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:
  • 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)
  • Add double quote to word-boundary characters (0.50a)
  • Drop support for Kad 1.0 (0.50a)
  • Try to find the closest node alive (0.50a)
  • Fix a bug in Kad which would not enforce the search tolerance in certain cases (0.50a)
  • 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.