jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB v3.4.0

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macOS GUI installer app (for macOS 14+)

• Download TimeCapsuleSMB.app.zip below
• Can use your old AFP backups, with native Apple metadata support on HFS

What's Changed

• Performance and hardening
  • Faster SMB signing and encryption on NetBSD 6 devices
  • Enable stack protection and additional compiler hardening for NetBSD 4 Samba
  • Reduce the size of the NetBSD 4 service and rsync binaries
  • Increase the durable-handle reopen wait from 10 to 90 seconds, allowing slow disks more time to finish closing the previous connection (#221)
• macOS reliability
  • Fix crashes when starting local tools on Macs with VPN, network filter or proxy software installed (#371)
  • Prevent background tools from keeping operation output open after a command finishes
  • Keep failures to prevent idle sleep from interrupting device operations
• Device discovery and reconnection
  • Find the device again when its IP address changes, including after a reboot, and continue the operation at its new address
  • Identify the device by its AirPort MAC address and verify it before following a new address, avoiding changes to another AirPort that took its old IP
  • The macOS app refreshes discovery when a saved address stops working and offers the device’s new address
  • Record more useful diagnostics when a reboot times out, including connection errors and the computer’s network state
  • Tell CLI users how to save the device’s new address after following an address change
• SSH and password handling
  • Remove the sshpass dependency. Password logins now use the system OpenSSH client with a built-in password helper
  • Require OpenSSH 8.4 or newer and report unsupported or broken local SSH clients before connecting
  • Distinguish local SSH client failures from device connection and password problems
  • Check the full AirPort admin password before operations that need it. The device’s SSH login only compares the first 8 characters, so a wrong password could otherwise pass
  • Refuse unexpected key passphrase and password-change prompts instead of answering them with the device password
• CLI setup and diagnostics
  • Show installation progress during bootstrap
  • Skip automatic smbclient installation on Intel Macs and point to the macOS app for SMB checks
  • Explain when a command needs input but stdin is closed, instead of showing a traceback
  • Check local tools without requiring a configured device, and keep --json output clean
  • Ignore normal Bonjour startup text and include unrecognized discovery lines in diagnostics
• Firmware downloads
  • Reject incomplete downloads and preserve the cached Apple firmware catalog when a replacement is invalid

Full Changelog: v3.3.1...v3.4.0