v2.1.0

What's Added

• Added Samba 4.24.1 build lanes and binary, replacing the previous Samba 4.8.12 binary.
• Added tcapsule paths and tcapsule validate-install
• Added multi-disk (and Airport Extreme) support using Apple MaSt metadata
• Added tcapsule flash for NetBSD 4 firmware analysis, backup, boot-hook patching, Apple stock restore, Apple firmware checks, and download-only validation

Changed

• Runtime now derives Bonjour names, Samba server string, NetBIOS name, share names, and ADISK data from the device instead of fixed .env fields.
  • Removed user-configured TC_SHARE_NAME, TC_NETBIOS_NAME, TC_MDNS_INSTANCE_NAME, and TC_MDNS_HOST_LABEL.
  • Finder URLs are now based on discovered device/share names, not fixed smb://timecapsulesamba4.local/Data.
  • Deploy now selects a writable persistent payload volume from MaSt, preferring internal HFS volumes and falling back to external HFS volumes.
• Runtime config now lives in /mnt/Flash/tcapsulesmb.conf.
  • Samba config is generated on-device from runtime state instead of uploading smb.conf.template.
• NBNS is now enabled by default; deploy --install-nbns was replaced by deploy --no-nbns.
• Boot/runtime logic was heavily reworked around diskd.useVolume, MaSt, payload state files, generated share/adisk TSVs, and safer RAM staging.
  • Watchdog is now disk/topology-aware and can reload disk runtime state instead of blindly restarting services.
• mDNS startup now captures Apple identity records asynchronously and falls back to generated AirPort identity records when capture fails.
• Deploy uploads to flash atomically, flushes and reverifies payloads more carefully, and has better handling for old devices without scp.
• Doctor diagnostics now check runtime naming, Bonjour target consistency, stale link-local advertisements, SMB/NBNS reachability, raw MaSt output, and runtime log tails.
• Link-local 169.254.x.x addresses are rejected for normal runtime configuration.
• Runtime logs moved toward payload-backed logs under <payload>/logs/, with bounded logs unless debug logging is enabled.
• CI now includes Python 3.9 and 3.14.

Fixed

• Fixed Time Machine/Samba interoperability issues around empty xattrs, HFS allocation block drift during durable reconnects, AFP_AfpInfo stat crashes, and NetBSD VFS fallback assertions.
• Fixed false-negative and low-context doctor failures for Bonjour, SMB, NBNS, and runtime startup.
• Fixed SSH/X11 warning handling and improved transport exception boundaries.
• Lots of other fixes

Full Changelog: v2.0.7...v2.1.0

v2.1.0 Release Candidate 4

v2.1.0-rc4 is considered stable enough for release soon. Most bugs and issues have been patched.

This update changes the name of the device (we now use Apple's naming "James's Airport Time Capsule" instead of the name used in previous versions "Time Capsule Samba 123"); so if you are updating from an older version, you will need to remove the drive from Time Machine and reboot your Mac, and re-add the drive with the new name

What's Changed

• Updated Samba from Samba 4.8.12 (from 2019) to latest Samba! (Currently Samba 4.24.1 from 2026).
• Remove network interface configuration from configure
• Update mDNS IP handling

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-rc3...v2.1.0-rc4

v2.1.0 Release Candidate 3

v2.1.0-rc3 is considered stable enough for release soon. Most bugs and issues have been patched.

This update changes the name of the device (we now use Apple's naming "James's Airport Time Capsule" instead of the name used in previous versions "Time Capsule Samba 123"); so if you are updating from an older version, you will need to remove the drive from Time Machine and reboot your Mac, and re-add the drive with the new name

What's Changed

• Updated Samba from Samba 4.8.12 (from 2019) to latest Samba! (Currently Samba 4.24.1 from 2026).
• Fixes "disk not going to sleep" issue: make watchdog passive, use diskd-only mounting, and add internal ATA idle
• Increase deploy filesystem flush timeout for slow Time Capsule disks
• Exclude link-local interfaces from configure
• Add experimental flash function for NetBSD 4 devices

Known bug

• Time Machine backups occasionally fail due to mdns disappearing, #105

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-rc2...v2.1.0-rc3

v2.1.0-rc2

v2.1.0-rc2 is considered stable enough for release soon. Most bugs and issues have been patched.

