jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB v3.8.2

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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 or newer, 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 macOS app

Python CLI installer (for macOS 12+, Linux)

• 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

• macOS app
  • Fix the app hanging on some Intel Macs, and on Apple silicon Macs that open it under Rosetta. On x86_64, Python 3.15's ctypes needs memory that is both writable and executable, so the app's Python retried forever. The app's Python is now signed to allow that memory
• Disks
  • Install / Update Samba, Activate, Uninstall, a firmware restore that restarts the device, and every other restart now refuse to start while a disk check is running on the device, such as a Disk Repair that kept running after this Mac disconnected. A restart would interrupt the check, and Uninstall would report success with the files of the volume being repaired still there
  • Checkup now shows a disk check that is running
  • When a disk check has waited minutes on the disk, the app now says to give a running Disk Repair a few more minutes before unplugging the device
  • When this Mac moves to another network while the device restarts, the app says so while it waits, naming the device's Wi-Fi network to rejoin, instead of reporting a device that did not come back. It says to reconnect this Mac and run Checkup
  • When SSH reaches the device but macOS refuses the app's connections to AirPort (port 5009), the app reports a Local Network block, with the steps to turn TimeCapsuleSMB off and on in “System Settings” > “Privacy & Security” > “Local Network”. It used to report the device as unreachable
  • Local Network cards name the other copies of TimeCapsuleSMB on this Mac, or on a mounted disk image, which can make macOS block it, and say to wait 2 minutes after an update, since macOS can block a new version for a few minutes
  • Turning on SSH checks Local Network access first, before it restarts the device
  • A saved link-local IPv6 address on a connection this Mac no longer has, such as an unplugged USB Ethernet adapter, is reported as such, with steps to reconnect it or refresh discovery
• Maintenance
  • Starting a maintenance task while another one is running leaves the running one alone, and the new one says why it did not start
• Add Device
  • Fix a device clicked just as discovery updated the list going back to the list instead of asking for its password

Full Changelog: v3.8.1...v3.8.2