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Changes in 2.0.5

• NEW: afpd: Time Machine support with new volume option "tm".

• FIX: papd: Remove variable expansion for BSD printers. Fixes CVE-2008-5718.

• FIX: afpd: .AppleDxxx folders were user accessible if option 'usedots' was set

• FIX: afpd: vetoed files/dirs where still accessible

• FIX: afpd: cnid_resolve: don't return '..' as a valid name.

• FIX: uniconv: -d option wasn't working

Changes in 2.0.4

• REM: remove timeout

• NEW: afpd: DHX2 uams using GNU libgcrypt.

• NEW: afpd: volume options 'illegalseq', 'perm' and 'invisibledots' 'ilegalseq' encode illegal sequence in filename asis, ex "\217-", which is not a valid SHIFT-JIS char, is encoded as U\217 -. 'perm' value OR with the client requested permissions. (help with OSX 10.5 strange permissions). Make dot files visible by default with 'usedots', use 'invisibledots' for keeping the old behavior, ie for OS9 (OSX hide dot files on its own).

• NEW: afpd: volume options allow_hosts/denied hosts

• NEW: afpd: volume options dperm/fperm default directory and file permissions or with server requests.

• NEW: afpd: afpd.conf, allow line continuation with

• NEW: afpd: AppleVolumes.default allow line continuation with

• NEW: afpd: Mac greek encoding.

• NEW: afpd: CJK encoding.

• UPD: afpd: Default UAMs: DHX + DHX2

• FIX: afpd: return the right error in createfile and copyfile if the disk is full.

• FIX: afpd: resolveid return the same error code than OSX if it's a directory

• FIX: afpd: server name check, test for the whole loopback subnet not only 127.0.0.1.

• UPD: afpd: limit comments size to 128 bytes, (workaround for Adobe CS2 bug).

• UPD: afpd: no more daemon icon.

• UPD: usedots, return an invalide name only for .Applexxx files used by netatalk not all files starting with .apple.

• UPD: cnid: increase the number of cnid_dbd slots to 512.

• FIX: cnid: dbd detach the daemon from the control terminal.

• UPD: cnid: never ending Berkeley API changes…

• UPD: cnid: dbd add a timeout when reading data from afpd client.

• UPD: cnid: Don't wait five second after the first error when speaking to the dbd backend.

• FIX: papd: vars use % not $

• FIX: papd: quote chars in popen variables expansion. security fix.

• FIX: papd: papd -d didn't write to stderr.

• FIX: papd: ps comments don't always use ()

• FIX: many compilation errors (solaris, AFS, Tru64, xfs quota…).

Changes in 2.0.3

• NEW: afpd: add a cachecnid option that controls if afpd should use the IDs stored in the AD2 files as cache. Defaults to off.

• UPD: afpd: deal with more than 32 groups.

• FIX: afpd: several catsearch fixes, based on patch from TSUBAKIMOTO Hiroya.

• FIX: afpd: fix a race when a client very quickly reconnects and tries to kill its old session.

• FIX: afpd: OSX style symlink caused problems with Panther clients.

• FIX: afpd: old files with default type didn't show the right icon in finder, from Shlomi Yaakobovich, slightly modified.

• FIX: cnid_check: disable cnid_check if CNID db was configured with transactions and really bail out after the first error.

• FIX: admin-group configure option was broken.

• FIX: several problems with IDs cached in AD2 files.

• FIX: Ignore BIDI in UTF8 hints from OSX.

• FIX: Lots of gcc warning fixes.

• FIX: small configure script changes.

Changes in 2.0.2

• NEW: cnid: Add an indexes check and rebuild, optional for dbd (parameter check default no), standalone program cnid_index for cdb.

• UPD: Enhanced afpd's -v command line switch and added -V for more verbose information

• UPD: uams_gss: build the principal used by uams_gss.so from afpd's configuration, don't use GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE

• UPD: cnid_dbd: add process id in syslog and small clean up

• REM: remove netatalkshorternamelinks.pl cf. SF bug [ 1061396 ] netatalkshorternamelinks.pl broken

• FIX: afpd: check for DenyRead on FPCopyFile

• FIX: afpd: add missing flush for AD2 Metadata on FPCopyFile, SF bug [ 1055691 ] Word 98 OS 9 Saving an existing file

• FIX: afpd: Deal with AFP3 connection and type 2 (non-UTF8) names. reported by Gair Heaton, HI RESOLUTION SYSTEMS

• FIX: afpd: Broken 'crlf' option

• FIX: afpd: fix SF bug [ 1079622 ] afpd/dhx memory bug, by Ralf Schuchardt

• FIX: afpd: Return an error if we cannot get the db stamp in afp_openvol.

• FIX: afpd: Fix slp registration with Solaris9 slpd, from hat at fa2.so-net.ne.jp

Changes in 2.0.1

• NEW: --enable-debian configure option. Will install /etc/init.d/atalk to get not in conflict with standard debian /etc/init.d/netatalk. Reads netatalk.conf from $ETCDIR and not from /etc/default/

• UPD: Disable logger code by default. Log to syslog instead

• UPD: changed netatalk.conf default settings to prevent problems with AppleTalk zone names containing spaces

• FIX: insecure tempfile handling bug in etc2ps.sh, found by Trustix, CAN-2004-0974.

• REM: remove add_netatalk_printer and netatalk.template from stable branch until fixed. (possible symlink vulnerabilities)

• FIX: afpd: set hasBeenInited in default finder info. This bug caused endless finder refreshes with OS9 finder if the noadouble option was used. From TSUBAKIMOTO Hiroya.

• FIX: afpd: fix a bug in default CREATOR/TYPE handling. Due to this bug the type/creator mappings in AppleVolumes.system were ignored, causing problems i.e. with OS9 clients.

• FIX: AppleVolumes.system: By default don't define a CREATOR/TYPE for a file of unknown type.

• FIX: fix two Tru64 UNIX compilation errors, from Burkhard Schmidt bs AT cpfs.mpg.de

• FIX: afpd: FPMapId wasn't using UTF8 for groups if requested by client.

Changes in 2.0.0

• UPD: afpd: add an error message if -ipaddr parameter cannot be parsed

• UPD: updated documentation

• FIX: afpd: fix a file descriptor and memory leak with OSX ._ resource fork

• FIX: afpd: Prevent overwriting a file by renaming a file in the same directory to the same name. Won't work with OSX, the dest file gets deleted by OSX first.

• FIX: sometimes '0' was used instead of 0 for creator/type

• FIX: removed setpgrp check from configure, we don't use it anymore and it doesn't work with cross compile.

• FIX: fix for Solaris "make maintainer-clean", from Alexander Barton

• FIX: fix username matching bug in afppasswd. from kanai at nadmin dot org

• FIX: reworked username check a little. Depending on the UAM, the wrong username _could_ have been selected.