Born in the '80s, the SMB family of protocols has been evolving for many years, with the latest version, SMB3.1.1, continuing to add features in order to support the largest breadth of clients (and an incredibly wide variety of servers).

Technically, everything would be new since Apple has never given a talk about what is in our SMB Client. We will cover: 1. Multichannel implementation and how client NICs are selected and logic for handling multiple channels 2. Lease implementation current and upcoming changes in macOS Ventura 3. Upcoming changes in macOS Ventura for searching over SMB 4. Touch on dateless file support for SMB in macOS 5. Touch on Snapshot support for SMB in macOS

Talking about changes to the macOS SMB Client from Apple since 2022. What have we added, improved or just changed.