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@JDW I can categorize the Netatalk “customers” in three rough categories: 1. Enterprise. Specifically, IT or SRE folks that operate large scale deployments at offices or schools. This category is probably shrinking, but they still exist and are pretty vocal. 2. Regular home users. Folks using...

@JDW You are absolutely right, I've been neck-deep in this project for three years now so I sometimes forget that not everyone knows everything about it. :) The AI did a pretty good job at summarizing the pros and cons. I might steal some of those blurbs for the homepage or wiki landing page...

@V.Yakob Wonderful, thanks for sharing! Interesting, I didn't know launchd daemon management procedure had changed. Do you have a GitHub account? The best way to track this would be if you could file a bug over at the issue tracker. We can confirm the details and fix it in a future release...

@V.Yakob This page has some hints how to build on macOS with Homebrew: https://netatalk.io/stable/htmldocs/compile#build-macos In short, the xsltproc tool is in the `libxslt` bottle.

4.0.0 is out now! https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/releases/tag/netatalk-4-0-0 If you are a brave early adopter, why don't you take it for a spin today? :)

Netatalk 4.0.0 beta is available as a Docker image now. It comes with all the best parts of the 3.x release series, and the 2.x release series that you all know and love! https://hub.docker.com/r/netatalk/netatalk If you have a host computer with an AppleTalk network stack (Linux or NetBSD)...

Netatalk 2.4.8 is available. I have not been announcing the last few releases here on the forums, because they were strictly addressing issues in the build system and packaging. However, this last one is a security release, specifically for the bundled WolfSSL library. If you're building with...

We are now looking for alpha testers of Netatalk 4.0.0. It's a one-way migration path from Netatalk 2.x, so please upgrade only on AFP volumes that have backups, or create fresh volumes for testing. 4.0.0 has a handful of new dependencies, not related to AppleTalk. Notably, Nettle and the...

Macproxy, the best* way to browse the modern web on ancient browsers, has a new release: v24.8 This is a maintenance release, since the Python dependencies were starting to age and accumulate security advisories. But, it also comes with a brand new "official" Docker image. Pull it from Docker...

All of the relevant code from 2.x has now been restored to the main development branch, and the build system has been retooled to build it. The next step will be to adapt the various interfaces that were refactored or simplified during the 3.0 release cycle. Notably, the daemon child process...

The current Netatalk release series (2.x and 3.x) are finally in a good place where we have a modern and flexible build system, with fully functioning user authentication. I can finally pivot to what I wanted to do in the first place: consolidate the best of 2.x and 3.x into one Mac file sharing...

Netatalk 2.4.4 is available. This is yet again a build system bugfix release, working towards stabilizing Debian deb packaging. If Netatalk is working fine for you, take this is an optional upgrade. At this point, I consider the current Netatalk release series (2.4.x, 3.2.x) stable and "done"...

Netatalk 2.x's afpd is not aware of macOS / OSX filesystem EA (Extended Attributes). It stores filesystem metadata in the legacy AppleDouble v2 format by default, which are binary metadata files living in dot-folders. This article is a good introduction...

The location of the config files depends on how the software was installed, so it's not something that can be explicitly documented in the manual. The most sure way to know is to ask netatalk directly. If you have installed netatalk 2.x, run afpd -V. This is an example from my Sonoma MBA: %...

Version 2.4.3 is out now. This is mainly a Meson build system feature and bugfix release, as part of my effort to deliver Debian deb packaging of Netatalk. It fixes fun stuff such as Kerberos API checks, 64 bit architecture detection, library runpaths, pkgconfdir overrides, and support for...

Thank you! If anyone wants to lean in, the ticket is https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1204

From my perspective, your opinion as a user is the most valuable of all. :) I agree that macipgw not being updated for 9 years is worrying. It's unlikely to build cleanly on modern systems anymore. There are pros and cons to integrating macipgw into netatalk proper. Some practical concerns...

How do you imagine macipgw could be best incorporated with netatalk? What is the drawback of the current situation where macipgw is its own project that you can install and run if you need it? How would the user experience improve if the two projects were more closely integrated? I'm genuinely...

Continuing the saga of old-school encryption in Netatalk, we released version 2.4.2 today which addresses a licensing issue raised by the Debian project. As a result, we have reverted to relying on OpenSSL/LibreSSL with the bundled SSL provider... for the CAST algorithm only. This is only a...

Netatalk 2.4.1 has been released today! It contains a patch for a published CVE vulnerability, so it's recommended to upgrade your 2.x deployment, especially if serves a public IP. We also restore support for SLP (Server Location Protocol) in the Meson build system, for those who you like to...