Changelog 2.2.2

Version 2.2.2 - The "Similarity." version

2008-08-08

bomj:

• Patch for alcc to improve usability

Gaznevada:

• implement getopt_long in cas for systems which lack it

GonoszTopi:

• Fixing denoiser
• include <sys/types.h> before <regex.h> as by POSIX
• Fix noinline in crypto for some systems
• Fix display of ccache option
• Add sources from search results for new downloads
• Use output of gdlib-config for gd.h detection
• Solaris mntent fix
• wxMSW fix
• Fix NULL pointer dereference
• Fix for configure not using --with-geoip value in library check
• Added pkg.m4 from pkg-config-0.23
• Ported Kademlia Protocol Version 8 from eMule0.49b.
  • Kad now ignores multiple IDs pointing to one IP in routing request answers
  • When calculating the total user count, Kad now uses (if available) the real number of firewalled clients for the calculation instead a fixed value. This will take more effect when 0.49+ nodes become common
  • Kad no longer tries to add UDP firewalled (and therefore mostly unreachable) nodes into its routing table, reducing overhead and increasing reliability [Idea: Netfinity]
  • Optimized the Kad packettracking code to only track packets which we check later, to save resources
  • Fixed a bug which let Kad sometimes assume a Kad2 contact to be Kad1 after probing for both versions
  • Did first small step in dropping Kad1 support by not probing unknown Kad contacts for Kad1 anymore to save overhead. Kad1 clients will nevertheless still be work for now.
  • Several changes were made to Kad in order to defy routing attacks researched by University of Minnesota guys [Peng Wang, James Tyra, Eric Chan-Tin, Tyson Malchow, Denis Foo Kune, Nicholas Hopper, Yongdae Kim], in particular:
    • Kad contacts will only be able to update themself in others routing tables if they provide the proper key (supported by 0.49a+ nodes) in order to make it impossible to hijack them
    • Kad uses now a three-way-handshake (or for older version a similar check) for new contacts, making sure they do not use a spoofed IP
    • Unverified contacts are not used for routing tasks
  • When reading a nodes.dat without any verified contacts (possible an old file version), aMule will assume all contacts to be verified to avoid slowing down the connecting process
  • Implemented a special nodes.dat file version suitable for mass distribution.
• Fixed not sending sources for clients that did not announce their part availability.
• Fixed all list columns being disabled in case of invalid data in config file.
• Fixed directory tree not available.

Kry:

• Fixed: Incorrect SX packets sent, plus no reply to out-of-multipacket SX as a bonus

MalaPraxis:

• Remap colours on Windows
• Add resources
• Fix wrong usage of CPath::IsOk which caused an infinite loop on Import
• Fix wxTempFile usage for compressed IPFilter files

Phoenix:

• Removed the dlopen() code from UPnP.cpp.
• Added the m4 macro to test for libupnp.
• Updated amule_build_install.sh to work with --with-libupnp-prefix.
• Changed the UPnP code to allow the use of a service without having successfully subscribed to it. That should be enough to deal with some lazy router implementations.
• Do not unregister if no service is found
• Save the found service even if subscription has failed
• Fix for initialization of "resultstr" in cryptopp.m4.
• Fix for message "Duplicate partfile with hash..." in DonwloadQueue.cpp. It was using deleted corrupted data.
• amule_build_install.sh now uses -a flag in unzip so that cryptopp files are properly converted from DOS text format.

Stu Redman:

• Scanner fix for MSVC compilation
• Fixed crash when progress bar was resized to zero width
• Fixed sharing of large files on Windows
• Fixed free disc space check
• Sanity check before writing nodes.dat - don't write it if there are less than 25 contacts
• Download List sorted on startup
• Splitter bar position in transfer window is restored again
• Fixed a GDI resource leak for Windows

Wuischke:

• Show connection status in toolbar when changing skin, thanks to greek

xor:

• Fix window resize problem on Mac OS X
• Fix for packets being lost in EC communication. Fixes aMuleGUI not updating after a while.