aMule Changelog

What's new in aMule 2.3.2

Oct 21, 2016

Highlights:
Implemented the missing Show Shared command in amulecmd.
Fixed "Disable computer's timed standby mode" for MacOS 10.9 Mavericks
Display hashing progress in progress bars
Fixed loading of zipped IP filter
Read AICH root hashes from binary eMuleCollection files
circulosmeos:
amuleweb cookies read behind a "lowercase" proxy (http/2 compliant)
Dan64:
Read AICH root hashes from binary eMuleCollection files
gnazio:
Fixed configure of libpng when sh != bash
GonoszTopi:
Allow any kind of file links in collections
Make UPnP log go to the appropriate category (#1681)
Use the C++ compiler to check for features we're about to use in C++ source files (#1572)
Adapt configure to handle subversion repository clones in mercurial and git
Fix bfd detection for systems missing -liberty
Add support for 'canceled.met' to the fileview tool
Implemented the missing 'show shared' command in amulecmd
Fix check for a valid locale config entry being done *after* the locale has been set
Fix Crypto++ detection routine happily using build library for host when cross-compiling
Fix bug #1711: Kad Info tab should display my own user ID
Fix wrong sized images in the priscilla skin
Fix bug #1423: Add the possibility to not create sparse files
Fix bug #1743: crash when importing part files
Review assertions in the eD2k and Kademlia code and remove those that could be triggered by a malformed incoming packet
Fix a possible uninitialized variable access and a definite memory leak in the UPnP code
iz0bbz:
Fix WinSock library version detection with MinGW-w64
Fix compilation with MinGW-w64
kam:
WebServer serves .json, .manifest and .appacache files
Mr Hyde:
Fix "Disable computer's timed standby mode" for MacOS 10.9 Mavericks
Compilation fix on Linux Slackware 64bit and MacOS 10.9.4
Fix configure on Mac
sc0w:
Add ability to use middle-click to close search tabs
Stu Redman:
Display hashing progress in progress bars
Assertion from background thread now prints a message and not just closes the app
Backtrace (crash or assertion) is written to logfile
Fix: disabling protocol obfuscation broke Kad and triggered assertions
Fixed "Prompt on exit" preference
Fixed country flags for Turkish localization
Fixed loading of zipped IP filter (#1674)
Fixed showing of shared files to other clients
Fixed assertions in CFormat("%p") on 64 bit OS with wx 2.9
Boost Asio can now be used as networking layer instead of wxWidgets
Fixed memory leak when AICH hashing already known files
New download links for server list and nodes.dat (with gav616 and xosevp)
Projects for Visual Studio 2013 (which is now the preferred Win32 compiler)
Fixed build with wx 3.0 (including STL build)
tgragnato:
Fixed ASIO compilation with libcxx

New in aMule 2.3.1 (Nov 14, 2011)

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 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 '|'
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.

New in aMule 2.2.6 (Oct 12, 2009)

New in aMule 2.2.5 (May 16, 2009)

New in aMule 2.2.4 (Apr 5, 2009)

Plugged various memory leaks.
Add comment to desktop file to allow autostart in Gnome.
Compilation fix for gcc-4.3.2.
Compilation fix for IRIX.
Fixed file handles on IRIX.
Fixed compilation of Format.cpp for some platforms.
Fixed wxWidgets socket library initialization.
Fixed partfile importer destroying imported data.
Separated GUI and core code in partfile importer, thus fixing occasional crashes/hangs.
Fixed GeoIP-enabled builds crashing on 64b boxes.
Added another common URN ID to the Magnet link handler.
Switch to the 'busy' cursor while bringing up the preferences window.
Ported several Kademlia fixes and improvements from eMule0.49c:
Fixes on handling incoming packets with port zero.
The Kad UDP firewalltest now asks several clients for its external port, avoiding to get a wrong "Open" state on NATs which change the source port on each request but behave like a Full-Cone otherwise.
Made sure a received Kad routing answer doesn't contain more contacts than requested. [Xin Sun]
Kad no longer allows more than 2 IPs from the same subnet within one routing query reply (except on LANs).
Kad routing query contacts are checked against the routing table.
Implemented non-interactive mode for amulecmd/amuleweb.
Fixed detection of crypto++ library for versions >= 5.6.0.
Fixed saving wrong window position when exiting while minimized.
Fixed rare case when we tried to connect to a LowID client.
MSW: detect WinSock API version needed by GeoIP.
Fixed libbfd sometimes depends on libintl, with help from PacoBell.
Fixed static linking with GeoIP on MinGW/MSYS.
Fixed detecting GeoIP library when building for MinGW.
Compilation fix with GeoIP-1.4.6.
Fix crash on global search on Windows.
Fix splitter bar position in transfer window not restored properly.
Caught some insane upload requests.
Fixed finished files sometimes getting rehashed (thanks to Skolnick).
Added restart warning if the ED2K network was re-enabled.
Fixed Windows lag when opening preferences dialog.
Fixed creation of ED2K links with AICH (thanks to Archmage).
Remote Gui shows a dialog box with a reason on connection failure.
Changed fix for wrong ordering/placing of clients in the download window so that sort order is again like in 2.2.2.
Add Asturian language.
Updated INSTALL file.
When EC authentication fails, close connection before we send the response.
Tell the user why the EC connection failed.

New in aMule 2.2.3 (Dec 29, 2008)

New in aMule 2.2.2 (Sep 30, 2008)

Patch for alcc to improve usability.
Implement getopt_long in cas for systems which lack it.
Fixing denoiser.
include before 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.
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.
Fixed: Incorrect SX packets sent, plus no reply to out-of-multipacket SX as a bonus.
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.
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.
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.
Show connection status in toolbar when changing skin, thanks to greek.
Fix window resize problem on Mac OS X.
Fix for packets being lost in EC communication. Fixes aMuleGUI not updating after a while.