jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB v3.8.1

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macOS GUI installer app (for macOS 14+)

• Download TimeCapsuleSMB.dmg below, open it, and drag TimeCapsuleSMB to Applications. If you have v3.8.0, the app offers this update itself
• You can use your old AFP backups, with native Apple metadata support on HFS
• With Homebrew, brew install --cask jamesyc/tap/timecapsulesmb installs the app

Homebrew CLI (Apple silicon, macOS 14+)

• brew install jamesyc/tap/tcapsule installs the tcapsule command, with no bootstrap step. On macOS 14 and older, Homebrew has no prebuilt Python 3.15, so it compiles Python first.

What's Changed

• Settings
  • Add "Require SMB signing" option, off by default. Every client then has to sign its connection, which costs more than half the speed.
  • Rename "Disable SMB signing and encryption" to "Turn off SMB encryption". Samba cannot turn signing off for SMB2 or SMB3, so that half of the old option did nothing.
• Install and uninstall
  • Install no longer waits ten seconds between syncs, and no longer checks the uploaded files a second time after the sync (the "Verify Flushed Upload" step)
  • Uninstall runs sync after removing the files and before the restart. If a disk that stopped responding makes the sync time out, the device restarts anyway
• NetBIOS
  • Fix Apple's NetBIOS name server (wcifsnd) sometimes quitting at startup. The check for whether it was ready bound its control port for an instant, and a server starting at that moment could not bind it. The check now reads the server's sockets with fstat instead
• Checkup
  • On a Mac, the SMB checks use macOS's own SMB client (smbutil, and a mount hidden from Finder) in place of smbclient. The CLI on an Intel Mac, where Homebrew no longer builds smbclient, now runs them too. Linux still uses smbclient
• macOS app and CLI app
  • Improved dependency handling so dependencies are always up to date, for security reasons
  • Comes as a notarized TimeCapsuleSMB.dmg. Automatic updates still download TimeCapsuleSMB.app.zip
  • Bundles Python 3.15 (was 3.13), and no longer bundles smbclient
  • Clone the repository and run ./tcapsule bootstrap on any Mac with macOS 12 or later, or on Linux. On a Mac, bootstrap installs nothing and no longer uses Homebrew: the ssh that comes with macOS is enough
  • Bootstrap checks that ssh is OpenSSH 8.4 or newer before it creates .venv. macOS has it from macOS 12 on; Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 9 and later have it, Ubuntu 20.04 and RHEL 8 do not
  • Under a Python older than 3.9, ./tcapsule says which Python it needs, instead of stopping with a syntax error
• Releases
  • A release is built only after a clean dependency audit, along with the tests and the Intel Mac check
  • The download page's button now gets the DMG: https://jamesyc.github.io/TimeCapsuleSMB/

Full Changelog: v3.8.0...v3.8.1