aMule 2.3.1

Changelog 2.3.1

Version 2.3.1 - The "unobvious evil date" version.

2011-11-11

btkaos:

    * Show if a client shares its file list in client view

freddy77:

    * Various optimizations of memory usage
    * Access files for reading/writing via mapped memory (with custom exception handling)
    * Fix download of files > 1GB on ucLibc
    * Fix autogen.sh under Ubuntu
    * Fixed TCP obfuscation negotiation

Gnucco:

    * Add option to ed2k link parser to display links in emulecollection
    * Added test case for the CTag class

GonoszTopi:

    * Various fixes to new colour code
    * Allow user to select display of transfer rates
    * Extendable list-control settings save/load code
    * Drop assumption that last search keyword is a filename extension if length == 3
    * Instead of counting unicode characters in a Kad search now we use the UTF-8 byte count to determine whether the keyword is allowed or not
    * Use actual page size in mmap calls instead of a randomly selected number
    * Fix custom Crypto++ path not shown by configure
    * Make <IMG> tags in aMuleWeb HTML 4.01 conforming
    * Fix HTTP proxy authentication
    * Use -static for the tests too, when a static binary is requested to prevent configure succeed where compilation would fail
    * Configure now checks only for the tools and libraries needed for the selected components
    * Fix aMuleGUI looking for undefined switches
    * Fix the "blinking" in aMuleGUI's status line
    * Better reporting of Kad tag reading/parsing errors
    * Fix the unittests
    * Some code reorganization
    * Features/fixes ported from eMule:
          o Implement an alternate method to estimate the real user count in the Kad network, which is not based on our local routing table (0.49b)
          o Add double quote to word-boundary characters (0.50a)
          o Drop support for Kad 1.0 (0.50a)
          o Try to find the closest node alive (0.50a)
          o Fix a bug in Kad which would not enforce the search tolerance in certain cases (0.50a)
          o Change Kad to work better in small LANs (0.50a)
    * Remove the unimplemented "Create backup for preview" option
    * Add variables to preview command like in user event commands
    * Disable 'Show all comments' in the file's context menu if there are no comments/ratings available
    * Enable renaming (completed) shared files
    * Proper handling of %-escaped UTF-8 sequences in ed2k:// URIs
    * Drop support for nodes.dat version 0
    * Fix issue #1621: 'ed2k links containing unicode characters will cause the filename to be truncated'
    * Fix issue #1634: Change charset to UTF-8 in amuleweb template
    * Fix installation with denoiser enabled
    * Add support for automake's --enable-silent-rules feature (original idea by Gerd78)
    * Improved CFormat and enabled reordering of arguments for translators
    * Several fixes and improvements for the sanity checker script
    * Fix bfd detection
    * Add year bumper script
    * Move statistics from config to statistics.dat
    * New preference setting to show application version on the title
    * Fix man page installation for several languages

Greek:

    * Part number is now an extra column in the download list
    * Improvements to preferences dialogs
    * Redesign skin selection

Grunt:

    * Sort downloads by time remaining now has shortest time on top and unknown on bottom

jolz:

    * Fixed file locking between ed2k and aMule on Windows

Kry:

    * Reworked user interface, separating download and upload views
    * Fix list double-buffering causing artifacts on refresh and when showing a context menu.
    * Fix indexes after removing GUI items
    * Fixes to Windows build
    * Allow compilation with wxCocoa
    * Replace Color.h by new class implementation MuleColour
    * Lower class overhead and use two-level cache for pens/brushes
    * Added aMuleCMD project for MSVC.
    * Fixed UnitTests and aMuleCMD in MSVC to use _CONSOLE subsystem.
    * Preferences changes
    * Fixed problem with uploading to lowid clients (szsuj)
    * Sorting lists (automatically or by user interaction) doesn't clear selection anymore
    * Fix client version display for MLdonkeys
    * Added Xcode project for MacOSX build
    * Fixed the centering of icons and text
    * Enable vertical toolbar orientation on WIN32 too
    * Option to resume next file alphabetically, keeping in mind categories and priority
    * Fixed crash when column gets removed
    * Show remote filename in source list
    * Fixed crash in upload thread on shutdown
    * Dynamic adjustment of threshold for rarity of download files
    * Option to prevent the computer from sleeping while downloading in MSW and MacOSX >= 10.5
    * Mac fixes
    * Fixed "out of memory" crashes caused by wxWidgets - so wxWidgets 2.8.12 is required now!
    * Show warning dialog if "Change language" is selected and no languages are installed
    * Added backtrace support for MacOSX
    * Add locale support in the mac bundle with updated scripts (translations are now supported on MacOSX builds)

lfroen:

