UPD: Update Unicode support to version 8.0.0
* FIX: larger server side copyfile buffer for improved IO performance,
       bug #599
* NEW: afpd: new option "ea = samba". Use Samba vfs_streams_xattr
       compatible xattrs which means adding a 0 byte at the end of
       xattrs.
* FIX: remove #541 workaround patch. There was this problem with only early
       Fedora 20.
* FIX: rpmbuild fails on Fedora x86_64, bug #598
* FIX: Listen on IPv6 wildcard address by default, bug #602
* FIX: FCE protocol version 1 packets, bug #603
* UPD: Update list of BerkeleyDB versions searched at configure time

Supported Platforms
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As of Netatalk 3.0 the following operating systems are supported:

 * FreeBSD
 * Linux
 * OpenBSD
 * NetBSD
 * Solaris and derivates

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 net...@li....

Availability
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Netatalk tar-balls can be found at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?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
net...@li....  For subscription information and
archives see Netatalk's SourceForge project page.

net...@li... 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.

 - The Netatalk Development Team, December 2015