ZeroNet/CHANGELOG.md

ZeroNet 0.5.4 (2017-04-14)

Added

• Major speed and CPU usage enhancements in Tor always mode
• Send skipped modifications to outdated clients

Changed

• Upgrade libs to latest version
• Faster port opening and closing
• Deny site limit modification in MultiUser mode

Fixed

• Filling database from optional files
• OpenSSL detection on systems with OpenSSL 1.1
• Users.json corruption on systems with slow hdd
• Fix leaking files in data directory by webui

ZeroNet 0.5.3 (2017-02-27)

Added

• Tar.gz/zip packed site support
• Utf8 filenames in archive files
• Experimental --db_mode secure database mode to prevent data loss on systems with unreliable power source.
• Admin user support in MultiUser mode
• Optional deny adding new sites in MultiUser mode

Changed

• Faster update and publish times by new socket sharing algorithm

Fixed

• Fix missing json_row errors when using Mute plugin

ZeroNet 0.5.2 (2017-02-09)

Added

• User muting
• Win/Mac signed exe/.app
• Signed commits

Changed

• Faster site updates after startup
• New macOS package for 10.10 compatibility

Fixed

• Fix "New version just released" popup on page first visit
• Fix disappearing optional files bug (Thanks l5h5t7 for reporting)
• Fix skipped updates on unreliable connections (Thanks P2P for reporting)
• Sandbox escape security fix (Thanks Firebox for reporting)
• Fix error reporting on async websocket functions

ZeroNet 0.5.1 (2016-11-18)

Added

• Multi language interface
• New plugin: Translation helper for site html and js files
• Per-site favicon

Fixed

• Parallel optional file downloading

ZeroNet 0.5.0 (2016-11-08)

Added

• New Plugin: Allow list/delete/pin/manage files on ZeroHello
• New API commands to follow user's optional files, and query stats for optional files
• Set total size limit on optional files.
• New Plugin: Save peers to database and keep them between restarts to allow more faster optional file search and make it work without trackers
• Rewritten uPnP port opener + close port on exit (Thanks to sirMackk!)
• Lower memory usage by lazy PeerHashfield creation
• Loaded json files statistics and database info at /Stats page

Changed

• Separate lock file for better Windows compatibility
• When executing start.py open browser even if ZeroNet is already running
• Keep plugin order after reload to allow plugins to extends an another plug-in
• Only save sites.json if fully loaded to avoid data loss
• Change aletorrenty tracker to a more reliable one
• Much lower findhashid CPU usage
• Pooled downloading of large amount of optional files
• Lots of other optional file changes to make it better
• If we have 1000 peers for a site make cleanup more aggressive
• Use warning instead of error on verification errors
• Push updates to newer clients first
• Bad file reset improvements

Fixed

• Fix site deletion errors on startup
• Delay websocket messages until it's connected
• Fix database import if data file contains extra data
• Fix big site download
• Fix diff sending bug (been chasing it for a long time)
• Fix random publish errors when json file contained [] characters
• Fix site delete and siteCreate bug
• Fix file write confirmation dialog

ZeroNet 0.4.1 (2016-09-05)

Added

• Major core changes to allow fast startup and lower memory usage
• Try to reconnect to Tor on lost connection
• Sidebar fade-in
• Try to avoid incomplete data files overwrite
• Faster database open
• Display user file sizes in sidebar
• Concurrent worker number depends on --connection_limit

Changed

• Close databases after 5 min idle time
• Better site size calculation
• Allow "-" character in domains
• Always try to keep connections for sites
• Remove merger permission from merged sites
• Newsfeed scans only last 3 days to speed up database queries
• Updated ZeroBundle-win to Python 2.7.12

Fixed

• Fix for important security problem, which is allowed anyone to publish new content without valid certificate from ID provider. Thanks Kaffie for pointing it out!
• Fix sidebar error when no certificate provider selected
• Skip invalid files on database rebuilding
• Fix random websocket connection error popups
• Fix new siteCreate command
• Fix site size calculation
• Fix port open checking after computer wake up
• Fix --size_limit parsing from command line

ZeroNet 0.4.0 (2016-08-11)

Added

• Merger site plugin
• Live source code reloading: Faster core development by allowing me to make changes in ZeroNet source code without restarting it.
• New json table format for merger sites
• Database rebuild from sidebar.
• Allow to store custom data directly in json table: Much simpler and faster SQL queries.
• User file archiving: Allows the site owner to archive inactive user's content into single file. (Reducing initial sync time/cpu/memory usage)
• Also trigger onUpdated/update database on file delete.
• Permission request from ZeroFrame API.
• Allow to store extra data in content.json using fileWrite API command.
• Faster optional files downloading
• Use alternative sources (Gogs, Gitlab) to download updates
• Track provided sites/connection and prefer to keep the ones with more sites to reduce connection number

Changed

• Keep at least 5 connection per site
• Changed target connection for sites to 10 from 15
• ZeroHello search function stability/speed improvements
• Improvements for clients with slower HDD

Fixed

• Fix IE11 wrapper nonce errors
• Fix sidebar on mobile devices
• Fix site size calculation
• Fix IE10 compatibility
• Windows XP ZeroBundle compatibility (THX to people of China)

ZeroNet 0.3.7 (2016-05-27)

Changed

• Patch command to reduce bandwidth usage by transfer only the changed lines
• Other cpu/memory optimizations

ZeroNet 0.3.6 (2016-05-27)

Added

• New ZeroHello
• Newsfeed function

Fixed

• Security fixes

ZeroNet 0.3.5 (2016-02-02)

Added

• Full Tor support with .onion hidden services
• Bootstrap using ZeroNet protocol

Fixed

• Fix Gevent 1.0.2 compatibility

ZeroNet 0.3.4 (2015-12-28)

Added

• AES, ECIES API function support
• PushState and ReplaceState url manipulation support in API
• Multiuser localstorage