This update changes the name of the device (we now use Apple's naming "James's Airport Time Capsule" instead of the name used in previous versions "Time Capsule Samba 123"); so if you are updating from an older version, you will need to remove the drive from Time Machine and reboot your Mac, and re-add the drive with the new name

What's Changed

• Updated Samba from Samba 4.8.12 (from 2019) to latest Samba! (Currently Samba 4.24.1 from 2026).
  • Add checks to deploy to fail if the checksum does not match
  • Fix issues with macOS not detecting the disk in Time Machine settings
  • Fix Samba VFS at-path fallback and fdopendir lifetime

Known bug

• Time Machine backups occasionally fail due to mdns disappearing, #105

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-rc1...v2.1.0-rc2

v2.1.0 Release Candidate 1

v2.1.0-rc1 is considered stable enough for release soon. Most bugs and issues have been patched.

This update changes the name of the device (we now use Apple's naming "James's Airport Time Capsule" instead of the name used in previous versions "Time Capsule Samba 123"), so you will need to remove the drive from Time Machine and reboot your Mac, and re-add the drive with the new name

What's Changed

• Updated Samba from Samba 4.8.12 (from 2019) to latest Samba! (Currently Samba 4.24.1 from 2026).
  • Set capture mDNS as primary source for records, generate mDNS as fallback
  • Remove local Bonjour/NetBIOS naming. This fixes "FAIL SMB directory create timed out" doctor failures
  • Add MaSt check retry to deploy. This prevents "no writable persistent volume found" deploy errors

Known bug

• Time Machine backups occasionally fail due to mdns disappearing, #105

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-beta7...v2.1.0-rc1

v2.1.0-beta7

What's Changed

Big bugfix release! The v2.1.0 code is feature complete as of beta7, so we just have a few rounds of bug patches before the final v2.1.0 release.

• Updated Samba from Samba 4.8.12 (from 2019) to latest Samba! (Currently Samba 4.24.1 from 2026). This is a big change, so expect bugs.
  • Removed the smbXsrv_client/session to fix Samba watched DB handling
  • Fix dangling frames in smb2_process
  • Make embedded srvsvc initialization idempotent
  • Fix NetBSD4 Samba directory fd leak
  • Add error message for activate in non interactive env
  • Fix MaSt boot process failure
  • Add fast mdns-advertiser snapshot generation

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-beta7...v2.1.0-beta7

v2.1.0-beta6

What's Changed

Warning, many reports of Samba not starting properly because it tried to run before hard disk was loaded for this build

• Updated Samba from Samba 4.8.12 (from 2019) to latest Samba! (Currently Samba 4.24.1 from 2026). This is a big change, so expect bugs.
• Replaced the disk detection code. External disks and multiple disks (one internal, one external) are now supported! This effectively adds Airport Extreme support. This means some old bugs related to disk loading are now gone, but new ones might have been introduced.

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-beta5...v2.1.0-beta6

v2.1.0-beta5

What's Changed

• Updated Samba from Samba 4.8.12 (from 2019) to latest Samba! (Currently Samba 4.24.1 from 2026). This is a big change, so expect bugs.
  • Fix "Error code -36" issue
  • Fix "error code 100093" issue
  • Fix "NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE" issue

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-beta4...v2.1.0-beta5

v2.1.0-beta4

What's Changed

• Updated Samba from Samba 4.8.12 (from 2019) to latest Samba! (Currently Samba 4.24.1 from 2026). This is a big change, so expect bugs.
• Refactor a lot of error handling code
• Clean up flows in deploy, doctor, configure, fsck, and other commands
• Update env handling for repo-only install

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-beta3...v2.1.0-beta4

v2.1.0-beta3

What's Changed

• Implemented tune_kernel_memory() to set vm.bufcache=5
• Add empty xattr handling, st_ex_blocks mismatch handling, getifaddrs() fallback patches

Full Changelog: v2.1.0-beta2...v2.1.0-beta3