    * php prefix for lex/yacc

LittleAbacus:

    * Search results can now be sorted by "knownness" state.

marcell:

    * Fixed issue #892: Show data sizes >= 1.0 GB with three digits.
    * Fixed search 'Stop' button not stopping Kad searches.
    * Check Kademlia search results against original criteria.
    * Allow Kademlia searches with repetitive keywords.
    * Allow adding current chat partner to friend list from tab's context menu.
    * Allow not downloading files via HTTP if the requested file is not newer.
    * Removed white boxes around file rating icons
    * Implemented public shared directory names only containing actually shared subfolders.

morph:

    * Patch to uniform and fix minor errors on man pages

myth:

    * Feedback from shared files - add number of clients on queue.
    * New stats server

Phoenix:

    * Fixed assertion when trying to preview files smaller than 256 K.

Skolnick:

    * Fixed autogen.sh for Bourne Shell

Stu Redman:

    * Sort source list on opening and add file name to A4AF files
    * MSVC: optional GeoIP support
    * Faster progress bars with less overhead (without pens/brushes)
    * Show log messages in remote gui
    * More info in the Kad tab
    * Improved gaplist performance
    * Ported chat captchas (receive and send) and "Advanced Chat Spam Filter" from eMule
    * Allow download of multiple search results if search list is sorted by status (thanks to DarkNRG)
    * Fixed CFile::SetLength for large files
    * Reduce file handle usage by closing part files after idle time
    * Speed up selection of shared directories with many subdirectories, fixed red marking of folders with shared subdirectories
    * Ban clients that uploaded bad data (based on CorruptionBlackBox from eMule)
    * Support wxWidgets 2.9
    * amuled for Windows (with wx 2.9)
    * Friends get recognized in the friend list control even if their IP has changed
    * Don't kick friend upload, don't kick release prio uploads (unless they take more than half of the slots), and don't kick anybody else unless necessary (with GonoszTopi)
    * Fixed crash in remote gui when aMule exits
    * Added more media file types from eMule
    * Allow the user to cancel the app if Temp/Incoming is not found
    * Show downloads as shares in remote gui
    * MANY fixes/implementations for amulegui
    * amuleweb for Windows (with wx 2.9)
    * Show connected friends in blue in the friend list
    * Show total upload/download ratio in statistic tree
    * Fixed category administration in remote gui
    * Implement directory preferences in remote gui
    * MSVC build for alcc, wxCas
    * Fixed errors and crashes on parsing ED2K links with '/' in them
    * Configure option --enable-fileview
    * Bypass amulegui connection dialog with switch -s / --skip
    * Fixed Core Timer
    * Allow passing of ED2K links by command line to aMule, aMuled and aMulegui, making ed2k program obsolete
    * Don't ignore current category in amulegui when pasting a link
    * EC tools (amulegui, amulecmd, amuleweb) can use a local config dir now
    * Fixed crash in file system detection in Solaris
    * Fix: window size/position didn't get saved on some systems
    * More command line options for aMulegui
    * Allow webserver autostart on Windows
    * Fixed crash in "Out of space" user event handler
    * ALCC prints links to stdout now instead of stderr
    * Fixed memory exhaustion on high speed uploads Thanks to RRM for endless patience!
    * Fix: Language English was not recognized and so reverted to "System default" at any change
    * Fixed printf output (unicode2char()) on consoles incapable of UTF8
    * Keep a list of all canceled files (canceled.met) and show them in magenta in the search list
    * Update status/color of search results on events from outside the search window (like download started from EC) and in amulegui
    * Enable update of IP filter list through aMulegui and aMulecmd
    * Enable setting of "Check for new version on startup" through aMulegui
    * Fixed crash in CClientList::ProcessDirectCallbackList that had been around for ages (hopefully)
    * Fixed size of large files in aMuleweb's search results
    * Show completed downloads in aMulegui
    * Fixed international file names on Windows
    * Fixed hangup of EC connection in aMulegui
    * Fixed category deletion in aMuled
    * Fixed several crash bugs in Webserver
    * Improved memory usage, load time and speed of IP filter
    * Load IP filter in the background on startup
    * Show when a Kad search is finished in aMulegui (remove '!')
    * Fixed "pause/cancel/resume all" in aMulecmd
    * EC ZLIB compression can now be turned off in remote.conf with EC/ZLIB=0
    * Terminate HTTP downloads on exit
    * Projects for Visual Studio 2010
    * Fixed crash in http download
    * Speed boost for reload of shared files with large list of known files
    * Resolve MSVC compilation problem with separate strings in GUI
    * Fixed splitter bars in download and share view
    * Allowed creation of ED2K source links in KAD-only mode
    * Make friendlist in chat window resizable
    * Removed lag (caused by language pref) when opening preferences dialog
    * "Swap all A4AF to this (auto)" doesn't block sources with no needed parts any more
    * Don't lock up in an infinite loop if all servers are not resolvable or blocked by IP filter
    * Clients now always get uploaded a full chunk (removed setting)
    * Tell the user that changes of EC settings require a restart
    * Deleted and readded download now get shared
    * Speed improvement for upload queue, and clients never have same rank anymore
    * Fixed ed2k links where '|' has been replaced with '%7C'
    * Fixed multi line stdin redirected as batch into amulecmd
    * Allow enable/disable of IP2Country through GUI
    * "Clear completed" button now only clears downloads in current category
    * Completed downloads can be seen and cleared in amulegui
    * Bold lines in log window now for Windows too
    * Allow setting of friend slot from client list control
    * Fixed saving of splitter bar positions
    * Get rid of "clearlooks_style_draw_box_gap" messages in console
    * Fixed several crash bugs caused by deleted client objects
    * Fix a small memory leak in Kademlia code
    * Fix occasionally sending junk at end of packets
    * Fix child items in search result getting inserted in wrong positions
    * Shared files don't lose all information when they get renamed
    * Fixed crash bug with sources which are incompatible with our encryption setting
    * Allow passing of links > 256 chars to amulecmd
    * Prevent flicker when sorting already sorted lists
    * Prevent creation of more than 99 categories, since that's the limit
    * Fixed saving of sort orders
    * Allow switching through files in file detail dialog
    * Improve performance when many small files are hashed
    * Fix: if a file had more than two copies shared it was hashed on every startup
    * Show directory in search list for "view shared files" searches
    * Safe writing of known.met and nodes.dat (don't overwrite existing until write is finished)
    * Show directory in search list for "view shared files" searches

