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• Post #3253489

  @nulleric @smallsco I dug into icon data (assisted by Claude) and could conclude that the main difference in this case, is that in OS 8.5 the icon resources are stored internally in an 'icns' container which in turn contains the traditional icon resources (ICN#, icl4, icl8 etc.) while the OS 7.x data has the equivalent icon resources individually at different offsets. In conclusion, the actual icon data isn't different in this case, just how they're packaged inte...

• Post #3253488

  breaking news: #netatalk 4.4.3 is available, to which you should upgrade your deployments as soon as possible this project has been hit recently by 4 security researchers independently filing (AI assisted) security vulnerabilities in quick succession; out of what ended up as 38 CVEs, we have decided to patch 20 of them in the stable branch. the rest are either spurious or not exploitable / security sensitive at all release notes: https://netatalk.io/4.4/ReleaseNotes4.4.3 security advisories:...

• Post #3253487

  after a substantial development cycle, #netatalk v4.5.0 is now out of beta and ready for daily use this the most feature-packed release from this project in a decade; to loosely quote the release notes: making Finder search (i.e. Spotlight) usable out of the box, rebuilding the AFP directory cache for much larger and faster workloads, and tightening security across authentication, filesystem handling, parsers, and build defaults, bringing a new SRP authentication UAM, a pluggable Spotlight bac...

• Post #3253486

  the 'nad' tool that's part of the #netatalk toolsuite is getting a fun new feature: the ability to encode and decode MacBinary (.bin) and BinHex (.hqx) if you were a Mac user back in the days you should be familiar: these two were portable formats that allowed you to store Mac files and applications in pure binary form for transmission over the network or onto "foreign" file systems without losing the precious resource fork and other metadata common on...

• Post #2233205

  We had a fun breakthrough in #netatalk in recent days: the SRP (Secure Remote Password) user authentication method is now reverse engineered and supported by the open source AFP server. Apple quietly added SRP to the AFP protocol some time in 2010 (our testing indicates OSX 10.7 Lion) but never acknowledged or documented it. SRP caught my eye since it would offer roughly twice as strong encryption as DHX2 which is the final "official" UAM from Apple. Luckily, SRP is an open...

• Post #987725

  #netatalk 4.5.0 beta is now available for adventurous users https://netatalk.io/4.5/ReleaseNotes4.5.0beta we have introduced advanced ARC cache and a wide range of deep optimizations that speed up file operations, especially noticeably when you enumerate a large number of files, i.e. when browsing a remote volume see the new manual chapter on caching for instructions to to configure optimal cache for your deployment https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/main/doc/manual/Dircache.md this...