What is new in afpfs-ng-0.9.2, January 14, 2026

FUSE Client Improvements

• Rearchitected to a one-afpfsd-process-per-mount model for better stability and performance: launch the manager afpfsd process with afpfsd –manager and mount daemons with afpfsd –socket-id \<path>. As before, mount_afpfs or afp_client will launch all daemons automatically. This also enables multiple mounts on macOS with macFUSE, which was not possible before.
• Server connection suspend and resume support in afp_client.
• Can now set log level and log type (syslog/stdout) for the FUSE client.
• macOS Finder xattr support for custom icons and other metadata (requires macFUSE v5.1.3 or later).

afpcmd Client Improvements

• Added a new exit command that detaches from the current volume and returns to the list of volumes.
• When in volume selection mode, use the ls command to list available volumes on the server.
• Made the chmod command work properly.
• Can now set log level for the afpcmd client (always logs to syslog).

AFP Protocol Compliance

• AFP 3.2 Extended Attributes (xattr) support.
• AFP 3.3 Replay Cache support.
• AFP 3.4 compliant xattr error handling.
• Implemented FPEnumerateExt (command 66) for AFP 3.0.

General Improvements

• Removed obsolete workarounds for 20-year-old netatalk bugs.
• Proper support for long UTF-8 volume names in all clients.
• Introduced UAM shorthands for easier use: clrtxt, randnum, dhx2, dhx, etc.
• Converted man pages to mdoc format.
• We now install development files (headers, pkg-config) for libafpclient with Meson.

What’s Changed

• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/65
• build(deps): bump vmactions/netbsd-vm from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/64
• build(deps): bump vmactions/openbsd-vm from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/66
• Enable the mounting of multiple FUSE volumes simultaneously by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/68
• Client support for AFP 3.3 replay cache by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/69
• Use a per-mount afpfsd daemon process structure for all platforms by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/71
• implement log level for the FUSE client by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/72
• install development headers and pkgconfig file for libafpclient by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/74
• build(deps): bump vmactions/freebsd-vm from 1.2.9 to 1.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/77
• build(deps): bump DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action from 21.0.0 to 22.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/78
• fix incorrect dsi_send() calls and shore up error handling by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/80
• Complete support for Extended Attribute reads and writes by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/81
• update the afp_client status command for multiple afpfsd by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/83
• build(deps): bump vmactions/openbsd-vm from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/84
• Remove superfluous permissions declaration from test.yml by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/86
• enable xattr writes with macFUSE as the bug is fixed with v5.1.3 by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/87
• proper definition of AppleTalk Zone length by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/92
• afp_client: properly support all subcommands with manager daemon by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/91
• Improve AFP idle timeout and reconnection handling by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/93
• afpcmd: log to syslog, control log level, bugfixes by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/94
• convert man pages to roff with mdoc macros, drop cmark dependency by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/96
• overhaul logging fidelity, better FUSE error reporting by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/97
• build(deps): bump vmactions/netbsd-vm from 1.2.3 to 1.3.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/98
• build(deps): bump vmactions/openbsd-vm from 1.2.7 to 1.3.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/99
• build(deps): bump vmactions/freebsd-vm from 1.3.0 to 1.3.4 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/100
• Properly handle xattr errors for AFP 3.4 and enumerate for AFP 3.0 by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/102
• refactor FUSE unmount flow to use proper libfuse3 API by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/105
• introduce UAM shorhand names to be used when invoking the clients by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/106
• build(deps): bump vmactions/freebsd-vm from 1.3.4 to 1.3.6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/108
• build(deps): bump vmactions/freebsd-vm from 1.3.6 to 1.3.7 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/110
• store meson logs as job artifacts for each build job by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/111
• print more information on afpfsd child status, and clean up logging routine by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/109
• improve volume selection, reconnection, UTF8 volnames, server type detection by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/112
• clean up obsolete netatalk workaround code by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/115
• afpcmd: introduce exit command for detaching from volume by @rdmark in https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/pull/116

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Netatalk/afpfs-ng/compare/0.9.1…0.9.2

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Release published on 2026-01-13

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