Vollstrecker:

    * Unify copyright lines
    * Fixed clean and distclean targets for make
    * Various Updates in debian/ see debian/changelog
    * Added crash handling in command-line tools
    * Fix for autoconf-2.64.
    * Make amulecmd help command work without connection
    * New translation concept for manpages
    * KDE Plasma applet to show stats
    * Fix warnings with latest autoconf (2.67)

woutermense:

    * Fix 'break/continue [n]' PHP implementation
    * Allow multiple download links in webserver

Wuischke:

    * Simplify browser selection
    * Use DoIconize() for dclick on tray icon, too
    * Fix minimizing from tray icon
    * Add option to show chat messages in log
    * Add option to specify amuleweb binary location
    * Make EC authentication procedure more secure
    * Add support for categories to ed2k
    * Backup config file on shutdown

Special Thanks To:

    * Greek for his contributions to aMule's user interface.
    * btkaos for his important work finding the source of bugs.
    * myth for seeing when everyone else was blind and uncovering the grandfather of all fuck-ups
    * mirko.g for being so committed to compile aMule on Snow Leopard.

Strona projektu + wcześniejsze wersje: http://www.amule.org/

Windows installer: aMule-2.3.1-installer.exe

Windows binaries: aMule_2.3.1.zip

MacOSX binaries: aMule - 2.3.1 - MacOSX_10.4+.zip

SourceCode (.tar.bz2): aMule-2.3.1.tar.bz2

SourceCode (.tar.xz): aMule-2.3.1.tar.xz