Netatalk Client v0.9.5

Note: With this release version onwards, this project is now called Netatalk Client. The names of tools and libraries are unchanged from afpfs-ng to signal continuity and (partial) compatibility.

AFP Client Library Improvements

• Support for the SRP UAM (Secure Remote Password), which is the most modern and secure password-based authentication method in the AFP protocol: supported by Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Netatalk 4.5 and later
• Harden and bugfix libafpclient UAM handling code
• We now detect 2000s era Mac OS X servers, Time Capsules, and Windows (SFM, PCMacLan) servers
• Improved compatibility with modern Apple AFP servers and Time Capsule, including FinderInfo and ResourceFork handling, Time Capsule-friendly file creation and fork writes, and support for AFP file exchange operations used by safe-save workflows.
• AFP connection attempts now respect a timeout instead of blocking indefinitely, with a longer default timeout for Time Capsule servers to tolerate disk spin-up.
• Disable TCP Nagle on AFP connections for more responsive interactive and metadata-heavy workloads.

Stateless Client Library Improvements

• Allow library consumers to register a persistent logging callback with context and syslog severity. Local libafpsl diagnostics and structured logs returned by every afpsld command use the same callback.
• Add reusable metadata replacement and transfer helpers to libafpsl, with auto, filesystem-xattr, macOS AppleDouble, and Netatalk AppleDouble storage modes and non-fatal warning flags for non-interactive consumers.
• Add stateless APIs for generic extended attributes, FinderInfo, and ResourceFork metadata.
• Bind stateless volume operations to authenticated sessions and add explicit session resume support for long-lived clients such as KIO workers.

afpcmd Client Improvements

• Pagination of long directory listings where we previously truncated the output at 256 entries.
• Preserve FinderInfo, ResourceFork, and generic extended attributes when transferring files, with selectable local metadata storage modes.
• Add xattr, finderinfo, and resourcefork commands for inspecting and modifying AFP metadata interactively.
• Add per-command recursive mode for interactive get, put, cp, chmod, and rm commands.
• Recover interactive sessions more reliably after idle server disconnects.
• Escape control characters in path output so unusual server-side filenames cannot corrupt terminal output.

FUSE Client Improvements

• Better macOS Finder compatibility through ResourceFork, FinderInfo, and generic extended attribute operations in macFUSE.
• Support Darwin rename and exchange callbacks, including safer Finder-style save operations that preserve stable file IDs where the server supports AFP file exchange.
• Restore reconnection after afp_client suspend and afp_client resume; suspended mounts now stay suspended until an explicit resume command.
• Avoid daemon termination during FUSE wakeups and unmount handling on platforms where SIGPIPE could otherwise arrive before libfuse installs its own handler.

What’s Changed

• touch up codefm.sh script with return code and stderr redirection by @rdmark in #172
• remove some unreachable code in the FUSE client by @rdmark in #184
• restructure UAM code into separate files by @rdmark in #194
• retry read/select on EINTR in FUSE client/daemon socket I/O by @rdmark in #197
• add SRP User Authentication Method by @rdmark in #196
• reduce log verbosity by guarding afp_main_loop debug logs with DEBUG macros by @rdmark in #201
• fix use-after-free in afp_unmount_volume by detaching after FUSE unmount by @rdmark in #202
• detect 2000s era Macs and Time Capsule machine types by @rdmark in #203
• libafpclient: detect Windows hosts by machine name by @rdmark in #210
• rebrand project to Netatalk Client by @rdmark in #223
• refactor afp_client.1 man page for clarity by @rdmark in #224
• replace commented out code with FIXMEs by @rdmark in #208
• fuse: bound client response string appends by @rdmark in #225
• bump libafpclient soversion to v1 by @rdmark in #227
• declare soversion v1 for libafpsl shared library by @rdmark in #236
• fix: add bounds check before memcpy in server.c by @orbisai0security in #233
• lib: harden AFP reply block parsing by @rdmark in #237
• handle SRP UAM login failed error by @rdmark in #238
• remove redundant afpcmd internal URL parsing self tests by @rdmark in #242
• compatibility with modern Apple AFP servers by @rdmark in #226
• route Apple xattrs through fork metadata by @rdmark in #243
• unified cleanup routine in appledouble_open to avoid memory leaks by @rdmark in #244
• fuse: harden secrets management in the client mount helper by @rdmark in #245
• introduce a global text sanitizer utility function by @rdmark in #246
• fuse: harden manager IPC validation by @rdmark in #247
• afpcmd: add per-command recursive operations by @rdmark in #248
• fuse: safe status message construction by @rdmark in #249
• full-featured logging interface over IPC for the Stateless library by @rdmark in #250
• libafpsl: add reusable metadata transfer helpers by @rdmark in #254
• bring protocol definitions up to date with AFP 3.4 by @rdmark in #256
• harden client logging format handling by @rdmark in #264
• introduce compatibility macro for unused attribute by @rdmark in #266
• bind stateless operations to authenticated sessions by @rdmark in #267
• introduce auto metadata mode that aligns with Netatalk by @rdmark in #268
• lib/afp.c: Disable TCP Nagle by @andylemin in #269
• escape control characters in afpcmd path output by @rdmark in #270
• recover afpcmd sessions after idle disconnects by @rdmark in #272
• bound xattr user prefix stripping by @rdmark in #275
• handle astyle errors granulary in codefm.sh script by @rdmark in #274
• update straggler references to the old project name by @rdmark in #276
• refactor AFP server type snapshots by @rdmark in #277
• normalize copyright headers across codebase by @rdmark in #278
• better client handling of server connection timeouts by @rdmark in #282
• restore FUSE reconnection after suspend and resume by @rdmark in #283
• afpcmd: pagination for long directory listings by @rdmark in #286
• consistent AFP nomenclature in help text and man pages by @rdmark in #284
• update changelog for v0.9.5 by @rdmark in #285

New Contributors

• @orbisai0security made their first contribution in #233
• @andylemin made their first contribution in #269

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk-client/compare/0.9.4…0.9.5

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Footnotes

Release published on 2026-07-07

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