Editing Netatalk (section)

== Development history ==
The original developer of Netatalk was Wesley Craig at the University of Michigan. In 1997 Adrian Sun created a popular fork, coding the initial implementation of the then-new ''AppleShare IP'' (AFP over TCP/IP) network layer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zettabyte.net/netatalk |title=Netatalk Faq-O-Matic |author=Bill McGonigle |date=2 March 2001 |website=Netatalk Faq-O-Matic |publisher= |archive-date=2 March 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010302141254/http://cgi.zettabyte.net/fom-serve/netatalk/cache/1.html | access-date=12 January 2023 |quote=Over the past couple years Adrian Sun has pretty much taken over the application development and has added a slew of new features, including AFP over TCP and bug fixes.}}</ref> By the time the project started transitioning into an open source model in 2000, the "ASUN" fork had been merged back into Netatalk proper.

In October 2004 Netatalk 2.0 was released, which brought major improvements, including: support for Apple Filing Protocol level 3.1 (providing long UTF-8 filenames, file sizes > 2 [[gigabyte]]s, full [[Mac OS X]] compatibility), [[CUPS]] integration, [[Kerberos (protocol)|Kerberos V]] support allowing true "[[single sign-on]]", and a more reliable file and directory ID database backend. 

Since version 2.0.5 in 2009, Netatalk supports the use of [[Time Machine (macOS)|Time Machine]] over a network in a similar fashion to [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s own [[Time Capsule (Apple)|Time Capsule]]. With version 2.2 released in July 2011, Netatalk introduced support for AFP protocol level 3.3, the penultimate revision of the protocol.

Version 3.0 of Netatalk was released in July 2012 and added [[INI file|ini]] style configuration, and Mac OS X compatible Extended Attributes as default, while removing AppleTalk networking support.

Netatalk 3.1, released in October 2013, added [[Spotlight (software)|Spotlight]] support in addition to improved [[Server Message Block|SMB]] interoperability.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/ReleaseNotes3.1.0.html|title=Netatalk Release Notes|access-date=2014-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.2/sharing.html#apple-afp-shares|title=11. Sharing|at=11.1. Apple (AFP) Shares|work=FreeNAS® 11.2-U3 User Guide|access-date=2014-01-02}}</ref> A subsequent bugfix release added support for AFP level 3.4 (introduced in [[OS X Mountain Lion]]) which is the final revision of the protocol from Apple.

Netatalk 4.0 was made available in September 2024, bringing back the support for AppleTalk removed in 3.0, while introducing support for tunneling TCP/IP traffic to [[MacIP]], which allows LocalTalk-only Macs to connect to the Internet.

At the time of writing, Netatalk runs on the [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]], [[OpenBSD]], [[NetBSD]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[illumos]], and macOS operating systems.