Post by @dmark@hachyderm.io

2026-05-31 06:45 UTC

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 backend architecture, a modernized afpstats interface, and many portability improvements for Unix-like platforms like NetBSD and OpenBSD... ...and an additional 22 CVEs fixed there is too much to list here, so check out the release notes for all the details: https://netatalk.io/4.5/ReleaseNotes4.5.0

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@dmark@hachyderm.io 2026-05-31 07:15

I want to take this opportunity to give a special shout-out to the folks at Augment Code: they've been giving us unlimited tokens for their LLM-driven code review bot with the same name for the last several months for a small volunteer-driven open source project like ours - currently three active developers - with grand ideas but little time, having an extra pair of artificial eyes on the code has really helped both saving time in code review (which can be tedious) while protecting us against numerous bugs I was hesitant at first when they reached out and offered to set this up: what kind of access to our project will the bot have? how relevant will the CR feedback be? now our augment bot is set up to read the code, and comment on PRs, that's it; at least 90% of feedback is solid, sometimes even great. say what you will about this technology, but analyzing and commenting on an existing code base is probably one of the things that an LLM is best at

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@ctb31@mastodon.social 2026-05-31 22:36

@dmark@hachyderm.io Great news. Looks like it is time to upgrade my aging A2SERVER running on an old Pi 2B. Is there a Discord or Slack for discussing netatalk 4.5.0?

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